Morning Star

Mr. Hale truly said that concession never satisfies fanaticism. The following shows how the South magnifies its own rights and how easily they are violated. We copy from the Tribune:

ANOTHER VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE SOUTH.—The Constitutionalist, a paper published at Augusta, Georgia, has discovered another infringement of the rights of the South. It is nothing less than an attempt to corrupt the morals of southern children, by means of a school book. Somebody at the east, who calls himself Peter Parley, has been writing a First Book of History, in which, speaking of the five Southern Atlantic States, the following sentences appear:

"The negroes are generally well treated; that is, they have enough to eat, drink, and wear, and are not often required to labor beyond their strength. But the system of slavery is not conducive to the happiness either of the white people or the negroes.

"I hope the time will soon come when there will be no slaves in our country."

Thus, says the Constitutionalist, commenting on the barbarous and insane sentiments of this heedless historian:

"Thus are our children to be taught to look upon the ancient and scriptural institution of slavery as an evil and a thing accursed, and to sigh in unison with the author of their school-books, for the time soon to come 'when there will be no slaves in our country.'"

"Such books should be condemned as incendiary publications, and driven from our schools and our borders."

Mr. Peter Parley is then compared to the "serpent coiled among flowers, and striking the tender hand of childhood, stretched innocently forth to gather the flowers that shelter it," and the whole south is invoked to be on its guard against abolitionism in disguise. Could not Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Clemens, or better still, Mr. Hangman, contrive to summon Mr. Parley before the United States Senate to answer for his heinous offence?