The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-18

voting directly and professedly in
favor Of human slavery were very
well agreed among themselves " as to
the cause which produced the re-
bellion. And so Mr. Lloyd goes in a
circle, reminding one of dog chained
to post. The Southern States Sc
ceded for the protection of slavery,
a fact which they have never denied.
In doing so they made no statement
of grievances to the world, any more
than Prussia makes to-day for quar-
rellng with Austria-any more than
their rival States at the North made
when they sent their hordes to invade
the South. The old monarchies of
Europe, when they saw the tendency
of the French revolutionists, took
every precaution to save their social.
system from their baneful influence.
Those old monarchies had some very
Objectionable features, but they were
angels compared to revolutionary
France. In the same way, the South,
in 1861, took the precaution of seced-
ing to protect her social system from
Northern reyolutionists-men who
prove by their conduct to-day that the
destruction of slavery was only the
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coded for the protection Of slavery.
w nat was the nature Of this slavery.
and what grounds had the Soath for
supposing that it would be uneonsti-
tutlonalIy interfered with
Slavery is cO-existent with civiliza-
ton. There can be none of the lat
ter without the former; and when we
say this we mean realities and not
names. The few only in all commu-
mites are enlightened, and they could
not be so, were it not that the many
are made, through fear of the scourge
of starvation, to contribute to the
leisure necessary to the attaining of
such distinction. In England with
slaves delving in mines, toiling at
looms, and waiting behind chairs,
there came forth Shakspeares, Bacons,
Newton-true opponents of civiliza-
ton. In the South, with slaves to |
I'LL the lower walks of life, there ap-
peared Washingtons, Jefersons. Poes. /
In Boston, where practical slavery IS i
as yet only partially developed, there
have arisen very creditable plagiarists |
in Prescott, LOngfellow, Holmes. In I
other parts of the North where there
are no whipping posts andabut little /
starvation, there is almost a stagna-
ton OF lntellect-no higher aim than
to acquire mechanical an mercantile
skill, and read HaTlDer'S Weehly.
This Southern slavery then differs
rom that which has long obtained in
England and all other highly civil
zed countries only in this-that it
vas recognized by statute law. while
hat IN England exists in accordance I
With the common law, both equally
'iRding We might show that our
orm OF slavery was milder, but that
8 not to the point This is the in
tltetlon, then that we saw endanper
q. How Here would be a good
lace for the history of the Abolition
arty But we shall deal with it only
5 the full grown monster. In 1851
be principles of this party had been
aliy enuncIaTad by their majority in
be lower House, by their orators in
nd out of Congress, by their party
latforms, by the raid of John Brown.
aid their orators, The Constitution
league with hell, !" etc. Said their
arty platform, Eradicate from the
territories those twin relies of bar
arism, slavery and polygamy. Said
ne OF their great apostles, There is
n lrrepressible conflict between free
ON and liberty" In 1861 party {
loused such battle-cries elected their
lndidate and got possession of the !
overnment; from that moment the I
tier, perverted from its originel in |
ntlons, ceased to be that of 'sour :
'mmon creation And here we 9
ave come back to our lecturers as Z
rtion, and shown its fallacy. I
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