Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30
A Pair of Elegant Documents.

Every great subject of paton every great idea
in age when thoughts and ideas succeed each
other in lightning rapidly is associated with its victims
well its great expounders and ilustrous masters
In this practical age with the path Of science well beat
easier road to celebrity lies in the theoretc pecu
ations attending the metaphysical questions which arise
OF these politics to have taken the lead of all else
for once and the whole country is agitated with the ques
on of secession We in receipt Of two pamphlets ON
this subject which from their tenor might be cassed
twin thoughts from the same brain One is n thesis
the Existing Revolution" by Charles E. Pickett The
writer procams himself philosopher of the genuine
stamp precatng the basis of his remarks that the
government destroyed and goes to prophecy train
of consequent evils to citizens of Northern States that
truly horryng He reviews the causes and handles the
Democratic party and especially foreign citizens
ther roughly Clay from his pedestal of glory and
like angry mother whips him numerically, with all
those foolish people who presumed follow his theory
politics. and stll admire that ustrious statesman. De-
mocracy is annhilatod lie exposes the "American
allacy of selfgovernment, and determines that blood
must aow." The secession mania of South Carolina is
lauded in language which would be exaggerated a
thy subject and condemns all the rest of the country
der the compound title of "Pouted Roundhead Yankee
Puritans He goes into elaborate discussion of the
distinction of existing in this country tires to show
the people of the Slave States Norman while the
rest heterogeneous admxture of inferior lie
argues that the descendants of the NOrmans reside
y the South and destined by Gods fiat to control
winds up with prophecy of the total subugaton of
the North by the eight millions of the South suggests
alliance between the Southern Confederacy and France
the conquest of Great Britain launches into invec-
tive against the mother country in consequence of the
criminal amalgamat0n of the Norman and Angl
races 1t is the most highly wrought and extrayagant
produc tion we ever opened. Poor Pickett is daft
The above document would he unworthy of notice II
nther equally ridiculous did not accompany it-zan Ad
dress of Hon Charles H. Scott to his Constituents the
right Of Secession" Like Pickett he calls this Revolu
ton but goes beyond him in attem png justify
sion bv labored composition. To develop his subject,
tons from the Constitution Ratification of Vr
GINA Madons Letter. grossly distorted and
twisted prove what every ind is ready to admit
the right of Revolution His arguments, school boy
composition might take premium in the third grade
classes ingenious Intervening Of quotations but
unfortunately feeling is more apparent than conviction
and the reader does not for moment the writer
had any other motive than to furnish such composition
His language is more temperate than Pcketts but the
views of Government to obtain with botll-an
arisocratc Democracy, where the few of better blood
shah rulg the of sers Scott is by great
Both documents should be laid before the public, that
all might know the elements which and the
doctrines advocate by the enemies of republican uttu
tons.