The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-19

- ~ Booiy OOnNcuIlOn OF NOrtnern
Aethodists in Boston. We never
dreamed that decent, intelligent peo-
pie Of the ancient capital of the old
BAY State approved these follies and
enly printed the statement to show
how ignorant men and women have
been duped by depraved, selfish party
leaders. The South was denounced in
the resolutions in unmeasured terms /;
1he President Of the United States was
oondemned because he "sold out TO
the Southern rebel Democracy" and
because he 'sacrifces principle and
1ighteousness for the sake of tempors-
~ peace" The jolly Methodist priests
declared further that "Wade Hampton,
Tho arch enemy OF the Republic, ought
TO be hanged" because in his railroad
platform speeches he defes the power
Of the government. The dispatches
said that these pretty and high-sound-
ing resolves were greeted with rounds
of applause and referred regularly to q
proper committee, as were all such res
slutions. This committee subsequent
~ reported the following, which was
adopted a. Q substitute:
1. That the warm, practical sympa-
thy Of this conference for the oppressed
of our land il history of too long
standing and too outspoken to need
any reaffirmation by US at the present
time; and now that legalized slavery
has been forever abolished in this our
country, We feel equally DESTROYS that
they who, having been victims of that
oppression, were deprived of their
civil rights and means for intellectual
and moral culture, may have secured
70 them eli the rights and privileges
shat their changed relation to the
country and their consequently in
creased responsibility 30 imperatively
demanded for them.
It will be observed that these people
are emphatic in the declaration that
''this 10 our country" In fact, these
fellows are the very saints of the Lord
of whom history tells, that they sire
solved" on another memorable coca
sion: "The earth is the Lords. We
are the saints of the Lord and the earth
Ii our own" the very words employed
by the delectable committee and adopt
cd and finally approved by the New
England Methodists in convention in
Boston. 1t will be observed that these
eninently good and unselfish people
are not without authority for the
declaration that the whole country
IL their OuOn. New England is no
pent-up Utica. The Federal gov
eminent, such is New England's
learning and cunning and genius for
statecraft and such is Southern folly,
Is simply q machine employed in paw
ing with silver and gold the highways
of the East and the streets Of Boston
and Hartford. It is New Englsnd's
government. Southern party leaders
mako it the government Of New Eng
land. We grow angry whenever But
Ter or Blaine or vulgar body of lanai
ical church people, reared in the very
hot bed Of prejudice, enact resolutions
or pronounce opinions wrongful of
themselves or expressive of the pas
sions OF the least intelligent of the
churches Of New England. At once
We resent the insult or the injury. Par
ties are shaped accordingly, and the
South is uniformly crushed. Even the
dull, stupid Methodist parsons of Bos-
Con understand this process, and
Blaine is their prophet and we their
supple tools.
The "hiStory of Northern sympathy
with the oppressed Of our land" is SO
we'll understood that these Bostonians
would do we'll to forget 1t. They
founded and maintained slavery while
IL was profitable. They captured In
dams and sold them into slavery in ia
maica. Their ships, and not those of
the South, and their sesmen and mer-
chant princes and sea captains, and not
those Of the South, conducted the Afri-
can slave trade. The South, and not
New England, compelled, by constr
tutionAl provision, the abandonment
Of this African slave trade. But for
New England it would have been ter
minated instantly, and in order that
New England might be induced to sur
render its interest in the horrible traffic,
the navigation acts, combining American
coast commerce to American ships and
suffering none others to leave one
American port for another, were adopt
cd and fishing bountics conceded.
These navigation acts, like the New
England tariff system, have cost the
South countless millions, and all that
thsss godly people might be compensat-
ed for the aband onment of the Afri-
can slave trade. And now when their
consciences were so softened that they
could not endure our sin, and
when they had traded off
negroes profitiess to themselves and
substituted cheaper white labor,
they forget to do even-handed justice
"a did the hrsva old men who farypad
the Federal Constitution. When New
England ship owners and merchants
were compelled to abandon the Afri-
can slave trade the Southern and Mid
die States gave them, in recompense
for the loss, monopoly Of our coast
Ing trade. When these godly Bos
tonians congratulate themselves that
they liberated the slaves of the South
IL 10 pity that they cannot 60 further
and say, a. did our fathers when We
snote Boston wealth and commerce,
that complete fairness and justice was
doae, and while freeing the slave the
master WAS not robbed or wrongei or
enslEved. Mark you, We do not ask
for the value Of these slaves. We do
not regret their liberation. We would,
on no terms whatever, have negroes
rs.enslsved. There is not an intelligent
ex-master Of the South who does not
confess, il universal suffrage were not
an universal curse, that the liberation