The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-12-18


The Southern Press of Monday, in an article
entitled the Theology Of Politics, and the Poll
tics Of Theology, makes out quite an amusing
and instructive analogy between the revolt of
the ten Hebrew tribes, and the proposed seces-
sion of the Southern States. The writer closes
his remarks in the following words
On the death of Solomon, all Israel assembled
and demanded reduction Of the enormous taxes.
Rehoboam rcfused--he rejected the counsel of the
old statesmen, the men of 1913, Mr.. Calhoun said
and took counsel of the young politicians. and
threatened to increase the burdens. So the people
answered, as the South now does, What portion
have we in David? Neither have inheritance in
the of Jesse. To your tents o Israeli And
the Union was dissolved. And when King Reho
boam undertook to raise an army, to : sec that the
laies ,oere faithfully erecuted,' to preserve that
Union by force instead of justice, prophet of the
Lord sent to forbid him."
We regret that our ingenious neighbor had
not completed the history. 1t is quite true that
the Union of the Jewish nation was dissolved.
1t is true, also, that the Nullifers established
separate confederacy. They selected for their
leader one Jeroboam, who seems to have been
the Quattleb,m of that day. One of his first
acts was to cause two golden calves to be
made, and having consecrated some obscure per-
sons as priesthood, established the worship of
these images at the central position of Bethel,
and the remote city of Dan. Wars speedily en-
sued between Israel and Judah; the former
were defeated, and Jeroboam, their king,
soon after died from disappointment and re-
morse. Nadab his son and successor, was
dethroned and put to death, and his whole
after Jeroboam, having reigned seven days,
being besieged by Omri, burnt himself to
death in his palace. Under the infamous
Ahab, and his still more infamous wife, Jeze-
bel, the fierce and bloody idolatry of Sidon was
introduced. Both the king and queen partci-
pated in the atrocious murder Of Naboth, and
both persisted miserably, as did their whole
family at subsequent periods. Finally, the
sceptre came into the hands of Hosea, during
whose reign the kingdom of Israel was con-
quered by Shalmanezer. A portion Of the Is
ralites were carried into captivity, a portion
transferred to other lands, and the kingdom
itself was speedily blotted out from the list Of
nations.
This is the sequel of that history which the
editor of the Southern Press so felcitously be-
gun, but which he neglected to finish, for the
benefit of his readers. He will doubtless for
give us for a serious application of what he
intended as play of wit. 1t was Secession;
it was Dis,mion which destroyed the kingdom
of David and Solomon, and has made the Jew
ish nation outcasts and vagabonds for nearly
twenty centuries; and this was disunion, be it
remembered, which could plead real oppression
as an excuse, and in which large majority Of
the confederated tribes, participated. If, in the
course of Providence, such malediction was
awarded to such disunion, what would those
haye to expect who should secede as mere
fragment, and-accOrding to the judgment Of
common sense and Neutrality-suspicious. cause or
provocaticn from the brotherhood of these United
States