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Show BG • HOEBl.JCK . credo is a long face on Snnday anu a .long pnrs? on week d ays. Tlle.l1· w<a te• r of b:11)tisrn 1s 'vatcr of pe- 1 t~·ifaction, tnrning their hearts to ... ton·~·. Loo,( at those three t.honsand preacher::; who pcttLtonct1. Con- gress rcc~~ 11t1,., r - t1,· ci· 1• l) r"d~.· 1:t1'on 'v~1s a howl o.f hate ao-., u· ns t the South. \Vhen they stretch . out the11· r h· oly l~·ulds over this half of the country, the1r bene< 1Ct1ons a;·e bans and their ycry hallclui~th is a <.1oxolog~r of devils. They haxe ahno. t canon1zed the bonc.3 ot old John Brown, a robh nr nnd a::;sas 'in, because they were Southern ,YOinen aD<.l c1lildren ,,~honl he "~on1c1 .hnse incited negroes to n1nr<.ler in their beds. J..J1ke 1 nests, like people. The better chts::; of preaehers at the North are ransacking the Apot.:alypse to proYC that the end of the world is at hand, and they confi:·m their predictions by citing the unparalleled deprav1ty of mankind.-a dC'pravity " ybich they aetunJ1y see at their o\vn doors though it i ' not seen in the South." "But, brother Diek," interrupted the colonel, "those are only their fanatics \dHHn yon descri1K~." "They drown the voices of all other:::~. And then Yankee politics-a corrupt dcspotisn1 of ~lenw.g_og~1es -profe~sing but one principle, the rule o1 ~: lHHJ_o~·lty, and practicing but one, public plnu<.1er. J:i anutlCism, ho,vever, "'ill soon do1ninate polities. A1 really most of the religious societies there are political clubs. Priests are sure to be the tyrants of a land ,vhere pure religion does not prevail." . "The spirit of carieature runs away \Vith n1y b1g brother to-clay," said Colonel Fairfax, laughing. " Caricature! What I say is as true a~ llagncrreo· type." "And not more life-like, I dare say, Uncle Dick.'' " Julia, a good girl like you cannot in1agine such HOEBUCK. 3 .., I evils as polnte Northern soC"i ty. 'rhcir cities aro sinks, their town~ rrpc their citie~ nnrl they poi~on the co11ntry. ThPy abonntl wilh hnunt::; \\yhcre n11Jn h:1vc exerten their ingenuity in pcrf'l'r·Ling yjec as thev h~l':e chowhere in j1ilproving n1achincry. \Vhat i" their f' o.cicty.-\dwt 1nnst it lJG fron1 it"' structure, ev~ :1 ~1de irom . religion and politic. ? A confused populace strngghng for ·wealth or life-a perpetual prizef: ght, \rith ntillions in the ring-a n1ob \Vithont o-en-tlenlen " -=> ' IIolc1, t1wre, brother ])ick, you '\ron't S;ty there nre n? gentlemen in the l~ orth," cried the ~olonel laughing at the doctor's notions. '' c l .J ent en1cn-yes, m:1-uy of then1, as there nro 1nany. good Chri ·~ians. But there is no cla~s of ~·entry 'v1th a rccogn1zcd position ancl influence. Here, you kno"', the gentry, rich nud poor, \vithont the support of Hncqnallaws, exert a direct an 11 o·itin1ate influence npo1~ the. 1noverncnts of society \~ith the open ~1~J~robatlon of the people, nnd w.iLh open re~ pons1b1hty, un~lcr the ?orrection of pub1ic opinion. There, gcn try 1s ostraCised. \.\T cn.lth, ev'cry,rhere a power, rules there by indirection and corruption. It buys the pre ·s. It subsidizes the pulpit. I t bribe t!1e den1agogue~ .. . It c~rrupts all lcal1crs of the pubhe. :Vhen f:~natlmsm 1s quiet, the force that rules the Y a.1kecs IS rnoncy and a n1ob. In fact there can be no gentry, ''rhere nothing i" stable, and o·old is the stau~~ud of al: worth. Gentry is the ;ecnliar tlo.'ver of an o.ld agncultural co1nn1unity, ,vhcre nature sh1nes on ngncnlture. IIow''-- " Pardon n1e, Uncle Dick, you are n1aking n speech." " Heaven forefend, Colonel Julia ; if I get to |