Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-01-30
Tbe gntelligenter.
For the Charles City InteIligencer
The Slaves of the South.
THEIR FUTURE.

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The Slaves of the South.
THEIR FUTURE.
Played outs" No Stree, not played out yet
EDITOR INrELLIGENcER l am at a
great distance from home, but my
better half" at home, noting in the
the letter of your worthy correspon-
dent, Winfield Scott Rider, from Ben
ton Barracks, a suggestion that "Pe-
ter Purdy was played out" as your
correspondent supposed, and assign
ing as reason that he, peter" was
"on the wrong side,' clipped the pas.
sage from the paper and sent it to me
by mail. This she did that l might
be on hand to correct the impression,
and to forestall its gaining any fur
ther currency, and lest some serious
damage might thence occur.
This is to give due notice to your
correspondent, Mr. Winfield Scott Ri
der, of Benton Barracks, and to all
whom it may concern, whether in
Freedomia or Secessia, that Peter
Purdy," Esq, is not yet played out"
not by long shot. Played out 2"
of what? of truth, justice, righteous
retribution of the inborn rights Of
man, to the wronged, the oppressed,
the robbed? No, no sir, indeed--not
played out.
Mr.. Editor: The position arrived at
in my Investigations was that, as
since, by large and overpowcring
majority of the people of Secessia,
the State Governments, authoritative
ly established and maintained by the
Government Of the United States, had
been ruthlessly torn from the family
of States, and from that Federal
authority which gave them identity as
States, and held them as such, being
abdicated, they, by their own natural
gravity had fallen back into a mere
territorial attitude to the Federal Gov.
ernment AS they could not, in the
order Of things, be recognized as valid
governments by the Federal Govern
ernment, all of their institutions un-
der that invalidated and anarchical
state of things must fail, utterly fail,
of due recognition as existing in any
valid authority. Hence the institu-
tion of slavery with all their other in
stitutions which were the creatures of
law only. slid by the board.
The institution of marriage which
naturally arises out Of the social ele-
ments, and such like institutions, must
of necessity remain undisturbed. But
as there is no law in all Secessia cre-
ating the relation of the ownership of
property in man, aud, as there is no
power in the Federal Government to
create that relation; and, also, as
there is no law but the Federal law
pervading those territorial communi-
ties, there can be no slavery that
is, legal slayery-recognized slavery.
Now. that this is not the correct
"view," and the only view that can
be logically sustained, respecting the
relations Of the seeded territory of
this Government, and the fate of sla-
very therein, Peter Purdy" chal-
lenges any man or set Of men to show.
The Chicago Tribupe quotes the same
sentiment from a writer in the New
York Evening Post, and captions it
ga new rieV." Is it not strange that
the Tribune should not have been ia.
miliar with deductions so clear, and
so infallibly drawn from the great car
dinal standpoints in the framework
of our Governmental fabric "A new
view !" Is it not little queer, too,
that the Tribune has never caught in
its eye the articles on The Slaves of
the South and their future" under the
signature of " Peter Purdy 2" If this
"view" is new one to the Tribune,
it cannot deny that the truths upon
which the "view is based are old
ones-old as the Union.
But if the "vicw be "new one,
and the Tribune finds nevertheless,
that it rests upon truth and, that it
disposes, in the most summary manner,
of the perplexing difficulties in the
way of consummating a peace upon
permanent and righteous principles,
why. has it not given the country the
benefit of the view," embodied in an
article from A. G. Meacham, addressed
to its own columns, under the caption
of Freedomia VS.. Secessia"? And
why has it not given wider currency
to the "view,n by reprint of the
same sentiments published in the
Charles City (Iowa) Republican In.
telligencer more than five months ago,
and occasionally up to the present
time
If the sentiment be correct, no Sc
rious difficulty has been in the way of
having had half million of blacks
in the field long ere this. and of hav.
ing smothered out the flame of seces.
sion throughout all the South months
ago.
1t is indeed true that a formidable
party of Union men have made stand
in favor of bringing the peculiar in.
stitution" through the fiery ordeal, as