Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-04-26
For the Nashville Patriot.
Cavaliers and Purftans-North and
South-Union.
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free government We want no better PROOF
of this than the Yankees themselves. Witness
the extravagant and licentious anarchy into
which their unchecked passions have led them,
though they started on the same political ba-
sis with the Southern States And anarchy,
he it social. moral or intellectual, all the wide
world OYER has ever been the sure presage
and forerunner of Despotism. The people of
the Southern States are by nature eminently
conservative, and the very structure of our
society, embodying, as it does, the Divincly
sanctioned enslavemont of greatly inferior
race. checks all tendency to RIGHTEOUSNESS
and forces it within due bounds Our society
is founded entirely upon the laws of God;
the Bible is the source of all our law as well
social and moral as civil. and hence reverence
and worship Of its Almighty and Triunc Au-
thor Is more generally among US than any other
people. Entirely satisfied and happy in our
Society and our Bible we have no incentive to
run off into wild speculative theories which
are not sanctioned or approved by that Bible
or that Society. And this too is the great
cause ofour superior moral development. The
tenor Of our way is more nearly in the path
laid down by the laws of God than is often to
be found in the fallen race of Adam-and the
reason of it is that our laws our society and
our mothers teach us, as people. never to
question the precepts and commands of the
Bible. Does our Bible tell us that God has
enslaved and cursed the whole race of Ham
for His own wise and bcneficent purposes?
we seek to enjoy the blessings God has given
us, and never interpose our own philanthropy
| to question the wisdom, beneficence and JUS
tice of Gud. Does it teach us that God espe-
cially sanctioned the temperate use of
wine, we do not declare that it is sin, and
seek by our laws to prohibit what God has
approved. Does our Bible teach us that the
God Head is three persons and one God? we
do not impiOusly oppose our finite reason, and
declare that Christ is not God. Is one of us
rich and the other poor-is one of us married
and the other unmarried-we do not seek by
some Fourier communism to level all classes
and conditions of men, hut strive TO better
orr own lot without injuriug our neIghbor's
Political equality among ourselves is all we
claim or expect, and that we have to a degree
unknown in the North where the poor are re-
ally slaves and the rich are masters and
perfect equality among our slaves we enforce.
DO we see our neighbors of the North possess
ing more money, more railroads and more
telegraphs than We've do not therefore en-
Wy them. and begin Immediately to speculate
upon their policy and morality-nor do we
imagine ourselves the worlds reformers and
seek to abolish money, railroads and tele-
glaphs. but strive to content ourselves with
what money we have and reflect that we have
railroads and telegraphs enough, and can
have more when we want them. Does our
Bible teach us to love God, and our neigh
bors as oursclves.-we donot therefore resolve
ourselves into a committee Of reformation and
proceed to judge and form all the world
around us. Are we told to love one another
we do not therefore abandon the marriage
rite and form ourselves into societies where
men and women mingle promiscuoualy in
free lore without check or restraint The hon
or and happiness of our mothers, our wives
and our sisters are far dearer to us than money
or life. and we guard the marriage rite as jeal-
Ously as we guard our religiOn-indced res
pct and protection ofthe female sex are almCs
part of our religion. The degradation to
which the gentle Sex is reduced in the North
east is the surest sign of the complete demon
alization Of Yankee society. There is no
chivalrous devotion for the weak aud helpless
female, no manly and noble protection of her
but all is selfish, cold and heartlcss as the
metal they worship. Free love societies they
have in abundance but in SUCH the noble
passions are unknown, virtue is unhcard of,
the only object being the qualification of bru-
tai lust, and the complete dcbascmcnt of both
man and woman to the brutal level. They
appeal to the spirit world and by cunningly
devised cheats they play upon the supersti-
tions of the female mind and, lost to all sense
of shame aud honor, they force it with pre-
tended spiritual commands to pandcr to their
abominabe app'ties. In these spiritual So
cietics every article of clothing is abandoned,
and all is communism do not not say this
state of things is universal or general even in
New England-bu what must be the state of
that society which tolerates it at all II is at
least So general that TO save themselves and
their sex from ruia many of their women have
been driven 10 demand civil and political rs
well as moral equality with man and how
deplorable must be the moral degradation of
the society where woman is driven so entirely
out of the sphere assigned her by God 1t is
not Us, the men of the South, alone who pre-
vent ''women's rights conventions" herc-it
is our women thems Ives, who scorn so 10 de-
grade, dishonor and unseN themselves. Ii is
because that the high mission and sphere of
woman are heartily and earnestly recognized
by us-because we, their fathers, their bus
bands and their brothers, recognize without a
doubt the holiness of their moral and sociul
mission, and protect both with our lives. We
love woman because God has made her lovely,
but we cherish and protect her because she is
the great moral agent that lights US above the
brute creation. High and holy she is -gcntle
and loving and good. 1t is ours to influence
the affairs Of tme-it is hers TO guide us to
heaven. But in New England she has sunk
from her high aud holy estate, and is fast be-
coming mans slave. IL il said an undcvout
Astronomer Is mad-how much worse an ir-
religious woman! and yet female irrcligion
has reached an extent in New England pain
fully shocking. There she no longer carries
her children To the christian churches TO hear
the oruciiied Savior preached, and TO instill
into their virgin minds the seeds Of piety aGd
virtue, but to teach them deadly hatred aud
envy Of their happier neighbors. 10 hear
politics rantyd In the pulpt-to hear free
lovism commended and TO have the sieken-
ing, disgusting, degrading philanthropy of