The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1860-10-25
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you OF the Bell party, and you OF the
Douglas party, who have homes and
property in tho South, and all others
who wish well to their country, and en-
deavor to secure IL moro united action
among Southern men in resisting n
common foe We lear that uIl Of Won
have put too much confidence in the in.
nate strength Of oar iorm Of govern
mcut We fear that thcleis not virtue
enough in the human heart, and not
sufficient prudence and sound judg,
mcnt in the multitude TO pcrpctnatc n
purc y democratic form Of government
We fear that the passions which now
wlanglc in the hearts of the American
people, the strongly conflicting views
which our honest citizens in The South
and the whole country now entertain
in relation to our present national trou'
bles, their cause and remedy, point di.
rectly to revolution, to blood, and to Il
mOnarchical government
We maintain that when parties differ
50 widely in opinion as those Of our
country do, and differ honestly, there
has to be Il compromise Of opinions
somewhere. If each party assumes
that its views must be right on all the
questions, that it will have its own way
and never compromise to another par
ty, there must be a revolution to settle
the difficulty, and the sword will then
decide which party will not make the
compromise. We hold that our whole
life is n series Of compromises from the
cradle TO She grave, in the family circle,
in social life, in politics, religion, and al
most everywhere else = not, however,
n compromise Of principle, but yicld-
ing otdUc respect for those who honest
| ly differ with Us in opinion, in prcjudi
ces, habits ofthoughl, in views of hu
man life, and our duties to ourselves
and to each other. How can any man
orany set Of men, assume that they ar,
positively and beyond Il doubt alway,
right, when others equal y as honest on
intelligent do not believe as he on they
| do? 10 us tlc ono compromise doe
tlinc appears anti-democra,ic. An ab-
solulc monarch may adopt the no com.
promise rule, and God may be governed
! by such Il rule, but we do not see how
! parties in 4 republican government can
be governed by 1T,
But ii each party in the South con
tlnucs to prefer party to country; i
they each say no more compromises,
at the same time that, with their eye,
open, thcyrush on to ruin-irsoccssion
instructions, blood and carnage have
nothing in them that is unpleasant tc
their visol---if they all dig pits anc
then jump into them; il'intcrnal lend,
and wrangIing at lame are to seize up
on the Southern mind and blunt fact,
and arguments, and oncst warning,
are to be laughed at as mere straWs-
then We say Hct slip the dogs Of war,
let the South try party spirit and pas
sion, let them 5cccdc, open the African
slave trade, get into Il war with France
and England without u navy, without
an army, with inccndiarics and scrvilc
outbreaks at homo and then we may
see that Il little prudence, patriotism,
and the spirit Of compromise among
the parties oithc South in 1860 might
have aycrlcd the terrible caIamiilcs
which party spirit pointed to at that
period.
TIE GAME OF EuCllkE AND LIFE
AN ARKANSAS FATHERS ADVICE
TO HIS son.
There is genuine humor in the idea
that an Arkansas man finds the most
natural expression, even of parting nd
vice to bis son, in the language Of thc
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