The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-10
- of Property. - AboGf ion an
49,. Agrarianism.

Il of Property. - Aboif ion ans
Agrarianism. >.u
It has always been contended by Southern
statesmen, and by the more far-sfghted and 81
eacious of their Northern brethr en-. in the bette
days of the Republic that the crusade by tn,
Abolition agitators against one peculiar de
: scription of property woulG lead to the denial OF
: the right to hold other species of property also
as an infringement Of natural rights.
Following an inevitable sequence, the princi
#ples on which Abolition is based, must lead its
2 advocates to agrarianism-and I" the rights OF
man. under their constructions, antagonizina
Iadirectly with the rights of property, must be
#made to override all Instructions to the attain
Hment Of universal equality. The same cant OF
Hphanthropy that rises loudly in the Legislature
land the market-place-in the highways and bye
aways-proclaiming the "inalienable rights" of
: imam to liberty, begins now with equal pertilla-
Scity to urge his inalienable right to land also
Il Am not n man and brother" says the mo-
Hde Free-socr, land shall YOU monopolizc more
Moi the earth than You can possibly need to sup
Hply your wants, or even your luyuries-whilc
Hcannot claim or occupy al acre? While you art
ESQ strcnuously asserting the inalicnabc rights of
Athc black slave, shall you be allowed to neglect
Hand refuse the malienablc rights of the white
|alrecman! We will take care that you do not
HIVE will insist on our share of our common herit,
Hagc.7
& Such, substantially, is the language now used
J land the sentiments now held not alone by the WIS.,
EIonary followers of Owen, Wright, Abby Folsom
&c., but by the more practical operatives of the
HF'rcc-so agitators-and it is only a natural CO.
Nrollary to their propositions Substitute for the
Hscttled provisions of written constitutions the
Hopnions of each individual founded on his crude
Emotions of II higher law'-makc each mans
Hprivatc Judgment the tribunal for establishing
7the rights of propcrty--in one word, substitute
&conscicncc for the constitution, and Mr.. SEW
3ARD's construction of its provisions for those of
Tits framers-and the reign of Anarchy, the mill
4enium of Frec-soil, will have arrived.
The doctrine, however, is not original either
4 with Mr. SEWARD or his satellites: it is a for
aeign exotic, not a native product. Its earliest
land most eloquent apostle was JEAN JACQUES
HRoUssEAU-baptized in blood, it passed down to
aRoBEsrlERE, and his mantle has recently been
assumed by PRoUDHoN. So that Senator SEW
! ARD stands now before the American public ar,
|rayed in the shreds and patches of this cast-ofi
Elgarment, world too wide for his intellectual
proportions scanty as it is.
Il But his pioneers were boldcr far than he-thea
swept down upon their destined victims, " tn,
Hprivieged classes" Gas they called them) with thu
bIscrcam and swoop of the hungry vulture--thc,
F1dd not silently wind their stealthy way up t.
Hthem with the Shiny sinnosities of the serpent
HEad the Senator, in his late Speech cited the ex
amples and the precepts of these his true proto
Htypes instead of seeking the shelter of q grea
and glorious name, by striving to assimilate him
self to ALGERNoN SIDNEY, he would have don
4 hut Justice to ALL That patriot wrote, tough
Ind fell for the maintenance of rights and tn
protection of property, which a despotie pOwe
RI sought illegally to wrest from himself, his neigh
@bors, and the charter of their common countr,
His position was identiealy that of the me
n now stigmatized as Southern ultras-standin
up for right against might, and Drawing the elaine
d THAT would call it treason. There was nothing
the subteranean-of the sapper and miner,
1.-THE mind, heart, or soul of ALGERNoN SIDNEY
f nothing in his life or death to assimilate him
e the phiidnthropists of this day.
/, II is said that certain well knowh charact,
i can :" quote scripture for his purposes" So ca
demagogues and fanatics pervert and parod
Il the utterances of patriots, to subserve their
e and screen their selfish purposes.
IS We propose to show that this Free soil scho
3 is founded on the same basis as that institute
= bv these French "reformers, and the parrall
! can be very easily drawn. The cardinal al
fundamental doctrine of PRoUDHoN, its model
L preacher, is condensed into the pithy maxi
that
). IAN Property is Robberyf'
h Senator Seward and his disciples have not Y
adopted to their full extent the doctrines of the
l.. master-for we presume that the former Won
y strenuously oppose a division of his fees, p'
Ud;an, md mileapc with them and thew in tuI