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DISCOURSE.
Portentous and grand are the events of this era.
. mighty revolution, involving vast interests, and
reply affecting the whole civilized world, is now
1ogressing in our land. Already it has dismem-
tred the Republic ; and this but a lesser, among
e important results ere long to follow. Not alone
ill many lives and fortunes fall before its devas-
,ting march, new Governments be founded, and
esh channels of trade be opened, but through
id from its operations, a great re-action of senti-
ent regarding the fundamental organization of
ciety, and the diverse social and political status
different orders and species of men, is destined
flow throughout Europe and America. For the
,ppy teachings of this auspicious conflict, will be
open the eyes of all the world, to the falsehood of
r Form of Government.
They will see the bitter fruits our many fallacious
ws and maxims have produced. They will see
ntrasted in this dissevered nation, two widely
riant labor systems ; and marking the vast su-
riority of the one to the other, will then abandon
conceived false ideas and prejudices against the
tter. That this will be found the patriarchal and
ture-ord. red institution of the Southern States,
history and sociologic laws attest. Peace, hap-
iess, contentment, and prosperity will soon there
the portion of both serf and master.
Behold their neighbors North !" Whom the
>ds would destroy they first make mad." The
enity of sin induces them to scourge themselves.
mess sweeps o'er their land. Utopean dreamers
ke from their sleep. False Prophets and Teach-
r% ceive their reward. Their millennium morn
indefinitely postponed. The day of retribution
s come.
Through dark and terrible sufferings and trials,
ist the people there pass, as a penance for their
ig and much evil conduct. For that they have
wrshipped Mammon, the Devil and his imps alone,
,st they submit to a purifying tribulation.
A satirical writer has penned the following epi-
ammatic epitaph upon them : "Here lies a peo-
who lost their liberty, in striving to give free-
m to negroes."
A truer would be-Here lies a people who died
im .xcess of liberty. " The world is governed
much," is one of the falsest, among the manyfalse maxims, birthed out of this excess of Ameri-
can liberty.
The Red Republican shibboleth of Europe-
"liberty, equality, and fraternity "-has been
caught up and re-echoed by their wilder brothers
here ; for Black Republicans are but fully ripened
Red Republicans.
This levelling cry of theirs is false ; for all na-
ture and experience proclaim, that harmonious
society and good government, can alone be had,
where there is inequality observed. All govern.
ments should be strong ; and the few, not the many,
its rulers. Caste, class, rank, privilege and prero-
gative, where every one fills his appropriate sphere,
make up the only well-conditioned social com-
pact.
We have nearly run our race of FREEDOM, as in-
terpreted and practiced in the so-styled Free States
of this Union (or rather, should I say, of the late
Union) ; and to keep from further poisoning con-
tact, and save themselves from sharing in the cala-
mities impending over all, which have been so
rapidly rushed on by the insensate Northern party,
late triumphing at the polls, is one chief cause for
the more intelligent, virtuous, and conservative
Slave States, to sever alliance with that section.
That this fanatical crusading host, should have
included in their marauding campaign, a fierce on-
slaught upon the Southern people and their institu-
tions, has been most fortunate for the latter ; since
it gives palpable proof, sufficient to open the eyes
of the masses there, to the important fact-that the
ideas and intents of the preponderating North,
are deeply prejudicial to their longer living under
the same Government with them.
The South to itself, may and can, a bloodless back-
ward revolution tread ; soon eradicate all its
imbibed false Northern notions ; consolidate its
various interests, and maintain a wholesome Repub-
lican form of Government.
Not so the unvirtuous, discordant, frenzied North.
Her course must be onward ; to what end-read
history and 'twill tell.
Appropriately here, I extract the following from
the writings of George Fitzbugh, of Virginia, a
man of eminent ability, and deeply philosophic
order of mind. The ideas are the same as those I
have been expressing the past five years :
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Pickett, Charles E., 1820-1882. The existing revolution; its causes and results., pamphlet, 1861; Sacramento, CA. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth498082/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Schreiner University.