Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-07-20
THE SOUTH.
The views off Repentaut Rebel
--What lac Thinks ofthe sinv-
cry Question.
RICHMOND, VA, June 30.

RICHMOND, Va, June 30.
To the Editors of The Louisville Journal:
My poverty prevents Me from returnisg
to Kentucky, and, as | cannot, therefore,
repounce, on the stump" in that State, al
those political doemas ior which l was no
torious wherever known, beg to be allow
cd to do so through the columns oi youi
valuable aud widely disseminated journal.
| feel that | ought to do so. and with the
hope of doing good, both to the State and
the National Government, propose to oc
cupy few squares in the columns OF your
paper.
St. Paul was cured of his Phaliseeism by
being felled to the earth aud seeing q light
from heaven. ST. Peter could not under
stand that the new Covenant of Grace was
intended for the Gentiles until God, in the
vision of the white sheet, knit at the tour
corners, let down from heaven before him,
full of all manner of four footed beasts, was
told to slay aud eat that what God had
''cleansed" was not common or unclean. "
Without pretending to compare myself with
either of the great Apostles, except in the
obstinate persistence and enthusiasm to
which long adhered to the erroneous
teachings OF my youth, L may be a lowed
to say that after four years war, during all
of which time | have been in the South,
am now thoroughly convinced that "seces-
SON." State sovereignty" Slavery"
''compacts of States" Modification, and
ment was all wrong and, having agitated
aud disturbed the country from its founda-
tion especially and particularly for the last
thirty years, that now consider them all
as finally and forever settled, and the st,-
premacy the National Government firmly
established. Even the Southern Confed-
eracy itself, by its conscript act, destroyed
State rights, and before it finally gave up
the ghost, by its negro soldier bill, virtually
emancipated the negro and said he was as
good as conscript Thus the war, both by
the action of the North and South, has do
creed the overthrow of slavery, and the
negro, throughout the whole country, has
ceased to be ''chattel' and become man.
All these questions could never be settled
by compromise or politics or diplomacy
The South, appealing to the God of battles
for justice, went to war over the hsGfo and
her peculiar dogmss. The decision is against
her. and the results of the war must be ac-
cepted as the judgment Of heaven on all the
issues and causes presented. | SO accept
them, and am now, moreover, from observa-
ton other than the war, thoroughly con-
vinced that the dogmas of the South were
wrong and impracticable and that the Fed
eral theory of the Government is fight
That was Washington's idea, and the doc
trlne OF all the patriarchs of the revolution
and the country. Supremacy must reside
somewhere; In the body polite, as in the
natural body, one head must control, and
all the rest of the members must obey. 1t
will not do for the eye or the foot or he nd
to claim pre- eminence, each for itself, and
thus cumber and retard the movements of
the body nor will it do for each State to
say II am sovereign" but the whole firmly
joined together" and governed by one head
from the nation.
once, as st. Paul says "saw through a
glass darky, but now face to face; !" the
scales have fallen from my eyes, aud / dis
cover that the nation was not a compact of
States, but that the Constitution was made
by the people of the Uuited States" All
the powers the States have are given merely
for convenience and police purposes, and to
divide the labors of government that would
otherwise become cumbrous and inconveni-
ent.
Mr.. Crittenden, whose free and noble ma
ture made him among the politicians Of the
earth what St. John was among the
Apostles beloved disciple said in
his speech at Russellvie, Kentucky, in
1860, in view of the troubles then adum-
brated as coming upon the country he loved
SO well: Il tell You my old friends, that |
am for the Union at all hazards and under
all circumstances At the expense of being
thought as ridiculous Sas Shakespeare calls
any attempt Ito gild refined gold or paint
the lily" may be allowed to say that am
now fer the Union at all hazards, ,oithout
fc,,o nd
Take them all away if necessary to preserve
American nationality.
marvel that Kentucky, 80 true to the
Union, should now hesitate on the slavery
question when the Institution is utterly
given up by even the South itself. look
confidently to her to give up at once ths
few she has,and not tokeep up the agitation
in her fair laud when it has ceased all over
the rest of the States.
The action of all the werld in regard to
the negro race has been burning shame to
the nations. Blindness and prejudice and
cold, selfish interest has closed the eyes of
mankind to the history and character Of the
negro race. and all nations have combined
to crush them and their country. Let US
see what this race is of which UhH3tians,
or people calling themselves Christians,
have made slaves for centuries The negro
race can boast an ancestry as bright as any
of her oppressors We care not where you
look for them. OF whom, for example,
have We descended? OF the Eurcpean
Goths SD Yaadsls. Africa was peorled
t.-oush Egypt by three oi The descendants
of Ham -Cush, Marraim and Phut. They
found Egypt a II, Grass, and csnverted it into
the most fertile count, in the word; they
reared its pyramids, inysntcaa it's hisrosy-
pixies, gave letters to Greece sno Nome,
and through them to us. If il be objec,sd
that We received letters from Phenicia, the
reply is that Phenica was an Africo-Egyp-
tian csleny, and Cadmus himself Cushite
aud one Of the ancestors Of the African
| race. The descendants Of Cush FIRST settled
between the Euphrstes sad Lieus, and the
region was styled the country of the Cush-
dino; also Chaldea and the land of Shinar,
and Nimrod, son Of Cush, erected here
the first kingdom on earth.
The Cushites are the origin, and staud ia
history rs the face Of the great negrs world.
They are the only brsuch Hams posteri-
ty that are black. Aud that they were
black twenty Eve centres ago is affirmed by
Jsremiah, and that they were SO ages be-
f.re this, is the testimony of Sacknan, tho
| Av.h;su and other kisforiaps Ror thou.