Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-09-18
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fractions, have taken whole dis.
tricts; and it is seen that, without
the aid Of the foreign vote, which
our opponentscharge is always cas-
for the democratic ticket, the south.
ern men elected twenty-one members,
and the free State men only five
and these facts and figures are a ful
answer to the false charge of usurpa
tion that comes up from the Other
side of the House.
The storm that now RACES ovel
this country is political-raised by
ambitious men in hopes of obtaining
power and public pIunder; all oul
troubles since Congress first assem-.
bled-the loud shrieks for freedom
and for Kansas-the unjust denun.
Citations Of the southern people, here
and elsewhere, are the result of this
cause. We are now in the midst oi
a presidential struggle, which carries
with it the government of this great
country for the next four years, to-
gether with the disbursement of two
or three hundred millions of public
money. 1t is a great contest, and
may bring, as some fear it will, the
clash of arms, the shout of battle,
and civil war. The elements of so.
cial and national harmony are bro
ken up; and the bitter water of Sec
tional hatred and party strife bursts
in upon US from every quarter of the
horizon; all decency, all propriety, all
respect for truth, justice, and the
constitutional rights of the South,
are forgotten or disregarded by our
adversaries, who, casting off the du-
ties of statesmen and the character
of gentlemen, refuse even the poor
security of personal responsibility
for the falsehood and slander they
utter.
This whole system of party war
fare is lawless and revolutionary; and
being founded on false assumptions,
evinces fixed design to rule or to
ruin. Kansas is made a pretext,
but it is simply part Of the gener-
al agitation long since commenced.
AS the foundation of their system,
they ass ume the equality of the me-
gro and Anglo Saxon races;and their
doctrines if carried out. could never
elevate the negro, but would sink
him lower. and carry the white man
down to his level. While they speak
these things, their acts prove the
hypocrisy of their professions. Un.
til these grave senators, divines, and
politicians, take to themselves wives,
and give their daughters in marriage,
and commingle on equal :erms. with
the African, they have failed to do
that which is most material to es.
tablish their own sincerity and the
practical wisdom of their theories.
Admitting that negro slavery is
constitutional, and that they dare
not touch it in the State where it
exists, yet for political effect, in vio-
lation ofa plain principle oflaw, they
abuse the south for the enjoyment
of a constitutional right. and utter
perpetual threats against an institu-
tion they dare not modest; thus tram
pling under foot the bond Of their
fathers. and pouring out words more
bitter than gall or worm-wood on the
head of their brothers. One people
cannot inaict greater wrongs than
these upon another.
Sir, the negro is not theeq1al Of the
white man; and the politician who
asserts that be is, cannot be other
wise than dishonest. In the north
ern States, from whence this destroy
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