Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-01-10

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.. A peryersiOu Of 'be religion
j feelings.
8 A peryersion Of ihe poliiica
E feelings.
:. Each ef these elements, upeheck
: ed, has asserted a mastery ovtl
different governments.
: But when they have ali become
blended into an intensifed fanaii
cism, / am acquainted with The his
tory of 30 government uron earth, ii
which they have existed, that they
did lot conquer the goysrnmsnf.
without The government conquered
j them before they had ouisrowH i'll
!. power.
: First, then, in the social el meRts
I'VE finG all The aiiinities and harmo-
mics which bind families togetber-
which collect the families into the
communilies--ana the communities
into the State. Indeed the State is
but the outer band of aggregated
families and communities : but :he
emb6diment of social constituents
/, and relations but form o. society
founded on the social feelings, ana
these coheIe upon the principle that
like clir gs to like. Let these social
feelings become perverted, antago-
inistic. dissocial, aud a pressure COM
meuces on the outer band and the
inevitable tendency is to disruption.
Take the f..mily where We fud the
strongest social ligamen.s-let them
become perveIteS and malignant,
aud the different members 0y TO
the four winds. Extend the peryer-
sion 10 the community--to the State
! and the tendency is the same
Social loyalty is the centTipetnt
force Of the happy, enduring Re-
public. Suspend that force, and its
harmony will be destroy ed and its
elements WI be Dissolved. Look
TO France aud you wiIIsee the power
Of social perversionin in thu Soeialisn
aud Fonrierism which contributed
largely to sweep the rejgnipg MonF
arch from bis throne, in tbss recent
revolution.
! lie! us ex.mine the evidence OF
the Perversiou oil the social feelings
in the Norlh. Tbe aboliti0nisis en-
tertaiip hatred Of the most Intense
maignity stewards the STAKEHOLDER.
They leach it to the child Ia the
mothers lap. They teach it arourd
the firesidr, They teach it in their
schools, They teach it in their news
papers. They teach it in their liter
ature. They teach ii from the bus
tings. And they teach il from tleir
ipulIits. The fire Of fauaiicism has
burnt it, like branding iron, into
the mind of the rising generation
that Che slaveLUldef is tgrant, "a
ROLLER and murdc,cy, The slave
ho.ds higher niche IN her esteem
than the master. They haye bons-
ted in Congress that they have feast
ed our fugitive slaves at their own
tables, given them mont., and sent
them on their way And even some
Of them have gone so far, IS to con-
quer the conventional repnsnahce
10 color, and advocate an aia lga.
nation Of the races.
+ Sueh feelings, sach hatred, and
such hostility must necessarily pro
3 duce alienation between The Nertt
and the South. w
, But one error always opens ih'
/, door for another The social com
6 BOSTON ignites the next most IN
: Aammable feelings, which brings o.
to consider the peryersion Of tn
D religious sentiments 90 The subJec
of. slavery. ca s
/. Religious lanatieism is the mos
$ desperate and dangerous OF all tn
4 frenzies Of the human mind. A
!. John Randolph said-'It has n
!. stopping place short OF heaven 0
|. hell" 1t matters net whether righ
a or wrong, 1t viii suffer mariyrdor
t before it will surrender an opinion
]. In its aggression ii crucified the 80
b of God, and sfierwards marched 0
It a crusade, through nations OF bloot
= 10 rescue bis sepnlchre tom th
,e sacrilegious tenure Of the infidel.
re Look tothe North and trace i
re progress there. 1t has wres'ea Il
OF plain teaching of the Bible tomsi
ID the relation Of master and slave
n. sin; refused christian commsnit
be with the slave-holdeE denied the d
Of its pulpit to Southern Minlste
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