The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-11-05


tdegree.
The remaining hours we're occupied by DIS
CusoLM, ROBERTSON and MILES.
The College opens under fair auspices, and We
haye every reason to hope for brilliant session.
4Thad. Stevens Through HIS Doctor.
INTRODUCING THE DRAMATIs PERsoNE-"DEAR
FRIEND" TAKES THE sTAaE-HE ExfLsNs A5D
BxpoUNps-HE REFERS TO TIE BLOODY EEBELS -
EVERYBODY EQUAL TO EvERyBoDY-THE MYSTIC
FuruRE-HE QUOTES POEM, AND CONCLUDES.
I Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens last oracular converse
ton on the condition of the country is 80 full OF
| amusing absurdities that it is relieved OF all
charges of dullness. The argument is as lame as
is Mr. Stevens gait, but the whole affair Is won
drously funny.
This is the way in which Forney, of the Wash
ington Chronicle, introduces the distinguished
interlocutorB to the great American public
Hon. Thaddeus Stevens. now in his sick ahsIn'
Der at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, feeling the dan
ger Of the Republic, yet fearing he may not DC
able to speak his convictions from his seat IN Con-
gress held the following conversation with MS
old friend Professor Pfeiffer, which has been re-
ported, and is published at his request. 1T Will
be read with profound interest by his countryrnen
a short and desultory discourse between NJ. D.
| G.. PreifFer. NJ D., LII. D., some time OF the Ger
man Universities; for the last fifty years and more
an inhabitant Of America; having LETT his nauve
country for the sake Of enjoying entire freedom OF
| thought and action, and who has been IN the
bit as he has bseu afforded the opportunity, Of
having consultation and intercourse with Ihad- m
deus Stevens, resident In another portion OF the
same country-both still survlying-and salo
| Thaddeus Stevens. Il. c.
| TDoCToR.1
Dear Friend: Sitting here in my secluded study,
it occurred to me to consult you, with the familiar
ity Of ancient times as to your opinion OF the pre-
| sent prospects Of our country, and whether we
now are likely to approach any nearer to the true
principles OF liberty than our fathers did under
their old and constrained Constitution, and to ask
you at some little length to point out the means by
which that great blot-that heiuous crime-of our
Constitution as 1t was could be got rid OF without
further delay or further convulsion,
| CM. c..
Nv bear Friend I shall not decline to suggest
few ideas in reply to your question, althouan l
them as am. But our ancient intercourse hss
inspired you with confidence, see in your fiiend,
which would be better justified bad l posses
the opportunities Of deep thought and study
into the law of nations which you had before l
knew you.
'"Dear Friend" is now fairly embarked; and, as he
is nigh unto death and cannot talk for more than
twelve hours at time without rest he explains
the whole Of the Constitution, and tells his ancient
conadant what the Fathers of the Country "did
intend, although they did not say It,"
The grand idea Of those immortal men was that
there were certain rights, privileges and lmmun:-
immortal soul, none Of which should be taken
from him nor could he surrender them IN any ar
ranoemeI with society. So essential to the re-
pose Of tne whole community was it that every
man sht uld possess each OF these rights, PRIV
leqes and immunities, that he was forbidden BY
his G, eator to part with them he could no. sell
himself, he could not sell his children into
slavery. He could not sell his life for price.
he could not surrender the right to pursue
his own happiness, Every attempt TO DO so
such contract, no matter how solemn, no mat
4 ter how hedged about by broad seals; no matter
how stamped by State legislation aud executive
approval none Of these things gave it life 1t was
null and void, 1t was corpse incapable OF ANNA
ton.
Then he explains little contradiction concern
ing these "inalenable rights"
know that when they came to frame the Con-
stitution, slavery having increased, they were
1 Obliged to postpone some of those universi Prn
ciples, and to allow individual and municipalities
TO violate them for awhile. thank God that neces
sity no longer exists. The lawgiyers Of America
are now as free to act as Sampson when tho hrT
beguiled by any Conservati'e Delilah-sutfer thell
locks to be shorn and their limbs to be bound pl
the withes OF twisted Constitution. Tho law:
which were then intendfd d 20 be universal mus
now be made universsi. The principles whlci
we're intended to gove' the whole American ma
tionalty must now be made to cover and contrc
it's whole national actien throughout tins eran(
empire. Towns, corporations and municlpalit!e
may be allowed tleir separate organizations no
inconsistent ther with, but must not lncorporat
| nj annfnt with those great rights
privileges and inmunities
Which is very refreshing, as he adds that, unoe
the 14th Amen dment, everybody is equal to every
body, only more so. He then grows senIiinsnlS
and anathematizea something:
What grand compulsion have THESE desp2ts
rebels and murderers finally forced upon tn
American Republic BIZ their impatient, rash an
, bloody actsl How they have aided tbs juet me
of the nation in producing this great. goodl
we're well IL they could claim some m brit as CON
pensation for so great crime. but II est mut
come into the world, "woe unto him throug
whom it cometh," fear that II good does com
into the world through compusion, no merit WI
be attributed to the unwilling actors. et no ma
now zen, who belongs to this great GoVernnleI S
Y dare to stand up in the face of high heaven an
longer deny to Gods immortal beings the hlgt
the inalenable, the God-granted rights which n
immortal Father gave them. Let no one IN Ia
past or in any future age attempt to p2llate L!
|
to decide between Gods creatures, or who, is
plead his cause at the bar OF higher trpuna
venture TO insult Divine Justice By longer pleadln
+ his inability to execute that justice.
We must remember that most OF us arc Sepal
ated ftom tho dread tribunal occupied By JudG
] who cannot be deceived by the narrowest isthmr
that ever divided time from eternity.
This. if it did not rete~ to the immaculate ST.
veus would be compared to 'the Devil quotln
, scruture;" but Dear Friend" is not tired, an
launches recklessly out in the following strain, s
70 tbe effect Of comforting the equal right upo
every one;
Tr lass than ten years il will contain q 70 N
n,n1latiou of moro than fifty millions OF peopl
pirt round with deep and broad Waters, WHICH L
: force could cross without our Consent. Inc SCI
oirt isle OF Great Britain, which was SAD TO po CT
of from the rest Of the world, was not oaN SO s.
= cure from its water defences alo1e rs t1IH IN
mont That would be tall and pod aomlr
:. who hereafter. with 4 hostile intent sh 1u!d yel
q tur. this side of tn, Pillars Of Hercules 6etoI
auy mouarchcal nation Shall AGAIN atte Hp0
erect its institutions on this sioc the 1stnn =
q Da"ien they will and that there e4sts i'ePApl
}. composed OF the islands Of the sea more 0"-El
" than the European portions OF Great bI!tain-n'
= less powerful than was the Acb@an L. aSue,-wn.e
Republic We snail not blush to call an ally oeeaut
] q meridian sun and tyyants la=n nave pliiiV
" into heir color aGd into their souls tle Geip III
|. ineItingushabie principles OF soa0rr;nce
J. human bondage. people now but lite unde
L =to ID, but in few years OF progres, WITH tneI II
stitutons really free. instead Of Bang gfouI1u Ia
j. the nominal freedom but real despot sm OF jana
IS CO. will have made as long aud rapid strides III u
L cause OF civilization as our Southern Statea II
l. now making. The seed Of such On empire
+ already planted, and is terminating. 1t may q.
|. be known to all that the Danish possessions OF S
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