Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1846-02-07
LIBERTY ADVOCATE.
Liberty, Miss, February Z, 1916.
From he SOuthron.
THE RADICALS.

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Disguise il as we may, there is rndl
cal and destructive spirit, working int
The foundations Of our Republican lnslllu
tons. A spiri, destructive of all ordel
and subversiye Of oil virlue.-And though
il claims TO BE- an advance Of the age, anc
with swelling vanity, heralds herself as
spirit o. progressvenes3, but kicking IN
TO action the aggard and tmid spirit o.
conservatism, YET We apprehend it has nc
title whatever to its bomhastic demands
The viriuous worshippers Of courezan
god, the Atheistical devoees Of the Gullo
tine, the fell mons crs that made relent.
less war upon every general virtue, and
every domestic aflection--upon religion
in all its forms, in that mighty conHagra.
tion of blood, lerocity, murder and rapine,
the French Revolution, were flaming pro-
mulgers Of this Wanted spirit OF the age.
1t is as stale as murder and as old as sin.
It's entering wedge now, as always, is up
on the accumulations OF honest, persever-
ing, successful Industry. 1t demands, as
preliminary to The cure Of all moral and
physical evils, the destruction Of vested
rights, and sternly insists upon demoli.
tion OF property.
II asser,s as a general principle that all
men are BY nature free and equal, and
sagely deGuces the honest conclusion that
one man should have no more property
than another, and that therefore there
should be a general division of it, TO re
store natures primitive decree and vindi-
cate her original justice. In other words
that the vicious, deb2uched, lazy and ru-
ined vagabond shall not subsist, as he
does, by the charity Of the prudent, sober
and industrious, but with the strong hand
of robber, upon the original institution
Of nature, he may, in righteousness, freed
from the perverted moral opinions that
successive centuries have fixed upon plum
der, take what would be a fair division of
the property Of the land, il all mcn we're
equally sober, prudent, Industrious, and
economical, and alike sensible and public
spirited.
Some who advocate such doctrines are
by nature robbers; 10 them we have no
70 offer. Others, who adyo-
cate principles so dreadful in their ten
dency, as all experience attests, are good
men, whose minds have become
diseased by monamaniac and fanatic
opinion that all the moral and physicaI
evils Of society are receivable into sin
gle principle. To them we have a word
10 say. And in the first place VIC would
ike them to look around and see, that
there is no single thing under the Sun
there is nothing that lives or subsists but
that does so on a,housand, yea an inf
mite number Of conditions. But perhaps
This is too general remark for their APP
probation. We say then, look to the in.
evituble and necessary consequences in,
volved in your proposition, In the first
place it will repress, yes! ex,inguish all
useful enterprise. Intelligence iiaeIf must
be leveled and restricted toa prescribed
point before you can succeed--disregar-
ding every other consideration You must
say to it, thus far and no farther, shall,
thou 60. Why not avow that you will
limit education, as you must do? Why
not declare war upon invention, in word
upon all the glorious aspirations of moral,
intellectual and physical enterprise?
Such as you would have put Fulton to.
the rack-CIinton to the torture! You
would have remorslessly plundered Frank.
lin, and robbed him Of the patient accu-
mutations Of years of seCdeniaI and
painful industry; and thus have plumber
ed the world Of one Of the most ilIustr.
Gus examples il ever saw The unap /
proachable moral greatness of Washing
ion, and the stern and lofty patriotism Of
Adams, you would have sacked and levelei
with the ashes of the meanest tory that
libeled national character, as he did tina,
Of human nature. The aspiring genius
oil these men, that by decree Of nature.
equally as fundamental, as that "alI men
are Tree and equal" stood head and
shoulders above their fellows, you would
have ieveIed with the vagabond, And
you would have plundereG nature OF her
title TO their glorious example, TO which
she has as undoubted claim as to any
portion of her real or pretended domains.
Now, there is leveling founG9d in ma
ture, and atiested by the aspirations of
every heart animated by generous and
noble emotions. That, however, is lev.
cling up,o ,rd,' The reaching up 20 size
every bright and illustrious example Of
industry, sef-denial, patriotism, inven.
ton aud honor that history and example
have set before US for our admiration and
teaching. But do these inlallbIe teach
ers OF public virtue, and in!alhbe med.
clnes OF general evil, observe the inpIca.
tons contain ed in their scheme9 1t yir.
tuaiiy asserts property as the chief good
Tins IL the sni il Of n rnhhnr I,on1.Al