The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-06

be further proceeded against. HistOr
loses sight of her there. No record show
whether they killed her or not.
This is one case out of a great many
1t is very interesting and instructiv
when taken in connection with you
speech, for it shows the "germ of tn
idea" which your party acted on whe
it kidnapped and imprisoned men an
women by the thousands for believing i
American liberty as guaranteed by tn
constitution. The Quakers and Baptist
had no printed organs in that da
through which their private judgmen
could be expressed, else you would NJ
doubt have cases directly in point to jus
tify your forcible suppression of tw,
hundred and fifty newspapers.
A CHANGE OF LEADERS.
Enftity to the right of private iudg
ment comes down to the party of Ply
mouth ideas by consistent and regular
succession. 1t is woven like a dirty
stripe into the whole warp and woof o
| their history. As soon as they got pos
session of the federal government under
John Adams they began to-use it as ar
| 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 Obnox.
ious to his supporters. Their sedition
put every democratic speaker and writer
under the heel of the administration.
Their standing army was used, as it now
is, to crush out their political opponents.
If you come into eastern PENNSYLVANIA,
and particularly into the good county OF
Berks, you will learn that the people
there still think with indignation of that
old reign of terror when federal dragons
kidnapped, insulted and beat their ia
theirs, chopped down their "Iiberty
pole" broke to pieces the press of the
Reading Eagle, and whipped its vener-
ated editor in the markdt-house. The
same spirit broke out again in the burn
ing of nunneries and churches under
Maria Monk, and under John Brown the
whole country swarmed with spies and
kidnappers. When you abandoned the
harlot and rallied to the standard of the
thief, you changed your leader without
changing your principles.
THE YANKEE SLAVE CODE.
The slave code planted in Massachu-
setts was the earliest in America, and
the most cruel in all its provisions. 1t
was pertinaciously adhered to for gener-
ations, and never repented of, or formally
repealed. 1t was gradually abandoned,
not becatise it was wrong. but solely
because it was found, after long expert
ment, to be Improbable. Their plan of
keeping twenty negroes as cheaply as one
white servant did not work we'll; for in
that climate negro thus used would
infallibly die before his labor paid what
he cost. They sold their stock whenever
they could, but emancipation was for
hidden by law, unless the owner gave
security to maintain the slave and
prevent him from becoming a pub
lie charge. To evade this law, those
who had old or infrm negroes en-
couraged them to bring suits for their
freedom, and then by sham demurrers, or
other cOllusive arrangements, got judg-
ment against themselves that the negroes
were free and always had been Females
likely to increase the stock were adver-
tised to be sold "for that fault alone"
Young ones, because they Were not
worth raising, were given away like pup
pies of superabundant litter. In this
way domestic slavery by degrees got
loose in practice, simply because it would
not pay-but the principle on which one
man may own another whom he subdues
by superior strength or cunning was
never abandoned, repudiated or denied.
That principle was cherished, preserved
and transmitted to you, their initiative
and loving disciples, and you have APP
piled it wherever you could as tyranni-
cally as they did.
THF PURITAN's "IDEA" OF WAR.
You sa +hat {" war without an idea is
simply brua %ty." | submit to your
war is redeem, IS brutality by such
an idea as you h Jour political asso-
ciates entertain of its purposes, objects
and by all your speeches and
logic of blows proves everything you
vasion of one people by another has the
effect of destroying all natural right to,
and all legal guarantees for, the life lib
erty and property of the people so inva-
ded and conquered; that after a trial by
battle the victor may enter up and exc
cute what Judgment he pleases against
weak community are guilty of when
property, and their families against
invaders who come upon them
to kill, destroy and subiugate them
is so objectionable that the whole body
of the offenders taken collectively, and
all individuals who partake even pas
sively of the sin, may Justly be devoted to
Oh
wholesale or retail, as the strong power
shall see proper to infict; that the con-
uueror, after the war is over, NAV insist
that the helpless and unarmed people,
whom he has Frustrated, shall assist him
by not merely accepting, but adopting"
q use your own words) the measures in
tended to degrade and rob them, and
thus make himself master of their souls
as we'll as their bodies. All rights of men
are resolved by this theory into the
nights of men.
aver that this doctrine, in all its
length and breadth, is false and perni-
cious. 1t is the foundation on which all
slavery rests, and the excuse for all
forms of Tyranny. 1t has no support in
any sound rule of public law, and has
never been acknowledged by wise or vir-
GuOuS governments III any aye SluCe UH6
advent of Christ. You can find no au-
thority for it, except in the examples of
men whose names are given over to uni
versal execration. Mahomet asserted it
when he forced his religion on the sub
jugated East, when churches were vio-
lently converted into mosques, and the
emblem of christianity was trampled
under foot, to be replaced by the badge
of the imposter. On the same prin-
ciple Poland was psrtitioned, and
Ireland plundered a dozen times.
The king of Dahomey acted up
on it when he sold his cap
tives, and the men of Massachusetts in
dorsed it when they took them in ex-
change for captives OF their own. You
and your confreres adopted it as 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 which could protect them in person
or property, broke their local govern
ments in pieces, and put them under the
domination of notorious thieves, whom
you forced them to accept as their abso-
lutte masters.
The results of the war are no doubt
very precious The right to traffic in the