The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-09-01

d. same I'D every a-Na ~ p" "ttt -
consult the peace 81 society BY 9
involving the cause OF discomfort and !
.bellion, or raise a war with me for
iscarding passive obedience Shall
principle that strikes A. she root Of
n free institutions and perpetuates
n olagarchy be defended by the fable
n the swallow and dies
Men have very little choice Of mas
ere end they are not apt TO submit
ong to the loss Of their liberties IN
order that othersmay be also enslaved.
Many are the excuses Of revolutions
hat cannot be tolerated in times Of
peace and regular government We
might perhaps do well to remember
that the men who made that ark Of
] SIS, are many Of them now shut out,
and when you enter that ark like old
Noah and appropriate It to your
selves, your sonsand sons sons, look
to have il torn to pieces by the hands
that made Il. SO Major irsm my
present standpoint think you are
barring the wrong door when the
stream that waters your city shall
have been dried. Then will the Modes
and Persians under some Darius
march down upon your city and sur
prise yop amid your revellings and
hanquetings. lfyou will inspect your
Whited walls ] think you may already
see MENE TEKEL VPHARsAN written on
them.
The constitution and bills Of rights
Of England and this country, have
always restricted and limited the
exercise Of extraordinary power TO
times Of war or extraordinary emer-
gencies, and our encestars With zeal
ous Walehfnlness have denounced
every effort to extend the exercise Of
these powers as usurpations and tyr
amy on the part Of the rulers. What
then shall we say Of an olagaTehY
that settles down in tlpes OF
peace to the regular exercise OF
powers Of the most extraoTdi-
nary and revolutionary char
aotor, long AFTER the occasion that
called them forth has passed. Can 9
, party subsist by corrupt means and
not itself become corruptY As wei
might We say man may steal All BIZ
I life and not become a rogue. But !
I, they should become corrupt, then
, ask will they not with the means il
! their power, become absolute also
and when be th absolute aud corrup
d, will they not be overthrownf
n The stronger the hand with WhIoI
tbei poser Is held the nose violen
n the eOnyulsion that separates then
= Il s then that you may look for com
, munism, aggrarianlsm and civil strii
II then will be opened tue "gates Q
Il he uRkHowR.n Itisth then that | woul
! like to see an educated community {
70 Grangers-men whose healthful toll
a and private liyes-whose pursuits an
: inclinations lead them to peace-me
"A whose minds free FROM preiudiss-
,r educated In the school OF patriotism
Il and fitted to take charge Of the whlr
q wind and direct the storm.
We We Changers deprecate such
Of state OF affairs, for we see that It wi
ct epgender animosities, cause strif
Is retard emigration and hinder pro,
s perity-on the other hand we also 81
OF that the present state Of affairs eve
if peacefully aequiesced in will ak
be chill emigration and retsrd pFogre
be at the present hour, not to say an,
n thing OF its cOrTuptiRg tendencies al
to future evils. And when We see Il
D. exercise Of this power applied to q
al excluding Of good Southern M
ID from fair count and free ballot-mt
N from whom the country have nothil
cd to fear, we become alarmed for o
on liberties, and cannot longer Tespe
Ter the party lash or trust to the since
n ity Of those utterances proclaimil
in that these things are done IN {
c. name Of liberty.
to We are Democrats. We expect
his live and die Dempcrats, and We del
b. the right Of any set of men to int
,s. polate this new doctrine OF ballot b,
of stufiing into the Democratic platfor
While we we're among the VERY FIR
10, 10 strike q blow for the overtime
or Of that corrupt dynasty that rul
az previous to rs, and would aqAin
Ne The occasion required i, take 0
~ lives In our hands to rescue Southe
ye civilization from destruction, yet
n are not to be humbugged into a wor
IN condition for fear Of having to do
a. same thing over again. We fear n
"a the ghost OF our conquered foe--it
lin the living We fear. Revolutions q
~ sharp and severe remedies, but tn
have occasionally to be applied
~ bring men to their senses.
,re The greatest danger TO liberty
i the supreme power acquired BY I,
.vs on occasions like that which produc
~ the revolution Of rs, and afterwar
Of held without responsibility to
ne, masses, when the occasion has pa
ed-here lies the greatest danger
fact the only danger. seldom II eV
~ do men voluntarily relinquish pow
~ that the present dynasty is an e
~ ception to that rule Is not proven
W. y. the tcnaciiy with which they hold
y power, or their bitter denunciation
la' every effort TO abbreviale that pow
- Else why these syren songs, ID,
~ deeoy ducks, to attract our attanti
~ from the real danger7 tits not Il,
~ servile race that our master n
l l'n CONE.
tn Liberty has not been strangled,
" in the name Of liberty, nor 9 race 6
y shaved by an inferior, less intelllg,
"a and less virtuous race, but be v
~ to-day IN good faith and for the go
W Of mankind exercises supreme pow
io1 dares not tequeath It to q success
is less bis successor become 3 tyra
~ and thereby bis own posterity pl
~ into slavery We should be unsk
oS fol and unfortunate mariners II VII
~ attempting to avoid Scylla We 60
~ pieces on Charybdis. The imparl
~ aud intelligent portion Of mankl
- will pronounce Us a Get Of pollli
~ eharlatans, unworthy the appellate
'uu If afafaanan- IL IN the afIoss - -,