The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-12-05


Rome even enslaved the highly re-
fined and classic Greeks and this
reminds me of 40 article which ep-
peared in a Southern newspaper
during the Presidential canvass Of
1856, in which one of the most ele
giant but bitter political writers OF
the South, instituted a supposed
analogy between the Greeks and Ro
mans after the subingation Of Achia
by the Consul Mumius, and the
Northern and Southern people o
these States producing the analogy;
it was thie: That the Romans were
a brave, high-toned race of men,
who, by their conquest. and govern
ment Of surrounding nations, had
shown themselves TT to lead armies
and adorn cabine,s: while the
Greeks in their pursuit Of letters and
the arts, had reduced themselves to
the condition OF nation of pimps.
peddIsrs, thinkers and teachers. -
But the South filly represented in
its men the Generals and Senators
OF Rome; whilst in the North, Ike
the Greeks. we have become teach
ers, lnkers, preachers and peddlars;
that Northern men were neither II
for the cabinet nor the field. Was
this execrAble slanderer the only
Southern man who preached sucl,
lying doctrines before the rebellion |
The halls OF our national Legislature
were desecrated by the unblush-
ing, belecose insolence Of Toombs
Rhett, Cobb, Wigiall. Davis, Ham.
lin, Hunter, Mason, ct I'd on1ne gen
as. So often and uhb,ushingly had
these lying braggarts spouted their
fnlsome gasconsde unrebuked, ex
cept by men who were generally
sneered down as Abolitionists, that
the people of both sections OF the
country actually began TO believe the
hateful heresy. Some thought OF a
truth, "there were giants in those
days" Northern Congressman and
Senators had suffered themselves to
be caned, spit upon, and butftted by
every vu gar form of speech, with
here and there the exception OF a
Burlinggame and O Potter. that 1t
did actually appear that Northern
men, and their constituents throug
them, might be insulted with any
degree of impunity. Northern Con
stitntions and Northern sentiment,
d which prescribe and dlslranchised
the man who brought his columni'
ator before him at twelve PAGES to
answer for his lyirg outrage, may
not have been hlameless for this
state Of things. But the overbear-
ing arrogance which sho Sed itself
in our halls o; Legislature, wherev
er indeed Northern and Southern
men met, was the child OF slavery -
The Lord Of the laph naturally AS
sumed wider dominion than the
boundaries OF his own plantation. -
Northern men gave way to the slave
pUwer-s'avery ruled the nation-it il
received from the North, with cheer
fitness, sometimes with disgrace
ful alacri,y, all the guarantees which
the Constitution gave it. The Sontl
made the Presidents-the South ill
ed our diplomatic and consular
, posts 1.-The South held the majority
| of Judges upon the Supreme Bench
thu South divided the territories o
, the United States-took their owl
share and afterwards claimed th'
other half; the South monopolizeC
the patronage OF the army dnc
navy; the South demanded tn,
/ purchase OF Florida from Spain
, the South involved the countr,
, in tie two Seminole wars, anC
Afterwards the war with Mexi
/, CO; the South demanded the pur
t chase OF louisiana from France anC
J she got that; the South demand
ed Texas OF Mexico and she go
, that; the South demanded tho tu
4 gitive Slave Law, which suspende,
3 the writ OF habeas coepus - tb,
: writ dc hOmine de plegeando, whicl
8 abrogsted the right OF trial by jury
4 and she got that; the South de
+ manded tho Dred Scott Decision
and having five Judges where sh
r was entitled to but three, she 90
y that. And though having the Dre'
Q Scott Decision, which declares tina
o slavery follows the flag, and tina
8 the Constitution guarantees to
the protection of Congress, sh
e went 10 Charleston and there de
!. man, 9 mr.; she demand, d tn
d reopening OF the foreign slave trad
Q and a Save code for the territories
J, but this Dsnocra y of the Mort
b awakening to true sense OF il
3 long outraged dignity, mindful {
d its obligations to God and the cour
:, try said "No' The "noble Doug
= Las" said, SIS thy servant a dog tha
9 he should do this thing?" The
= said the purse proud oligarchists ,
q the South, 1--WE will have naugl
ID more to do with the Democracy {
o the Nor.h--we will rule this GOV
o ernment or break it to atoms; W
@ have so long administered it thu
~ no man or party OF men shall que'
n tiOn our right to dictate the tern
l. and cOnditiOns upon which il ma