Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-05-19
Chicago u National Life some Things Worth
Considering

yet Surprises in all who neglect to reason
from cause to effect. The beams OF
Southern chivalry or daredevil, some Of
them still gieaniine after the sunset Of q
slavery interpreted constitution and coun-
try, yet liuger abroad; men, women and
children still talk the language invented foI
pahdefing to the stakeholder and Tor keep
ing an innocent race in bondage. We
have party in the country devoted TO the
peculiar lights Of our Southern 6rsiLyen,
rights as unnatural as destructive. In the
age of James /, of England, men Were
still high spirited Knights, braggarts, tax
ing each others lives for offences now
deemed but follies. While neb we're de-
voted to fair damsels and punctihos Of
keRor, the hour was already at hand when
Lord Bacon was to introduce bis great
change. causing men to reason, not from
authority to fact, but from fact to fact, re-
jecting all things not warranted by expert
lnent. In that age men were still chattes
in effect, in body and mind, but Bacon
nfepared their emancipation proclamation
lby Rejecting as authority all that reason
and fact failed to establish. That was u
aerrible blow TO the chivalry! 1t made
men out Of those claimed By the bloods to
be but step above brutes; it soon brought
The sons Of poor men into the schools.
finally the daughters of the poor; it soon
made mind the better part of man; it soon
enabled The poor to own land and be
christianiked; TO travel in the middle Of
abe road or on the side as it pleased them
TO wear fine clothes or coarse ones, and
10 live in huts OF castles as they could az
fota.
1t may yet be considerable while long
er before the roots of prejudice against
the poor are dug up and destroyed. The
other day, 9 Yankee, an Abolitionist at
that, said to lis, ICover, don't you fear
those North Carolina and Kentucky white
trash, unlettered, ignorant and depraved in
every sense, will all move up North and
mix in with us" Some years ago there
mere Aafs, real or imaginary, that the
country would be taken by the poor Irish
and Dutch; and of late the Irish and
Dutch profess fears that the lazy negro
VII overrun the country and get all the
work to do. The principle is the same,
Jealousy towards the poor; and the worst
phase Of that jealousy consists in this, that
the poor are the worst enemies to The poor
We are not sure but that the poor Irish
man is the worst enemy to the Irish poor
the poor German to the German poor
the poor whites of all countries to the
white and black poor, and the very ne
groes the worst enemies to their own lace.
Set an ignorant man or woman up but a
irife and be or She viii despise ali a shade
below. In the age of James /, all in Eng
land spake nearl y the same langiisge, were
The same in color and same Id nationality
Yet the classes and clans counted by scores,
each the Iitterest eneshy to the other. In
our country the differences in language,
custom and nationality widely differ in
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cnces no doubt we owe that peace necessary
to the existence Of life aud propc,ty--a
forbearance which seems to be successful
in the Northern States of America but no
where's else. Men are natural fools in mat
tiers of conduct toward each other, and
nothing but wealth seems to overcome
such foolhardiness, INSTANCE, the negro
is despissd, called al inferior, next to the
bsute-jdst as in the age Of King James
l., al the poor were SO despised, called In
ferior in race ard next in kin to the brute.
The poor themselves believed all this, and
composed rude songs memoiizing the no
bic deeds Of their lords. Well, years after
The poor began TO aniass fortunes ard hold
q great share of the purse. Both parties
then begap TO be pndeceieed and each 10
respect as we'll as not fear the other. In
deed. each class found the other useful and
not exactly either a brute or lord; and so
it has been running till this day. Take
the blaeSs: make here and there rich
one and so valuable as patron to the
nerchart, the laayer, The tailor, &c lie
viii not thereafter be despised nor called
an inferior human next 10 the brute.
We have read somewhers that the most
uonan,i; region Of any country, and most
Astounding in beauty and magnifcence, is
that where tire mountains uniie with the
plains, OF thai which common peoplp call