The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-10-02
Constitution Outsiders The Road to Ruin

history marked by constant FcIssudeS, by steps Tor
ward and backward but still, with every CONFUSION
by at last step forward IN evilisation whether vi
shall now consent, with mighty retrogression K
travel backward and behind the cycle of modern civ
isation, aud place ignorance enlightenment i
the question Of the age. Shall We place the year So
in the position of 1867? Shall we ignore all the teach
Dgs, all the useful lessons, all the experience, all th
history all the progress all the civilization of the in
tervening period Of thousand years. to place th
negro above the white man? barbars before culture
ignorance before and above cvilisations
Wendell Phillips, and the men OF his school or O
lis party, would emphatically deny that even Negro
supremacy, az an accomplished fact, was tantamoun
to such retrogresson and looking to his ideal of al
universal republic, founded equality fraternity ans
liberty, would attempt to justify the ransposition O
centuries on the specous pretence that 1867 is in duty
bound to absorb and pack its own ignorance It's owl
dead weight, and could not es conscientious epoch
let " slide, this great moral duty He and they be-
long to the school of reormers There is no evil IN
der the sun they would not undertake to reform The
suns duty is to take up the infectious airs and to pur
fy them. And so his mission, or rather the mission
OF his school, is to notice all evils and by legislation
to remove them. With him and lis school. that is
precisely the object Of all government Is crime on
the increase? If so, this school is ready with plan
to abolish capital punishment, and substitute in its
place mild penitentary system, where moral suason
the elements of arithmetic, geography and grammar
are to be taught, and occasional shower bath is to
be administered penalty for bad behavior, or a
bad lesson. Is bad harvest aud year Of scarcity
an Tho
an uncomfortable number of brook-larns. where Zc-
noba with her one white rose in her rich black hair,
will recall to mind her ramesake of the desert city
where Priscilla will enact the prodgies Of nervous
Hanagnetism and fall in love with Hoingsworth marry
the crazy fanatic, and along with him and Zenoba will
provide tie materials for Miles Coverdale to write any
number Of Blythedale ronanccs. Is the indissouble
land OF matrmony, hurthcn on the liberty of women ?
Ills same school have hit upon the remedy 1t is
cheaper than divorce, it is less scandaous it sarcs the
rcmorseIess publicity of judicial cxposure-it is free
ors Is the church restraining authority in ma tiers
Of religious fahe GLANDS off" 1t is all easy thing
to dispose of-there is no secret about it, 1t is only
to take the start and before the church can act to ex
communicate the church itsclf There is no fear Of
Papa bulls in Anerica-no Pope here, and no author
ty to bind conscience. Does the Constitution of the
United States recognise slavery. 1t is covenant
with hell No honest man, no conscientious man can
Or ought to obey it. There is an "highcr law" In
obedience to this law they resolved in 1S46 that Sc
cesson from the United States Government is the duty
OF every abolitionst," but in 1861, when the South
chose to exercise her right think the same thing
duty, that exercise became treason. War followed
and the most dcplorable of all wars war of kindred
and friends What then was the course of this school
the school Of New England philosophers and politi
cans which had sent its delegates, year after year
to peace congresses, and had proclaimed war the relic
Of barbarous and kingly age, the ultima ratio
Tegebn, because kings as kings, had no other argu-
ment "On to Rchmondn became the watchworl of
this school, and but for the persistent and energetic
demands of these apostles of peace the war had
neither began or having begun, would have ended
before its years of carnage had left its victims on
thousand battle fields. In the Providence of God it
ended at last the sword returned its scabbard
the soldier to the cmpoyments Of peace-the South .
stripped, devas;ac and helpless lay at the feet of the
conqueror. A great people were disposed to be gem
erou5. With munfccnt offerings of Charity they sent
bread for the furnishing they gave credit to the bank
rupt; they if they could, would have rolled an ocean
Of Letlean waters over the dread memories of the
bloody past.
The President saw these evidences of returning af-
ection and made haste to restore the Union. Again,
What did the school Of rcForn-thc school of the
higher law? 1t intcrposed the authority of its lee
urcrs, preachers and politicians. 1t raised whir
Find in the face Of the Executive 1t appealed sue
essuy to the dying passions engcndcrcd by the late
onfict It aroused the bittcrcst prejudccs of the
orthern mind and, at last succeeded in defeating
1c plan Of restoration
What then? The party, which it led, then
harged with the duty Of reconstruction" Congress,
its hands, passed the Congressional pan-and that
Ian looked only to securing party power for party
urposcs-8 00oO)0 Of whites are subjected to the c
lthority of 100000 Of negroes. And row, from S
ar Of losing this cherished fruit as the President is i
nown to oppose the plan, the next step is his i'm Y
cachmcDt not for high crimes misdemcanors, not
any oteuse known to the Constitution or the laws f
ut because he will not be, he cannot be- willing in Ii
rument in their hands to cut the throats Of ten II
atcs, either to crafty Radical molignty perpctu h
e Radical power. And they will impeach, if he n
low any sign of fear or of weakness. ST
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IMPORTANT ORnER--We are Indebted to Brevct
aor General Mower for copy of General Orders y
O. II. The New Orleans Times, IN publishing it, ~