Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1866-07-06

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their fetters.. IF the Southern ,Il people will
make max hecatomb Of all the men who have
ever been honored with their confidence
OF the National Government. by being
called TO Office, high or low ,troln the South,
and give in adhesion to the article pro-
posed IN Congress, excluding taeIf1 from
their flgnts OF eligibility under the Govern.
n,snt, then Congress viii postpone $. levy
OF taxes on the respective States, SconseE-
ting to the inluiolation Of that great body
OF citizens who haveiin all past time been
and are now most favo red with their fove
and confidence. It is really a very little
sacrifice these Radicals make i'll surrender
ing the right Of trying these States for ten
years, IT, at the same time, they get a
riddaIice of all the stat es,neri, orators, and
experienced public men who live in,
tie sonth, in the halls Of Con gress:: -
They might web consider this as guar
anty Of all the privileges, bourties, draw
backs, and IN direct taxation which they
may maintain Or impose hereafter on,
people VINO surrender their strength and
submit to be bound tor bribe! Besides,
they know that if the South should refuse
to take the bribe, and vote against the
bl1be rendered, 1t viii keep them without
representation IN Congress-, which is the
main 'desideratum they have in view !;
and IN this case they cannot hope to extor.
taxes from a people not. represented, and
from among whom they exclude tax-gath.s
erers, by the imposition of an oath they
have }contrived on purposeto exclude
every Southern man from assuming the
duty. Do they expect to send citizens
from Northern States to perform this
function New England must then follow
the example of Old England, and send an
army with her tax-gatherers into the South
|fo assist IN tliis duty - Does she suppose
that z ennsy ylyauia ana n ew ork viii join
In the scheme OF enforcing taxation with
'outrepresentatlon2 Will the great North
west, whose people pour their productions
down their streams through the channel
iot the Mississippi. TO the South, and carry
with their intercourse their kindred affec-
tions, generated by race aud interest,
| enter into a conspiracy to oppress and
ostracise those in whose prosperity they
are mostly deeply concerned3
They know that the highly-glfted rep
resentatve men of the South--Whom the
constitutional article Of attainder is pro-
posed to disfranchse, and, as a conse-
quence, to suffer banishment and con fsca-
tion-tor they live where they are to be
disgraced-have ever been. until the. late
/ frenzied Outbreak, in unison, heart and
hand, in everv crisis. with the tier OF great
States between. the Hudson and the. Miss
issippi, which constitutes the heart OF the
! Union. At the birth Of that New Eng
| land party t',at made the English monar-
chy its prototype, the South, with } effer:-
Eson at is head stood with the Central
States against the Essex Junto aristocracy,
which, with its copnterpoiseg OF twelve
Senators, out weighed the political i'm
! pogrance OF the middle region and songbt
to dictate to il. In the war Of 1872 the
South was still its support, and in all its
4 struggles for the extension of empire
South and West. In. the Jackson era
anc in subsequent political conhicts, the
Sonth was the unuavering ally. OF the
4 popular party of the middle region, which
held the balance Of the Republic y was
not until the negro On estioni which ,sf
! deeply involved the pride as well as tbs
Interests of the South, that it parted frotf
Its political. moorings. Aud Was5it alto
fgether the fault OF the South that it wac
Ibroug ght TO The alternative Which Ie led 70 il
fdepartIre from libera! principTes2 1t wa'
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