Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-03-13
ICoMMUNIcATED.1
The Centennial Celebration.

The centennial SeieDrosfOh.
A few years ago the mighty mind and
wealth of the South ruled this nation
Her wise and wholesome policy stamped
every feature of the government, and the
influence Of her giant intellect was felt
through every fiber and nerve of the body
polite. These We're the halcyon days OF
the Republic. From the adoption of the
Constitution for space of more than sew
ty years, she directed the policy, establish
ed the power and wealth, and advanced
the prosperity OF the nation to an extent
unprecedented in the history of political
governments. Its enthronement in the
hearts of the people, and its honor and
fame abroad were alike the offspring of
her fostering care. So entirely did she
control the policy of the government, and
SO completely were the statesmen and poll
ticians of the North and West under the
influence of her mastery minds, that in de-
rision the Representatives from the North
and West were STYLED dough faces"-a
term indicative of the facility with which
impressions could be made upon them by
Southern statesmen. But how sadly have
we changed! The power has departed
from Juda and lawgiver from Israel
The North, increasing in population from
from the hive, and unable to feed or con-
troll so vast hoard of the lowest species
of humanity, overrun the Southern States,
plundering whatever could be removed
and destroying the rest; and, having uncon
stitutional possession of the whole govern
ment, changed its form and constitution
thus overpowering and overcoming the le
ultimate authority of mind by numerical
force, or, more properly speaking, brute
force. Having accomplished the ruin of
one half of the country to build up the
other half, and so changed the laws and
constitution as to make them subseryient
to their ends they are not satisfied to rest
in contented enjoyment of their ill-gotten
power and wealth, but in their inglorious
effort to continue in possession of it, they
will sacrifice, as they have already done,
every right and franchise of a free people.
and even demolish in one heap OF utter
ruin, that government and those institu-
lions, of which they profess with blatant,
loud-mouthed boastings to be the only and
peculiar guardians.
Witness their treatment of the down
trodden Southern States. given up to the
mercies of hoard of Yankee imbeciles
and Southern corn field negroes. Insulted,
robbed, trampled on; all their sacred in
stitutions swept away, and even their
household gods dishonored and divided
amongst the thieves, and their very grave
yards sold to swell the wealth and power
of these inhuman butchers of unprotected
innocence. And all this under the eye of
the Government-aye authorized, sustained
and ordered by the Governments Gov
eminent that now calls upon the Southern
people to contribute largely of their pow
erty, and to repair in persen to North
ern city, there to join in the Yankee chorus
that is to swell the already bursting pride
of Grant and his host of worshipers, who
are sucking the life blood of the nation.
If the Northern people see anything in
their management of the affairs of the
country, Tor the past fourteen years, to call
forth hallelujahs of praise let them cele
brate in their own blind fanatical way.
But, for God sake, let then. not be found a
worshiper in the ruined temples of the
South to insult tho GpiTits- sf-ti,- rightly
dead, by gloritying the Juggernaut that
brushes to atoms their torn and bleeding
liberties! We know that the senseless cry
of ''disloyalty' will be raised against those
who refuse to join in this base adulation
of everything that is foul, unnatural and
unjust, and we believe there are even in
the South a few who, through personal in
terest, will join in the drunken revei. But
we hope that no man who holds his honor
dear, cherishes the memory of the depart
ed, or looks back with mingled pride and
regret to the halcyon days of the Repub-
lie, will help to swell the crowd that wor-
ships at the throne of tyranny and oppres-
sion, or consent to the abstraction of a
single dollar from his pocket or the treas
ury of the State, to aid the fanatic boards
in shouting praises to their own pertidy
and disgrace in the ears of an insulted and
indignant world More anon SOUTH.