The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-03-06
The Difference.

We have before us as we write q
fac Simile OF the original Declara-
ton Of American Independence,
signed by the So members of the
Colonial Congress, beginning with
the name#oi John Hancock anil end
ing with that Of Matthew Thornton.
\ thrill of admiration starts as We
think thaS for long weary wears
our fathers tonight and biel aud died
anil achieved immortal honor in its
support. As nearly every schooI
child knows, the author of this
immortal Il ,cumcnt, was .rhos Jetlrr-
son, the Father of American Demo
cracy and the lifelong defender OF
its sacred principles. Was he ever
ashamed of it? No, not that history
relates On the contrary. from the
moment Il cminated from his great
heart cf liberty and god like brain,
he was proud of his child and the
principles it enuncia'cd. As time
passed rapidly on and the tree OF
liberty spread forth lis benign
branches Ter thc protection OF the
oppressed al every CLINE aHd the
ald Young Amer en- Republic
became the peer under I'll, chart %;
any nation Of the earth and Mr..
jefferson himself one OF its chief
Magistrates he, as the author Of
lhis great instrument which ha.
even bccn said WIS inspired OF
Heaven. could refer To it again and
again VIII 4 just pride and truly
regard il ~ one OF the most wise and
iprtuilous productions which ever
c.nanat e" lrcm the intellect of man.
No. Jcti,r>on, never repudiated the
authorship ct Ihn American De
claratiun Of independence, and lie
had no reason to.
Not So, however, with The Copiah
/ Declaration of In dependence (alias
the Copiah Resolutions }. The
/ intolcrant heart and the narrow
min which gave it form have never
vet been discovered, and the poor
b stard whom noholy will own goes
out into the cold. untecling world
with few sNmpathizcrs and scarcely
god-frth,r. Geo Dodds, one of
| the sensible and conservative Demo
Gratis of iaZlChurSt, went to the so
called "mass meeting Of the citizens
Of Copiah, to Cetrat its adoption,
but lett when he saw the case was
/ hopeless. j. =. Sexton, another one
OF the truest Democrats f COpiah.
and no telling how many 9TH
ers, wanted to call public
meeting and in the good name
of the c piah people di,own
the thing. But as we have said, no
one, 50 far as the public knows, ha,
acknowledged its parcnta9e Though
under its inspiring language Il few
men with a PCS, Of the heroic like
unto that of the fathers Of IS were
found who were patriotic enough to
pledge their lives, their property
aud their sacred honor against one
mans relatives and friends. female.
inclulcA, there has never since been
any substantial evidence that any
one is proud of the responsibility,
therein differing from the fathers.
So cXcruciating thing as the parti-
san senate outrage mill was unable
to grind ont OF anybodJ the author
ship, and it only found one man
who endorsed it and lie was "tor-
nered.'
We have learned by 'grare-yine"
that Mr.. Miller, by grace of the last
election now District Attorney cf the
9th judicial District, is really the
happy(D "laddy' Of the modern
I'D. of IT, and that it was the best he
could do under the circumstances,
1t it was, God knows he is to he
pitied
But seriously, if r y. Miller is
the author OF The Copiah Reroiu
tons which have been the source Of
SO much bitter comment upon his
county, State and party which have
been repud!atei publicly by some OF
the best men and truest Democrats
of COpiah-and which are withal so
untcnable and inconsistent with the
official position which he occupi,s,-
he may we'll keep silent, for he will
fad his future political Jordan in
Mississippi "a hard road to travel, -
If this was the best he could do
under the circumstances like DoddS
and others, he had better have wash
cd his hands clean Of the whole mat
ter, for as long as Liberty has a
friend and Justice voice, the au-
thorship o. these resolutions can
never he acknowledged by any one
with plide.
The Senate Investigating Com
mittee, alter a sitting Of Is days in
Noun Cl,l,opc nnl tln n,