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About The banner of the South. (Augusta, Ga.) 1868-1870 | View Entire Issue (July 2, 1870)
4 REV. A. J. RYAN, Editor, AUGUSTA, GA.. JULY 2, 1870. NsT* ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS AND BUSINESS LETTERS FOR THE “BAN NER OF THE SOUTH” SHOULD HE ADDRESSED TO THE PUBLISHERS— I. t\ BLOMK & CO. WANTED, Several young men of good moral character and industrious habits to can vass as General Agents for the Baxnrr of the South. Those whose recom mendations are satisfactory will receive liberal compensation for services rendered. THE CONSISTENCY OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH- The Mobile (Ala.) Tribune , in a re cent article, which we intended to pub lish, but have mislaid, accuses this jour nal of inconsistency, in urging upon the people of the South the duty of cherish ing the glorious memories of the “Lost Cause,” and at the same time advocating alliliation with a Northern Party. The Tribune is a most ardent Southern Lights journal; hut not. more so than the Banner of the South. It is con sistent, and so are we. It looks at the political status of the country through one kind of spectacles, while we look at them through another kind—that is all the difference between us. It hates the Yankees and doesn’t want to have‘any thing whatever to do with them. We come as near to the same feeling as our Christian charity will permit us, and regret that it is impossible to carry out our cotemporary’s plan. If the organiza tion of a third party could defeat the Radicals, we should advocate it with all the zeal and ability that we possess. Hut when a great party, already organized and with Constitutoinal Liberty and politi cal justice as their watchwords, can bare ly achieve a triumph here and there, we cannot really see how the cutting away of a portion of those who would affiliate with this party, cun add to its strength, or benefit tne South. If our cotempora ry can solve this problem to our satisfac tion, we shall abandon the advocacy of affiliating with any Northern party, and go in solely and entirely for Southern rights under the advocacy of a Southern party. We do not attempt to apologize for those so-called Democrats who joined Radi calism in its war upon the South, and helped to fasten the present tyranny upon us. They have surely won ever lasting infamy for such unprincipled conduct, and we shall not defend them here or elsewhere. Rut the defection of a lew, or of many, if you please, cannot make the Principles which they deserted any the less true Principles. These are the Principles of Democracy'—as expounded by Jefferson, Madison, and the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. They are living Principles to-day, and are good enough for the South, or for the North, or for any people in any land. The war could not kill them. Tyranny cannot kill them. The perversion of their ad vocates cannot kill them. They are liv ing, breathing, active principles, which nor time, nor treason, nor tyranny can destroy. They may be suppressed for a wnile; men may forsake them; and men may denounce them ; but they are here, with a great party to defend them and to advocate them. We care not whether tins paity is Yankee or Southern, for tbc reason that it upholds the Principles Principles for which the South fought and for which the Banner of the South contends to-day. We want, first, Consti tutional Liberty for the South, and next tor every State in the Union. We want to see the Government rescued from the hands of Negroes and Scalawags and placed where it belongs, in the hands of honest white men. If, in this wc are, inconsistent, so let 11s be. We believe that we are not. We want to rescue our dear sunny land from the grasp of the Tyrants and malefactors who now hold it and rule it; and if the Democratic party can aid us to do this—and we be lieve that they can--we are willing and ready to eulist under their banners as we have done in the past, and hope to do in the future. W r e have no present hope of Southern independence. If we did, we should sacrifice every other political feeling to that end; but we have hope of restoring Constitutional Liberty to the States, and hence devote our humble en ergies and poor ability to that cause. We should he pleased to have the power ful aid of our gifted cotemporary of the Mobile Tribune in this work. GOOD ADVICE. Here is a piece of good solid advice written in very plain language, so that every one can understand it. It is advice which we have given before, and which cannot be repeated too often. Yes, make your home attractive—make it a place of virtue, a place of good deeds,’a place of flowers, of music, of good books, a place where your children would rather be than anywhere else, a place where, when they have grown to maturer years, they can look back with pleasure, and pride, and profit. It is a simple thing, and yet a powerful thing. If there are any of our readers who have not given a thought to this subject, or fried the ex periment, let them do so at once. The advice is from anew book entitled “Life at Home,” by Rev. Dr. Win. Aikman, and should be read by all who have fami lies of their own, or who have charge of families : MAKE HOME ATTRACTIVE. No child, however sentimental, will love a home simply because it has the name of one. If we would have cur chil dren love it, we must make it lovely—wc must give them something to love in the home. Now if the principal ideas which a child has of his home are, that it is a place where he gets his meals and where he sleeps; where, if he is little, he is per petually found fault with ; where he must keep quiet; where at night-fall he must sit stupidly waiting till bed-time; or, if he have grown older, he can only deem it a dreary room in which he must em ploy himself as best he may, while the father sits at his paper or dozes in his chair, and the mother is silently busy with her sewing or her book ; if such be the aspect of home, one need not wonder that children learn to look elsewhere for pleasure, and seek to find amusement in ether circles, or that home is forsaken as soon as it is possible to leave it. It is practicable to make home so de lightful that children shall have no dis position to wander from it or prefer any other place ; it is possible to make it so attractive that it shall not only firmly hold its own loved ones, but shall draw others into its cheerful circle. Let the house, all day long, be the scene of pleasant looks, pleasant words, kind and affection ate act?; let the table be the happy meet ing place of a merry group, and not a dull board where a silent, if not sullen company of animals come to feed ; let the meal be the time when a cheerful laugh is heard and good things are said ; let the sitting room, at evening, be the place where a smiling company settle themselves to books or games till the round of good-night kisses are in order ; let there be some music in the household, music not kept like silk and satins to show to company, but music in which father and mother and sister and brother join; let the young companions be wel comed and made for the time a part of the group, so that daughters shall not deem it necessary to seek the obscurity of back parlors with intimate friends, or to drive father and mother to distant apartments; in a word, let the home be surrounded by an air of cozy and cheer ful good will; then children need not be exhorted to love it, you will not be able to tempt them away from it. The ties which bind a child to home are created not so much out of great as from little things; some of them I have hinted at, and many more will suggest themselves to a wise parent. There should tie a good many holidays in the home. I believe in anniversaries, and I love, by observing them, to connect time with events, and to give to both a deeper interest. The birthdays of a family should be always noticed, and, in some way, celebrated The busy preparation of the whole household to make some present to father or mother or sister or brother on a birthday or holiday; the many plannings, the workings in by corners and at odd times; the bundling of work out of sight as the step of tiie favored one is heard; the careful stowing 01 girts away till the appointed time; and then, when the looked-for day has come, the presentations, the confused and merry voices, the filled eye, the choked voice, the heart too full to speak in words, memory touched as with an angel’s hand, love that can only look its thanks—all these ! who can tell their sweet and mighty power ? A home, familiar to such scones, will it, can it be one that children shall cot love ? No, no, from it, when the inexorable time comes to go away, daughters shall pass with sobs of sorrow, and sons with pressed lips and swimming eyes, and while mother lives it will be a home still, home, though years have gone and other homes have claimed them. For the Banner of the South. CHARLES DICKENS- Genius never dies. The fame of the warrior, won upon gory fields of battle, amid charging hosts, and the flaunting of victorious banners, is transmitted from sire to son, and is made the eloquent theme of poet, bard and historian through all the ages. If then the genius that springs from deeds of valor achieved by the sword, is thus enshrined in the hearts and recollec tions of all after generations, why should it not be the same with the brilliant achievements of he who wields the pen For if it were not for the pen the valor ous deeds and glorious conquests of the chieftain, which have awakened the plaudits of admiring millions, would have been buried in oblivion. When, then, a writer of renown, one who by his brilliant productions has beau tified our language and has been a bene factor to his race, has passed from this sphere of action, it may be considered as great a calamity to his country as the de mise of a victor of a hundred battle fields. “For peace hath her victories as well as war.” The death of Charles Dickens, the great English Novelist, may then be re garded as not only a calamity to the land of his nativity, but to the world at large. For no writer of romance has exerted such an immense influence for good as Charles Dickens. No writer has been such a faithful delineator of Nature, pre senting forcible pictures of humble lives, and though scenes of crime as well as of poverty are freely described, it is done with sucli delicacy that refinement is never outraged; producing from those humble walks of life characters worthy of the imitation of those who wear the regal robes of Earth’s chosen ones. We cannot peruse any of Mr. Dickon’s works without we are sure to find char acters that he has so beautifully drawn exemplified in our everyday observation of men around us. “In Dombey and Son” we have pre sented to us the cynical Mr. Dombey, and the tender and yearning affection of a daughter grieved at a parent’s cold neglect. In the admirable “Pickwick Papers we have the whole-souled eccen tricity of Mr. Pickwick. “Martin Chuz zlewit” furnishes a graphic picture of the cunning hypocrite in the detestable Peck ersniff. _ The “Old Curiosity Shop” gives a beautiful picture of an innocent child, in the midst ol vice preserving her puri ty, and the blind infatuation of the old gambler. And the charming story 7 of David Copperfield exhibits a character frequently met with in our intercourse with mankind, that of Macawber, “wait ing for something to turn up.” Other examples could be drawn from his works, representing Nature to per fection, but these will have to suffice in this brief article. Mr. Dickens possessed a heart that was filled with benevolence, and it was always his eager desire to benefit his race; such has been the prime object of all his writings. His death leaves a void in the literary world that it is impossible to fill. Bril liant authors may arise, but there will never be another Charles Dickens. It is a bright thought, in connection with those who have benefited their kind, that though dead they yet live through their works. “I or the good men do lives after them.” Lotiiair. The Griffin Star says the late rains have materially injured the crops. There is much complaint of cotton dying from the effects of ram and cotton lice. Wheat is sprouting in the shock, and some is bffng fed to stock. EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH. THE COUNCIL AND INFALLI BILITY. For the last few months every’ account from the Eternal City pointed to the con clusion that the opposition of the Galil eans to the definition of the Infallibility, was rapidly waning, if not totally extinct. Now, however, that the discussion of the question has really commenced, wc regret to find that they still persist in placing themselves in opposition to the voice of the faithful and the conscience of the universal Church. From every known land (even from the Dioceses of the lead ers of the opposition), the Holy See has been besieged with the prayers and peti tions of the faithful, earnestly beseeching of the Council to proclaim tbc great dog ma, of whose truth the world lias been for centuries convinced. These petitions the Iloly Father has placed in the hands of the Cardinals Presidents, as the best arguments to offer to the graceless op position of the Gailicans, and the noblest testimony of the support and sympathy of the Universal Church. On the 15th of May the 52nd General Congregation of the Council was held. Mass was celebrated by Mgr. Frederic Aon Furstemburg, Archbishop of 01- rautz, on the conclusion of which the dis cussion on the schema of the Roman Pontiff was resumed. The Archbishop of Mechlin (Mgr. Dcschamps,) addressed the Fathers in the name of the Commis sion de fide, and refuted the objections which had been made at the previous Congregation. The Bishop of Saint Brieuc, (eight hundred and fifty-two Priests of whose Dioces 1 , in their own name, and that of their flocks, have ear nestly 7 petitioned the Holy Sec to pro claim the dogma), then rose and opposed the definition. He was followed by the Bishop of St. Gall, the only 7 Swiss Pre late who opposed the Infallibitv, and Mgr. Hefeie, the Bishop of Rotteuburg, who spoke in the same sense. The fifty-third Congregation was held on the 18th of May. Mass was said by Mgr. Martinoz, Archbishop of Manilla. The objections of the previous Congre gation were then replied to by Mgr. Gar cia GUI, Archbishop of Saragossa. His address is said to have displayed in an eminent degree the learning and elo quence for which the Prelates of Catho lie Spain are remarkable. The definition was then opposed by 7 Mgr. Schwartzen burg, Cardinal Archbishop of Prague, and Mgr. Donnet, Cardinal Archbishop of Bordeaux. The discourse of Mgr. Rauscher, Cardinal Archbishop of Vien na, to the same effect, was read by 7 Mgr. Ilelele, Bishop of llottenburg. Each of these addresses occupied about an hour in delivery. The fifty-fourth Congregation was held on the 19th, and was marked by one of the most magnificent discourses that have yet been delivered to the august assem bly. The speaker was the Cardinal Archbishop of Dublin, who, for two hours and a half, addressed the assem bled Fathers, refuting the arguments of the opposition with a depth of learning, energy and eloquence, that will long be remembered by the Prelates of the Council, amongst whom his address has made a deep and lasting impression. His arguments were chiefly directed against the objections of the Archbishops of Prague and Vienna. He was ably seconded by Mgr. Mareno, Cardinal Arch bishop of of Valladolid. The fifty-fifth General Congregation met upcß the 20th. The first speaker was Mgr. Limor, Primate of Hungary one of the opposition. He was followed by the Archbishop of Carpce, (Mgr. Maddallena) who spoke in favor of it, and is said to have refuted with great force the idea that the Infallibility would be an obstacle to the conversion of the Greeks. Ills Grace, the Archbishop of luam, Dr. Mcllale, then spoke in favor of the definition, and was followed by Mgr. Darboy, Archbishop of Paris, who, as was expected, opposed it. lhe fifty-sixth General CoDgrcf»ati<-' , i was held 011 the 21st of May, Leahy, Archbishop of Cashel, replied'i n the name of the Commission dc ride m the objections of the previous Congrega tion. The discusssion was then resumed by the Bishop of Strasbourg, followed by the Bishops of Forks and Castillimare. The opposition is chiefly confined to the Prelates of France and Germany* Those of Italy, Spain, and England, Ire land, Belgium, the Missionary Bishop of the East, the Bishops of South Ameri ca, and the greater portion of the North are all zealous Infallibilists. Addresses in favor of Infallibility con tinue to arrive daily at Rome. Limerick and London are amongst the latest France, especially, has been most earnest in its avowal of the Infallibility, and the organs of public opinion prove that evoi there theGallican theories have little to expect of support or sympathy. Father Clair, in the last number of the Etudes Ileligievses, says: “Gallicanism was in principle a doc trinal error, and in fact an enslavement of the Church to the civil power. The fault of the Assembly in 1682 consisted therefore, in declaring that to be true which was theologically false, and in de fending as liberties, a complete code of bondage. Illegal in its convocation, sus picious in its composition, and deprived in its debates of all necessary independ ence, it sided with the King against the Pope, and submissive to the dictates of the court, decided delicate questions without authority’, after having intro duced them without necessity. Abruptly dissolved by the same sovereign will which had called it together, its work had no duration, and its famous articles, quashed by the Holy See, disavowed by the King, rejected bv the majority, and formally retracted by’ their own authors, had only’ the shameful honor of being in voked by all who from that date have either revolted against Holy Church, or tyrannically oppressed her.” Such is that which Gailicans defend : such is that which the Holy See and the faithful earnestly hope to abolish and condemn. Whatever opposition the Gailicans may offer, we have every reason to know tint it will be ineffectual. Convinced of the great and inevitable necessity that now exists for the proclamation of the dog ma, the Pope is firmly resolved that the Council vviil not be prorogued until the question is finally decided. His Holiness remarked not long since to a Bishop: “If the question cannot be decided by Saint Peter’s day, it will be by the end of July, or the Feast of the Assumption.” An anonymous Pamphlet, entitled Solis Episcopis , and written by a French Bishop, his been circulated in Rome, which contends that no Prelate could vote for the Infallibility without commit ting mortal sin. Amongst the Right Reverend Fathers, and even amongst the Gailicans, it has excited no other feelings than those of contempt and indignation. A telegram of June 2nd has reached Paris from Rome, stating that the Infalli bility will lie proclaimed with great pomp on St. Peter’s day, and that the Council will then be prorogued from the Ist July until the 15th of October. This is truly the moment when the In faliibitv is required. In Germane ar.d other countries the prevalence of the sects and the villainy’ of statesmen lias com pletely poisoned and Protestantized the tone of public opinion, and alienated the sympathies of fainthearted Catholi •- from the love and fidelity* they owe to Holy Church and her sovereign Pontiff, to place them in the vain theories and hollow liberties that constitute the ‘sheep’s clothing” of these faithle-s philosophers. Thus many who have long clung with listless hands and lukewarm hearts to the bark of Peter, have n w grown wearv of the struggle of Truth against the World, and lain would flout with the current of Revolution and here sy. Such are those unworthy children ot the Church who calling themselves Liberals, seek to effect an impossible union between Truth and Error: a grace less compromise between Faith and Here sy, and to sacrifice for their own seit luve and convenience sake, the dignity and integrity of the Spouse of Christ to court the worthless applause and faith less friendship of her enemies. Forti fied with the ready support and sympathy of a heretic press, loud in their preten sions and great nothingness, in realitv a miserable minority, they have assumed au importance whicii their number? could not furnish nor their standing satisfy. Thus many, both inside and outside the fold of Christ, have mistaken their clamor for the voice of the faithful, and tuc opinion of the Church. From them Rjme and her saintly Pontiff’ his notning *0 fear. lie has the support of the Catholic world—of the true-hearted Catholics oi England—ol Ireland, the semper cl übiquejldelis, of the fearless Priistsand people of France, of heresy-hating Spam
