The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1861-03-15
A Few Southern Pearls.

lo.tor Of tho 29th ult., says;
Il SEQ by your last paper received, that
you do not like too much Of good thing.
appreciate the complimont--b but never sup.
posed that you could surfot on anything
could write, any more than a swine could by
having pearls cast before it,"
1t certainly is very modest in Mr.. Rose,
to intimate that his numerous literary pro.
ductions are pearls, which wo, Black Ro.
publican swine, cannot appreciate There
is nothing, after all quito so valuable as q
good opinion of ono's self. Now, we fec
under no particular obligation to publish
tho whole of Mr.. Roses letter, which is
mainly a nero repetition of his former ones;
yet, as no hints tha: i. may DO the last we
shall have tho honor TO receive from him
We must give our readers, who are moi
swine if wo are, few specimen pearls
Here is one:
"You seem to have some idea of tho co.
orcon of the Southern States into obedience
to the Black Republicans. | have only to
gay, If you havo tou thousand, or n hundred
thousand, who wish to have their bones
bleached in tho passes of the AlIoghauy or
Blue Ridge, sond them along, but do not nd
viso any QUO to do what you will mol do
yoHrseiC If you think your blood worth
spiIing in such calso, shall be most
happy to moot you. Blu. do not got up any
more foolish John Brown affairs. Let them
be respectable in sOmo way. even if it be
for tho amount of murder they may com
mit."
Mr.. Rose 10 q moro versatile gonius than
we are or over can bo. Being no military
man, We must contont ourself with writing
poor English for Black Republican readers.
In this respect, no has decided advantage
ovor us, and, what is better yet, is conscious
oft If worsted in argument, no has only
to appeal to arms. He seems now to be
literally "spoiling for fight" But hope
no will excuse US. for VIC cannot possibly ac-
commodare him.
Wo confess the idea of bleaching North.
cru bones Sin tho passes of the Allegheny
and Blue Ridge" startles us, especially wher
VIC think OF tho perfection to which tn,
bleaching art has attained in tho Southern
States. If tho Cottoni,es should have a
good success in bleaching Northern bones
as in bleaching the complexion of those AT
rcnn slaves which our ancestors wcro so un
kind as to force upon thcm, they would b,
truly formidable. No, no, friond Rose; W,
have got up our last John Brown affair!
We cannot refrain from treating our read
ers to another pearl, and worry choice on,
il is:
"By the by. do you wear q cotton shirt
II is tho production of slave labor. |
should be TO YOU. as was the poisoned shir
of Nessus to Hercules. Throw il 0ff-mak,
a burnt offering of it, and cleanse you
conscience. Do you use sugar, molasse
and coffee? Who produces thom, Es
chow thom as you would the fire and brim
stone of tho bottomless pit l do not kno,
what kind of a Heaven you believe in, but
should not suppose that you could rcst qu
city in the bosom of Father Abraham a
: ho was able to arm slaves enough to figh
and conquer four Kings. Tho bosom q
of Harriet Beccher Stowo might afford
moro acceptable nosting place, and | coul
not consign premoditatod robber IN
, murderer to bettor one"
Thore is logic in this pearl. We wer
not aware that "cotton shirts" were 18th
productions of slave labor" Indeed, W
had always supposed thom to be the Pre-
ductions of FREQ labor. But we yield to tn
force of superior logic Cotton, sugar, inc
lasses and coffoo, 0ro cultivated by s,av
labor; hence, without slave labor there woul
DO no cotton, sugar, molasses and coffeo, an
1 those who are 80 ungrateful as not to o,
b provo of slave labor, should go hungry an
shir,ess. BY tho by, brother Rose, wo D,
= :, 'tice on your letter envelope United Stat,
d postage stamp. Ii you arc not citizen
5 tho United States, would it not bo well
/ "oschew" il?
There is beauty and refinement, too,
y this poarl. Tho allusion TO Harriet Bcech
K. Stowe, is peculiarly happy. Bur, if o'
IS friend thinks that Father Abraham's boso
IS will be fil!od by vile and restless berd
i Secessionists, We can toll him he is grand
II mistaken. In this pearl We havo, also, c
Is exhibition of tho writer's tompcr, as rare
Is it is refreshing.