Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-07-13
THE PROBLEM SOLVED.

1t ia easy 10 manage single rogue-a
solitary, poor devil-but to control a legion
OF outlaws is not so easy matter
The United States have been at their wits
end to manage as ugly set of fellows as
eve1 the sun shone upon. Indeed and in
truth, verify, verify, Southern ugliness has
become chronic. Southerners boast of
their ugliness. Talk to a Southerner about
such thing as fairness, uprightne's, and
he will like n maniac laugh in your face.
He thinks that man who is honest is u
fool, weakling, who needs kick or two
to brace him mp. Hence we hear of New
Orleans Tigers, Bull-dozers, Rattlesnakes,
names which have n musical gingle in
Southerners ear. Way down South moth
ing pleases mamma SO much as to hear her
little boy who can but just get upon his
pegs, shake his fist and say in mimic pride
"Im-er-reb." cru whale the niggers.h
and "lll whip the damned yankees
Aud papa looks on and laughs in the pride
OF heart and says, "Oal my But he's
goner." lie beats the devil" "Thats
good un." "Come here my boy" A kind
OF literature which embOdics the same
sentiment expressed with the idiomatc
grunt Of an Indian in the com mon talk OF
the Sioux AMI NJ ldocs. Beyond the West
ern Savage, the Southern rufian stalks
abroad daily under the influence of domes.
tic institutions that sink him far lower in the
sc lie Of hea4tlinoss. He has been accus-
toned to take the Bible in one hand and
tn. lash IN the other, to go to Church and
Ii ten to Doctor Twistham with great salts
fiction; then SO home and whip the mig
gers and damn the yankees and to close the
pous days work by praying that the good
Lord won ld add his blessing. The upper
crust of Southern Society being too lazy to
help themselves even to drink Of water
did al this pious work by proxy and out
OF sheer llziness did not open their mouths
or move their tongues when they thanked
the Lori for sending chattes and poor
whites to do all the dirty work for them,
so that they could dwell in mansion, live
oil plantation, and be clothed in purple
and fine linen and fare sumptuously every
day. So our pious border ruffians and
hull-dozers go armed with the Bible. the
bowie knife and the revolver to this day.
Being controlled by this sort OF pious ugi-
nesS, baptiAed in the name OF the Lord, the
whole South rebeled and tried to get out
of the Union and still go on staggering
and slarghtering men, women and children
from day to day. What shall we do with
them? Letthem alone? We've tried that.
Then what shall we do? It is very evident
that we must do something more. Educate
and christianize them? We've been trying
| ~ do that for the last hundred years, for
which pious work the whole South as one
man, daily damn the yankee and his system
OF theology. But il you take away the
| Bible, tho sword, aud the teachers, what has
the nation left by which to govern the peo-
pie? Very true. Nothing. Absolutely
nothing We need both the sword, the
Bible and the teachers, all OF them; we
must have them or become lawless savagcs.
| Whatever there Ia of any predominant
value in the United States we owe TO the
Bible and the sword" But whether they
each, or both together, prove to be Il bles-
sing or a curse, depends upon how we weld
the one aud study the other. The B-
BILE anil sword have been a curse TO the
South and but partial blessing to the
1 NoFlH' i Hc blpiS tcll5 AnS DbuAH AHNA
| Slavery ia Divine Institution and the
sword will keep the slave within the
clutches Of his master" "The same Bible
tells the North that Liberty is Divine In
stitution and the sword will protect free
men," Aud so taught out of the same
book, the North and South are ut swords
points. Arr ,yed one against thc other in
deadly hate. The one trying to destroy
liberty, the other slavery What we need
just now is great teacher, to explain th'
Bible aud teach us how 10 Use the sword.
Such we have. VIII the nation listen tn
His voice? "Do as ye would be done by
" For We are brethren" "The sword is to
be a terror 10 evil doers." This nation Is a
family. There are great many ugly boys
Let Uncle Sam hold them in his grip one
by one. And when the ugly fellow says
let me alone, let Uncle Sam tighten his
grip and say; will you atop your abuse to
your brother? And when the oyergIown
boy says you hnrti Let 60 and will stop
Then lei Uncle Sam try him little while
II he does we'll, let him alone. But II he
continues To be ugly let Uncle Sam take
him in hand again aud gave him glorious
lhrSshing. JusTus,