Southern patriot. (Houston, Chickasaw County, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1849-09-05
From Me IIasLNglln Tainn

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We had a dream the other nigh
and such a dream had we dranl
milk punch with our breakfast witt
The Premier, or had we taken ,
good pull at the haliards with the
man OF war in the middle OF the day
or had we taken pot luck with him
whose business it is to see that Indi.
ans are as good as white folks any
day, we might have accounted for il
out no, we dreamed without a cause
ana with an empty demiion. We
dreamed that we were upon the
dome Of the Capitol with the sages
o. 20, who had stepped out of the
pictures in the rotundo, and congre-
gated around the great and good
" ashington, like the children around
Kind and beloved father. And
while we stood there the whole I'm
ION, Uitd tand and all, like Donivan's
panorama, passed before our eyes
it commenced with 1881; and as it
began with the district of Maine, a
PROVENCE of Massachusetts, and
gradually unfolded the old thirteen
1t was a pleasant sight to behold the
countenence of our own Washing.
ton. Then there were negro slaves
on the banks Of the Merrimac, the
Charles, and the Connecticut, and
the banjo was heard at the corn-huck.
lngs, and the tune of Clar dc Kitchen
assembled from the farmers neat
mansions in the valleys fthe Will
mantle and the Housatonic. Then
the North sold to the South the
slave lObor, and the planter reclaim
ed swampy land from the en-.
croaching flood without fear of few
ers or alligatOrs. Then the Connec.
ticut deacon inportedt SamJ0 in ex-
change for a mule, or a rum-hogs.
head ready made, and sold him to
the gay planter on the Pedee, who
paid for him in tobacco, and all peace
and quietnesS. The New England
man and the South Carolinian slept
in their bloody shrouds at Eutaw
and camden, and as they fought they
died-side and side for liberty, iii
wa9 a fresh picture-an Eden-like |
land, where the foot of civilization
had made its footprints few and far
between, and where the red savage
slept in his wigwam in the woods
and the pioneer white man built his
'ude cabin by the dam of the beaver
md the haunt ofthe fallow.deer.
Time, which knows no law, kent
Tipping, away from beneath our feet
md the county from a land Of ham
els and forests, bristled with towns {
md cities Sectional feelings began Z
o show themselves in acts. A war {
elween black wool and white wool I
flhe most deadly character was G
ragged; and the land Of the pilgrims S
nat was the first to introduce slaves.
nd whose fathers sold the Indian
-ings Of Bristol and Pokanoket to
lie Spaniards in Cuba, after having )
Otrid of their importotions ofhuman y
esh, damned the South all up in a L
zap for being slave owners, and II
ent to spinning cotton raised by Is
ose very slaves by the white labor, 10
I'd grumbled the louder as they y.
ade the more money. While u
ngland, the old hypocrite who gave q
the blessing of NEGRoIsM in our u
ovinical state, after enslaving all 81
India that she could get, and after v, w
wing Ireland arsenic and a dog " !"
liar in exchange for, her Parliament % .
d liberty, pushed on the Puritan 'li
a point of conscience to make a y" VI
Ill war with the cavalier, so that ol
2 might make a grab at the mid so'
States, and repair damages by al
aging liberty on her own eagles g
st forever. At this moment the = &C
nevolont Washington started, and De
III frown upon his brow, pointed u lsl
this sectional controversy, and L"
d, "Did ! not warn you of this '' y,
!? Did not''-just then the y TllI
;ond Washington and his suite =
ne gallopping up the avenue, with ~
hua r. Giddingr aud Truman 50II
18th beside him, blowing peces Of 7
.i-angelic music upon rams horns -
cut short the sentence of the IL 10! no.
trious Father. We turned, and =
forms of the venerable men faded alIu
Wy away from our view; aud in a'll
place Of the goodlike man we NJ ,Iu
: Thomas Ewing with a heads VI, !,
MS axe and Ftz Henry Warren /
b bright clever, endoavoring W. wv
Iehead Liberty, who was dressed mi =, \
hort petticoats, and wore an a. -, ~
1inable sack. Liberty strcaked S ~,
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