The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-08-14
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From the Savannah Georgian.
THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH IN
THE REVOLUTION.

e"o hequeucy ot tneiT Tepettio" III the
North, not only obtain belief there. but
among ourselves. Take rs an example
the following assertion Of one Of the most
widely circulated and influential papers in
The Northern States -
1.-THE army and navy ofthe United States
are recruited, as far as the men are con-
cerned, almost exclusively from the North.
So was it during the revolution. Massa-
chusetts gave more troops to the Ameri-
can armies than all the South put to-
gether y
These statements, and others like them,
tending to the disparagement of the South
rs compared will the North, have been
allowed to pass without contradiction or
examination, unit! few, probably, doubt
their correctness. Yet, if false, they are
not harmless; though, without reflection,
they may seem so. If the South and the
North (Which Heaven grantD are to live
IN harmonious association, it is all impor
tant that misrepresentation calculated 10
destroy tie respect in which one section
should hold the other, be not allowed to
go without exposure.
1t may indeed be true that in recruit
ing the army Of the United States, in
time Of peace, the men cana "aImost ex-
clusivev from the North" But is it so
in time of war, when battles are to le
I,
and glory to TIC won't or the soldiers
who went to Mexico, there to die in the
hospital or on the battle field, no one will
conteni that an undue proportion came
from the North. So in relation to the
second war with Great Britain. Were
one 10 60 to the trouble Of an investiga-
ton, we do not doubt that it might hc
shown that the single Stale of Kentucky
furnished more men who fought and who
fell in that conflict, than all New Eng
land; notwithstanding the fact that Canaa
and our Northern frontier WAS the lhreatrc
of most Of the battles. It would, how
ever, be tl,ankless task to hunt the statis-
tics necessary to establish the correctness
Of this opinion, conclusive rs they may
be-.
On the other hand, rs regards the quota
of men contributed respectively by the
North and the South to fight the battles
of the revolution, so much has heen said
not with 4 view of establishing his
torical fact, hut by way of comparison to
the disadvantage of the latter-that as
sertions like that contained in tho last
sentence Of the above extract, should be
examined and their fsIsehood exposed
We find this done with sufficient ability
in number of the Richmond Examiner,
which appeared months since. The arti-
Gle of the Examiner WIS i'll reply to pas
sage contained in lecture of the Rev.
Theodore Parker. Parker's statements were
30 nearly identical with those of the editor
from whom we have quoted, that reply
to one will dispose of the other.
The Examiners editorial brings before
us some curious scraps of revolutionary
history, well attcsted, however. as they are
upon such authority ~ Washington and
Greene. We are sorry that its author, in
pcnDing it, should have allowed himself to
indulge in language of 80 much bitterness.
His Indignation, however excusaLle in re-
ply to such assaults as Parker's, adds moth
ing to the overwhelming force of his facts.
Here is the article, with tile omission OF
few paragraphs
1t is contendcd that even in war the
North is superior to the South, and thougl,
Webster said that in the Revolution the
States Of Massachusetts and South Carolina
stood shoulder to shoulder, they knew from
records that at the time Massachusetts gave
$4,000 men, while South Carolina gave but
G,0O0. and that WIS tho way they stood
shoulder TO shouIder."-Lecture Of Theodore
Parker, reported in the Neao York Tribune.
The sentences which the reader finds at
the head.of this article, are extracted from
a very choice specimen of Ysnkee bragea.
dosio. 1t is taken from lecture delivered
by Theodore Parker, before New York
Institute. md reported in tile New York
Tribune. Said lecture consists of a par.
aiiet between the Northern and Southern
Etatss Of this Union, drawn with the pur.
poss blackoning and bcIi,tIing the latter,
con1rossti 81 csntemp.ible falsel,oods, and
exsented ina spirit Of small sectional mean
nesa nlaEgnity and vanity, unworthy a
nlsps6 lsttes, unworthy a man of sense,
aaxsstb Christian and unworthy good
eitss6
itsf asserting that New England has
produced all The patsiots philosophers, So
gs ships comm 81 nercs and prosperity Of this
connt % continues Biz parallel into other
afain Yankge are brsyer thai, Southern