The Placer herald., 1866-03-24
The Southern Poor.

Inc southern f0or.
It is fashionable for sensation preachers
and other bypocrites in the North to wreak
their vulgar vengeance on portion Of the
southern people, by speaking of them as
poor white trash," The Augusta Constitu'
tionalist rebukes them in caustic way, as
follows: These lowly beings-poor, indeed,
but uprght-are constantly bitter in the
mouth Of the Rev. Pharisee, who never
weares o ofcomparing them unfavorably with
the negro Of their own section and the white
slave of the NORTH The insults heaped up
on this class Of our people are unworthy Of a
minister Of Jesus Christ, the Father Of the
poor but in excellent taste coming from the
opulent caricaturist of Brooklyn. Mr.. Beech
er, like many another man, has been spoiled
by evil courses and pew rents. He makes
the common mistake of involving principles
with potatoes.
When worldly minded materalist turns
reverend and INDUCES in species of elo.
quent and lofty tumbling for wealthy bypo.
critics at $4,000 per annum, we marvel not
at his sublime tergiversations or headlong
drifting from the gospel Of peace and charity.
Good living aud greenbacks create thick al.
mospheres, and the vision is full Of obliquity
when gazing through them at the humble
and the INDECENT. And SO purse'proud
and self gIorifying, with nose erect like Jobs
war horse snorting at heaven, but feet paw
ing into the pit, this man and hundreds of
his caste disgrace the earth and offend the
skies. What Beecher 4 Co. bather about
in the pulpit, hired scrbblers s!obber over
the press. This everlasting aim is to degrade
the South by degrading its poor, but the
measure they mete out to others, even the
lowIiest of these, shall be meted back to
them.
Before the war, southern pauper was a
rarity; even in large cities beggars were as
scarce as January shad. The time has never
been when they did not nfest the North
like the plaques of Egypt, and, at this day.
the Philadelphia, New York and Boston
journals fill column after column with hor.
ribe narratives of human depravty and
wretchedness. In that section the tendency
is for the rich to become richer, the poor
poorer. Never yet have we beheld anything
approaching the leprous condition of the
North, and God forbid that we ever should.
Here, truly, the most of us are impoverished,
but not debased many of Us are ignorant
but not degraded many reduced to short
commons, but few beggars. Our poor, those
especially living iu the country and subject
to the sneers of dapper eves-dropping don
keys, are superior in every way to those Of
the same class towards the Arctic circle
called the North.
True, they live in log cabins. bnt they
built and own them; they have but few acres ,
of titled land, but such as il is it has been
paid for; they dress in coarse homespun, but
it is the product Of their looms and quite as
comfortable and far more honestly obtained
than the fripperies Of Queen Shoddy; they
survive on coarse food, but it is Of their own
raising; they know nothing Of metaphysics,
but they fear God in simplicity Of heart;
they trudge every Sunday to the distant
meeting houses, but once there, they praise
the Rsdeemer 10 old fashioned hymns and
not 10 the shibboleth Of Puritan in6delty;
the old mans rife hangs above the door and
the old mothers Bible reposes near her bed;
brave and industrious sons extort subsistence
from the soil, and virtuous and dutful daugh.
ters prepare the daily bread or ply the UNI
ceasing shuttle; they lie down at last in re-
mote graveyards, but the Angel Of the Resi-
direction will deal more tendery with these
sleepers than many that rot in the gilded
mockeries at Greenwood.
Thousands of these mean cabins have
sheltered heroic boys, and the place which
knew them once shall know them no more.
On every field Of battle they charged with
the foremost phslanx-on every field they
slumbsr, side by side, with the proud and
lofty. These are the bengs-poor and in
ependent-untutored but God.fearing-
unaspiring but vaIorous- INDECENT but con-
tented-simple but ospitabIe-tbese are
the beings that Beecher affects to despise
and scribbling rascals depreciate. We are
beginning to understand it all. A CORES
pondent of the New York Times has taught
US an important element in slander, when be
confessed that false Witnessing was "accepts.
BILE TO the Norih"-and hence he lies for his
paper, and hence too, Beecher lies for his
congregation. We shall always denouncs
this viiany, whenever presented. All hon
or to the Southern poor, for their sacrifices,
their honesty, their independence; paIsied,
be the hand that is upIifted against them
and paralyzsd the foul tongue that wrongs
them with the articulation Of lie.
In the recent speech Of Charles Sumner in
the Senate of the United States, the orator
demanded an equality Of civil and political
rights for the negro, in default Of which be
threatens "resistancs" revenge"-"biood"
and "all the horrors Of of St. Domingo"
A yet. We have heard no denunciation Of
this brutal and bloody manifesto from the
Republican journals Of the nation. On the
contrary, whenever they have spoken, they
have approved it, They cannot, by silence
evade the issue. They must meet it square.
ly!
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