M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1863-07-09


and Dahomey. True, our Safe cou.
stltution aud laws, like those of Hin.
ols and other loyal States, will not
permit Tree negroes 10 como within
our State, nor enfrauchised slaves to
remain there; but from military
necessity, or, as high official express.
ses 1t, from the eD neossitate re of
the thing" they will not be permitted
to remain. The plan recently adop.
TED IN South Carolina of selling them
the lands Ofthe rebels might be- adop.
tad' and thereby Memphis might soon
become "a variegated city," Our
white and colored brethren and sisters
might thus furnish an example of that
freedom and fraternity" which 40
many unhappy Northern spinters
sincerely regard as the only means Of
compromising the present unfortuu.
ate distinction Of color. ''
You should by all means pass n
resolution in favor of giving such
rcDel farmers town lots as are not
needed for our cOlored brethren to our
Christian friends of the North who
desire to live among their coIoIed
friends, particularly to that numerous
and respectable class who think that
both races will be improved by cross
OF the Anglo Saxon upop The nnya
Guinea. "When this cruel war ia
over" how our psalm singing breth.
rem from the Church of the Puritaps
would enjoy a confederate farm on the
Big Black, Red River, The Arkansas
or rontchartrain. When the rebels
arc disarmed. how meek and lowIy.
docile and penitent they will be, wbiIe
Oeho!ding our nothern brothers occu.
pying their mansions and ILLUSTRATING
the beauties OF General Banks aps
prentice system. With what impu.
nifty General Butler would ride from
his plantation on noon Lake to his
rancho on Deer Creek! Then would
be made NANTES. the absurdity of
those Comprehend croakers, who fool.
lshly insist that while military power
can put down a rebellion, moral power
alone can eradicate its CONSEQUENCES
and keep it down. 1t ia true. thew
cite the example of Vendee, which in
area, is only about one fortietll part of
france; There, we admit, the peas.
antry believed their religion was
endangered, and history records that
'hey defeated six or seven Of the best
appointed armies which the French
republic, in that warlike age could
hurl against them. 1t is also true
tnat atterward, when Garnet was made
Minister of War, he quieted the peo-
PIE Oy assuring them that they should
%, 1e nndlsturbed in their religious faith.
These mischievous faultfnders, to
give further force to their insidious
assaults upon our worthy President,
point also to Poland, in which the
fires of rebellion are ever burning
out tney forgot that the Gar Of all the
Russias is in all respects interior to
our noble President, and is wholly
ignorant of the true means of quieting
a diSatfected people. 1t never occur
red to the aforesaid Car that to
sque'ch a rebellion etfectually the
cause mnSt be removed. Had he
studied the history of rebellion in
this country he would have discoy-
cred that we always ascertained the
cause, the evil, the sin which gave q
pretext to the insurgents. For ex-
ample: During the administration
of General Washington portion of
tho people of Pennsylvania got up a
rebellion about whisky. 1t was cru.
shed out by coercion" but the ga.
gacIouS statesmen OF that day determ.
ined to strike at the cause. The result
IS that the people Of that noble Com.
monweaI'h nave ever since eschewed
whisky and turned their attention to
contacts. Nothing is now known in
that State of whisky, and tho Mr..
Buchanan used TO recite some tradi.
tionary stories of "Cld Rye" to the
Junior members Of his cabinet. il ia
we'll known that the sight Of a bottle
ofpure Monongohela was as repulsive
to his nature as ice-water to a mad
dog. Subsequent, while General
jackson was President, the peoo,e Of
South Carolina revolted q taxat;on
because some demagogae raIled y
high tariff, and asse!ted that ,bo :.
monster 'Siole money from their mn
conscious pockest,n The rebhllion
however, was ''sujugatedn bv Tho
military power of the Government O
and the eause-taxation-of conrse
abolished. No tax gatherers have
been known since in South Carolina
at a later day, during tho admins.
tratlon OF John Tyler, of the firm
"Tippecanoe and Tyler too" some
unwashed Democrats in Rhode Island
fomented a grand insurrection apains.
the sovereignty Of that large and
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