The mountain Democrat., 1865-06-10
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"The CuzSAr ~ Slavery"

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1t has been Justly said-by a. ny Rnri.
tan brethren, that slavery 10 the UGuse Of
all crime at the South, and we PoinkIith
pride to the moral sthtus Of the NoFtA for
the proof. In our vast com nunities Hdh.
Gated under our Boston system, and M
contaminated with slavery, hos IDLY
moral is the society. Chastity an Ism.
perance are the startling charaeteristics.
You never hear OF lbertinism dehahGh-
ery. or loose, ,free.love immorpIity in;ihSse
communities Of the NortH and EasE-
There is no instance Of peCGistiou IN once
by any Of the officers OF the Federal Gov
ernment. Such thing as man tillbg
to fulfill his business engagements are OF
very rare occurrence. Men at the North
lend their money to each other without
taking any security they trust entirely
to the effects Of the Boston system. There
is no deceit in Northern pOltics--al is
taiE, open and truthful. Mr.. Beecher
gave the depraved Southern people some
/ hard hits in his speech at Fort SUMTER
| reckon it rather opened their eyes 10
the superiority Of Northern political bon
esty. He aid,spcaking Of the politicians
of the South: ...F~l
They slborned the common people wRh
lies, with sophistres with cruel deceits and
ISLANDERS, TO fight for secret objects which they
RbhoTed, and against interests as dear to them
as their own lives. They fought blind
| folded-they fought for class that soHNbt
their degradation, while they were madeto
believe it was for their homes and alters.""l
How different at the NoTthl No de- e
ception here-no lies-no sophistTies--r
no ISLANDERS. Quite the contrary. All
fair and open. The Southern people
thought they we're lighting for their homes
and affairs. What sophistryl No South
ern home has been invaded--uO Southern
wife viOlated-no sister outraged by the
embrace Of the dignihed and chivalrops
niger. There are no desolated homesin
the Shenandoah Valley, nor anywhere,
except where the minions Of slavery have
invaded the rural and peaceful homes
of Pennsylvania. But the Northern
men fought for their homes and altars.--
Cast your eyes over the war-wnsted
country where Lee made his rai1 into
Pennsylvania. Everything destroyed
women ged--propcrty rnthleGGly
} burned, and the whole country left black
waste Of ashes and desolation. Witness
the mild, humane and eminently PuEitan
rule Of Butler in New Orleans. Butler
didn't steal anything. lie never shipped
off whole bales of childrcn's clothing and
, ship loads of pianos from New Orleans
) He never robbed the Smith Brothers. He
} does admit that lie thinks that, in mo-
, ment Of abstraction, he might have taken
a cigar and forgotten TO pay for it, but he
, is willing to make reparation, upon full
proof lodged at the War Office, and by
the applicant acknowledging that Butler
is not as good as nigger, and that he is
no better than Buter-juSt to humble his
Southern pride.
Beecher told them that the middle
classes had TO business with war. Ger.
tainly not War could not hurt theun.L-
Their small farms, their homes, were moth.
ing. The had no business to defend them.
Bat the poor men of the North were d.
rectly interested in the war. Let.the poor
men Of the country only contemplate how
much they are benefited by the war 1t
is needless here to point out the benefits,
but every poor man sees at once his alter
ed condition. lie pays no taxes, and the
argument that the consumer pays all the
taxes is nothing bnt copperhead lie.--
Let the poor man count over the numer-
Gus benefits he has received from the war.
The cripplcs, the widows, the orphans,
have been benefited amazingly by this
warm fact all the poor men Of the North
have gained magniticcntly. 1t is true,we
can't see where or bow, but the Northern
politicians and the Puritan priests says
so, and they never lie or dcceve-and to
prove this see Flag or Bulletin on the
candidates for city officers of San Fran
cisco.
We are not qni!e au fait in expounding
the beauties Of Puritanism we are quite
a young convert, but its mild rays are
bursting in on us gradually.1-
CONVERT.