The south-western., 1870-10-12

A Coon CAMPAIGN DocUMEET.-We have not seen
campaisn document which is better suited to the ca
pacity of understanding Of the freedmen than the fol
lowing extract from speech delivered in the House
of Representatives by the Hon s. 5. Marshall, % Hi
nois which is republished and ably commented upon
nv the New Orleans Times What the speaker says OF
the West applies with equal if not greater force TO the
entire South, and from the truth and runous effects
of which the freedmen themselves cannot escape:
The farmer starting to his work has shoe put on
his horse with nails taxed 67 per cent, driven by
hammer taxed "a per cent; cuts stick with kniIe
taxed 80 per cent; bitches Bis horse to pow taxed
80 per cent with chains taxed 81 per cent lie returns
to his home at night and lays his wearied limbs on
sheet taxed IS per cent, and covers himself Win
blanket that has paid $50 per cent. de rises IN the
morning. puts on bis humble flannel shirt taxed ~
per cent his taxed so per cent, shoes taxed 80
per cent, and hat taxed 70 per cent; opens family
worship by chapter from bis Bible taxed % per cent,
and kneels to his God on an humble carpet taxed $50
per cent He sits down to his humble meal from
plate taxed 40 cent, with knife and fork 80 per
cent drinks bis cup of coffee taxed At per cent, or
tea rs per cent with sugar 70 per cent seasons DIS oou
with salt taxed 100 per cent pepper 297 per cent or
sDice 379 per cent. He looks around upon his wife
and children all taxed in the same way takes chew
of tobacco taxed 100 per cent or lights cigar taxed
l2O per cent and thanks his stars that be lives IN the
reest and best Government under heaven. II on the
Fourth of July he wants to have sarsPangIed ban
ner on real bunting he must pay the American Bunting
Company of Massachusetts 100 per cent for this gto
rous privilege. No wonder, sir, that the Western
farmer is struggling with poverty, and conscious OF
wrong somewhere, although lie knows not whence the
blow comes that is claiming him to life of endless
toll and reducing his wife and children to beggary
CONQUERED, BUT NOT CONVINCED. That gallant SOL
dier and true Southern gentleman, General Wade
Hampton, used the following language when dedicat-
ing the monument which rises above the dead OF the
Washington Light Infantry of Charleston:
noble cause upheld heroically by honor, courage
and patriotism, may die along with its supporters.
great truth dies, but eternal as the Godhead
from which it springs it lives forever amid all the
changes of dynases, the wreck of empires and the
death of nations 1t is totally false in fact as in logic
to assert that the sword does decide justly be-
tween right and wrong. With the sword the Goths
and Vandals drepchcd the fair fields of Italy with the
best blood of her sons 1t gave nearly half the world
to Mahomet 1t allowed the Turk to trample out the
civilization of Greece. Its keen edge has dismem- |
bered Poland 1t has left Hungary bleeding at the
feet of the oppressors, 1t has turned over Spain and
Portugal the tender mercies OF the SaTacen and on
This continent in day, directed by unscrupuous
power against the throas OF PROSTATE States reekng
with parricda blood, i. cnforces the laws which it
alone has made. Tell not, then, that the sword
can rightfully turn the scales of justice. 1t the
ponent of tyranny not the arbiter OF truhthe badge
Of the tyrant and the execuoner, not the symbol OF
Justice 1t is not at all inconsistent with these views
that we, as conquered people, should observe scrn.
pulously the dictated by the sword and accepted
by us. We do this and should do 1t, in perfect
good faith but we should claim and exercise the God
given right of freedom of opinion We acknowledge
that the cause for which these died is lost but
should be false to them false that cause, were we
to admit that they were because Of failure necessarily
wrong We believe that they right, and we
therefore honor and respect their memory.
We, comrades of the Washington Light Infantry
we who gave our all to the cause in which our
brothers ell-can entertain doubt to the place
which will be accorded them by history Stigmatized
now as rebels posterty, we hope and believe will give
to them the appropriate name of patriots