The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-09-21

your political school in Massachusetts,, tc
say nothing of your respect for the au
thority Of the African princes, or youl
faith in the Koran, will probably impe
you to stand up in favor of the "idedS'
which you have learned from them
But think ! can maintain the Christian
law of liberty in opposition to all YOU
Mussulman notions; for God is great
and Mahomet is mol His prophet.
1t would be very unjust to deny that
great many men, from the earliest perioC
of our history, were sincerely opposed tC
African slavery, from motives of re
ligion, benevolence and humanity, This
sentiment was strong in the South
as well as in the North, and by
none was it expressed with more fer
vor than by Jefferson himself, thu
great apostle of Democracy. But this
concession can hardly be made to the po
litical abolitionists. AS an almost uni
versal rule, the leaders of that sect were
ribald infdels, and their conventicles
teemed with the most shocking bias
phemy. They we're, by their own
avowals, the most cruel barbarians o
any age. Servile insurrection and a gen
era butchery of the Southern people was
a part of their programme from the be-
ginning. The leaders to whom they gave
their highest admiration were the men
whose feet were the swiftest in runnir g
to shed innocent blood. Seward won
their affections in his early manhood by
proposing measures from which civil wal
would be sure to come, and in which he
promised that negroes should be incited
to rise in blackest insurrection," They
applauded John Brown to the echo for a
series of the basest murders on record.
They did not conceal their hostility to
the Federal and State governments, nor
deny their enmity to all laws which pro-
tect the liberties of white men. The Con-
stitution stood in their way, and they
cursed it bitterly the Bible was quoted
against them, and they reviled God AL
mighty himsel. know that the mind
of man, like his body, is fearfully and
wonderfully made; l understand ali the
difficulty of analyzing human passions,
and l admit that we should not Judge
harshly of n'otives; but how these heart
less oppressors of their own race could
have any care for the freedom ofthe negro
passes my comprehension. Unless yon
can explain it otherwise, the judgment
of history must inevitably be against the
sincerity oftheir anti-slayery professions.
In the present aspect Of the case, II seems
impossible to believe that love of negro
was not assumed as a mere excuse for en-
Shaving the white race, just as their an
cestors put on the pre,ence of piety to
crafty their appetite for the property and
blood of better people than themselves.
You must positively reconsider this sub
ject before you undertake again to pre-
sent the Aboltionists to the world in the
respectable character of fanatics, | think
yon will find that the crew of the May
flower brought over and planted no
germ of an idea" which has fourisheo
with more vigor than their
CANTING HYPOCRISY.
Here let me say again that the vices
and Wickedness of the Plymouth COLO
mss are not to be visited on the heads
Of their children, according to the flesh.
Among them, in every part Of the coun-
rv, are great statesmen, brave soldiers,
rue servants of the Church, and virtu-
rus, patriotic Democrats, who are no
more responsible for the crimes Of their
than a peaceful SCotchman is
or the raids and robberies which in past
were committed by his clan
lpon the English border But you ac-
that you get your political
IDEAS from them-you boast that your
,arty has no doctrine of public law and
notions of public duty which were not
planted at Plymouth, Therefore is not
,nly proper but necessary to show what
hose doctrines and ideas were.
pass now to later period. You say
hat there were two radically different
heOries about the nature of our govern
nent: "The North believing and hold
ng that we we're a nation; the South in
listing that we were onlya confederation
fsovereign States" 1t is not true that
ny such theoretical conflict ever existed |
etween the sections. That the Articles
f Confederation first anG the Constitu-
IN afterwards, united the States togeth-
r for certain purposes therein enumer-
ted, and thus mace us nltion among |
atiOns, was never denied that | know
f by any party. But this national char
cter was given to the general govern
lent by sovereign States who Confeder-
ted together fpr that purpose. They be-
towed certain powers on the new polit-
,al corporation then created, and called
the United States Of America, and they
expressly reserved to themselves all the
overeign rights not granted in the char
or. Democratic statesmen had no theo-
y about it. They saw their duty written
own in the fundamental law, they swore
} perform it and they kept their Oaths
hey executed the powers of the general
Dvernment in their whole constitution
vigor, for that, as Mr.. Jefferson said,
'as the sheet anchor of our peace at
ONE and our safety abroad" and they
lrefully guarded the rights of the States
S the only security We could have for
ist administration of our domes ic af-
,irs. Ibis was universally assented to
S right and true. No counter theory
,as set up. Difference of construction
mere might be, but all admitted that
then the line OF power was accurately
rawn between the Federal government
nd State sovereignty, the rights on one
de were as sacred as those on the other.
ut within two or three years last past
he low demagogues of your party have
ot to putting in their platform the asser-
on that this is a nation and not con-
,deration. What do they mean? What
o you mean when you endorse and re-
roduce it2 Do you deny that the States
ere sovereign before they united2 Do
OIL affirm that their sovereignty was
holly merged in the Federal govern
lent when they assented to the Consti-
ltionP Is the tenth amendment mere
eluslonP Do you mean to assert that
le States have not now, and never had,
ny right at all except what are conceded
, them by the mercy of he nation ?"
% doubt this new article was inserted
/ the creed of the Abolitionists, because
,ey supposed it would give sort of
lausibiity to their violent intervention
ith the internal affairs of the States.
ut it is so false, so shallow and so des-
tute of all respectable authority that it