Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-24
MAN THE SLAVE OF WILD BEASTS.

MAN THE SLAVE OF WILD BEAS rs.
Some six or seven years ago tse natives
of the peninsula OF Bengal were dlsarmed
by the government from fesr Of another in
surrection, and their msans of defence
against tigers, hyenss, wolves, and other
beasts of prey, being taken away, they be-
came to an incredible extent, the subjects
and saves Of these ferocious animals, which
kill and eat men, women and children at
their pleasure. Lord Ettrick has moved in
The House Of Lords to provide adequate pro-
lection against this shocking state of things
In the discussion we produced evidence
from Capt. Rogers, who had spent much
time to investigate the subject in lower
Bengal, that in three years 13,400 people
had been slain by Wild beasts in that part
OF the peninsula slone; and for the whole
peninsula The destruction was not less than
ten thousand year. Tigers have greatly
increased since The Inhabitants were dis.
armed. The conflict is too unequal when
man must fight with a club or nothing.
One tigress used as food for her whelps and
herself, the bodies of 127 persons before she
was killed. One male tiger, killed 81 one
year, 81 The next, and 43. the third year,
when he was finally shot. There is large
territory Of debatabls ground between
msn and beast, but perhaps a still
larger area. where men dare not
travel except in armed companies.
Here we see how one cruelty begets an
other. The East India despotism denied
the people Of the country their natural right
to keep fire arms, ant the wrong invited
ferocious hyenas, wolves aud tigers, to null
tiply their kind by killing and devouriDg
ten thousand human victims a year. Yet
millions regard Brit sh domination
as a paternal and excellent government.
Great wonder is sometimes expressed that
this paternd rule over Ireland nearly seven
hundred years has failed to please the Irish
people. The plain facts appear to be that
oppression produces dissatisfaction, and
dissatisfaction leads TO rebellion, alike in
Bengal, Ireland and Poland. It is absurd
to say that any people rebel against their
friends. They resist power when it
binds Burdens grievous to be borne.
The people of the South resisted the policy
of underground railroads. WbFP Because
it was declaration Of war against the fed
eral Constitution, and the section of the
United States most benefit ed hareby. The
doctrine of "bigher law than the Consti-
t ution," both meant war and produced war.
It was itself an unceasing rebellion against
the government as It then stood.
TIE Union was boldly denounced as "a
lie, and that ''the American Union is a
sham, an inpo sture, acovenant With death,
an agreement with HE'LL" and It was as
sumed by the higherlaw rebels that all the
States must be either slaveholdiug or nom
The object CT all this re-
proach cast upon the Constitution and the
old United States Government was to effect
q reUOlutiOn, and set up new govern
ment based, for the i,repdrdble injury of
one part Of the nation, on negro suffrage.
To make this injury as large and deepsas
possible, great pains have been taken by
the party in powerto educate the colored
race in the South into religious faith that
the white people of the old slaveholding |
States are their natural enemies and should |
not be trusted; aud tina; politicians from tie |
North are alone deserving of confidence,
and such Southern rs as join them. Out |
Of this combination, louisiana has received |
= sixty million dollars public debt.
We're any subjugated people ever loaded |
With higher prospective tax than this?
Who dsres say that an outside power which |
forces corrupt officers Of State upon a com =
paratively weak people is friendly govern
meni? As the New York Herald has well |
said, ''it teaches rebellion" for base party |
and sectional purpose. If the enormous
State debts of the South are ever paid, the
money hss to be dug out Of the soil, |
and mainly by half paid colored laborers.
IF you pay labor in the field full wsges, it
leaves no surplus for bond-holders, carpet
bag and seallawag politicians. How is it
possible for the labor of the South to pay
annual interest on two or three hundred |
million dollars, and at last pay the princi-
pal, and not suffer q loss equal to the whole |
Of this unjust debt? Both in practice and
principle, it is simpe robbery. Is
t in human nature for the robbed
o love and confde in the robber?
Have not the higher law rebels carried their
domination over the South about far
enough? In some districts wild beasts have
greatly since the decree went
forth that all the States must be slave terri.
DRY or all be free, and the end has not yet
come. Everything is in transition state,
With an unpromising future. Bismarck
wants the most enlightened nations to turn
atheists and worship "the State" With
he piety of Grant and salary stealing
Jongr SIS for ''the State,' what deity we
hould have in America