The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1875-12-01

States, make the Federal Government! 10
Ebs surs they did; for can thing non-ex-
istent create anything. Any other view
Ired1tctio ad absardum.
| But really these diagrams are too numer-
Gus to be discussed. They would not leave
space on which to convince DR.. Hall that We
have at least small quantity Of political lit
efature. We grant that Hamilton wrote the
greater part of the '' Federalist " but New
York borrowed him from the wewee island OF
Nevis in the West Indies. Jay wrote three
or four numbers, but he was bird borrowed
from the Huguenots. But Madison, the
third writer, was indigenous to Southern
soil. New York is rather fond Of asking
loans. She borrowed Bryant from the Bay
State, and kept him ever since the embargo
times. Maine made her loan of Willis
She borrowed Audubon from Kentucky; but
she lent Irving to general brood, till ne
made money enough to build his kiosk on the
Hudson. And now they dub him Shakes,
! peare Did our estimsbls brothef.of Fifth
Avenue Kirk ever read the debates of the
Williamsburg Convention which sat on the
Federal Constitution. If not we can assure
him that no such pass at arms ever took
place in the House of Commons, the cham
Der of Deputies, or German Diet with Bis
mark to lead the way. Then Grayson rea-
soned, Mason expossulated, Henry thunder
ed, Pendleton, Marshall, Madison replied;
and last, but not least, Washington filed the
presiding chair. And all the predictions of
the Constitutional opponents have come to
pass in recent events. How true must have
been their vision for
"Coming events cast their shadows before"
We direct DR.. Halls attention to the vol
luminous writings of Washington, both politi-
cal and agricultural-to the four or FIVE vol
umes of Jtfferson, and as many from the pen
of that great statesman, John G. Calhoun,
che dialogues of Stephens on the Rights Of
the States, the Life of Madison by Senator
Rives, and fuckers Memoirs of Elk Presi-
dent Jefferson, the congressional speeches of
Henry Clay, the letters of Thompson to
Chief Justice on the Alien Law. The last
mentioned work is written with more ardor
than argument; for we see evidence every
day that the Alien was one of the wisest laws
ever made. We are aware Of the many fine
citizens we have obtained from foreign lands.
We have been in their homes, and have en-
jOyed the hospitality of English, Scotch, and
Irish gentlemen. But what have we seen in
the late causeless war but foreigners tramp
ling down the South. We have seen men
bearing the sacred official character dispatch
ed to collect invading armies on the high
seas. We behold fugitive Jesuits, who are
scorned By the countries from which they
have been banished, crOwding into our cities
and laying plots for the destruction of our
liberties, that POpes may rule US as they
have ruled other people. Many suppose
that the followers of Ignatius Loyola had
no agency in bringing on the late melan-
choly war in which million of lives were
offered up on the altar of Mars, Pagan
Deity. PandOra's box was opened on the
South. We may be asked to prove our as
sertions. But how can we prove what may
take place 10 the lonely cave of MaCpslah, or
in the deep cells of Bastilles and Inquisi-
tious. The Jesuits expect to get our colored
people, but they will talk to those priests in
very brusque way. Let them try it if they
dare. 1t is likely that some of the priests
may be converted by the instrumentslity of
the Ebonies. Some time ago priest in my
Immediate neighborhOOd invited an Ebony to
Join the Pspists. "Why MASTER" he re-
Piled, SPOUSE never been under de water,
and widout dat your own chances is blue"
His reverence SHE'D off, and went to Pres
byterian lady, and found her reading D'Au-
bigne's History of the Reformation
1t may be that DR.. Hall alluded to that
literature generally called Polite. We have
small quantity of this kind also, which We
will bring into view. 1t is admitted that
many Southern scholars are teaching in
schools, academies, and colleges. They are
obliged of course to cultivate science rather
than literature. We have no Augustus
Cse ar to give back his lands to Virgil, or
entertain Horace at his table. We have not
at present the most literary of our Presi-
dents. We lost good many Of our spoons,
ambrotypes, books, charts, and divers other
things in the war. We hope none of our
Cashmere shswls may appear at the grand
Centennial for fear of the hundred eyes Of
Argus. We have no time to loll on our
couches, and invoke the MUSES., as some of
the Northern BARNS did who sent Danes and
Germans to fight out their battles From
immemorisl time poetry has been thriftlesa
art, and yet one of our bards, and he law
yer, wrote the Star Spangled Banner. This
has been very popular ode with all who are
fond of calling COnfederacy of States with
reserved rights, a Nation. Among our poets
we may name Semmss, Thompson, Hsyne,
Carter, Wielde, Barron, Preston, Mari, Poe,
Prentice, and the unknown Virginia lady
who in the hymn line, bore off the palm from
so many competitors. Many Of our ladies
figured in Whites Southern Literary Mes
.an.ar Pnssihlu Mrn Dana and Mrs Wei