American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1867-07-06
AN ABLE PAPER NOTES ON THE
SITUATION.
BY HON. b. II. HILL, OF GEORGIA.

While these or similar notes NAV
ultimately take wider range, the
immediate purpose is to examine the
pending feature of the revolution
the military bills embracing what il
called the Congressional plan of re
construction. | have given these
measures full. fair and mature con
sideration. | entertain not the
slightest doubt that the conclusions
[ have reached are correct, and that
if those proposed measures shall be
come laws, the future development
will most abundantiy prove this cor
rectness. Before proceeding with
the analysis of the character of the
bills, their effects, and the apologies
offered for them, desire to announce
the conclusions which the reasoning
will establish and the events will
confirm, as the certain results of
their acceptance and of the incorpora-
ton of the plan and principles pro
posed into the Federal Constitution
and State Constitutions of the ten
States:
/. They will consummate the
subversion of the Republic; the
destruction of the Constitution the
annihilation of individual liberty,
and the ultimate but complete
change of all American government
from the principle Of consent to the
rule of force. And these results will
become permanent and absolute and
irremedidble.
2. Before this final consumma-
ton is reached, the country will pass
through an ordeal of anarchy. This
ordeal will be prolonged, and the
most bitter of any history-because
anarchy in a republic is like fever
with an individual, most violent with
the most vigorous, will not cease
until strength is reduced or destroy
ed, and no people ever had such
strength and material prosperity for
the prey of anarchy as have the
people of the United States. Be
sides, in the transition, two races
will struggle for the mastery, greatly
increasing the horror Of these with
ings of liberty in her passage to
death.
3. need not, and | cannOt-it is
beyond the power of the pen
enumerate the terrible evils that will
spread over all the land during this
reign ofdisorder and decay. Among
them will be the prost1ation of com
merce, the paralysis Of all industrial
agencies and pursuits, the repudia-
ton of all debts--NatiOnal, State and
individual; the disI gard of all legal
sanctions; the removal Of all re
straints upon the wicked; the with
drawal of protection from the help
less and the good ; the decentralization
of men; the prostitution Of women;
the starvation OF children; the rise
and fall of factions; the burning and
sacking of cities, and the general
devastation of the country. Robbers
will fill our mountains and forests;
assassins will come boldly from all
hiding places; civil wars and insur-
rectionS will multiply; leaders and
followers will slay and be slain; clans
of burglars and thieves will hunt
the rich as herds of buffalo hunt
the green pastures, and Insulated
wickedness will rend and tear all
that is pure and good, as the hungry
lion when heshing his tooth in the
young and tender fawn.
4. But there is one feature of
this ordeal of fanarchy-One result Of
this devilish choice to destroy the
Constitution by those who take
solemn Oaths, and make sanity pre-
tensions to preserve it, which is dis
tinct from all others, involving
Hypocrisy without example, delu-
sion without limit, and cruelty with
out parallel, and which | cannot con
without feelings ofpeculiar
sadness. l mean, of course, the
effect upon the African race.
A separate note must elaborate |
this point; but as | am announcing
general conclusions, l must not omit !
the result which will be, must be, the
most certain and inevitable of all.
A acdr Of races will come, and come
early, in this hideOus programme of
ruin. This war will be produced by |
.hree chief causes: l. The ignorant,
imaginative and exceedingly |
,redulouS habits and passions
peculiar to the negro. 2. The delu-
sion practiced upon this imaginative
md credulOus nature by emissaries
rom the North, aided by bad men at
he South, some of whom will act
rom mistaken notions of philanthr0-
ly, some with wicked purposes of
but the most dangerous,
With views of party dsceRddacy. ).
The protection to the white race and
o every interest of person and prop
,rty, and life, which this nature,
hus deluded, shall render absolutely
The result of this war
yill,be the substantial determination
# the negro race in the United States
II its exclusion thcretrOm and final
or its practical Te-en-
lavement under the government of
orce which have indicated.
The giddy and the foolish will say
his picture of result is overdrawn. ,
such creatures never believe horrors
will come till they are felt and are
,ast remedy. Some thoughtleSS
.ood people will say God will inter
ere and spare us such evils, as
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