The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1870-04-29
A STRIKING PAPER.

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J.. material body of man conforms to the
spiritual one, and the imperfcctions of
the interior is shown by those of the cx-
! ternal form. He applies this apparently
whimsical notion to the present state of
affairs, and instances Stanton, Lincoln,
Sumner, Thad Stevens, Butler and
others, who have controlled public af-
fairs, and who were more or less physi-
cally malformed, in evidence. Among
other things he says:
The country was then, and although
now somewhat modified in its madness,
still is, under distcmper. This distem-
per-a mental epidemic-we call inner
sion, although, probably, the word per-
vcrSiOn might do as well. 1t is the result
of fermentation Of the public mind-a
condition, independent of its madness
in which plain, honest nature is resisted
and beaten down by inverted thought
When it prevails, monstrosity, which is
inverted, or perverted nature, harmon
ICES with the public mind, and, as con-
sequence, where that mind is in domin-
ion, the most monstrous are lifted to the
honest positions in the State. Like seeks
its like and admires its kind conse-
quently inverted nature sees harmony
in like inversion and monstrosity seeks
monstrosity TO represent it. These laws
applied to the political supremacy of the
last decade of years, will unfold the mys
terics of events, which have, within that
period of time, lifted monsters to power
and converted our once happy republic
into wilderness of hungry and spiteful
wolves.
Causes may be immediate or they may
be remote. "When we began to i've"
says the poet, eve begin to die" So,
too, may it be with nations. So has it
been with that union of hand in hand,
which once united the American States.
The very ink that proclaimed it con-
stitutional compact, contained the smoul-
dcring cmbcrs of that fire which has
since broken forth with volcanic fury and
destroyed it, and substituted for its pleas
ing embraces, that chain, controlled by
inverted thought, that now holds un-
willing communities within its iron coils
The Puritams, or Roundhcads, of our
New England Statcs-a demented stock
of the days Of Charles turned their
arms against the government of our
fathers, as soon az it was formed. They
had, it is true, probably from the force
of Disconnected natures, borne an active
part in resisting the aggressions of George
H., and when the conflict grew heated,
Joined their neighbors in declaring
} These colonies free and independent
States" But 10 sooner was the work
ofrcvolution ended, and the new govern
ment moulded into form, than this dis
contcnted element began to show signs
of regret. The Cavalier mind of the
Old Dominion had led off in the new
construction, and formed a government
too liberal for Purtanic desires. Massa-
chusetts almost instantly rebelled. She
liked neither Virginian libcrality, nor
: the great Nirginian chief. She had
sought to superscdc him in the midst of
the war, and now, when conditions grew
still more distasteful, she flew to the field,
where she was subducd by federal arms.
She was forced to subsection. But her
spite, never dying element of the pu-
ritanic mind, never was drowned out
1t continued. 1t called forth the Hart
ford Convention to aid England against
America in the war of 1912. 1t lit the
blue lights on American shores to show
England mariners where to land. 1t
brought forth the abolition fire from our
enemies abroad, and here famed it into
a continental flame for the very purpose
of dividing, breaking and destroying a
government which it pretended to adj
miro and support.
Old England never lost her hold on the
righteous division of the New England
: mind. The name alone was dear, as
: were many traditions and governmental
rules. Among the latter, Eugland's law
: crushed one sect of rcligionists, while 1t
= upheld another. This the new govern
t ment refused to adopt, and in the dlsPo-
sition of rights left all sects and sccta-
= rians to stand or fall on the same level
= When the witch, burners flor natures
descend from sire to sony saw this change
= and with it the crushed man rise up and
: confront him face 10 face, though pretcn'
: ding equality, for he is always Preten-
e der, he lapsed into chronic discomfort
5 and so continued from that day forward
= until loyal armies AS we are now taught
d to call them-re-established the Tory
power in the nation.
y All gloomy sccts spring from demon
d tation. They are produced by magnet
= cal processes, in which demons play a:
h important parts as do the external oil
visible actions. Let no man, then, be
!, deceived with prayers and shouts and