The Placer herald., 1865-02-18
SUBJUGATION.


sanity of mind in the penilude of their won
derful military and civil power. His topic
was the proposed amendments to theConsttu
utlon, which he vigorously opposed as unj just
al this time, SO far as they are to have bear.
ing on peoples and territories not represent
ed in Congress. lie did not propose to dis.
cnss the topic Of slavery; but contrased in
vivid colols the modern intolerance which
would destroy, through the agency Of war,
an established institution, interviewer With
The social and political history Of the coun~
| try and sanctioned By its fundamental law
conlrasted such intolerance with the folbear
ance exhibited Ly Christ, the Disciples, and
the apostles towards the Institution, ia their
teachings on earth, when slavery hourished
as it has never tlourished since. federation,
he said, is the essential principle of our i'm
stiutions and our social organization. We
tolerate the Jew, who does not believe in the
Savior, and those Christians who do not re,
spect our Sabbath; we tolerate the polyga
msls of Utah and receive their representa-
tives upon the floor of Congress, while we
are waging civil war now seemingly only
TO abolish slavery. We propose to abolish
in five or six years hy llooashed and VIC
lence an institution which was tolerated by
our Saviour, by The Apostles and by the
Chnrch for thousands Of wears the highest
teachings of the Inspired word being that
the principles of Christianity would in the
end abolish slavery throughout the whole
earth.
Mr.. Brooks then considered at length the
argument that slavery must be abolished in
order that the United States may become a
homogeneous people. lie denied that a
great nation or people can ever be homo
gen, Gus, and instanced the various in
situations and tribes of Russia; lhe divers
races ot.Austria, who speak twelve different
languages; the republic of Switzerland,
whose Congress is composed Of delegates who
discuss national questions in Italian, German,
and French; the vast empire OF Great Britain
covering one,sevelth of mankind. speaking
ali languages and protesting all religions; the
Roman empire, which in the days Of its
greatest glory conceded the principle of To-
cal selt-government TO its conquered Subjects
tolerating all religions, all policies in subor-
diuation to the great head OF the Empire at
Rome Aud il WAS the foundation Of that
empire in the spirit Of federation that kept it
together for hundreds and hundreds Of years,
and which made The name OF Cesar ilusri
Gus, not only throughout that whole land,
but sent down tlat name immortal for all
poseritv rs the name Of czars and ka'sers in
the royal house, Of kings and emverors-
And the empire did nol crumble and fall uu
till the Caesars policy was forgotten and
homogeneity was forced upon the different
Peoples
Uomoceneity is but centralizalion and un
limited despolism, in which there is no free
dom for the people, no self government, no
family government. A centralized, despotic
government was not possible for Rome or
Athens, and it will not be possible for the
government at Washington to regulate the
local rights and privileges of the millions of
people that now and are hereafter to live
throughout our vast territory. The cradle
Of liberty is in the household, in the family.
in the city, Hle county and the State and
wherever other Institutions, the product of
Capitalization or consolidation, exist, as in
France or Russia, there must exist despotism.
If this idea of homogeneity is persisted n,
the war must 90 Oh until the subiugation of
the South follows. MIR. Brooks characterz
ed as a fatal error the prophecy that the
war is to be short one, or that the South
can ever be suhiugaed to An empire of cons
solidaon and Capitalization. EXtermina-
ton must follow in a war in which both par
ties are in earnest like the North and the
South, the former for anti-slavery and con
soIidation, and the latter as they say, for the
maintenance of self government All civil
,f bnv for
and all history shows that our civil war is TO
be long, if not endless, if it is to be conduct
ed in the spirit in which it is conducted now :.
1t is not to be a war then OF ninety days, nor
of four years, nor of this Administration alone
but it is a war to be passed on from Admins'
tration to Administration, ihro'out all time,
until the spirit Of liberation is once more re-
vived in this country, and we learn to revere
the lessons our fathers left to US. The subju-
cation of eight millions Of people. 1t is an ut
ter impossibilily; it cannot be done. The out
ward man may be subjugated. He may be made
to bend, to cringe, to bow, aye, even TO take
mock oaths Of allegiance. With bayonets
surrounding him, you may for time take
from him all outward manliness. But the
spirit within him, with which God has in
spired him, can never be subjugated by NOR
tai man. The soul is indomitable, although
you may force the outward profession of
obedience. This subugation can never be
even apparently perfected but by the con-
slant outward exhibit of bayonets. But
whenever that exhibit is withdrawn, insur
rection and armed rebellion will follow
This nation may be nation of soldiers, but
if it be made nation of soldiers altogether,
repeat again, that men of our kith and kin,
men Of our blood and our soul, men educa-
ted in our institutions, and inspired by the
education which has been given to us by our
ancestors, such men, whether right or wrong,
can never be subjugated God never made
the race we are born Of to be subjects or