The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-08-14
THE SOUTHERN REBELLION.

| NE SUUIhkkN kEbelllUWs
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| The Abolition Papers tho Great Sources
OF MischfeE-How the Georgians were
| Seducsd into Sccession-TOOmbs Engi-
nccrs the Movement-The Heresy OF
State being Superior to National Aile-
gfancc-How the Contribution Of Gcor-
gia was Changed to Keep Down the
"Poor Notwithstanding Cruelty to
q Northern Woman-ApprehensiO OF
Servile discrimination and Recrt-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In Value OF
Slaves,
&C., &C., SC.
70 rae scfroR OF Tub HERALD.
just one week since left the outskirts Of seces-
siondom and everywhere at hotel, restaurant railway
social circle all through tho North. the myriad talk
ing tongues and countless thinking brains OF our North
ern hives eternaly discussing the same subjects
What does the South waas and what should the North dos
From the very day that Toombs OF Georgia, tele'
graphed from Washington to Mhdgeve that"th South
had hope Of justice from tho North IL has been the
good fortune Of the writer TO discuss bweekly with
coere of known rebels dispatches from headquarters
to the objects In view and the TO be employed
| to "are the Southern heart"
SOUTH CAROLINA A BURNING PLAGUE Spot.
That heart has boon set re and II follows natural
laws like unto all things else combustbe, 1t will be con-
suncd in the potico chemical process With the excep
ton of South Carolina, which has been fostering
ucor Of arstocracy-a running sore, with ford regal
circet on the giant body Of the great Western republic
the masses in the Southern States the first day or this
year, we're true to the Union as the chaste young
bride, with the hymeneal bushes envening tho paor of
her virgin cheek, to the loving Romeo upon whose arm
she leaves the impression OF hor weight with such con
| nding affection.
| MISCHIEF WROUGHT BY ABOLITION PArxRs
party which has advocated bndy and unreasoningly
separate nationality for those States Until the election
| OF Abraham Lincoln assumed form Of probability,
| that party powerless by tho aid OF extracts
from Northern papers Of the Tribune stamp, paraded
prominently in every country sheet throughout the
length and breadth of the entire South the advocates Of
disunion asked and asked boldly, Can you call such
people brehrenp Here is the Tribune here is the New
York Ece7ng Post democratic Taper toowhat sympa-
thy can you have in common with such peopieT Union
men answered. This is country of free speech, and
the dictum Of tho Tribune is not identical with legislation
at Washington" But the living, biting, CALLING taunts Of
such sheets produced effect perhaps unntended Tho
Southern lad Of sixteen coored to his he listened
to the TRADES Of the Northern abolition press upon an in
stituon which from his infancy he had been trained to
regard in conformity with the dspensaon Of Providence
| There was, in this venom displayed by the republican
press unfaing store Of poison to the houghess and
passionate yet with that lever Alone the Union sentiment
was too strong to be shaken. Had the eighty or
more men who sent to protect few hundred old
muskets in the arsenal at Augusta been put to garrison
fort Pulaski at the mouth Of the Savannah Georgia would
have seeded from the Union. Uften before and
after the removal of Anderson Sumter heard some
of the weahest slave Of middle Georgia aud else
where exclan:-Would to God we had Jackson at Wash
>, ngon p oh for hour Of Wallace wight, well
trained Bruce to lead the fight" But such wishes
vain the then United States government bold ont to the
daring spirits Of secession the tempting bait of Southern
stroHghods exposed to the grasp Of vaung ambition
without the risk Of single blow With Georgia out0f
tho Southern C0nfederacy would have TO contend with
body without heart Had Georgia stayed the Union,
! would Alabama and Mississippi have secededs
| THE sECEpE.
Are tho czons Of Now York appraised that the people
Of Georgia never did vote themselves out Of tho Unon7
! mako tho assertion deliberately and with full know.
ledge Of that noble people, that the powers that be
the South dare not submit to popular vote Of the
in Georgia tho question Of Union disunonhe North
at the same time guaranteeing Thorn that their constu
onal rights sacred as heretofore and full freedom
Of speech assured at each tree stump in the sateand
yet there few that State who can now utter
| Union sentiment.
How then did secession obtain tho asccndancys
Political engineering and disappointed ambition effected
the revolution.
| WASHINGTON AND SLAVERY
No expression common in the South than this
That George Washington and the founders of govern
appreciated the slavery institution its true
light" have listened TO the slvery of Alexander
H. stophcns as he discussed the physiological and prov
Dental status of the negro and that the Father of
his Country was too tender footed to the word
"slave, and habtualy employed the term ''servant."
THE GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED SOUTH.
Should Henry Clay live today, many perhaps tho ma
jory of the South, would be eager to hang him
| abolonst When Senator Hammond OF South Carolina
stood upon the balcony his hotel Charleston
dressed the frantic multitude around him, took from
his pocket numbered the Tribune and read short ex
tract, which the editor asserted the weakness of the
South and then tho speaker navey replied "Do not the
fools yet know that we have always had the control of
this government
1.-The control of this government" This, this was the
coup de soe which heated and stuposd tho brains of
Southern politicians. The last census diminished the
representation OF the South in Washington, and the
late election was proof that JEFF Davis and
Cobb, and Toombs and Stephens had but Slim
And why should the South lose influence in the federal
Congress? Does not every slave owned in the South equal
solomon in all his glorya What country grew so
wealthy the Sosh in the short period of eight
years Has not every man his carriage and has not cot
grown in value from six to thirteen cents
tho slave he purchased for five hundred dollars in 1850
worth 81 900 or 81 900 nows Why should people grow
ing thus wealthy submit to loss Of influence govern
mcnt, especially when the gain goes to strengthen their
enemiesY
HOW rooMRs ENGINEERED THE SECESSION MOVEMENT
Upon grounds like these Toombs and a Cobb each
with half million invested in slaves could appeal with
effect tho hot headed and proud collection Of young
planters which constituted the Legislature at Miege
villc. "Why not" exclaimed Toombs, "usurp power
mot deegated) and the ordinance Of
once do not hand me tho sword by Cd I'll take
il myself Why not pass itS' The members knew, and
ItOmbs knew, that the Union sentiment strong
that they would get torn to pieces had thoy dono But
they could safely do thing They could call Conven.
ton, and they could pass law whereby ten wealthy
planters in the middle and southern counties of the
would have much influence three thousand in tho
populous countless where few slaves were owned
And this they did, and by tho aid of lying Geographic
dispatches circulated all through Georgia the eve Of
tho election announcing that Andersen was about
spoa Charleston and its and Children they sue,
oeeded in obtaining nearly half of the members
elected to the Convention. In the county where the
resided the rebel candidate received but $50 out
Of l 300 votes.
HOW E SUCCEEDED.
: Bat the Union men elected saveowners. and
when NV wen :! they voted for secession,
khd after they returned they informed tsir constituents
why they did So Secession, the leaders told them, was
only reconstruction OF the government The word slave
was to DO inserted in the constitution and the new COM
pact must proclaim the world the physiological doc.
| trfle that God made the Niger be q slave.