The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-12-18
From the New York
THE SOUTH.

otic fathers:
From the New York Independent.
. THE SOUTH.
In morals, manners, personal habits, and
IDEAS of cleanliness, comfort and dccency,
and propriety in their dress and hubitati1ns,
the majority of the white people Of that
whole region are debased and defiled TO an
extent which Northern people, who have
never sojourned ameng these Southern dir
ty white savages, can hardly imagine or
believe.
And it should be known, and should be
remembered, and blnzoned, that the original
cause of this wide and deep burbarisIn is
not wholly or largely in slavery, but is in.
dependent of it, and was partly anterior
to it.
The mass Of the population Of the At.
lantic coast of the slave region of the South,
are descended from the transported convicts
and outcasts of Great Britain. For CEN
tury previous to the Revolution, thousands
Of those ofscourings OF the jals and hulks
Of England were poured out on the shores
of Maryland, Virginia the Carolinas end
eorgia-dnd norhere else. Those were
/ the petnal colonies Of Great Britain. Their
! Legislative history proves it. And Capt.
| james Cook was sent on his second voyage
of discovery, to seek a new country which
might serve as a substitute for those lost con-
yict settlements.
A glorious chiyalry ard hereditary aris.
locrucy of the South ! Peerless first fami-
/ lies OF Virginia and Cdrolinn ! "Look unto
/ the rock from whence ye were hewn, and
to the hole ol the pit whence ye we're dig.
ged." Progeny OF the hghwaymen and
horse thieves, and sheep.steOlers and pick
pockets of old England ! "Go, vilest of
the living vilc," out of al unity and COM
munities of decent origin, aud following
your true, natural and moral affinities. seek
your real kiI dred and political iraterniticS
with these whose ancestors were turned
from the ocean path which yours took, and
founded their "chiynrous" colonies in New
South Wales and Van Dieman's Land
Go to Botany Bay with your hereditary
/ lawlessness, violence, and murderous theiV.
ing propensites, and stain no longer the
character of that true and noble eScended
free American people who have too long
endured the loathsgme connection with you.
! Go, ereditary outCasts ! Go with the
joyful assent of 10000 GOO countrymcn."
No christian or patriot would ever utte1
) such sentiments as those above recorded
When we remember that Virginia was tht
place where the ball of the Revolution was
first put in moton-that it was the birth
I place of Patrick Henry, Of Washington, o
of 1ol; nj hnf in hor hn
som now repose the sacred ashes Of these
great men-whcn we reflect that withou
= Virginia there would have been no jefferson
, to draft the declaration Of independence
no Washington to lead our armies in tn
war of the Revo!ution-no Madison to fran
q our noble Constitution; when we remembe
Il that Carolina is the land of the gallan
:, Marion, and that the whole southern AT
o lantic coast is sanctlfied and hailoWed b.
!. the best blood ofth Revolution, how mus
Il we cxecrate the despicable men who cas-
insult upon the homes Of patriots, and heu
, ignominy upon the graves of the fathers
o The man who wrote that article in tn
d New York Independent, has just rbout a
e much patriotism as Benedict Arnold. II
!. who ISLANDERS the grave Of the Father {
:. his Country now, would, in l776. have be
= trrycd him into the hands of the Br.tiS
:. forces Yet such are the sentiments whic
;. emanute from the Republican-re!igiou
IS press-such are the doctrines promul gate
is by ministers of the gospe. and circulate
e broad cast over the country.
n Let our fellow citizens ponder we'll the
e meaning and purpose. When treason
r advocated openly it is time for the trr
friends of liberty to be active and viglani