The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-14

And time out of mind there lave
been two principles hostile TO each
othe. which have all the while been
waging war against each other and
against everything that tends to
strengthen the one and weaken the
other. And these two classes into
which the human family is divided,
as naturally as water seeks q level .,
take sides and become The advocates
and deyOtces OF the one or the other
Up to the establishment Of the
government of the United States
these classes assumed various names
and titles according to Circun>
stances. The leaders Of both classes
always sought names that wOull be
most likely 10 strike the ear, the
fancy, and leach the heart of the
masses
And by II csc sub erfuges, false
tokens and false pvetenses, like the
Decoy Due k, the leaders have gath
cred around them and captured
many of the honest and unsuspec.-
ing of the ether side. AS an illus>
tration Of this truth the late wsr
was begun by one side to upheld and
maintain the constitution in its iE>
tegritY ard to hold intact the lnde>
feasible and inalienable right Of
local-self government, while the
other side declared and published to
the people and the civilized world
that they were waging a most gigaD-
tic and bloody war against their
blood and kindred to accomplish the
very same objects.
One side or the other was fal e.,
had assumed a false name. liz the
name Of the union; the flag and tue
constitution, three million soldiers
rushed to their defense, and in their
defense more than six hundred thou
send lost tleir lives. AID under
these false names, tokens and pres
lenses, the war, bloody and desper>
ate, lasted four years, and when hos
tilities had ceased and the dust and
smoke had cleared away, the union
had been destroyed, that is the
uulon under the constitutions, and
the constitution itself had been ig-
noTed, defied and trempled under foot.
A new union, union Of force, has
been substituted for the union of the
constitution and the history Of the
times and the judgment Of mankind
is, that tie war was begun and
carried on for the purpose and no
other, Of destroying the constitution,
which has been denounced for thirty
years as "a covenant with death
and a league with hell," and absolish-
ing the Institution Of slavery, which
was ore of the bedrocks of the con-
stitution.
So-gcDtIoman &c have all teen
taught by sad experience, that
names will not always DO to rely up
on.
When the virtue, the honor, the
manhood. the intelligence and the
patriotism of Virginia and the South
stand on one side and immO1 ity,
dishonor, ignorance. and hatred OF
blood, and country stand on the
other, | need not ask where YOU
stand. On the side of. Jefferson,
Jackson and your own immortal
Lee on the side of the constitution
and the union as the fathers made
them, On the side Of yonr mothers
your sisters. wives and daughters
every honest, intelligent, patriotic
Nirginian stands.
Who but the heartless aud soulles:
wretch can draw his sword against
his country, against his kinsmen
against his mother? Man, if at al
unguarded moment it has leaped o.
attempted to leap from Its scabbard
let it fly back to that scabbart
whence it came never to come fortl
to be used against your mothers apt
your sisters.
The lren of one of these partie
and one of these principles or force
of which | have been speaking i
toward the center, it Is centrIpeta
in all its tendencies. It tends t
Capitalization and consolidation. [
political sense, 1t means ever
mandate, order and cdict come
from headquarters and must be obey
ed at the peril of your life. Their
is no appeal. This force or power
more dictatOriai aud mandator
than the manifests of the Pope {
Rome. If one Of Mahone's old pc
litical slaves is here, who hes bee
laboring to emanclpate himself frol