The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-03-22

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make him flee. He lasheth the sea with his tail,
and all the morning papers of the universe re-
sound with the splash thereof. No fisher of wo-
men shall put hook between his jaws; no NOR
tai cook shall cut him up forever; on his crest
sits humbug. plumed from his name he shaketh
boundIess Buncombe, and in his convelnted
spires there lurketh Capital.
You see tits as easy as lying; hut there is no
use in all this; nor would it throw light upon
any question. Yet this very sort of thing is
the tissue of your eloquent letter to me. In one
instance only you lose sight of your prudent re-
serve and venture upon an actual assertion
Bored todeath as you are by Moses and the
Prophets, it is still evident that you wish to
make allies of them; and thus you say, by way
of contrasting American with Hebrew Slavery
"Hebrew Slavery admitted that slave was
man with all appropriate human responsibilities,
and made ample provision for bis religious and
civil instruction."
1t is painful to be obliged to say that you are
again mistaken. There was no provision at ALL
either ample or little, for the religious or for the
civil instruction of the foreign slaves of the
Jews: as to their responsibilities, they had
to be sure, all appropriate" responsibilities
that is, such as are appropriate to slave, and no
more. All their slaves, except those casual and
temporary slaves who were OF the tribes of Isra-
ell, were simply and absolutely, as American
slaves are, the chattels of their proprietors To
worry you with proofs of this would be cIuel.-
You are tired of the Pentateuch, and will no
more hear Moses and the Prophets; but proba-
bly, you will see the expediency of reading lit
tie before you rattle Moses about peoples ears
again. The authorities cited you call rubbish !;
and you say you have in your library heaps OF
trash, of that sort. | do assure you that you
would find your account in reading some of
| them in your leisure hours; what is the use OF
having heaps of books in mans library if he
will not read them? | know well enough
where you got your new and strange interpreta.
tions of Scripture it was from Mrs. Beecher
Stowe (pide "Key") who again got them from
Professor Stowe, who got them from Barnes, or
else Barnes from Stowe. 1t is perilous thing,
this reference forever to ones own clique and
circle for authority and intellectual pabulum
the supply soon dries up; and if you will have
another Polar similitude, shall Hken you to q
Greenland bear. sucking his own paws for food
in the hard weather.
You say thee is an, Issue between me and
the American public" This / did not kl-ow
before. knew there was an issue between me
and small knot of noisy Tabernacle lecturers,
who affect astonishment on finding that one
who has protested against oppression, is yet un-
prepared to denonnce as oppression what they,
the Tabernacle lecturers, called by that name,
and who are shocked 10 see man IN the nine
teenth century with no more exalted idea of
freedom than the benighted Washington had
apprehend, sir, that you and the Tabernacle
men are not the American public;--ver far
short of it indeed But, here is the issue that
you say has been raised between me and the said
public:
"What was the liberty which you asserted
for Ireland? Vas IL liberty founded upon the
inalienable right Of every human being to life.
liberty. and happiness or was it liberty
founded on the right Of the strong to Cypress
the rceak 2 This Is the question which Amer
lean newspapers are just now discussing"
| Are they? lam sorry that l can render them
no assistance. AS to the first question, I am
not aware that every human being. or any one.
has an inalienable right to life, liberty and
happiness People often forfeit life and liber-
ty, and as to happiness | do not even know
what it's On the whole fear this is jargon.
For the second horn of your dilemma. g Was
it liberty founded on the right of the strong to
Cypress the weak? Imust confess that do not
understand the dialect Therefore l decline to
impale myself upon that horn also TO your
pair of questions, / am content to anwer NEI-
THEIR.
What liberty it was that aspired to for Ire
land, it would be useless to tell you again-you
would never understand me. And it would on
ly disgust you if were to refer to the rude ages
again. and to say that it was just the sort of lib
erty-no better and no worse-which the slave
holding Corcyraans asserted against Corinih
and the slaveholding Corinthians fought fo
against Rome, and the slaveholding Americans
wrung from the English. 1t was National In
dependence.
But am tired of the subject. And do no
believe that any single individual really sees tn
) least inconsistency in my sentiments or behav
) ior. The whole controversy is fictitious AM
fictitious it is an affair of tickets and plat
= FORMS You seem to think ita small matter, sii
. to exasperate your fellow-citizens of the Souu
by unmeaning villi6cation; nothing to shak
the foundations of the Union nothing to you
discredit upon republicansm itself, and to in
Isult your grand country, while you lay your dis
Iloyal incense at the feet of the cruel, canting
English ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS only you cal
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