American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-03-09
Why We Dare Not Go To War
The Skeleton In Tie Closet.

The Elijah Programs are blowing
hard just at present on the question
of a possible war with England. 1t
would he a most unfortunate thug
for England, say these asses, to go
to war with America. "We could
lick her so bad," say they. sin three
months that she wouldn't know she
ever was q nation" While all this
talk is going OH, nobody seems to
bestOw single thought upon the
attitude of the SOutil-the Ireland,
the Poland, the Hungary of Am4ri-
ca. The precious set Of Radical
statesmen we have at Washington
have done this for us-thsy have
created and consolidated in ten
States of this Union II feeling of
hostility to the stars and stripes.
the type of our nationality. that will
never die while Radicalism rules.
So deep seated and bitter Is this,
that if England landed twenty
Thousand men tomorrow in the
neighborhood of Charleston, a hund-
red thousand Southern men would
rise again in ipsurrectiOn. 1t would
have the same effect rs # France, at
war with England, landed force
upon the shores of Ireland. Are we
quite sure we could lick England,
with the South pressing us at one
side and the Canadians at the other?
Yet, patent Ms this truth ia. here are
those Senatorial wiseacres at Wash
iDgton defeating "A qualified measure
of amnesty to the ''Southern rebels :"
Craftsmanship would have long
since remedied the fiightful state OF
affairs at the South. Had a Jeffer-
sonian Democrat been elected in '6S.
says the n. Y. Telegram, in place Of
the stick who now occupies the White
House, we should not be compelled
to express the fears to which we
have just given utterance. The
Union would now be Il true Union
in place of the sl'am it il. Think
of it for moment. Here was a So
called rebellion, which. intrinsicalIy,
had as much of right and justice in
it as our own war of Independence,
ami yet the canling spirit of Radi-
calism goes on forever prOcIaiIning
abont the magnanimity shown to
the Rebels, and hnnds over to some
thing worse than the gallOws these
people of the South, to be governed
by the very spawn of hell. Is it
natural they should love flag that
svmbolizes persecution! Is it natu-
raj they shouid fight for it? En-
throned in power in half dozen
Southern States are strangers from
the North, who in no civilized
country under heaven could escape
the penitentiary or the hangman.
Society there has been violently
| wrpnched from it's normal condition
The tree has been plucked up
from the roots, and the branches
and blossoms have been buried in
the ground. Ignorance, vice and
intamy flourish over virtue and in
telligence. Now we want this
people to love the pagnanimnus
government which has consigned to
living death the hest and priest Of
their kindred. The patience and
fortitude they have shown under
their humiliatiOns make the grand.
est chapter of human self control
history can produce. We can not
go to war with England while this
state of things exists. There is a
skeleton in the closet that reminds
us Of our weakness. The whole
South would rally to arms once more
if England lent her direct aid
Where is the difference? Might they
not just as well fry the terrible issue
of war as live and die under such an
infamous rule as that to which they
are at present subjected? Draw in
your horns, Jonathan. When your
household is at peace 1T will be time
enough to think of quarrel with
England.