The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-05
TIE RADICAL PARTY AND HTS
ORIGIN.

There is no such writer and certainly nc
more vigorous thinker in America than
Jere Black. He has written 8 letter to one
Garfield, now known as the late Rev Mr..
Garfield, sharp, shrewd party leader and
NJ. c. of Ohio. Mr.. Black says, and il is
capital Sunday resding:
Rnrity 70 the right OF private judgment
comes down 70 the party of plymouth ideas
by consistent and regular succession. It is
woven like n dirty. stripe into the whole
warp and woOt OF their history. As soou
az they got pos =ession of, the Federal gov
ernnent, un1er John Adams, they began to
use 1t rs an engine for the suppression of
free thought. Their alien law gave the
President power to Danish or imprison,
without trial, any foreigner whose opinions
might be obnoxious TO his supporters.
Their seditioD law put every Democrat c
speaker and writer under the heel of the
administration. Their standing army was
used, as IL now is, tn crush out their politi-
cal opponents. If you come into Eastern
Pennsyvania, and particularly into the
good county of B"rks, you will learn that
The people there still think With indigna-
uon of that old reign of terror when Fed
eral dragons kidnapped, lnsulted aud beat
their fathers, chopped down their ''hberty
poles" broke to pieces the press of the
Reading EiIgle and whipped its venerate I
editor In the market house. The same spirit
broke OuJ again in the burning of hummer
les and churches under Maria Monk, ana
under John Brown the whole country
swaImed with spies and kidnappers. When
you abandoned the harlot and rallied to the
stan lard of the thief, you changed your
leader vi. hont changing your principles.
The slave code planted IN Massachusetts
was the earliest in America and the most
cruel in all its provisions. 1t was pertinac-
iousiy adhered 10 for generations. and never
repented of, or formally repealed. 1t was
gradually abandoned, not because it was
wrong, but solely because it was found,
after long experiment, to be unproftaOle.
Their plan of keeping twenty negroes as
cheaply as one white servant did not work
well; for IN that climate a negro thus used
would infallibly die before his labor paid
what he cost. They sold their stock when
ever they could, but emancipation was for
hidden by law, unless the owner gave secu-
rity to maintain the slave and prevent him
from becoming public charge. To evade
this law, those who had old or intirm
negr )es encouraged them to bring suits for
their freedom, and then 10y sham demurrers,
or other collusiVe arrangements, got judg-
ments against themselves that the negroes
were free and always had been. Females
likely to increase the stock were advertised
to be sold ''for that fault alone" Young
ones,i because they were not worth raising,
given away like puppies of a sdperabundant
llUter. In this way domestic slavery by de-
grees got loose in practice, simply because
it would not psy-but the principle on.
which one man may own another whom he
subdues by superior strength or cunning
was Lever abandoned, repudiated or enied
That prlnci pie was cherished, preserved
and transmitted to you, their imita ions and
loving disciples, aud you have applied it
wherever you cCu d Us tyrannically rs they
dld. an .I...,.. ..-E.f. u.m.' 80 auI =
You say that ''war without an idea is
simply brutality" | submit to your judg
ment, as a ChrictIan man, whether war is
redeemed of its brutality by such ideas as
you and your political associates entertain
of its purposes, objects and consequences.
In all Your acts and measures, anu by all
your speeches and discus ssions, you express
the idea that the logic of blows proves ev-
erythlng you choose to- assert; that sue
cessful invasion of one people by another
has the tif@ct of destroying all natural
right to and all legal guarantees for, the
life, liberty and property of the people so
invaded aud conquered that after trial
6y battle lei s5ss Y9GSegF may snrer up and exc
adversary; that the crime which i w esiSs
community are guilty of when they at
tempt to defend their lives, their property
and their families against invaders who
come upon them to kill, destroy and NsubJl-
gate them is so unpardOnabe that the whole
body of the defenders taken collectively,
and all individuals who partake even pass
lively of the SIN, may justly he devoted to
death or such other punishment, by whole
sale or retail, as the strong power shalk
see proper to inf ct; that the cop9ueror,
after the war is over, may insist that the
helpless and unarmed people, whom be has
prostrared, shall assist him by not merely
0cceptiny, but adopting Il use your own
wOrd) the measures irt nded to degrade
and rob them, aud thus make himself mas
ter of their souls as well as their bodies.
All rights of men are resolved by this theo-
ry into the nHlghts of men,. .-'l..s .''
l aver that this doctrine, in all its length
and breadth, is false and pernicious. 1t is
the foundation on which all slavery rests,
and the excuse for all forms of tyranny. 1t
law, and has never been acknowledged by
wise or virtuous governments in any age
since the advent of Christ. YOU can find
no authority for it, except in the examples
of men whose names are given over to uni
versal. execraiion. MahOmet asserted it
when he forced his religion upon the SUBJ
jugated East, when churches were violently
converted into mosques, and the emblem
of Christianity was trampled under foot,
to be replaced by the badge of the impos-
tor. On the same principle Poland was
partitioned, and Ireland plundered dozen
times. The king of Dahomey acted upon
it wher lie sUld his csptives. and the men
of Massachusetts indOrsed it when they
took them in exchange for captives of their
own. You and your cenfreres adopted it
rs a part of your political creed when, after
the Southern people were thoroughly sub
dued, you denied them all rights of free
men, tore up their society, abrogated all
laws Nh ch could protect them in person
or property, broke their local governments
in pieces, and put them under the dOmina-
tion of notorious thieves, whom you forced
them to accept as their absolute masters.
These results of the war are no doubt
very precious. The right to traffic in the
Il sh of Indians and negroes Was precious
10 The Yankees and the King of DahOmey.
That was the fruit of their wars But was
i in either case legitimstel Your great
reverence for the touIders OF your political
school in Massachusetts, to say nothing of
your T, spect for the authority of the Afri-
can princes, or your faith in the Koran,
will probably ImpeI you to stand up in ia
vor of the I'D. as" which you have learned
from them. But / think l can maintain
the Christian law of liberty in opposition
o all your Mussulman notions; tor God is
great, and Mthnmet is not HIS prophet.
TIE GoLCOND OR 1HE OINTMENT
U AID OUR GREAT RAlL Nay.
Don Francisco Moica writes to the San