Year: 1871

General Jubal A. Early has recently
made a speech before the South Carolina
Survivors Association in which we find
the following remarkable language:


My comrades, much loose language has
been used, by friend rs we'll rs foe, upon this
subject of submitting our rights to the arbitra-
ment OF arms bat in no sense can the Southern
States be said to have submitted their right to
withdraw from the Union TO any such arbitra-
m0nt. They exercised that right which was
theirs, and rendered peaceab.e settlement of
all the questions growing out of their with
drawal. A war of invasion and coercion was
most uniustly and ruthlessly waged against
them, and they resorted to arms to defend their
rights, their country, their homes, their all
against the sword, robbery and fire combined,
all of which were used by the spoiler The re-
salt of the war settled no question of right but
merely furnished another instance of the fact
that in this world truth and Justice do not al
ways prevail and that might is often more pow
erful than right


When is this country to recover from the
influence of such disturbers of the public
peace as this man has proven himself to
be? 1t would have been hundred times
better for the people of the whole country,
and more especially for the people of the
South, if such men had never been born.
Unfortunately, they have sustained the
| character of leaders, many of them, and


this makes it so much worse. That Early
possesses some capacity as a military man,
no one questions, and his services in
the rebel cause during the late war
have given him Il standing with the
Southern people, which makes his
declarations weightier than those of
| Toombs, or even of Alexander II. Ste
| phens. Such teaching rs this is calcula-
ten to prolong the spirit of strife between


the two sections of our country to an indefi-


mite period. He talks about exercising a
| right-alluding to the secession of the
| Southern States-and says peaceable set
| tlement of all questions growing out of
| their withdrawal was rendered. Peace


able, indeed! 1t is remarkable how a sane


man could make such n declaration to q


people who were living, at the time Major
| Robert Anderson, with his gallant little


band We're attacked with so much pomp
| and parade by the mob then assembled
with Beauregard as their leader And
| then suppose such atender had been made


does he think, or does any one suppose


that the President of the United States,


after taking the oath prescribed by the
Constitution, and with the Ioyal


legions of the free States to back him,


would so far compromise himself and the
| country, as to submit to so disgraceftil a
proposition" Such a proposition is too
| absurd for a school boy to entertain. The
| fact is, and everybody knows it, that seces-


sion meant war, and the leaders in the
movement went into it knowing this to be


so, therefore they have the weight of the


dreadful responsibility assumed upor


them, and there it must rest for all time tC


come. He who would instill into the


minds of any people, such poison as is con-
tanned in this disgraceful harangue, de
serves their everlasting scorn and contempt.
| If, unfortunately, they should accept his
| teachings and regulate their future con,


duct thereby, they themselves will prove q


curse to the fair land which they in
| habit