The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1868-10-23
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In connection with other matter re-
iating to the then pending conflict the
following wc wrote and published during
the war:
!. "Thc good resulting from the conflict,
would have been reached in the natural
order of progress; the evil, is the fruit
Of the blindcst animal passion, from
which no good can flow, save. in the ex-
hibition to the future, of a terrible ex.
ample Of popular delusion, and, perhaps,
this is we'll. These States are subject
20 physical, social and moral conditions,
which revolution may ameliorate or
modify, but cannot otherwise change
Sun and soil will forever distinguish the
Southern and Northern mind. Physical
a;vcrsities will continue to diversity So
.cial and moral conditions, and causes of
collision will again arise which ignorance
and passion may fomcnt into war, but
which, adequate intelligence, may con-
vert to peaceful and beneiicont uses
If slavery is abolished the Southern and
Western States, with prepondoranco of
political power and an indemnity of in
dustrial interests, will have the control
Of Federal legislation. THE Nes0 Eng
and StatGs, foremost in the crusade
against slavery, may then find themselves
dependent upon tic intelligence and mag
nanimity Of the South"
So too, Mr.. ADAMS now reads coming
events by their shadows. He says, in
his recent speech at Columbia
"You have suffered the penalty 6: yanr intemper-
ance and you feeling ia effects bitterly to-day
ne, too, il am not very much mistaken, hared day
Of reckoning in store for us painful SOLDERING from
our d,hauch. Ii we persist il is impossible tor any
tolerable Government to continue long, for 1t will
degenerate into a mere squabhIe of contending fac
lions for chance to cypress Tor time their less ac
ise or less numerous opponents.
We can forgive, if not forget, that
Massachusetts burnt women for witches
and inhumanly prosecuted better people
than her own. We can forgive her pros
titution Of the ends of government in us
ing il as means to build up her section
al interest at the expense of the general
welfare. We can forgive her co-opera-
ton With tho mother country in stealing
the African from his native freedom and
forcing him upon our unwilling ances-
tors. We can 70. give her, when, fired
by envy of the ''Cotton Lords" she be-
gan and continued her agitation of
"abolition" until JOHN Br0wn was exc
cuted and war became inevitable. We
could forgive her prosecution of that
war while we believed it to be for the
preservation of the Union but now, Mr..
Adams tell us, our relations with her are
those of the conqueror and the conquer
ed; that wo have no constitutional
rights that Southern life, property,
liberty, has not appeased Massachusetts;
that VIC are still prisoners of war; and
dependent on her will.
There is Massachusetts" unappeas-
able in hatrcd-insatiabie in malignant
dcviltry. "Distrust and fear" welding
the power of conqueror will allow us
neither to forget or forgive.
And the day of reckoning will come
Let the government change as it may
even from Republic to an Empire
life in the old land will recuperate--we
will regain our voice in the national
councils and Massachusetts may yet in
woke the magnanimity Of the South
When that time comes if she clothes
hersclfin sack-cloth and ashes and sin
cerely mourns her sins against humani-
ty, let the South pardon her; but not
until quito certain Of her sincerity.
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