The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-25

v Sunday Morning, July S5, 1859.

Amendment is in fact, its essential ma
tture and the necessities I wrapped up in
1t they would rise up en- masse, march to
Washingt arrest its authors, and hang
them without -hesitation-indeed that
s.wonld hs, q mild punishment. for, q crime
against nature and an outrage on Thu.
manity.sso dnapproached and unap-
proachable. But, alasl the people have
nothing bpt their instincts to guide
them in this matter, and the ignorant
and benighted fools who profess to lead
them in the paths of Democracy, ARE not
sloHe equally ignorant with the masses
but they are too often debauched and
emasculated by the enemies of Demo
crncy: and. therefore it is not merely the
blind leading the blind, but the corrupt
and perverted mislesding the virtuous
and instinctively patriotic Democracy.
Indeeds If, twenty years ago, when Gen.
Csss Invented popular sovereignty, there
had been q secret understanding between
him and 10Th Of Democratic leaders With
the Siaiefa OF the Abolition faction to
keep the masses in total ignoranceo of the
nhturs and designs of the latter, in Or.
der thus to confuse and bewilder the
People, and enable the enemies of De.
9nlocratic institutions to destroy them on
this continent. it may be doubted il the
result could have been more fatal than
SiaEt which wenow witness. For twenty
years past the tools of European mo-
narefiy have been at work to misrepre-
sent American society as it existed in the
South, and in all the States, save one,
when the Union was formed, and instead
of defending and explaining our Ameri-
can system from the lies and peryer-
sions OF therAbolitionists, the so-called
Democratic leaders have tacitly admit
ted their accursed lies and set up lodges
to. .amnse, and bewilder the people. Who
does not reoellect the elaborate stump
speeches and editorials of the Ben. But
lers, Dan. Diekinsons, Logans, Sickles-
es, &C., to demonstrate the great princi-
pie Of popular Fsovereignty in the Terri
tories, and now we witness the disgust
ing spectacle OF these men engaged for
years in beating down popular 80 vereign-
ty in the States themselves.
''The writer of this shall never forget
conversation with Jefferson Davis, then
Secretary of War, On this subject. He
had written and published pamphlet
which demonstrated the normal condi-
tion of the negro element in our system,
and, having just received letter from
Daniel 8. Dickerson, among others, as
senting to the great and vital truth that
so-called, or rather mis-called, slavery,
was the cornerstone of American liberty,
he thought of publishing it in subse-
quent edition, and went up to the Secre-
tary's Office to ask his opinion of its pro-
priety. To his great surprise, Mr.. Da-
Wis advised against publishing Mr. Dick
inson's letter, who, he declared, was
Sound on The slavery question, simply
because he had no principles ut all; and
he then. and there predicted that on the
first real test and trial on this question
Dickson, and all others like him, would
prove rotten and worthless. Mr.. Davis
further declared that he had infinitely
more respect for Preston King, John
Van Buren, and others, who, ignorant of
the subject, showed some conscience,
however perverted by the father of lies,
than he had for the morally dead, and
utterly rotten souls that clamored about
their soundness, and spread themselves
on popular sovereignty. And so it turned
out; Ben. Butler, Cushing, Dickinson,
Brady, the very Breckenridge leaders in
the North, were the first to give way, and
the shameless hounds became as violent
and persecnting against the Peace
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