The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1869-08-09
LETTERS FROM suLloTni
Tho Issues Of To-day-Democrnoy vs.:
Radicalism-Laborys, Monopoly.
OAKLAND, MARYLAND, I
August 0, 1860. I

may DO, exhausted all | had to write in
my two first letters. This resumption of
my correspondence, will trust. di.pcl
all such thoughts, In my last, | warned
yon Of the fast growing tendency Of
very strong and well organized party to
"lmperalism," and though many wise
men laugh Mt the idea, not one has the
aulscity to deny TIA, the machine called
government at presents thomost central
ICED and and dcspoIic one on the face of the
earth, Heretofore We looked on tho Con-
stitation asun instrument for the protection
Of the minority, aud the idea was quite
prevalent that the majority was the nation
--iufallihly right in all things. Every.
thing was at its mercy, and tho power it
claimed as an inherent right, was arbi-
trary and despotic. Liberty was only for
the governing masses-for all else are
empty name. We hive pushed individu-
al liberty too far, and drunk and bcsofted
by the almost llimitable power we claimed,
We lost our strength like Sampson. in an
hour Of fapcied security. Our glory, for
a time, is gone, our liberty destroyed, our
appeals spurned. The Constitution is lost
and popular majorities ana minorites alike
arc butserfs to the ruling oligarchy, our
madness and our ignorance created a
dcspotic usurper rules without character.
education or responsibility, playing the
game Of the LIST Napoleon occasionally.
destroying the sovereignty of States and
robbing the people Of their liberties and
their rights. With the negro enfranchised>
on the Atlantic shores, and the Chinese
Coolic on the Pacific, the divided white
vote will soon be powcrless, and this mind
you, was the philaniropic object of tie
hyppocritical knaves who have so far sue.
ceedcd in destroying the country. Senator
Spraguc,at Memphis, warned the working
classes Of the tendencies OF the day to In
pcrialism, Alex. II. Stephens says
nothing can prevent the establishment,
Of Imperialism but a determined effort
on the part Of the people y and on this
poin. alone hinges all our future political
hopes. The people must organize every.
where, and be sure to keep their eyes
protected from the gold dust scattered in
serious moments by the Treasury De.
partmcnt.
It's amusing to read in the radical
papers glowing accounts Of Southern
prosperity, while those who have recently
visited places so described, could see
nothing Justify such rafiianly exagger-
atoms. Mark the following from the re.
port Of tile British Consul in Georgia.
"When the negro was made free. Gcor-
gia lost her agricultural population al
most entirely. However abhorent
slavery is, and averse to the feelings Of
every Englishman. (?O Sill Georgia bad
no other dependence that knocked from
under her feet, she lies PROSTATE. The
freedman suddenly released from his
bonds, entirely untitled for feedom looks
upon its definition us exemption from Ia.
Dor. lie in fac, works to revel in all
tho licentiousness Of his present freedom,
aud enjoy at the same time all the nd.
van,ages attached to his former state Of
slavery. The negro race is tlriftle.s aud
iacorrigibly lazy, as they arc not now
compelled to work, cannot be depended
on for steady labor. For the most part
useless to the community 10 which they
live. as well as to themselves, their race
in all probability will gradually become
extinct And those negroes arc now the
mastcrs Of ten sovereign States, elevated
By military force above the race that in
those very States, for more than three
quarters Of Il century. made wise laws for
the people, and threw around the free in
s,itntions Of the country, n wisdom, an
intelligence and hernism, that would have
been honornbly appreciated in their
proudest days by Greece and Rome.
Late events in Europe show That re-
publicuh form Of government will not be
tolerated on that continent, other than
those little nominal ones existing BY tue
mere force Of the hlonarchial jealousies
Our "Sir Lucios O"rriggcr'' and bis
government are not just now disposed to
pick up u quarrel with the Mother Coun-
try. (lleaven keep US, what country do
they suppose is tie Mother Country Of ten
millions Of Irish by blood aud birth y
Mr.. Mo.cly's instructions are quite courtly
and accommodating, for it may be, a
magnsnimous compromise will be made
by the Gineral, for the mere consideration
offccognition as Emperor. jesse will cs.
tablsl the fact Of tho royalty Of Ulysses,
by some prO-Adamits highland King of
the name. This all sounds strange. but
within tue past few years, stranger thugs
have occurred, States have been robbed Of
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