American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-08-12
TOLERANCE OF MON.

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is unfoi:un tic in his application If
the facts OF history. Nhtn be L.
FRS to the Med rval Ages, in Illus
tration Of the un,ncss OF his posi-
ton as Radical, citing tho fact
that daring that dark period ''learn-
ino kept within the cloister,' he
furnishes the petard upon viii ID he
lself must be hoisted.
The observation OF "aTediator" as
TO hist"ry's having repeated itself
in our own day and generation, i'll
this particular, is lamcn!ably true.
Not in the sense, indeed, Which
Mediator" seems TO view it; bu:
the fact is we'll attested, that learn
ing has. for some years past, so 10
speak, "hert rithin tie cloi5fer.' For
the voices of wisdom and learning
have been hushed in our midst ;
our wiscst and most capable men
have been compelled to take the
back seat, where their counsels
could no longer be heard and the
better and more intelligent class OF
our population have been ruthlessly
robbed of their dearest rights as
frecmen, because they once dared
to exercise and maintain thciI
opinions, while their own slaves
have been elevated to political con-
troll, and maintained there, by the
bayonets OF the Radical party in
power The voices of the Dark
Ages nave, indeed, come sounding
Town the corridors of time, in so far
rs ignorance prevails over enlight-
,,nment; and when We pass i'll re-
view before the minds eye, the
events which we have witnessed
within the past decade; when we
recall the scene of the unlettered,
utterly ignorant, vicious and noisy
.abblc OF slaves newly freed, crowd
ing the intelligent citizen AMI owner
of the soil away from the polls,
while they are led up and voted III
irOves like 80 many mules, voting,
{ icy know not what, bat invariably
sustaining the strangers and aliens
TO the soil, who have come down III
rOops 10 pl,rnder the wrecked ship
Il State when VIC think of sucE
scenes as arc recent and vivid il,
our minds,-we are reafy % G
farther than "MedIator," and say. /,
of affairs so utterly abnor
NAL, as that the barbarian ignorance
md depravity of slave population
suddenly freed and entrusted with
the desiinies of government, while
the ancient freeincn and owners o.
t. 10 soil are crushed beneath this
mad juggerlaut Of deSpOtism-even
he Dark Ages never knew anything
ike this.
Intolerance of opinion" i'm its JUS
sense, is certainly to be commended.
Tolerance of opinion, founded it,
.eason and justice, is right. 1t is q
and fatal error, how
yer, to go TO the extremity OF ad
. coating a tolerance of that opinion.
in which the RIGHTEOUSNESS of al,
gnurant, uniettered rabble of en-
bOn,lsmen is mistaken
liberty in it's true sense.
Not less absurd were it, during
he dark days OF the French revo
ution, to advocate tolerance of that
opinion entertained by the fana'ica
ans cmlotte, which caused them to
all vestige of intelligence
md sober reason, to trample ali
cligiOus creed beneath their feet.
md, instead, worship the Goddess
If Reason, than to advise toler
lnce of that opinion which, in GU.
lay, upholds sti more reckless,
ar more ignorant, infinitely less /
sans cutotte, in their ell
leavOrs at pulling down the pillars
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md involving all i'll one common |
uin.
History is replete with instances
where people, long oppressed by !
grants, at last ceased TO have toler
nee of that opinion On the part OF /
he oppressor, which in his view,
ave him the right to Cypress. In
UGH instances, there have always
'een puppets of power around the
firone of tyranny to advise loyalty
o the king, to declare; ''thc king
an do 10 wrongm Even Nero, oil
n,iGuity, and the scarcely less in
amous King John of later days,
adj those around them (minions
,vOrites and time-servers), who
dvised the people to fO:bearance
nd tolerance of The intolerabIe acts
f those bloody minded monarclls
tut popu ar awakeilings in the di
,ciion of revolution are not scOtcled
/ their onward roll, by such cries
5 these and whether the tyraut
e a single despOt, whose obnoxious
ulo renders him unbearabIe, OF
neither tie taxpayer and owner of
he soil Suppressed beyond endur-
nee, robbed OF all he has, by the
ill more relentless and detestable
ny-headed tyrant OF f;tnatical
,ntilncnts or, opinion that arms the
ms c,sloftc with the power, and en-
,urages them with the counsel, to
estroy and dcsolatc-the people {
hose interests are so much ut stake '
no are made most to suffer, will {
last rise to overthrow the OPP {
resSOr.
Self preservation is a law of ,
lture which must be needed. 1t l
those with when "Aietli- | t
orr finds fault, at this day, as it i
Iimated our fOrcfatiIeTS lust one |