The weekly Butte record., 1862-03-08
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Some References to the War.

were Henry Clay and John c. Calhoun by
their advice and votes the United States made
a three wears war with England The coun-
try came out of the war safe and sound and
young Clay and Calhoun became McClellans
and Beauregards They were the young he
roes of the nation. Young Daniel Webster,
suspicioned as Federalist, opposed to that
glorious war lay under q cloud. Clay and
Calhoun became rivals for political honors-
CLAY was an orator, Calhoun a subtle thinker.
Two Caesars we're too much for one Rome !;
nature and events made them rivals neither
loved the other; Clay was national; Mr.
Calhoun was as intensely sectional and geo
graphical in feeling, thought and action as was
the excentrie John Randolph he had no
affection for the North Mason and Dixon's
line was bis ultima thule. In the year 1916,
one year after peace, he found New England
engaged in an extensive shipping business
Immediately he proposed high protective
tariff. 1t carried. 1t drove New England
from her ships into manufactures. Eight
years later Mr. Calhoun found New England
had trimmed her sails and was getting rich by
running machinery, spinning cotton and other
fabrics, and this would not do. He declared
all tariffs horrid, abominable, and unconstitu-
tional taxations upon Southern labor. Six
teen years later he called all the Southern
States TO arms TO put down the United States
tariff laws as unconstitutional. Only South
Carolina came 10 time" This was dead
failure He then advised the South to take
up the slavery question.
BY this time England saw chance to place
an entering wedge into the crevice made by
Mr. Calhoun and his anti-tariff doctrines, be-
tween the North and South, and break up
dangerous commercial rivalry between England
and the United States. She was not slow to
improve her oppcrtunity her newspapers, her
periodicals, her lecturers, her statesmen, openly
denounced the damning and blasting sin of
human slavery Canada was made the termi-
nus Of the underground railroad THAT road has
now ceased operation) an asylum, refuge
for the poor, benighted runaway slaves. Abo-
ltionists from England were paid to 90 as
missionaries to the United States preach up
the terrific horrors, the objectionable sin OF
human slavery They came! The English
Thompsous, and other importations, mingled
and lectured before Christian northmen.-
They originated Northern abolition crusade
against the South. They Indirectly naugura-
ted this war. Exeter Hall and the Duchess
OF Sutherland and compeers fraternized and
sympathized with Harriet Beccher Stowe
The Queen did not quite receive Mrs. Stowe
But with English lords, dukes and mobiles, Mrs.
Stowe was the Scott, Dumas, Bnlwer, Eugene
Sue, the paragon of writers and novelists, the
especial vicegerent of Providence foreordained
to extirpate the indeible and everlasting curse
of human slavery. Such was Engand's posi-
tion Oh slavery before this war We leave out
her West Indian emancipation. By aid of
English appliances mighty anti slavery furore
was awakened throughout all the Northern
and western States.
Come back again TO Mr. Calhoun and South
Carolina. The State became satisfied that the
United States could not be broken up by q
tariff war. The next movement was under the
bastard government of John Tyler, President,
to get up slavery agitation. In order TO do
this, Mr.. Upshur, of Virginia, and Mr.. Cal
houn, made friends with Tyler, and halloed for
Texas annexation, to extend slavery-Clay,
Webster, and Van Buren, opposing. Texas
came, but, at as the devil would have it, Cali
fornia came also. This was much too much
for the Texas annexationists. Then came very
nearly civil war to make California slave
territory then was made the compromises of
1850, which statesmen said were to settle the
slavery question for thirty years. Mr.. Calhoun
died broken-hearted that the Union still held
together; Clay and Webster died soon after
South Carolina still lived and the pupils of
Calhoun in that State lived also The next
device to break up the Union was 10 repeal
the Missouri Compromise. This was the wood
en- horse introduced into the National citadel
BY repeating the Missouri Compromise politi
cal partisan contest became Niger" South
and " anti-nigger' North. The rest of the
story need not be rehearsed with it all are
familiar
Come back again to good, pious old Mother
England! She, by her abolitionists aided Mr..
Calhoun in his life, and his most renowned
pupil, Gov. Pickens, of South Carolina, to
make the greatest war of modern times
What row does our venerable grandame do
Since this war began her abolition newspapers
have subsided her abolition reviews have
dried up; Exeter Hall has shut up: the
Duchess of Sutherland has peggcd out her
noisy abolition orators are whist as pigs in a
storm the majority Of the English press favor
the South and the niggers. So much for the
sincerity Of nations and statesmen.