ierce, intolerant,
fanatical people, the males of which will be a perpetual standing army;
hating us worse than the Southern Hamilcar taught his swarthy boy to hate
the Romans; a people whose existence as a hostile nation on our frontier
is incompatible with our peaceful development? Their wealth, the proceeds
of enforced labor, multiplied by the breaking up of new cottonfields, and
in due time by the reopening of the slave-trade, will go to purchase
arms, to construct fortresses, to fit out navies. The old Saracens,
fanatics for a religion which professed to grow by conquest, were a
nation of predatory and migrating warriors. The Southern people,
fanatics for a system essentially aggressive, conquering, wasting, which
cannot remain stationary, but must grow by alternate appropriations of
labor and of land, will come to resemble their earlier prototypes.
Already, even, the insolence of their language to the people of the North
is a close imitation of the style which those proud and arrogant Asiatics
affected toward all the nations of Europe. What the "Christian dogs"
were to the followers of Mahomet, the "accursed Yankees," the "Northern
mud-sills" are to the followers of the Southern Moloch. The
accomplishments which we find in their choicer circles were prefigured in
the court of the chivalric Saladin, and the long train of Painim knights
who rode forth to conquest under the Crescent. In all branches of
culture, their heathen predecessors went far beyond them. The schools of
mediaeval learning were filled with Arabian teachers. The heavens
declare the glory of the Oriental astronomers, as Algorab and Aldebaran
repeat their Arabic names to the students of the starry firmament. The
sumptuous edifice erected by the Art of the nineteenth century, to hold
the treasures of its Industry, could show nothing fairer than the court
which copies the Moorish palace that crowns the summit of Granada. Yet
this was the power which Charles the Hammer, striking for Christianity
and civilization, had to break like a potter's vessel; these were the
people whom Spain had to utterly extirpate from the land where they had
ruled for centuries.

Prepare, then, if you unseal the vase which holds this dangerous Afrit of
Southern nationality, for a power on your borders that will be to you
what the Saracens were to Europe before the son of Pepin shattered their
armies, and flung the shards and shivers of their broken strength upon
the re