The eastern clarion. [volume] (Paulding, Miss.) 1837-1863, 1861-03-15
From The Nsp Yoyk Das Book.
A Few Facts for Black Republican Politi-
clans and Preachers.

this great good. Scarcely ninety DAYS
'r e|.rd since ~ election. and what
they eo into.
power Accoroing 70 your own papefs,
and commercial statistics, confidence Is
lost. and the business of the country is
entirely deranged, so that your own
manufactures are closed and thousands
Of laborers are thrown out of employment.
and their families are now suffering for
food and the common necessaries of life.
Corps were never so abundant in the
United States as they have been during
the past year. and manufacture and
commerce never so prosperous as 90 days
before the election, yet it is admitted that
there never was such a sudden revolution
and so much distress among the honest
laboring clases of the North as during the
present winter. Now, If 80 days Of antici-
patton will effect so much ruin and suffer
ing, what would four years of such
revolutionary government effect Let your
followers make calculation and see whe-
ther they will be gamers or loosers. These
people were told that they must elevate
you to power for the great purpose of
benefiting the black race at the South,
who, according TO gour statements were
suffering such unheard Of cruelties. Now,
let me give you a few facts and ask you
to read them from YOUR pulpits and ros-
trums. If any one questions their correct
ness, VIII refer him to every honest man
in the North who has ever visited the
South, as well as to every southern man.
Take, il Won please, christmas week."
the very time that your papers were ask
ing childrento save their Christmas money
to give to the hungry suffering poor
Il. TD-f1
almost every plantation, these '.oppress-
ed slaves had the entire week to them
selves, or, if they chose to work, were
paid literally by their ''cruel masters :"
but whether they performed any of their
usual labor or not, do not believe there
was single soul who did not have a warm,
dry house, ample fuel, food and clothing,
or that a single negro child went to bed
hungry or cold, or that single mother
among them had any fear that her chill
drer ever would suffer from either More
than this-if they were sick the family
was sent for-they were nursed and
cared for. If well, they had the most
ample merry making, dancing, Christmas
dinners and egg-nOg-(bu you may skip
these three last items, as you believe
arorklEg people will 60 straight to perdition
if they indulge in a little amusement and
relaxatiOn.l | have no doubt that these
same down trodden negroes" had more
'mince pies, and roast turkies, twice over,
than an Nesr Eaglqad' put together dur
ing that week. ] do not speak at random,
for ] have visited almost all the States
Of what was ''the Union" and / know
Sfrom observation the customs of all sec
tiSlrS More than this these ''poor op-
pressed slaves" We'd with each other to
see who sBASQld be first to wish ''oIe
Nissus J, ssvonS pNIissus,D ''ole MarsterV
and s'voung MarsteN merry Christmas
and happy New YeaG they expected
anaReceived the "ChristI pas gun from all,
and We're ready TO ngh any .Qne that
dared to say fnerr nlasters
were not the best people in the world, or
that young mistress and master were not
the handsomest young folks in the coun-
try. And these are the people that you
tax you poor white people to relieve from
oppression They know they are not
oppressed, and you'd not consent to
change their condition, unless you deceive |
them, as you have your people and as /
Satan did Eve, by making them believe /
you would better their condition. Again, |
YOU propose to prevent so much ''crime |
among the slaves, las well as their mas
ters y by doing away with the sin Of |
slavery"
Now, if you will select from sanity New |
England, which trades in her fanatical re-
ligion as well as Goldfish, or any section
YOU choose, which contains four millions
OF laboring people, am satisfied that the
statistics will show less amount of crime
among the negroes in the South mot as
you assert, that the negro race is better
than the white race, but but because they
are better cared for by their employersl
than any other class on the globe, aid
hence they are not f0rctd to steal or rob to
keep their children from starving. As to
pupers, they are not known among the
negroes of the South, while you have
thousands in every northern city. The
facts will further show that the much
abused people Of the South have civilized
and christianized more pagans and sava-
ees than all the 300, ,000, 900 reputed Chris
tians besides. Yet, you sanity politicians,
such as Sumner. Wilson, Gerrett Smith,
Giddings, Beecher, Hale and Lincoln, tell
their hearers that slavery is the sum of all
crimes; that ''they would give money to
| help murder us:7 that we should "be for
ced to die like poisoned rats :" that ''the
North and South cannot live together un-
less we submit TO your terms and surren-
der our slaves :" that it is better that
million of lives should be sacrificed than
that we should not be made to submit :"
that "they are prepared to shed their blood
| to wipe out the sin of slavery, and put ne
groes on a par with the white race" that
lit matters but little if in your progress
i of liberating the slaves, the men of the
South are slain and the women violated"
| by your progressive soldiery; that these
are small evils compared with the good
vou will accomplish Neither Nero nor
Satan himself ever uttered such mass of
infamous sentiments. And you expect us to
sacrifice Rome for the benefit of Nero
We respectfully decline. You call us
traitors and threaten us with hard fate il
we do not submit: but facts show that you
are the traitors, and that you not only sub
verted the Iaios and CORstitlftion Of the United
States by your State laws, but that the Leg.
islature of Massachusetts, actually incor.
porated a company with the avowed OBJ
iect of invading the rights of the South
and that you did long before the late cleo
ton secretly organize and send band o.
robbers and midnight assassins into ouI
midst to murder our families and ther
take Possession Of the government, anc
that the acts of these parties we're sHdorset
and appLaudcd at your Republican meeting
at the North, as the objects that were K
be accomplished by the election of you
leaders! You thus appealed to the pas
sions, and by falsehood and slander effect
ed a revolution with the most bloody de
] sign ever known to the pages of history
as much a revolution to all intents ant
purposes as if John Brown had marches
. with half million of men and taken pos
session Of the capital and the government
IN ether case TIC government tcaS 20 Be used |
destroy the rights and liues Of TIE people Of .Js
! teen States Yet YOU ask us to have ger
,erous confidence that you will respect ou
eIrights Our fund of credulity IS exhaust
m ed. Again, YOU insist that we shall Civ
up to YOU the forts and custom-houses, &c
= which we're erected for our defense and beT
:, eft, and with our money, and you say yo
: win wage war upon us if we do not Civ
q up. Thisis like quarreling with your equl
d partner because he will not let you 70
or him of all no had before the partnershi
/; vas formed, and all his property
n the partnership, and If he tries to kee
m his private property, bought with his shat
n Of the profits Of the concern, you will VIII
OF him to obtain that. And you win VIII
n him TO make him stay in the firm I
~ union) to make more money for you ar
rs this you call Republican government
d. We call itan attempt to establish miita
despotsm We don't propose to touch Il
es first cent Of your property or harm 20
lis and If you take ours there may be som
Ie, thing more than talk about 1t. We thin
in we can keepit. You say you have 50l
re 0C0 Wide AwalSes to subdue as. We q
ne raise million Of men in thirty days. Al
our crop of cotton and sugar viii enat
10 us to spend $3.50, ,000, 900 annually for I
e. iense. and raise all our own supplies
ut provisions IL pushed; and / know {
ce South would sacrifice her last dollar and
M last man before she would yield. But "
ed viii pay the expenses of the 500, 900 WI
,el Awakes! viii the manufacturers still
AS lleve youSand doit?
er, Win the ship owner, or will the owners
I'm real eStaiei Or viii they. like us pre-
Ily peace, friendship. trade and conlmerce
ch q desolating WaFf thing all but bra
on mouthed Black Republican politicis
ne win ask what u will cost and Wheresis
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