Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1854-09-18

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ism bv statutory enacttneht, as to force
caIomel down the throats Of oH the well
and the i'll, By the sick-stoon Of legal
sausion. Those have TAX en- The VOW OF
total abstinence doubtless feel comfortable
and satisfied with their condition and
prospects but some will endeavor to en-
force their abnegaiion upon all. rolenfes
rolentesques, like the fox Of the fable that
lost is tail BY an unlucky conirefemps, aud
desired all the foxes TO dof the useless APP
pendage, they lay themselves open to the
retort which Baynard provoked from one
of the sages Of his race.
Society in all western and southw estern
Europe as in all the free States Of own
country, is afflicted with frightfui disease
the result Of the long practice of these
false morals and radical principles Of eeon-
omy, which have inculcated the most in
tense severe, and universal selfshness.--
The rich, the talented and the fortunate,
where alarmed by the CONFUSION, upheav-
ing and tumtlt Of popular poverty, distress
and desperation under their feet Every
where--save in our blessed South, where
a conservative institution secures to the
mental class the affectonate care of the
patfician class, and surrounds those who
would elsewhere be the sport Of the cold
charities of the world. by the fostering
amenities of the domestic hearthstbne--
are men and women casting about ID the
blind spirit of materiaisn having its
fountains iafdeli.y, for erpedients to reseus
society ffem the dangers which uhdea.
mine ard enrvon it. What are theie
Peace Societies, their Trades Unions. their
Socialist Phalanxes, their Chartist Leagues
their thousand and one schemes of benev-
Silence outside of religion and the church,
for curing evils incident to false systems
of morals and economy, but so many con-
LESSONS OF the rottenness Of the whole
framework of their society,"
Many have been the nostrums proposed
for the evils of a condition of society to
which our south. thanks to heaven, Is,
and will sill continue to be, a strangrr..--
The catalogue of this vile and vicious
quachery is a long one, and will not be
given here. 1t commenced with Agrari
anisnl, and has dragged its length along
as far down i'll the alphabet as Teetotal-
ism.
Agrarians proposed: An abolition of all
debts, an inventory Of all real and person
al property within the State, a census OF
all inhabitants, white and black, and an
equal division of all property among all
citizens over eighteen years Of aye with
out regard to color-The abolition of all
interests on money, and of the right Of
making wils-The descent Of half de-
cedents property to widower or widow.
and of the other half to the State &c.
They conceived tins would level the rich,
elevate the poor, and make society work
as easy as an old shoe. They COMPLETE
Ly SANK INRviDuAL RIGHT, and made the
State, The government, the all in all of So
ciety-a general robber, aud gsiieral al
moner. Agrarianism had its day and its
advocates; but, like all monsters. was
short-ived and expired.
This is no place for a detail of the birth,
life and death o: Succeeding projects for
reforming European and Northern soce-
ty. Suffice it to say that they became
milder and silier as they were more notel
and more fresh And now we are in the
heyday oil TEEToTAIIsM, as shibboeth
Of the politician, as a baton Of the consta-
bic, as an edict of the statute book.
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