The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-03-22

/ anywhere under the SUM- Do you think the
English care about this whole question OF Amer
can slavery, save as machinery for breakingup
the great Republican confederation whereof
England and every other power have SUCH
mortal jealousy and fear Exeter Hall shapes
its balmy benevolence in the form If a wedge
to drive between North and South; and you,
reverend gentleman hammer upon that wedge
with all your might every time you thump your
cushion, and the British Press cries Bravo !
Beecherl
Between the Northern and Southern States of
this Republic, apprehend there is but little re-
al conflict of interest or feeling The question
of State policy and Territorial arrangements
which exist. would, as believe settle themselves
if you and your little secondhand Exeter Hall
would let them alone. Whatever bitterness
has mingled itself with the controversy, you
and the conventiclers have infused the poison
ousdrop. When you hear Mr.. Wade, in the
United States Senate at Washington, bowling
about Nebraska being made IS Sodom and Go
morrah, "-uttering dismal prophecies like these
I@-"he saw cloud already, larger than mans
hand; that cloud would soon gather all around
from the North and West-the whole heavens
would be lighted up with fires"-and so forth
the man is speaking the language Of the Taberna-
Gle: he is inspired by the Conventicles: he
Beecherizes. If there be any cloud impending
over the business, it is the dreary cloud of ia
naticism, which has shadowed many noble
cause and broken many glorious confederacy
before now. What are these foul mouthed Pu-
ritans that they should presume to curse with
all the curses of Ernulphu American Citizens
of the South--that they should term their prop.
erty robbery, and their homes Sodom and Co.
morrah!
And does it ever occur to you to consider
whether those Southern planters can liberate
their slaves? Whether the slaves wish it,
whether il they did, it would be good for them,
or for those who have the misfortune to be your
neighbors instead of owners? Have you con-
sidered the condition Of Hayti7 Of Jamaica
And if you urge the generous example of youi
friends the English, will tell you what thai
generosity consisted of--bonowing 100 million
of dollars (Which they never intend to pay,) in
order to add it to the national debt" and so to
; take additional security against a Revolution
and Republicanism at home. Have you any
such financial operation as this to propose to
America? Or do you want to take the property
Of those citizens fir, m them without ana com.
pensation Have you considered any one oI
these things Or isall this Tabernacle talk p,r,
rant? sit all Capital making and cant p
Great is Cant. What is Man that he should
withstand it?
take my leave Of you now, and rise out o.
the whole subject. What can say to the pa
) thetic adjuration with which you conclude YOU
letter." Come back to us, John Mitchell-il ii
not yet too late" All! your reverence will ex
cuse me it is not too late, but too early. Yor
belong to sect and school of social reformers
that have always kept at arms length. By
! your tongue know you-you are the men who
! talk about the {" rude ages four thousand years
ago,' as if the thing that was virtue then, were
crime to day 1t is you who cry out for the alb
? olition of the gallows and the barbarous, rat
ftling gniIlotine, two instruments, without
which the planet would be uninhabitable. You
are the Apostle Of Human Progress and Benevo-
lsm, and all sorts Of moral. physical and intel
Iectual notwithstanding in loud cheers
and subscriptions toasts tabernacles and trash.
Come back to you Why, when was / ever
amongst you2 What eye has seen me moving
in the ranks of "Human Progress 2" Who has
heard me blowing trumpets at the corner Of
Z streets?-or talking the blarney Of Benevolism
or Iauding British " freedom, at the expense o.
} American Republicanism mo, no. Cant, in
} deed, is strong, and the star of Humbug is higt
and culrninant but at any rate man is no
} obliged to make himself at home with humbug
+ to fling himself into the arms of humbug, anC
contentedly take up house with humbug. viii
never say unto Barnum, thou ar! my brother, anC
unto Buncombe, thou art my sister and mother
Neither viii say unto Beecher, thou art m,
pastor and master.
5 Once more, and finally. Adieu.
JOHN MITCHELL.
Nea0 York, Feb. 7th, 1854.