The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-04-30
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! We now come in the order OF our sui ject II
| treat of the various new sects of philosopher
that have appeared of late years in France ant
in our free States, who, Disguised with society
as il exists, propose to reorganize il on entirely
new principles. We have never heard of con
vert to any of these theories in the slave States
If we are not all contented, still none see evil;
of such magnitude in society as to require IL
entire subyersion and re construction. We shall
group all these sects together, because they nj
concur in the great truth that free competition
is the bane of free society; they all concur too
in modifying or wholly destroying the institu
ton of private property Many Of them, see
! ing that property enables its owners to exercise
a more grinding oppression than kings ever did
! would destroy its tenure alto gether. In France
| especially, these sects are headed by men Of
! great ability, who saw the experiment of liberty
and equality fairly tested in France after the re-
| voluion of 1872. They saw, rs all the world
! did, that it failed to promote human happiness
or well being.
France fourd the consulate and the empire
Ravens of bliss compared with the stormy
ocean Of liberty and equality on which she had
VI.
lists and Communists Of France are, they cannot
create n man, n tree, or new system Of society
these are Gods works, which man may train,
trim and modify, but cannot create. The at
tempt to establish government on purely theo-
retical abstract speculation, regardless of cir
cumstance and experience, has always failed
never more signally than with the Socialists.
The frequent experience of the Able Sieye's
paper structures of government, which lasted so
short a time, should have taught them caution:
but they were boiler refOrmers than he; they
had fair field for their experiment after the ex-
pulsion of Louis Philippe; they tried it, and
their failure was complete and ridiculous The
Abbe's structures were adamant compared to
theirs The rule Of the weak Louis Napoleon
was welcomed az a fortunate escape from their
schemes of universal beneyolence, which issued
in universal bankruptcy.
The sutferings of the Irish, and the complaints
Of the radicals and chaytists, have given birth to
new party in England, called Young England.
This party saw in the enlargement and hosti-
ty Of classes, and the suferings of the poor, the
same evils Of free competition that had given
rise to socialism in France though less talent
ed than the Socialists, they came much nearer
discovering the remedy for these evils.
Young England belongs to the most conser-
vatye wing of the tory party; he inculcates
strict subordination of rank; would have the
employer kind, attentive and paternal, in his
treatment of the operative.-The operative,
humble, affectionate and obedient to his en-
poyer. He is young, and sentimental, and
would spread his doctrines in tracts, sonnets
and novels but society must be ruled bysterner
stuff than sentiment. Sef-interest makes the
employer and free laborer enemies. The one
~ l. 10 no.. IA, I,,rb
wares War, constant war, is TIE result, in
which the operative rerishes, but is not van
ouished: he is hydra-headed, and when he dies
two take his place. But numbers diminish his
strength. The competition among laborers to
get employment begets an intense war more
destructive than the war from above. There is
but one remedy for this evil, so inherent in free
society, and that is TO identify the interests of
the weak and the strong, the poor and the rich.
Domestic slavery does this far better than any
other institution. Feudalism only answered the
purpose in so far as feudalism retained the fea.
lures Of slavery. To it (saverv) Greece ard
Rome, Egypt and Judea, and al the other dis
tircuished States Of antiquity, were indebted
For their great prosperity and high civilization;
prosperity and civilization which appear al
most miraculous, when we look Ia their igno.
rance Of the physical sciences. In the moral
sciences they were our equals, in the fine arts
vastly our superiors. Their poetry, their paint
ing, their sculpture, their drama, their elocuton
and their architecture, are models which we i'm
itate, but never equal. In the sci.n of gov.
eminent and of mo ais, in pure metaphysics and
in all the walks Of intellectual philosophy, we
have been beating the air with our wings or re-
yoying in circles, but have not advanced an inch
Kant is not ahead Of Aristote-and Juveral
has expressed in little m IRE than line the mod
ern utilitarian morality.
Quis enim virtutcm ampec.itur ipsam PrGmia
81 tollasl
Terence himself slave, with heart no doubt
filled with the kindly affections .whic the rela-
ton of master and slave begets, uttered the loft
lest sentiment that ever enanated from unin.
spired man:
Homo sum humani nih a me alienum puto
Bat this high civilization and domestic slavery
did not me ely co.exist- they were cause and ef
! feet. Every scholar whose mind Is az all i'm
bued with ancient history and literature, sees
that Greece and Rome were indcb ed to this
institution alone for the taste, the leisure, and
! the means to cultivate their heads and their
! hearts had they been tied down to Yankee
notions Of thrift, they might lave produced
! franklin, with his "penny saved is a penny
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| losophers and invented the spinning jenny, but
they never would have produced poet, an
orator, sculptor, or an architect; they would
never have uttered lofty sentiment, achieved n
glorious feat in war, or created single work of
| art
A modern Yankee, or Dutchman. Is the fair
| result Of liberty and equality. French character
has not yet b en- snbdued and tanned into insig-
| niiicance BY their new institutions, and besides
the pursuit Of arms elevates and purifes the sen.
| tmeats Of Frenchmen. In what Is the Yankee
! or Dutchman comparable to the Roman, Athe-
nian, or Spartan! In nothing save his care Of
hi, pelf and his skill in driving bargain. The
ruins of Thebes, Of Ninevah, and Of Balbec, the
obelisks and pyramids Of Egypt, the lovely and
time defying relics of Roman and Grecian art,
The Doric column and the Gothic spire, alike at
test the taste, the genius, and the energy OF so.
ciety where slavery existed.
Outs locus,
! Quu rcgio IN ferris non nostri plena aboris
And now equality where are thy monuments
! And echo answers where! Echo deep, deep