The Shasta courier., 1862-09-13
The So-callcd Fact Haters.o

Unharpily for our poor, distracted coun.
try, there are many of her people who may
be styled !. Fact haters', They will theo.
rize, they will speculate, they will argue,
and Dwell on what they call ''''logic"-a kind
of speech asaally distinguished for its lack Of
common sense-by the hour; in fne, they
will do anything, in reference to our civil
troubles, save look at facts. They lay down
what they call their principles and their
platforms, and befog you with their abstrac.
tons and hypothesis, but they reject facts as
stoutly as though they livei in the cloudand
and dreams of Utopin. These men are par.
ticularly hostile to facts respecting slavery;
nor do they allow the Almighty to establish
fact respecting slavery, without upbraiding
His wisdom and challenging the counsels Of
the Eternal. Let us imagine one of these
Fact -haters con,ersing with his plain. spoken
neighbor, who does not understand any logic
save that of facts and eFsents Your Fact
hater, be it remembered, is almost always
rebel. while plain men are usually loyal
The loyal man begins by saying: Neigh.
Dor, fear the rebellion will lose us all our
slaves. l hear that 100000 have already
left their masters"
Fact -hater-Why, you must be turning
Abolitionist ~"
Loyal man-No; have always fought the
Abolitionists. But must confess that while
they never took my negroes, guerrilly par.
ty carried off two of my best servants yester.
day..
FaA.hater-Why you must be an Aboli
zionist Do you dare to say that tile seces.
sionists will take off peoples negroes
Loyal mani don't know what YOU call
them. | only know that thef's thief
This rebellion has made my negro property
worthless.
Fact hater-Why you must be an Aboli.
ZIONIST. The rebellion is the work of good
Southern men.
Loyal mani care not whose work it is;
it has lost u already more than all our ne
groes are worth. The slaves are valued at
$4,000, 900 900, and we have already spent
SO, 900 900 900.
Fact -hater-You are an Abolitonist. A
mans no man at all who won't fight for his
rights.
Loyal mani think there is fully as little
manliness in bankrupting the South and
numbering her people in war that seems to
be bringing about the very reverse of what
was intended. '"'
Fact hater-You are the worst Abolitionist
l ever heard talk wait until England inter
feres, she'll settle the matter. ''''
Loyal man-The very moment she does,
the Government will offer liberty to the slave
of every rebel who will fight in the Federal
army. We will bring certain ruin on ogt
heads.
Fact -Later-What horrid Aboltionist
you are. You are in favor Of Instruction.
Loyal man-No more than you would be
the murderer of your child, if you should
warn him not to sport with gunpowder OF
play with vipers.
Fact -hater-Well, then, you must not talk
of these things or hint that they can possibly
occur. You must never whisper of these
thirgs again.
Loyal man-It is crime, then, for me to
talk of the very deed you are doingl You
are by your folly setting free my negroes and
melting them to cut my throat and the throat
of my family; but if l dare to reprove you
for it, you denounce me as an Atnlitionist.
Sir, let me tell you that you are base trai.
tor and rebel. You are filling the land
with the blood of her people. You are de:
stroying property by millions. You are bow
ing down the heads of thirty millions of peo-
pie with sorrow, and yet you walk the streets
as a model of w-abiding citizen, and
abuse as villains all who protest against
your hellish plots.