The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1880-01-06

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in Protestant pulpilS. Now, TO fearful de.
gree, without them the pulpit is deemed stale
not up to the age not abreast with the
times
Meantime Romauism is silent, but not idle
She has no eHrSss for the South. She sees II as
il is, and hopes for better day. Her pulpits
never ring with heartless denunciations OF
Southern people per Sc. From her Cardinal
down to the humblest priest, only words OF
sympathy for our faintness, weariness and
woe, or grief and pity for our sins and short
comings, are heard. Her church journals utter
no maledictions against us, as the South.
What a damaging contrast
But, now, mark my words. When the hour
comes for the Romish Church TO assert herself
and strike for the mastery-as she must do, IL
true to herself-and every pulpit and press
she owns, and all she can purchase aud con-
troll, with the billions of gold that will flow
from over the seas and from over the hills,
and from over all the world, into her Golfers
then Protestants, having set the example, will
be dumb-then some seven-by-eigbt act Of
political jugglery may close the contest; the
Government become quite another thing,
(perchance an empires pdpdl Empire y and
prostituted Protestantism stand aghast IN the
paralyzing shadow of lost opportunity She
may struggle so did Laocoon2 She emay rise,
as was her wont, to go FORTH so did Samson.
She may call to the South. Alas for the
South The Catholic was her only friend in
the day of her impoverishment and grief
the only Church that did not belle her own
mothers son-the only people that did not
help the outgrOwth of contempt for the Sab
bath and sanetuaries-that God off and
stood still till the maniacs of the political
pulpit had run the old ship of State hardupon
the breakers, and then came and called at
the hour of imminent peril TO prevent utter
wreck annihilation Call TO the South
The solid South-solid like Aock Of sheep
trembling under the cry Of the wolves that
encircle them
Why, the South would accept anybody or
anything for the sake eff peace that did not re-
quire it to abjure manhood, and principle,
and laws and Constitutions, and the Govern
ment as our fathers gave it to us.
When the wrongs and ISLANDERS of the South
shall have achieved their purposes and inf
deity shall have torn up the foundations of
our religion, and the iconoclast and COM
munist have overridden the rights of proper
ty, the South will be powerless to speak, and
if she speaks she will politically speak for
the party, or power, no matter who or what
that will deliver her from the eternal floods Of
slander, recrimination and abuse which for
ages been lavished upon her head.
These presages will am aware, he set at
naught and treated as all things from NaZa-
reth must be, but time will tell Good and
foreseeing men, North and East, tremble for
the future.
know, also, religious journals will, by a
thousand sklllful periods,
"Try to make the worse
Appear the better reason
and deny their treason and hatred against
the people of the South but facts are facts, in
spite of words. And yet they may tell me of
the boundless generosity of their people
when we were perishing with the great epi-
demic. ...
And will tell them, as witness Of il ali
that thousands of stout-hearted prayerless
men wept for Joy and thankfulness chiefly
because they felt that the afliicton on the one
hand, and the generous, unparalleled liberality
and compassion ON the other, had cement
ed both sections of the country into broth
erhood of everlasting affection.
But because Southern Democratic Con-
gressmen took up and contended for States
| Rights as laid down in the Republican plat
| form of 1860 and in 1877, and defended by
Edmunds and Hoar and Evarts and Garfield
and hundreds of theitSournals, the entire
Republican party and nearly the whole
| Church outside of the South have set up cry
of the iercest tone Down with the South
Down with the South !" Everything we do is
distorted; all our best efforts for the restora-
ton of the country to industry and religion
to peace and good will, are trayested and
| turned against us, until the Old World must
regard US as barbarians of the most vulgar,
degraded and shocking character.
1t seems to me that u Southern gentleman
travelling in Europe or England must be re-
garded (if people believe our American peri
odicals, Christian and political as leper-
an outlaw-a cut-throet--a shameless parieh
"a human ghoul. Hence the North is called
Gods country
They must esteem him an incarnated con-
centration of all the over seventy exquisite
odors of the city Of Cologne, from whose
presence all genGlity would shrink, with
whom no gentleman would fraternize, and Il
whose hospitality the meanest ragpickel
would not admit him.
Either this must be true, or thoughtful peo
| pie over the seas must regard the American
| Christian press, in its endless tradqetion o.
the South, as gigantic falsiier, totally inca
pable Of doing justice to people withou
whose annual products the world would be-
come commercial and moral chaos in less
time than the sun can sweep through thu
zodiac.
Now, do the Northern pc pile reflect on thu
effect Of these proceedings 1t was this verI
course of Misrepresentation, slander and vitu
peration that forced thousands of the trues
patriots into the army Of the Confederacy
And. though the South can never unsheatl
another sword, she may lose her interest in
people whose religion of hate has poured th
chalice Of wormwOed into her pallid an
trembling lips.
Before close Task again whence all thi
turmoil, strife and babble, these untruth
and gross falsehoods, stories of refugees iron
Kansas, returning for their furniture, bein
arrested and misunderstanding their hand
cut off in one case and their arms in another
and maltreated as no inquisItiOn ever pun
ished its viotims2 What is the foundation 0
: il all2 Many causes-chiehy this: tn
! presence of the cOlored man in the South.
This is the prolific source Of all our woe.
our weakness, our poverty, our future ruiI
| For more than seventy years the negro ha
been a bone of contention-a theme Of an
3 madversion, political wrangling, bitterness
= and finally war.
Had there been no c6iored men South Wa
had never been dreamed Of.
The war cost more than the price Of th
: 1900 900 slaves $500 per head.
More frst-class young men perished in FREE
| ing the slave than there were able-bodie
, colored men in bondage.
! As a voter he is commercial article, an
, white men cOndeseend to grossly repulsiv
familiarities with them in order to seour
his ballot and thus the negrois not only nc
, elevated himself, but he brings the miserabl
+ white man down TO his own plane.
? As a igryman he Is the reliance for acqul
! tai in all murder cases, and no criminal feal
the penalty Of the law when Africa rules q
/ panel.
Then, over all, stands the roaring cataract
the sectional strife, the "aecursed South
p ''the murderous South, the South and sp