Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1864-01-14

| dustry subservient to the profit of their
masters. The means, therefore, are toler-F
ably uniform also; the means are to invent
ever new and more and more humiliat-
ing tests and oaths, such as cannot
| fail to excite local Instructions and con-.
spiracies-then to crush these with brutal
| rigour, and afterwards reap the harvest III
| plunder. T6sqa1 out this process with
safety, it is nesa6l to take the pluck out
OF the subject people by disarming them
carefully, and thusa killing in them the
spirit of men. Also to take into the hands
Of government the whole education Of
the young in order that the school books
gwen them to read may carefully conceal
the fact that they once had country, and
how it was lost; here, in the case suppos-
ed, our school books and teachers would
come all from Massachusetts aud Connec-
ticut, and they would teach our children
that they ought to be proud of living un-
der the glorious Stars and Stripes; if the
'rebellion" were ever mentioned at all in
their historical readings, it would be with
execration upon the unhappy miscreants,
who, in those years, criminally sought to
destroy the best government in the world.
Under the Irish system OF penal laws, in
the reign of George |, Irish children were
forbidden to be educated at all, except by
English Protestant schcolmasters; and as
the Catholic gentry of the country then
adopted the practice of sending their child
rem to be educated in France and Spain,
another act was speedily passed ''That
if any Catholic child were sent abroad
without license, it was presumed by law
that he was sent to be educated in a for
eign seminary, by which a forfeiture of
his personal, and the income of his real es
tate was incurred" The personal and the
real estate was the main point; but, in or
der to clutch it, all education had to be
controlled, all history to be perverted, and
the spirit of the rising generation donation
allied in its very spring.
It may be imagined that the cases of
Poland and Ireland are scarcely applica-
BILE to any possible state of affairs amongst
US, inasmuch as in both those countries
much of the persecution was occasioned
by religious intolerance. The Irish and the
Poles were Catholics; and Great Britain
and Russia were resolved to crush out that
religion, and esta blish, ID the one country,
| Anglican Professionalism; in the other the
Greek church. Yes, but in both cases re-
ligion was only the pretext, and any other
pretext weuld have done as we'll. The
grand object was the real and personal
estate. # the people had really become
converted, under that sort of severe prose
lytism, why, some other pletext would
have had to be invented, that is, AL. In
these States one could easily contrive Gun
ming tests and oaths quite as hard to swal-
low, and quite as sure to yield a crop OIL
contiscation, as any subscription to reli-
gious creed. Besides, are we sure that the
Yankees are not provided with the very
same religious machinery of plunder? Isl
it forgotten that all the Churches in Amer
ica (save one) are irreconcilably divided
upon great moral question-that the
Northern branch of each communion holds
it abominable to- teach that Christianity
countenances slavery, while the Southern
branch renounced all connection with
Yankee Christianity upon that very ques-
ton The Churches are divided upon the
very question upon which the States se-
ceeded. Conquest Of the Southern States
would be Conquest Of the Southern church
es !; they would instantly become schis-
matte, heretical, accused; and !: the zeal
and odsana theologscuaa of Yankee chris
tians-not without an eye to to the "real
and personal would soon not only cover
them and their pastors and communicants
with evil repute, but also provide penal
laws against the ssnegro drivers church"
the sschurch of the blood mongers," &c,
which. if 1t did not produce conversions,
would at Least, produce confsc ations; and
that would be quito as good, or much bet