The gazette-news., 1901-05-18


the slaveholder would lave been paid fdt
the property which the supreme law Of
the land recognized, the slave emanci
pated and admitted to participation In
the responsibilities of the free State only
when he shewedz zhimsef ftzand capable
of dischargine those reposzsibilites. But
slavery, when it becane snappae Of ais-
cord and q public nuisance wasescopeed
behind the safe barriersof provincial law
and local selfishnsss, and by aat ,of the
federal constitution, was beyond the
power Of the American people TO abate
without cutting each others thFoats.
Had the Christian duty, to respect funda-
mental human rights, favored the con-
stitution, instead of the expedieacy of
the church, American growth would. have
been normal, in accordance with the ex-
pectation Of Washington, Jefferson, Pat
rick Henry and all the other eompatriot
leaders and teachers of their generation,
whom all Americans have ever been &C
eustomed to reverence.
John C. Calhoun, the John the Baptist,
if not the main Apostle Of the Conied-
eracy, was more one of the Gracchi Of
America than William Lloyd Garrison or
John Brown. When Calhoun lifted the
banner Of the South and inscribed there
ON, Opposition to the tyranny of num-
bers, opposition, to the equal right of
every man to make tyrant of himself
and tyrannize over his fellows, except
as restrained by considerations of selfish
comfort and the fear, of penitentiary and
halter prescribed by the cohesive pewer
of public plunder, with, expectancy to
open and close the doorsiof psnisArnsnt;
be more truly and more efficiently struck
at the root Of all social evil than the
landed -innovators and reyontionists of
the North. Itwas inviting moral obliga-
tionand Justice toenter the arena. Black
slavery was q surface issue II expectancy
was to be the apostle of emancipation.
A fundamental principle OF right had to
be reached which would make the Bible
the catechism of q free people, the classic
OF liberty and justice; and repeal that
divine code of universal imperialism In
the heavens and the slave code ef haRsR
consent on earth, which reads .Thus
sayeth the Lord: If thine own brother
consent to be thy slave, bore q hole thro'
his ear, and he, and hisehildren, and his
children's children, to the latest poster
ity, shall not go out on the day Of jubilee,
but serve thee and thy descendants for
ever" No Napoleon the Great, and no
Napoleon the Little would have asked q
diviner warrant for the plsbiscitum that
eonseerates the emperor by the grace Of
God and the win of the people. In the
appeal from the imperialistic ballot Of
human consent to theimperialistic bullet,
the victory was to the orthodox expedi-
ency, Napoleonic plebiscitum and the big
gest battalions.
At Appomattox the American people
did not triumph. Otherwise the federal
union of expediency, with the equal right
of every man to make a tyrant Of HIM
SELF would have died upon the battle
field, and the Democratic unity Of the
American people would have come forth
from the conflict with the cross of South
ern liberty and Justice added to the stars
of heaven upon the flag of the nation,
one and indivisable and fit to expand to
the uttermost parts OF the earth.
South Carolina blazed the warriors
way before and blazes the way OF peace
and unity now. A permanent constitu-
tional convention of social experts, with
defined powers and referendum, super
added to the federal system, is the highway
of human progress. Pickett's charge is
not to be the last ON the Confederate roll oi
fame. The truce of the true God has come.
The God of Christ, and not the mongrel
; of orthodoxy, is to enter the free State
; and as he enters, the equal right oi
tyranny recedes into antiquity. In hoC
signo vinces. The Southern Cross viii &c
down no more in defeat. When the last
, Confederate charge is made on the bat
tlefield of truth and the ballot, behold
Confederate and Union veteran meet hal
way in a common embrace, as they wei
come the future with one faith, one God
, one people. How can the constitution
be made to march to the Yankee Doodle
and Dixie" of human progress withou
constitutional convention? Christ hai
/, something for true Christians to do. Tn
God of Christ (not Bull Apis trans
= formed into the mortal king Of kings) i
3 the God of the people. of all mems libert!
> and justice, leading humanity on its JOY
ous way into the promised land. Dow
> with the federal union Of expediency
! down with the tyranny of numbersf Vi
: with the commonwealth of God and tn
republic of man? Up with the constitu
! tional convention, that the people ma,
enoak before the clash of labor and caDi