The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-29

anu meet ueatn as the Old Romans met III
with his back to fear and his face to the
face. No white men on this planet, except
ing our own Northern farmers, possess so
much of the raw material of manhood as the
Southern yeomen When once the heel ofthe
slaveholding aristocrat is taken from their
necks; when they are given schools, and a
chance to rise, they will make the South, with
its prolific soil and its vast mineral wealth,
such a country as the sun has never yet shone
upon. Then-and from out the smoke and
the gloom of this war that day must soon
dawn--then the North must look to it or the
South viii outstrip it in the race Of ciyiliza-
ton.
of this third class of Southern whites the
speaker spoke with great severity, and COM
pletely dispreved the absurd claim of SJuth-
ern chivalry or large shareholders to honora-
BILE lineage and descent. These were the men
who constituted the leaders of this Rebellion,
comprising only 10000 Of the population.
and in no way to be compared in manly
qualities, with the hardy yeomanry.
In sketching the characteristics of the
chivalry, the lecturer said that by birth, by
education, and by every social surrounding,
they were despots. He proved this by graph
ic illustrations, and then said it could be
easily conceived how country governed by
such men, each one having unlimited control
of his immediate retainers, would become
if its rulers were banded together by some
great common interest-a despotism. That
was what the South had been for fifty years,
and the great common interest which had
bound the Southern aristocrats together was
Slavery, Ever since the invention of the cot
ton gin made Slavery profitable, and the Bos-
ton Abolitionists first attacked the divine in
stitution, the Southern aristocracy had acted
together as one man, and the result had been
that in this country, which boasts that here
nothing is trodden on but the negro and the
paving-stone, there has grown up a despotism
which has reduced 100000 of free white
men--of our own blood and race-to q condi-
ton no better than serfdom. And to perpet-
uate this despotism--to disfranchise the yeo-
man when they had gotten him into the
clutches of military rule and to prevent his
eyer-overthrowing negro Slavery, was the
main reason the chiyalry began this war;
And they would have succeeded in this de-
sign-they would have established desput-
ism which neither we, nor the. Southern yeo-
man, could ever have overturned, had not u
half dozen peaceful men, and tyo dozen lib
erty-loying women, whom we, and all the
world, despised, thirty years ago, lit on Bos-
ton Common Q small bonfire, whose ascending
flames framed OF the sky, es with the finger
of God, the words g Freedom for all men,
black and white" The speaker traced the
spread OF tho Abolition movement under the
figure of this bonfire, which, after illumna-
ting the whole North, had leaped the borders
into the dominions of the chiyalry TO stay
the further progress of that fire Southwark
the chivalry, like the traveller on the prairie,
had kindled a counter-fre. and behind ita
flames, they now folded their arms and said !;
"We are safeW "But," asked the speaker,
are they safer Is there not in their rear q
vast prairie of living men, and shall we not
east brand among them-not Lucifer
match. but brand from Gods own altar of
freedom, which shall set them ablaze, and
girdle the chivalry all around with fre'-
He showed that until we did this; until we
also enforce the Confscation act, and divided
up the broad lands of the Rebel leaders among
the poor Southern whites, and our Northern
soldiers, and thus weeded out the Southern
aristocracy, and planted in its place hardy,
industrious, brave, loyal, intelligent and lib
erty-loVipg population, who should be one
with US in interest and feeling, we could have
no lasting peace, or freedom, or union in this
country; we should stand ever on the crater
of volcano whose red-hot lava might at any
hour again break forth and deluge the land
with blood and fire.
This is a rough outline of Mr.. Kirke's lee
ture, To be fully appreciated it must be
heard. From the beginning to the close his
audience was held in the closest attention,
and scarcely stirred except when shaken by
bursts of laughter or applause.
The lecture was based upon the personal
observation of Mr.. Kirke during long asso-
citation with the Southern planters, and was
full of striking incidents. blending in their
description rich humor and deep pathos, so
well illustrated by the lecturer, as to leave no
doubt of bis thorough knowledge Of his sub
ject. The audience could not fail to have
been instructed and gratifed in the hear Sc
pleasantly spent in the company of the author
of Among the Pines" and My S.uthern
Friends"
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