Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1854-06-15
A Contrast Parallel.


ligent, educated, and web tO-do class of people,
which in morals. politics and business. give
tone to public sentiment OF the papers which
occupy sOmsIhing like a Prssmineuce IN that
light, We are doing no Injustice to others by
placing the Richmond Enquirer in the front
rank. The extract which we shall presently
give from that paper, has ben going the rounds
for some weeks. We have refrained from
giving publicity to it before this, from a va
riety of considerations. In the frat plcee il
was ungentemanly in tone and spirit. and
therefore so long as an individual character 70
support twas unWo.thy of notice. Secondly,
cts histOrics. illusions and Illustrations betray-
ed careless arrogance so foreign from the truth
of history, that its point lay in the spirit in
which the words were uttered, rather than in
any application of the subject to the people of
the North. The article of which il formed a
part was written pending the. passage of the
Nebraska bill, and something might be forgv-
en- TO the excitement of discussion. We have
waited 10 see If such sentiments as are here
embodied found response, or if perch ance they
might not be rebuked. Nothing of the latter
has met our observation on the contrary muck
has been SAID and done to lead US TO think
that the Southern mind is weak enough to en-
tertain and act upon just such sentiments. If
his be the right deduction then the true po-
sition of the two sections of the Union is this
submission and servitude, or resistance. We
will now give the extract
From the Richmond Enquirer.
"The relations between the North and the
South are very analogous to those which sub
sisted between Greece and the Roman Empire
after the subjugation Of Achaia by the Consul
Aummius. The dignity and energy of the
Roman character, conspicuous in war and in
politics, were not easily tanned and adjusted TO
The arts of industry and literature. The de-
generate and plant Greeks, on the contrary,
excelled in the nandcrah and polite profess
sions. We learn from the vigorous invective
ofJuvenal, that they were the most useful and
capable of servants, whethe' as pimps or pro-
fessors of rhetoric. 0bsequous, dexterous
and ready, the versatile Greeks monopoIi zed
the businessl Of publishing, and manufacturing
in the Roman Empire--allowing their masters
ample leisure for the service OF the State, in
the Senate or in the field The people of the
northern States OF this confeIeracy exhibit the
same aptitude for the arts and industry. They
excel as clerks mechanics and tradesmen, and
they have moEopolized the business Of teach
ing, publishing and peddling."
In what light are the teachers, manufactu
rers, professional and business men of the
North to regard such language gs this? If tits
to be taken as the deliberate Of one portion of
The population of our common Country, of the
other portion if the character assigned to
the one is to be enforced by the o.her. then
there is antagonism deep aud lasting, to be
ended only by triumph Of the one side, or eff.
fective resistance on the other. We speak Sc
rously, for we think the subject demands it,
In analyzng this paragraph, it can be of
small consequence who or what Mummius
was. He is put forward as one Of repre-
sentative class True, he was brutal and TO-
norant, but he was a consul and commanded
an army. lie conquered Athens and robbed
her temples, but he was Roman--and Rome
was nation of robbers. The Richmond En-
quirer proudly claims for the South the Ro-
man characteristics. We grant the truthful
ness of the claim has better foundation than
the writer will on reflection be willing to admit.
And while we allow this, we desire him to as
sign to the people of New England and the
North their true classification. They are
Greeks in their taste, in their love of the beau
tiful and the arts, but they are Goths in their
origin. The old Pilgrims that landed at Ply
mouth were true and lineal sons of the Teu-
tons. The Hugenots of the Carolinas,' and New
York were oil the same pure stock--they were
Cloths, lovers OF justice and pure minded
Iht Germans who are now hockng to our
shores are OF the same great family When
fresh from their native wilds, they were wor-
shippers OF liberty, lovers of truth, and they
still bow at her shrine. They hate oppression,
and have always warred against it. 1t will be
found in the sequel that they have lost none of
their ancient characteristics. The Roman nev-
er met his match until he encountered the
Goth. Though she thrice conquered the world
by her arms, by her literature which she stole
from Greece !, BY her religion; the Goth has
thrice broken her scepter: HE dispeled the
charm that made her arms invincible--over-
throw her idolatry--and is now safpassi6g her
Froudest works in literature and art"
Let us continue the parallel in the language
of one of the finest scholars Of our country
The Goth holds that Government. springs
from the people, is Instituted for their behalf,
and is limited to the particular objects for which
it was originally established that the legsla.
ture is but an organ for the solemn expression
of the deliberate will Of the nation; that the
coercive power Of the executive extends only to
the enforcement Of that will; and that penal
sanctions are incurred only by resistance to it
as expressed by the proper organ. The Rom
an views government as an institution imposed
from without, and independent of the people,
and holds that it is its vocation not to express
but to control the public will; and hence, by
ready corruption, government comes to be con-
sidered as established for the private adyant-
age of the ruler, who asserts not only a pro.
plietary right TO the emoluments of Office, but
an ultimate title to all the possessions. both Of