Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1860-01-05

the South are ioIeyer getting the
, best of it in the national Govern
ment, and tha. the South ought TO
be put down negro or no negro,
white or black. Now pray look at
it, think Of it, consider for mo-
ment, AK the pages Of history and
they will teach you. For eighty
years have we not bad the best
Government on earth, prospered as
nation never prospered before. spread
abroad, multiplied, and built cities;
/ subdued the wilderness; conquered
:he Savage; bridged the rivers; made
water and earth, and air and fire,
:, tributary to our wants as no people
ever did before? All the time have We
not dwelt securely by our own rock
or under our own elm? Which Of
4your sons or daughters has been OPP
pressed? which of them has set foot
upon a foreign shore and has not
found the American name a shield
and protection2
And yet.of Ill the long line ofsages
that have presided over the destinies
uf fhe nation-from the Apostle
Jefferson to the Patriarch Buchanan
which Of them have not New
England men in large numbers, and
Massachusetts, ss State, as ma
ljority, almost uniformly and persis-
ftently abused? Has it become. a
disease; is il chronic; is there no
medicine that can reach It? VIII
4 this madDess drive her to fatal end?
must The nation be plunged down
the fatal precipice Of civil war;
With you Jefferson was Jacobin
and infdel; Madison, a: whose death
John Quincy Adams said: "A spirit
went up to heaven as pure as the
ISeraphim which be joined yet be
twas commended so the Island OF Elb,
or a halter;" Jarkson was tyrant
and usurper, Van Buren, WAS full
Of canning and deceit; y Ter was a
traitor; Mr.. Fillmore sold himself TO
the South; MIR. Pierce carried war
aud bloodshed inlo peaceful Terri
tories; and Mr.. Buchanan, whose last
poIsaticn of Iif. will be wish and a
Iprayer for the ~elfre of his whole
lcountry-he is bolder rutflsn, aud
guilty Of the blood and crimes OF
EJohn Brown. Now does history
anywhere picture the acts and mo-
hives of these men as they are mule
Hto appear to you? Have not the
4 winds and air around you been poi
Z soned by the breath of slande'!
/ If, in matter 80 grave and impof-
tant, mate rial considerations. Selfish
can have any weight, they
are numerous, urgent and pressing.
4 Urit.d III ilese interests harmonlze
land assist each otbcr. Your keels
1 lave earlied The graater part OF The
. one hundred and sixty millions oi
lcotton furnished by the South du'
ring the last year. They have
. drawn supplies oil manufactured az
,ieles from almost evety village In
= 4
II New England. How long will they
: boy of those who contribute spears
= tfor the hands of their slaves? TheJ
J, viii not do it-they onght not TO dc
r it, aud ought no longer to put thei
! iolbeaIance to test. Aud now. my
: friends, that most Of you are sincer'
J. in what you have done and said oil
nj this subject, ] have no doubt; but yo'
Is hare mistaken, your zeal is misgulde,
II Eand your sympathy thrown away
n The most enormous wrongs have bee'
+ committed aud the most terrible ca
n llainities brought upon eommunltie
). hy honest but mistaken men. TO
~ puuishes men for their folIies no les
ri than for their crimes. The fire kin
d died by the hand of the mania
,e burns as furiously as if it we're Sc
se by the most artful incendiary. Ou
n country divided, this spot, the cer
he trail. spot of ruin for contendln
sst States, have you ever thought no
r. on that day the sun would be veIle
lin darkness, and the moon would J
|e-i changed into blood. and the sta
Mt would lose their brightness, and IL
n. earth would seem to trembie und
at our feet, and the fields would 10
d. their beauty, and all the ties
od nature would be forgotten. and Z
.hel whole being Of every man or wom
dy that has q soul would be absorb ID
IS. one coDvulsive puisation Of angus
ere We should no longer, have Was
'by ington for our father, nor the gfou
n around bis grave to be pressed
hat troops Of pilgrim feet. IS.