Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-10-09
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SENATOR WILSON. of Massachu-
sets, has frankly declared that the
basis of reconstruction Is the adop-
ton, by the South, of New England
ideas, and that there can be no re-
union, no peace, until this is fully ac-
complishcd. And what are these
New England ideas 2 The leading
one Ii, that there are higherlaws than
the Constitution, which are TO shape
the aestinies of this country, and
these higher laws are, simply and
solely, the will of the puritanical fa-
natics whose progcnitors buried
witches, prosecuted Quakers, and
trampled under foot the rights of all
less puritanical than the standard
they had erected in themselves.
Out Of this lawlcss self.conceit,
grew the idea that the Simon-pures
of New England puritanism were
fully competent to abrogate or amend
the laws of God by making those
equal whom he has created unequal,
and imparting to the most inferior
race of mankind the attributes of the
highest. These arrogant blasphe-
mers, seeing their inability to perfect
this broad equality, by changing the
color of the negroes skin, conceived
the idea that the change may be eff
fccted by miscegenation. And rs the
laws of nature must conform to the
will of New England, this beastly
suggestion must be reduced to prac-
tice. In order, however, to carry out
scheme condemned by natural law
and repugnant to the higher instincts
of the white man, the aid of despotic
power IL invoked to prevent resist
ance while tho dcbasing doctrines of
free love, and every other New Eng
land ism, are breaking down the bar
riers erected by natural laws, rs well
as by every moral and religious agen-
cy heretofore employed for the adj
Yapcement of mankind in -knaMl:
free love, which is but another term
for indiscriminatc prostitution, have
already obtained such hold upon
many in the North, that the "Rcvo-
luton" n paper in Washington, and
the organ Of EAST women" has pub
lished to the world the startling prop
osition that IL is more honorable to
he mistress than wife.
This rapid debasemcnt maist- soon
remove every obstacle, at the North,
to brutal misccgenation, and if the
South can be equally degraded, the
negro race will ultimately disappear,
so far AZ color is concerned, and the
only vcstige left of him will be found
in an ignorant, dcblscd, brutalized
iertium Quid, as much like the pres
ent white man as the mule Is like
the horse, and rs much like the ne
gro rs brutality and ignorance arc
like themselves.
These are the New England ideas
that must be adopted and acted upon,
by the South, before there can be
peace and reunion. And in view OF
their atrocious iniquity, Fernando
Wood was iustiticdin saying that the
next greatest curse to the fall Of Adam
was the landing of the Puritans upon
Plymouth Rock. Adams fall brought
death and sin into the world, and the
advent OF the Puritans to this CONT
nent brought nothing less to this
people, and by the contagion of en-
ample, entailed both upon all eiviliz-
ed countries, In proportion to their
intercourse with us. In proof, VIC
cite to the cruel prosecutions and
horrid murders peculiar to New Eng
land In the earlier period of It's colo
NAL existence. Its early history is a
catalogue Of sin and death. And
even after the nohlcr attributes, the
more generous virtues of the Hugo
npts AMI Cavaliers had, by precept
and example, suppressed the open
mani cstations Of Puritan inlquity,
their innate malcvolence and sclt-con-
ceit, under the guise of II higher chris
tan character, commenced sowing
the seeds of sin and death which
yielded 80 rich harvest in the late
fratricidal war.
New England ideas brought about
that war, and New England ideas
gave It that character of brutal feroc-
ity which will ever lac II stigma upon
the nation and age. New England
ideas sim sunder the Union, for tho
preservation of which the war was
hypocrltlcally wagcd, and New Eng
land ideas still t0mcnt sectional dis
cord and the commission of every
crime known tohumanity. New Eng
land ideas are bitterly hostile to our
form of government, and its AFRO.
gance and sclfcoucoit win lie content
with nothing short of its radical
overthrow and New England des-
po'ism over the entire people. And
~ a brave people must hc dcmoraliz-
al and degraded before they can lac
enslaNal, New England volunteers to
vmoyo every mmal and religious re.
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