The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-01-01


differently. They ought to have know
t, that the negro was at least their equal,
not superior. They were besotted not t
see that Northern abolitionists were tn
''wlse>t, virtuousest, discreetest, best O
human beings, whose tender hearts wer
always overlooking with pure benevolence
who wished to control the local gov
ernments and domestic business 0
the South, not for their own profit O.
pleasure, but solely in the interest of Coz
and morality. Ifthey had seen things, a
you see them, in this true light, the
would have surrendered their right
Of self government upon the first sum
mons. But they could not so understand
the business. 1t was with them simply
non possumus. The faith Of people de
/ Ivered and kept from generation to gen
Grafton for thousands of years cannot b,
changed in moment. Independence
bravely won and long established, is no
often given up without struggle. Burke
speaking OF these same communities
warned the British Parliament that slave
| holders were, bv their very habits of mas
! terdom, made more vigilant, Jealous, ano
/ hardy than other men In the defence o.
thei.t pwn liberties. Everything was unpro
/ p'tlous to the spread of your doctrines
among them. There was not population
10 appreciate the duty of passive submis
| sion. You must not judge them by your
self, or apply 10 them the lofty standard
Of your own conscience. You contem-
plated things from different point OF
view, and had means denied them of I'M
derstanding their religious and political
wants. Egen vet they cannot see as you
40 the infinite blessing they en- JOY in be-
ing subjected and AFFECTED to Yankee
rule
1t has been ever thus A sinful people
can never appreciate the holiness OF the
strangers who kill aud rob them for their
good. Philip Ii. and the Duke of Alva
determined 10 lay the Low Countries
waste, and extinguish the heresies of the
people in their own blood. This was to
save their souls The King expressed
the object in his tersest Latin: "laloreg-
31tna uastatum guam domjndtltm. But the
Dutch "reIucfed'' at this mode of saliva
tion as much as Clay and Calhoun, and
| the whole population ''in moment OF
resentment determined TO die in the last
ditch" The righteous souls of the En-
glib Purtans we're yexed from day to day
that Catholicism should exist in Ireland.
1t was "a relic of barbarism;" it Was a
'biighting curse" there was an lire
pressible conflict" between it and the
great truths which Puritanism had adopt
ed. So the Puritans, impelled like you
by disinteresied zeal in great cause, and
not at ali by avarice or hatred, plumber
ed the Irish, killed them by thousands,
took possession Of their churches, Danish
Ell their native leaders, and set up gov
eminent OF strangers to tax, 1.-THE, conf
scate, an impoversh them. The lr 81
resisted this, fought it for centuries, and
to this day they cannot understand the
purity Of the Puritans.
admit that passions like these-so In
eradicable and SO deeply seated III the
nature OF man-shouId not be wantonly
provoked. Certainly the magistrate or
senator who bases his public policy on a
Characterization" OF them is not fit to
bear the rule Of any country. The mis-
calculation of your statesman was SO gross
and palpable that it excites our special
wonder now amy man OF common under
standing could have made it. The wan
ton violation under any circumstances of a
compact 50 sacred as I'll CluDoOiGu III
the Federal Constitution was alone sutfi
cient to produce some feeling. To violate
it for the purpose Of breaking up import
ant domestic relations in fifteen States,
against the will Of the States themselves
and Of all their people, was most aggra-
waiting outrage But to follow this with
"A declaration that it would be enforced by
negro massacre, melted and led by the
authorities of the government which the
victims themselves had built up to protect
them, was calculated to make the coolest
blood boil over. You yourself tell US
that the neighborhood of Auburn was
intensely and not unnaturally excited"
by the act Ola single negro in the murder
OF single f,mily. What then, must
nave been the natural Indignation Of
Southern communities when they heard
themselves threatened with general
slaughter? Yet Mr. Seward, in counting
the consequences of his measures, left ali
these passions out Of his calculation. 1t is
h;trl 10 conceive how the dishonesty Of
breaking a political trust could be coup
led with folly more extreme.