The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1860-03-02

rates out of purgatory, perhaps from hell,
where all Of you should have gone before.
Ask God to forgiveyou for your wicked
ness, wash your filthy garments, 60 thy way
an sin no more, sin no longer against your
conscience and your country's constitution
No longer lie against nature and Common
sense, and make negroes your equals, while
you will not give your sons in marriage, and
negro husbands for your daughters.
Your knowledge Of national history can
but convince you Of the truthfulness Of the
best authorities, there is no identity Of origin
no equality in mental or physical organi-
zatirn, and that the negro has been what
he is for four thousand years and will he the
same for four thousand years to come. The
white man has scarcely proved the problem
of fgovernment-the negro never has
and never can.
If your honor is engaged, and your con.
science smites you, and you fnl that the
records Of your country implicated both
OH and New England in the introduction
OF this unhallowrd traffic. who stole them
from Africa and sold them into bondage in
the South, and you wish 10 pay the pur
chase money back, with the interest of the
debt, and do not iSh TO steal and sell them
again, we would ask. where is the ~
topay for them? Where the seven hun
dred millions to buy the Where the
three hundred millions TO transport them {?
Where the money 10 sustain them as free
people? Pay first the interest upon your
r"lroad debt Of eight hundred millions
before you borrow more to buy negroes.
One of these two propositions must he pur.
sued: either to exterminate the white man.
and give the soil 10 the negro. CT Purchase
ami transport the negro, either u, which is
wholly impracticahle. But while you teach
them TO murder the white man, and violate
the WOMAN, you will never teach them the
religion Of Jesus Christ, with all your bah
bling preachers. The boast Of the people
ot The North that they can overrun the
South is bravalo. In every mountain pass
they will meet aJackson, Taylor, or a
Lconidas. and Marion in every swamp.
The Swamp Fox Of the Pedee and Santee
of Carolina was never conquered, but de-
feated the then mostpowerful nation Of
the globe. They will say 10 you, come :;
thrust in your Northern sickle. and your
harvest shall be death; you shall meet
foremcn worthy Of your stesI,;se the last of
their blood and their breatb:; 'z
My dear sir, you mistake theposition Of
the North and yourself: Neither your NOR
al suasion nor your Sharpe's rife can sub
due or terrify the people ofthe South. You
look through a medium That magniaes
yourselves, whileit diminshes others. Al.
low me to DIR: W the picture. The great
mass of mankind who appear upon the
stage Of human life seem to be born but to
eat, to drink. to, propagate their species, and
die. Botbestord and vassall. nohlsman and
peasant, king and subject, though widely
separated in life, sleep upon the same pallet
of death. After the surprise of youth and
inexperience is over, they loi,er on earth or
burst like bubbles on the sea Of matter, or
f1irt ike butterflies from sweet to sweet from
flower to flower, then disappear forever. II
horn to occupy. office, they are viewed in
and crime, and are as odious as they are
conspicuous. But some claim q diviner
right made under higher law, sent Rab-
hi teachers from God 10 dictate the will of
heaven, who abide neither the laws of men
nor the constitution Of the country. whose
puritan ical cant and hypocrisy make them
odious to every sensible and honest mind.
They NAV be ministers indeed, but moi
ministers of the religion Of Christ bnt OF
divine vengeance, WHO. sometimes destroy
not only Il ems ,lves but the people to
whom they preach. To this latter class,
Mr.. Brecher. allow me to say, l think you
belong. Your slender virtues are so mixed
up with arrogance. impudenoe and crime
that the most acute analysis could HAtl
discover one grain Of honesty io the com
position; and if Gods grace can save the
sinner, the selfish fypocri,e, the winged
messenger of Mercy would nevcrlight on
so mean athing as you. Again. we have
men who seem to be created for higher.
pnrpose-sent on important business sent
TO desulate and, destroy. or TO create. TO
build up and sustain; ,nen not living for
Themselves, as you do. but for Tho whole |
human race; whose lives are the 1s0a.
ments which adorn the NE in which they |
live. lfthey appear other in pubiick or
private life TN places they occupy are ra-
diapt with ihsgfory oftheir acts ;.nnen who
aHsrars and suns in the pathway Of life, to |
cheer, 10 guidep and to save. Not few
have Fdoned your profession, come have
adorBed mine. But abe most marL.d. and /