The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-19

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That spiritwhic God has embossed from
the loathSome brothels of Tartarus to be-
! come the evil Genius of men, That foul
spirit. like the Demon that met Gabriel dis
guised as an Angel of light has come upon
| the earth. and he sits upon the crest of the
wave. aOd rides upon the wings of the wind.
and he is the Stirrer of the Storm and the
Sewer OF the seeds of discord. That spirit
which has filed the world with strife and
envy, and under the mistaken idea Of zeal
has scourged the earth with the fury of is
own fanaticism-that spirit which, in the
/ pS me of religion. has desecrated her affairs
/ and burned her Priests.-in the name of lib
erty has laid the torch and axe TO the foun-
dations Of her temples. and in the name of
/ reform has strewn far and vide desolation,
and written its history in tears and blood
/ All my countrymen. this ruthless invader
of sacred sanctums and of the peoples hap
! piness, has long since swept over the waters
of the Atlantic, and is now coming like
dark shadow floating before the face of the
/ heavens, from New England's r0ck-bound
/ coast, even to the yelling of the lone star of
| Texas. Lit is this spirit that will not let
4 Protestants see Catholics only as spreading
| dark pail of gloom and terror, of moral
disease and death over the earth, and that
/ will not let Catholics behold the beauties of
/ the glorious religion of Christ.
1t is this spirit that makes Democrats of
that number who, "haVing eyes see not, and
/ having ears hear not any thing good from
| the Wing party, and which would not let
! Wing listen to the voice of an Angel if he
| belonged to Democracy; and which renders
Radicalism deaf TO any thing proceeding
! from either party reasonable or unreaSona-
/ bic, liberal or illiberai. Nay, further-paf
tiZan feelings have gone so far in giving pas
sion the ascendency over reason. in blasting
1 Judgment and distorting truth, that the one
section finds but denominations, not only in
/ the politics. but even IN each others society.
religion and private life. And yet we are
/ linked together in a common union,-a union
once beloved and Venerated by every Patriot
and whose hOZannas "m4de the welI<in
ring" from North to South, from Ocean to
| Ocean and a common flag, once hailed as
them emblem of the Free, still floats from
every hill top and tower from the Big Lakes
/ to the Gulf.
Weare still children of a common herit-
! age-descendants of a common lineage; the
cOmmingled blood of both sections flows
| freely in our veins, from the bleak cliffs of
the far North, to the sunny plains of the
extreme South, and though the fire and
sword have made yawning ehasm wide
and deep between us,-a chasm into which
I the Angels look down and weep-yet the
great pulse of this nation is not dead.
There are American feelings that still
throb in unison in the great hearts of good
men, both North and South.
We must come, then. my countrynen, to
this chasm, and bury in it, in common with
Americans, all embittered feelings. all Sec
tional animOsities, all party prejudices. and
tolerance, and we must strike hands tOgeth-
er across the dark and dismal chasm, and,
like the Pibroch of McGregor, in the Low
lands of Scotland, we must call upon the
sons of liberty to rally to the cause of free
dom: call upon them. in the name of Aneri-
call upon them, without regard to
section, party creed, or distinction, Invoke
them in the spirit of the constitution of our
Fathers.-invoke them in the great spirit of
Republicanism. invoke them in the name of
Christianity itself, to come TO the cause of
suffering humanity, to come las thousand
hearts that beat as one, TO clear away the
widow weeds of our desolate country, to
come and lift again the wreck of our fallen,
though glorious nationality. ere the last lin
gering rays OF light that shine to represent
epublcanism, shall be quenched in the
eternal night of anarchy.
Do | say we of the South have had no
wrong? Have had no cause to feel?
Nay! duties TO the gallant deaf would for
bid it. voice from the cliffs of keDne-
saw Mountains would forbid it-where rests
the bones OF my own glorious brother,
whose young lite went out in the wild night
of battle beneath the Southern cross; aye,
God and truth would forbid it. But we APP
pealed to arms to redress these wrongs, and
Heaven and Earth have witnessed the
grandest struggle in the annals of Nations.
But when the last echo of the booming can
non and the clashing steel died away upon
the distant fields of carnage, aud that glo-
rious flag that had waved triumphantly Ter
many CORY battlefield was furled in sad
neSS-it was furled forever. We loved our
cause. but iI is lost; we have buried it like
the memories of the loved and losC,-not in
oblivion, but beneath the lengthening shad
uws down deep in our inner hearts. We
come not then to stir your hearts TO D1utiny,
nor to fan the flames of sectional discord.-
But we come, not as the despairing Hebrews,
to hang our harpS upon the mournful will
low, and weep beside the streams of our ma
tive country. Nay, sirs, There's life IN the
old land yet "
King David. when he had poured. forth
the agonies of his heart I'm the resistless
eloquence of woe for his fallen AbSalom,
put of the sack-cloth and habiliments OF
mourning, ceased his grief and pressed on
ward with the mighty Joab. 80 we must
put aside the past with all its gloom and sor-
row and grid up ourselves for the eUer-tirtH9
present !-"Heart within and God o'erhead."
We must stir up a spirit Of enterprise among
our people. Why, sirs, the South the Edo
RADIO of Gods Universe, Is centuries behind
the times. her people are a class of 2OOr-rich
men. We have wealth, and no convenien-
ccs, labor, and no advantages; production,
and no markets. We have no idea OF order
ami sytematic business. Why, sirs, you
could not get an Englishman, or Yankee to
venture one nickel unless backed by cor
poratiou. Their whole financial world is
one matted system of corporate bodies. of
combinations. and systematic associations.
We have. even yet. no practical idea OF
economy and comfort. We know nothing of
the use of natural agents. We enjoy no in
ternal Improvements. Look around you,
the Clothes you wear, the machines you use,
the furniture of your house. and the imple-
ments of your agriculture, are all stamped
from New York or Boston or some city be-
yond Southern borders-not single monu-
ment stands before you concentrating the
inventive genius of the Southern mind. Our
fathers taught IN TO cultivate cotton. and we
cententedly plod in their footsteps, regard
less of the financial and political indepe1-
dence we lose by it. We must lay aside
this financial stupidity.
Labor and capital must be directed in new
and varied enterprises. The physical re-
sources of this grand country must be de-
veloped. and Railroads, Canals. STEAMBOATS,
and Telegraphs must go on bringing into
acquaintance every portion OF our people,
and creating community OF interest which
shall push on that goo tendency TO URifcd-
tfoh which is row dawning upon the world
in all departments of life!
We, too, must adopt basis upon which to
reorganiZe society m this country. When
manners and taste in degenerate Greece rev.
elled in the brutal delights of the Olympic
Games. the hero IN the fetes Of physical per
Torrance was the luminary of the parlOr and
the champion of the social circle. In q e
days of the veteran Lycurgus- when Sparta
had taught her sons no nObler virtue than
yalor-no higher incentive than warfare, thef
achievements of the valiant were the crown
ing glory of the age. Once England recogni-
zed the Blue Stockings as the leaders of
her society-that contemplate pedantry-
that burlesque upon solid attachments which
has left an understandable prejudice against
Female Education. Come to America-New
England expatriates from her social circle
all who fail to come up TO her ParHdHacGt
ideas and religious dOgmGs. Come still nearer
home-to the South and with shame we con-
fess 1.-THE drawing room and the parlor,
the social circle and the places of prefer
ment were open alone TO the soedIthy. The
number of slaves and the bales OF cotton.