The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1861-05-01
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The Universally Of War. =

The North is aiming as well as the South
Those Northern men who have hefetofore stood
firmly by their brethren of the South while
peace held sway, have been driven by storm
OF passion and prejudice TO espouse the cause Of
our enemies. Henry Ward Beccher has an
bounced q before mob Of ten thousand fAnat-
los that the hour has come when the irrepressi.
bic conflict must be decided His sermon has
been published throughout the North, and its
sentiments re-echo from Tsbid press, and from
countless desecrated puipits' The curtain has
been drawn up, and the blood-thirsty demons Of
fanati cism dance madly and furiously before
mankind like damned spirits shrieking in delr;
ium Of Joy at their escape from the lowest cav
ems ofhelL nBlopd Blood I" Midnight con-
f1agrations murders, and assassinations Y Is the
war-cry which emanatcs from the pretended fol-
lowers of. Christ in the land Of PhaTisaical Pu-
ritanism.
The war must be universal. There is no eva
ding the dire necessity. TO inquire into its or
iein is now superlative folly. We must look to
its end and aim The destruction Of our pro
perty, the wholesale murder Of our slaves the
desolaton Of our fields, the sacking Of our cities
the violation Of all laws, human and divine are
the calamities sought 20 be inflicted upon us--
The real cause for the present condition OF things
is difference between the North and South. as
reconciled Burit9nism seeks TO care for our
consciences, and, 10 accomplish US pions END,
would delugc the South in blood 4s..sss1
Let the war come We are prepared for the
finai arbitrament which the moral and political
philosophers of Massachusetts, have been en-
dcavoring to force upon us for years pest Tht
settlement though terrible ii may be, has the
merit Of being final one, and we shall witness
within the next three years, the utter sutjuga
ton Of the South. its reduction to the miserable
condition of tributary province, with the com
plete destruction of our institutions, or We shall
behold the South, with the great Valley Of tn
Mississippi, disenthralled, and forever separated
from the accursed influence Of New England
morals and politics.
/ Let IL come, II come Il must If the weak
unprincipled and cowardly Administration, hay
ing not tho courage even TO define its policy
cannot change its apparent purpose; if th
South is to be subjugated; if the Southern pee
pie are to be forced by Northern armies to pa.
tribute 10 Government under a tariff systcr
to which no free people should submit, fa IRE
governmental Is TO be maintained by force; II thi
be the plan determined on by the Federal Gov
ernment, then with one voice the South shoul
, exclaim: ''To arms, To arms!"
This is no time to look back, nor to count tn
; cost nor to inquire how, and by whom we hay
been placed in this position IL signifies notl
ing whether ''precipitate" or deliberate di
rupslon of the Government was preferable. tn
fxcd fact Is before us, that the Federal Unio
! Is destroyed, and this without remedy, or hoE
Tor reconstruction as Il originally existed
, Southern blood has beer shed upon SoutheI
Y soil, and that by Ncithern men invading u
South for the purpose of enforcing the edicts
J, Abraham Lincoln. -
, ,, All these incalculablc evils and insufferab
! wrongs now sought to be imposed upon us orr
y mated in New England, the vast school OF !
naticisn,, which has is rami6ostions throusho
all the Northern States. That the Southel
States shall evey be united under CONNIE
Constitution with Massachusetts, is now an il
possible contingency. No true Southern m,
contemplates such possibility. The dissol
= lion Of the Confedcracy is final, irrcvocabe q
y eternal. Besides all this, the war has actual
= commenced The tramp Of invading arml
y echoes along the dividing line between I
~ Northern and Southern States. We fight up
;c our own soil, for our own rights for the instit
y tons of our fathers, for our wires and chidr
iS and kindred, and for our homes and firesides.
. if there be Tennesseean so base and so co
4 ardy that he viii permit the soil Of his State
= be polluted by the foot Of an Abolition invad
y No should seek some distant land over whi
III the spirit OF jackson or Carroll never hove
a ---some accursed spot on this great globe Of OF
SAe S where freedom never reigned, where Wan
- brutaIized, where Gods laws are violated,
~ where Africans and white men are equals.