The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-24

snip COO In and by their principles
and their acts are sufferers to such de-
gree that not only is humanity ap-
pailed. but the weak-hearted and the
faint, forgetting that sufrerings are
only Tor the present and do but work
out glory. desert the cause of right.
Tho South standing firmly for hui
man rights as gifts Of God, inherent
ana inde1easible. was opposed by tho
North, which adhered to the doctrine
OF majority fat and the utter subor-
dination of all laws. divine and human
thereto. -
nor did the well-protecting pass OF
Ihermopylae exhibit so wonderful an
eAhlDition or resistance to evil by the
e" AGAINST the many as did a hundred
open helds Of the South, until goaded
almost Amos, 10 despair. The Southerner. for
defeasance OF law against which ha
Fought. and. invading tho lands of his
mel ehoor suffered a defeat which cor
ohly DC accounted for by the recopni-
.ion mat its success would have hean
unjustihable eeh
ana such an awful demonstration
81 the results OF accepting Northern
n. Vi principle and acting Hereunder
was not only necessary in the na.t
put IL viii be to us in the future 49,
Whlch VIII result In our ultimate omd
eternal success; for 1t is hirh tfr,a
.at the South forgot and forEaye tho
norlors or its crucifixion and desertinp
10 Lifetime assimilation OF North
ern IDEAS of conquest of financisI no.
granddizement and Of majority 49,
turned TO the service of AlmIphtv c.od
as SHOWN by our strict adherence -
constitutional law as solely exnressad
py the Bill of Rights; for a vast M
1orlty OF even our constitutional laws
ar not merely fiat enactments. but are
Utterly subversive of human rights, and
as such demand that every good elf
izen resist their enforcement bv all
peaceful methods
For fifty years majority Eat b.s
practically ruled this nation. and dur
ing that period It has given us full and
terrible eXemplifications not only OF
us disobedience of the law of Cod and
IT'S disregard OF human rights but these
nave brought about results which have
. re. peaceful republic into
not only cruel and criminal oligarchy.
put have led US into not only efforts 70
overthrow the works Of Almighty COD
put INTO the disgrace of charging the
creator with crimes too hideous to he
mentioned, save that alone by their
future.
The crimes of the North may, indeed,
must be thoroughly understood before
we ourselves can escape from the false
light OF apparent success which blinds
US both to the errors OF the past and
their inevitable consequences in the
future, and these not merely errors. but
hlgh crimes arc distinctly traceable
along three great lines from the very
beginning, OF Northern attacks upon
the South.
Arrogating TO themselves not merely
the right to promulgate and enforce
laws for their own States. recognition
or the force Of which the South was
expected to give, the North insistently
denied to the South even any sem
blance OF that which the North boldly
and vociferously claimed as their in
hcritance; course of action distinctly
shown during the years 1860 in the
legislation which demanded all future
states to be free" and which sought
to compel an unjust inequality as to
the recognition Of Northern laws by
Southern, and the refusal to recognize
Southern laws. by border States
Two OF these great lines OF error are
distinctly demonstrated by these con-
ditions:
First. Tho substitution of majority
fiat for the law OF human individual
and, second, the substitution
OF human opinion Chased on such adop-
ton OF majority fat for creature fiat.
The third OF these great lines of
error. although less apparent, Is in
reality the very foundation OF Northern
criminality, the source OF both OF the
above, and distinctly visible not more
ly rs in" but as constituting nil which
tho North did, held and taught OF error:
a criminality so great that we moro
easily recognize its minor details than
Its vast and horrible whole. viz:
Third. The substitution of utter dis
regard for and utter disbelief in AL
mighty God, for that gentle faith in
goodness without which
neither individual nor national life can
be productive Of other than crime and
Its results.
The in1nitesimal detail of majority
hat" in its substitution for human in
dtvidual rights. has stood forth SO
clearly to all. even to the North, that
to day oven tho venal and Grass North
erner takes refuge in the statement
that he never intended to cruelty the
rights of the individual by tho cruel
hxion OF those Of his State. To the
Southerner, the absurd and illogical
of human opinion. that the
black Is tho equal Of the white, for
not only creative fiat, but the word
Of God, always stood out equally bold.
ly; and again tho vennl Grass and
criminal Northerner loudly proclalms