The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1867-03-02

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'lm n mi5etts iiks ihe fdIawIhei
"Oaf Yankee maslera haze had
lhtlt coy Victories over llse Hmlh !
and oycf ne Weas. IN fbdy seaf. IL
chad original device N Ne devil, wIlo
i aid % have aown Illa ens while
men slept. Ila DESCENDANTS have
IL this respect upon their
aaeosiof, that they have Imt Their
two victims 10 slerp bcfoie aecoa,-
pllalilng their ruin.
Their tariff robbery which Imeau
forty years ago, has been pfodiaious-
successful, becanso the mauuiae.
turcr Ia New Euglaud goi The agfi.
culiuralisia of The interior hy the ears.
Ills virtue, he said, was offended BY
negro slavery, and hc made general
plamor Of his moral mIlcrines 10 the
world, hut especially he reproachcd
the Norihwoatern farmers with their
completely In that crimc against man
and sin against God, Our bueolic
population who delight IN stout
horses, fat pigs and gross oa,tle, new
or thought TO ask what made the
Yankees such zealohs missionaries Of
tho Gospel, so Jealous against the
white opprcssors of the blacks II
they gave il any study, the conclu-
sion was that they were only pursue
ing their Pnritanip vocation of re-
forming other people, which was no
doubt 40 good a thing that il werC
well enough TO assist the relormcs,
so they went TO sleep and snored.
Little did Western men suppose
that Jonatban's schemes were selfish
and not benevolent, aud that he was
driving by his philanthropic attack
on slavery, tho center Of free f,pde.
This covert design, for his own ben
eft, not being suspected by anybody,
the work first of alienation, and Sec
oud, Of actual division Of the agri-
cultural section was accomplished.
Zeal for negro elevation, for slave
emancipation, and dozen other
things in that line, bad fred the
Western brain. Even Mr.. Clay, the
Wing leader from agricultural Ken
lucky, was ready to sacrifice every
thing to the factory interest. After
his death, the sad work he commenc-
ed was continued and intensified. 1t
cost him the Presidency, which free
trade and Democracy held over his
head, and II has cost the Valley Of
the Mississippi half its annual re-
sources before the war, and by and
since the war, more than the proper
ton Of our property to say nothing
Of the sacrifice of life. The South
ern cotton growers and slayehoIders
were the only true friends of fair
play for everybody. They had to be
destroyed by q tariff war waged un-
der the pretended crusade upon slav-
cry and for the benefit Of Yankee
looms and factories. History will so
pronounce, and her verdict Of guilty
against us for not only forsaking our.
friends aud our interest, but for as
saulting both, and. joining the ranks
Of our real enemies, will be legible
70 the latest poslerity. Ohio, fndl-
ana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Mich
igan, Minnesota, as well as Kentucky
and Missouri, were the great culprits,
as well as the biggest dolts engaged
in the last FIVE years work of self
destruciion--a work whose cost in
money for the wasted property is an
amount so huge,
"Pelion on Ossa piled"
that all our reality and personality
would not bring the amount at auc-
tion from a congress Of the richest
bidders IN the universe. Most un-
happily too, this waste was not thrown
into tho sea and 80 ended, which
would have been serious enough !;
but n schedule Of every item has been
carefully made, and bonds--paper
bonds--but yielding high gold in
tercst, have been issued TO the credi-
tors, jobbcrs and SPECTATORS, intend
ed TO be perpetual burden of taxa
ton 20 US and our heirs forever.
One would think that folly and mad
ness could not go further, but further
they have gone, with complete forget
fulncss Of all reason, justice and dis
crction. These three millions of
bonds given for war-wastcd property
arc not the least, but they are the
most favored Of property whatever.
Other proprictors must pay taxa
tax of hundreds of millions for the
public expenses, but the bondholdcr
Is expressly exempt from the common
lot, taxation. The Union cannot tar
him, nor can his own State or muni.
cipalities. This whole public debl
is thus a mighty maze, but not with.
out plan, for all its facts show that
II exists for the curse Of the poor ant
for the benefit Of the rich. II i
overwhelming, utterly--titanie, oce
anic, almost incredible in amount
and beyond the powers of either cal
culation or speculation in its conse
qnences.
The cotton tax Of three cents
pound in the field Is another enormi
ty from the same quarter, and upol
the old pretence; II Is laid in plail
; violation Of the letter and spirit q
the Constitution laid by the non