The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-04
FROM TENNE~SEE.
Upton EOunfy.

Editor Patron: The readers oil
THE PATRON will remember that
a convention was held in Philadel.
phis, A. d. 1880, which framed the
organic law of the land
The preamble to said instrument
declares the objects OF it to be, to
establish justice, x >
and secure the blessings of liberty
to ourselves and our posterity.'
While these may have been the
objects of the patriots who framed
the Constitution, have they been
! attainedP
Has posterity enjoyed the liberty
which was designed for them BY
this assembly, and which cost those
their blood and their lives?
Hear a grandson of Patrick Henry,
the Hon. Gustavus A Henry, Of
Tennessee, in the Baltimore Demo
cratic Convention in 1860 when he
said, 81 declare to you, and | speak
to you with no figure of speech,
that the Government of the United
States is now at this time the most
corrupt government upon the face
of this wide earth"
And we are taught by him who
spake not as man speaks, that a cor
rupt fountain can not send forth
sweet waters, nor can corrupt
government secure the blessings
of liberty to its inhabitants.
And this arraignment was made
two decades ago, and since then the
f1oodgates of corruption have been
opened wide, so that every avenue
has been occupied by TIC venal, the
corrupt and the dishonest, until to-
day it is a thousand fold more cor
rupt than when Mr.. Henry por-
trayed it in his laconie style.
But Mr.. Henry was not the only
one who denounced this Govern
ment A Republican journal, pub
lished in Boston, in 1856 said, 1.-THE
United States Constitution is a COW
enant with death and an agreement
with hell"
Such was the language of the
blind fanatic against the Constitu-
ton becaus it protected 10000, 900
Of the inhauitants in holding 4,ooo,-
900 of Africans in serfdom, but
where is our boosted pseudo philan-
thropist now, when 100000 of
inhabitants, African and European.
are enslavcd by the few under this
same Constitution?
Has our wonderful Ajax become
one of the masters, hence his lips
are sealed and his pen silent?
If so, | would remind him of the
saying of Aimee Ladoiuski to her
husband, Roman Ladoiuski, when
he was going to join Napoleon's
victorious legions:
"Ah, Roman! it is poor liberty
which consists only in a change of
masters"
If there ever was time when the
language of the Boston journal was
applicable to the Constitution. is
that time not now?
But we remember that Abe Lin
coin said in a speech in Springfield,
ILL.,, June 7, 1885, that that this Gov.
eminent could not stand half free
and half slave.
And Seward of little bell infamv,
in his Rochester speech character
;zed it as San irrepressible conflict"
And that ''irrepressible conflict
is as interminable to-day as when
first uttered, thirty three years ago.
Yes, | think, it is intensified by
time and numbers; then 1t was to
free, so-called, only 4, 900, 900. now
it is to free $4,000, 900, whom this
abused and denounced Constitution
has permitted to be enslaved under
its Rgis, when it was designed to
secure the blessings of liberty to
them.
Notwithstanding this deadly con-
t1lct is being waged, we see num-
bers of those whom it is intended
to benefit, but who are unworthy of
its blessings, standing with folded
arms, and saying by their actions,
$50 it boys, if you accomplish any
good for yourselves we will enjoy
1t, too"
Like Catiline's unknown and un-
knowing man. you live and nobody
knows it, and you die and nobody
knows it.
Therefore your epitaph should
read
A. b..
''He lived" "He died"