Contact with misery renders us callous to those experiences a constant view of vice lessens its deformity. By a law of our nature all passive impressions impair our moral It will not do for a hand that drew the sword to guide the pen. Shall have “passed over the river ” when the threnody of the “olden days” which to us is like the music of Carrol along the hills of Slimora, “pleasant, but mournful to the soul,” shall be forgotten, some ambitious youth will uplift the veil will take a glance of the whole horizon, and the south will unbosom her griefs that have been so long concealed. Perhaps the “hour is on the wing,” when a worthier hand will write the history of the institutional age that was sandwiched between the slavery civilization ante-dating the sixties, and that which minimized the pernicious power of manhood suffrage at the close of the century or perhaps when that remnant that still survives in the weakness of age to“Weep o'er their wounds, o'er tales of sorrow done,Shoulder their crutch and show how fields are won.” Reconstruction came upon the South with fearful impulse. Among its necessarily implied powers was that of confiscation and numbered in its enumeration of brutalities, was a nameless crime that shocked the moral sense of mankind. It was under the dominion of an organized anarchy, with legislatures and courts of justice, subordinated to a lawless assemblage of unprincipled men calling themselves the representatives and judges of the people. It was, in its practical operation, a pure and unadulterated despotism, superseding the protection guaranteed by the Federal Constitution to each and every State. The government of the South by carpetbaggers was essentially oppressive and inquisitorial. In the collision of exasperated passions, it is the temper of aggression that always strikes the first blow. All these cruelties were legalized, while bleeding humanity was sinking under the burden of oppression. In the burning of a thousand heretics the religious zealot saw the hand of God in the destruction of a thousand sorcerers, the fanatic discerned the commonweal of the people so in the whipcords with which the people of the South were so mercilessly scourged, there was found an antiseptic for the gangrenous wounds inflicted by the civil war. The Spanish inquisition, now the abhorrence of all enlightened minds, was long sustained in many centuries by the tyrants’ plea of necessity. “But,” said its authors, “treason must be made odious, and the late insurrectionary States must feel that there is a higher law than that promulgated by their ordinances of secession.” Reasoning men everywhere felt that it must continue to multiply its mischiefs. In the enforcement of the policy of Reconstruction in the South, the evidences were from day to day becoming so cumulative and decisive, that nothing but the discipline of an enraged party, coupled with the “spoils” principle, prevented the whole mass of the community from a universal expression of its desire to have it abandoned. Product manual for the Ting (5188ZW) Manual - PWAR5188.“I have considered the oppressions that are done under the sun, and on the side of the oppressor there is power.”.Product manual for the Big D (3059) : Manual - PWAR3059.Product manual for the Word Time Digit (2897) : Manual - PWAR2897.Product manual for the Clock stand (suitable for 3998ST, 3998STZW, 3998AR and 3998ARZW): Manual - Clock stand.General Manual for Radio Controlled Clocks: Manual - PWAR00007.Use this manual when your movement looks like this: General Manual for Radio Controlled Clocks: Manual - PWAR0005.General Manual for Garden Clocks: Manual - PWAR0009.General Manual for Alarm Clocks: Manual - PWAR0003.General Manual for Wall/ Table Clocks: Manual - PWAR0001.If your clock is malfunctions or you have a question about your clock please take a look first at the user manual and our FAQ page. The quality of each and every NeXtime clock and your satisfaction are very important to us. For optimum life or your NeXtime clock you should adhere to the instructions in the user's manual.
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