Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-10-02
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ilrigin 0f parsles..-The difference.

Origin OF ParsIeg---TIIe difference.
Some wonder at seeing original Union men divi-
ded upon the issues now before the country. To
those who reason from effect TO cause, inquire the
reason that induces action the problem of political
differences is easy OF solution. And before proceed
ing further it is promised here that there IS much
IN blood The reader is required to keep this fact
in mind.
It will be remembered that, anciently the feudal
aristocracy governed Great Britain. Visible traces
of the system are yet TO be found in England, while
glmpses of it are protruded through cur own iurs-
prudence. Under the feuda economy, the sove-
reign the king, was the absolute proprietor of the
soil The right to all lands was vested in him.
nThese," says Bourier @were pareeIled out among
the great men of the nation by its chief to be held
of him, 30 that the King had the donsinHa' dsect'n
and the grantee or yassal had what was called do
nsiqsns utiLe" These tenets," he continues, "were
bound to perform service TO the King" and "these
great lords again granted parts of the lands they
thus acquired to other inferior vassals, who held
under them and were bound to perform service to
the lord"
II win be seen that society was divided into
SAoSnD1-sAos SA"So
owners, the rich; and that the governed class we;e
those who owned no real estate-no lands. In plain
phrase the land holder vas lord, the lsnd-renter
or tenant was slave In other words, the soil be-
longed TO the rich the lords who divided up their
immense possessions among the poor the plebean
Glass; who, in return for being permitted to live
the lands thus set apart were compelled to render
fealty and service to the owner. Sir William Black
stone, in describing the humiliating spectacle of
poor man being indicted into possession under a
rich Eord, says: 1.-THE vassa tenant upon investi
ture did usually homage to his lord, openly and
humbly kneeling, being lalgirt, ancerered and hold
ing up his hands both together, between those of
the lord who safe before him, and then protesting
that he did become his from that day forth, c
life ard limb and EARTHLY HoNoRP
To appreciate this high-handed tyranny upon the
one part and AFFECT slavery upon the other it is ne
cessary to understand that the policy obtained by
the triumph of despotsm over freedom. And TO
illustrate argument hereafter to be made in the
of this article is further remarked that the
lord was hereditary despot while the vassal was
friend to liberty, and only submitted through ply
steal necessity. This dreary system of bondage ex
crease Of population and the general diffusion of
knowledge, it gradually melted away before the re-
fecting sunbeams of truth until the feudal lord be-
came shorn of most of his despotic prerogatives.-
Its lingering yet certain decay awoke in the bosoms
of its friends an anxiety to rebuild the declining
fortunes of feudal ,aristocracy. At the same time
European despotism was prosecuting the friends of
| liberty wherever they could be found. Hence two
distinct classes of immigration set in from Europe
to America. The broken-down aristocracy hoped
to convert the virgin wids of this country into a
permanent home for tyranny, and make it safe
retreat for tyrants. The friends of freedom hoped
to fad a country unpolluted by the breath of ty-
rants CT desecrated by the haunts Of aristocracy.
The friends to aristocracy, those who sought to
regain here what they had virtually lost in the old
world remembering the failure of the eudal despot
ism founded upon landed estate resolved upon
founding aristocracy founded upon slavery, and
with this view, and in order to carry cut their pur
pose they settled in the Colonies of South Carona,
Georgia etc. which have since become known as
the Cotton States.
While the aristocracy were pouring into the South,
the friends of liberty settling the Eastern col
onies, which are now known as the Eastern States
From the Southern States the Southwestern States
have filed up, while the Eastern States have con-
tritatez 70 populate the Northwest Thus we have
seen that the two sections were originally settled
with population directly opposed in principle
one section aristocratic tho other pebean in sent-
ment. And so it was in the American Revolution
While from the descendants Of the Purtans and
refugees from European despotism, the hills of New
England swarmed with recruits for Washington, and
the Middle and their Western States rallied to
his standard, the swamps of South Carolina were
alive with Tories, and the entire Southwest gave
King George much support.
1t was the two ideas; liberty and despotism. The
friends of American Independence were the de-
scendants of those who had fed the prosecutions of
the old world in order to plant liberty and republ
canisn on the continent of America. Those who
adhered to Great Britain during that memorable
struggle were the descendants Of the feuda aristo
Gratis. And so the matter may be traced down to
the late rebellion and through it to the status of
parties at the present time. When Fort Sumter was
fired upon, it was by the descendants of the Tories
of the Revolution. So through all the stages of the
rebellion. 1t was inaugurated and carried on by
those whose ancestry the feudal aristocracy of
England. And to be brief the rank and file, the
leaders and followers, with few exceptions of the
present so-called Conservative party have descend
ed from the corrupt arstocracy of Europe, to whom
they may be traced back through the Tories of the
Revelation. There is much in blood 1t has deveI-
oped itself IN the rebellion Blood a0iI tell 1t may
be traced through every footprint, from the old
feudal aristocracy of England down to the organi-
cation of the Rebel Conservative party Of to-day
Wherever an original Union man has gone off
with the rebels it may be attributed to desire to
become lords and mobiles under slave aristocracy
BY their fruits We shall know them"