Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-09-29
THE REPUBLIC.


The Southern effort TO reduce the people
TO the condition Of chattels has resulted in
debasing the whole mass, both master and
slave. As models, the South does not
present TO US the noblest specimens Of hui
manity. The Southern code Of honor and
the genius Of Southern institutions is sessen-
italy barbaric The law Of custom which
upholds the common practice Of duelling
is a relic of the dark ages, and ought not
to be tolerated anywhere In christendom.
There has been an overshadowing growth
of Il despotic spirit, which even and anon
breaies out in menace and staggering bra
vado. The air Of Sontherner is naughty
and overbearing and reminds one OF a
Cockpit or a Moduc The necessary outfit
of the mem bers of the first family is bo-
wie-knife and revolver. No man Is sup
posed to have the requisite qualifications
to move in the highest circles who does
not crack whip, drink whiskey, chew to-
bacco, and damn the Yankee. The South
ern temperament is fiashy and ungov-
ernable-her passions unbridled her an
ger remorseless, aud her revenge is satia-
ted only by the blood OF her victims. Even
their sports are wild and savage. When
fully equipped with his horse, his dog, and
his g IN, the Southern sportsman is IN the
height Of his glory. The surf Of his en-
ioyment overnows all bounds when in full
pursuit of muscular, high-spirited, run
away 'nigger' The baying Of the hounds,
and the excitement of the chase to see who
shall be the first in at the death or cap
ture, and the frantic struggle OF the fugi-
tive to escape, furnish spicy kind OF sport.
There IL tragic sublimity in the breaking
in of some lofty spirit. The fugitive has
been captured the hounds have torn his
flesh; the sharp'slooter's bullets have
made holes through his doly; the warm
/ blood oozes out of his wounds and tricklcs
down to the M list earth, but the captive
holds the hounds at bay and looks defiance
| in the face pf his eap;ors. His will cannot
| be broken Toe much OF his masters blood
| is still left in his viens; to- much OF his
| masters soul is still in his body. For ex-
ample's sake for the sake of the peculiar
! institution he uust be burnt alive. The
fagyots are soon kindled around his dying
body, and whiethe spectators areexhoried
to behold the awful end of Il wicked mig
GER who will not obey his master, noble
soul has suffered M mlrtyrdom for the spirit
of liberty. Such Scared spots were ire
quent throughout the South and were Of
ten pointed out as II warning to rcbellious
spirits Here is the blackened tree; the
chlrred bones the wooily, singed locks,
which remain to tell the dark tale, and II
gray headed old man fingers to talk ab lut
the unearthly screams he used to hear in
those woods. 1t will be asked: "Does the
Southern clergy sanction such things"
Most assuredly. They teach the people
that the system of slavery is Divine IA pa
iriarchal institution; sure pattern OF
which God gave to Moses 10 be handed
down in sacred trust for the benefit OF the
upper crust of society in all ages; a sys-
tenn founded ia the very nature OF things
and exactly suited to meet the wants oi
those who don't feel like working; don't
want TO work and wont work. But you
do not mean TO assert that the christian
ministers at the South sanction murder
adultery and robbery? Certainly. In
sanctioning Southern slavery, they sane
lion the violation of every command ol
the Decalogue. For that system necessa
rilv involves all that. 1t is the "sum Of
all vii lainics." The clergyman, whoever
he may be, vino tries to uphold or apollo
gizc for the system of American slavery il
5mitten with moral leprosy, and soon lose
all sense of humanity. The first act o
this long series of villainics is the creates
crime. TO say to man made in the i'm
age of God, "You are mine, soul and body
} you nre at my disposal; [ have right t
do with you.and your wife aud children. jus
MS pleasn il to give the lie to n self-evi
dent truth, upon which depends the sal
vation of mankind. Having COMMITTEES
this first and highest crime in the series
these men are prepared for the commits
sion OF any and all crimes These me,
; hate freemen, and attempt to destroy tn
Republic These are the men who fired tn
1 first shots against liberty at Fort Sumter
E who swore that they would die in the las
ditch, and are to-day slaughtering Repuh
licans as they come to the polls, as II
I. were mere sport Then, M il this wer
: not enough toprovoke High Heaven, thes
1 men have the effrontcry to call in South
ern clergy to ask for the divine blessing
I upon their deeds We have heard of
: vein OF fire and birthstone on the cities q
the plains. Let these pious confederates O
the South beware. They ought 10 hea
the appr hing mnrmIrs OF distant thun
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