New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-20
Hiram Fuller's Lecture In London on the
r,s American War.
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hAAEAAh fr'NAtT'S &AecCureEil III LOnu0ni on the
,rs American War. -
H. , HE ADVOCATES THE CAUSE or THE SOUTH.
Frem the London Post Government organ December Goth
Yesterday evening Colonel Fuller delivered an
address, in St: James Hall, on the civil war in
filled, there was rather large audience, amongst
whom there were some of the most distinguished
Americans at present residing in this country. The
chair was occupied by Dr.. Charles Maekey, who
briefly introduced the lecturer as Colonel in the
United States army, and formerly editor Of the
| New York Mirror. F'5g SEg ~
Colonel Fuller, after a. few Introductory remarks,
said that when, on coming to the consideration Of
the fratricidal war which now ragged in America,
1 he avowed himself as a follower Of Webster, the
great admirer of the Union, be should not be ac-
cused of too great proclivity to secession. In
| discussing this subject, on which men so warmly
and so widely differed, he proposed to deal with
facts, without obtruding opinions or hazardng pre-
dictions. He was well aware that he ran the risk
| Of giving sectional offence in speaking on a aues.
ton which twenty millions on the one side and ten
millions on the other were disputing at the point Of
the bayonet, and which rendered every drawing
| room forum and every barroom q battle field
| The South asserted right which the North denied
1.-THE right of secession. On that he had little to
say-it was question on which the greatest states
| men differed. 81 Tia
! It was enough to say that the South had re-
ligious belief in it. and most assuredy they had
proved their faith by their acts. The causes OF
| disunlon extended far back, reaching even beyond
| the foundation of the Government. In the first
place the American system was an incongruons
system. The universe itself could not remain en-
tire with two supreme powers at the head, and
how could m America with her thirty-four sovereign
ton claimed by the South was the taking of Fort
Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, and the vol
untary Union was dissolved, whilst the new doc
trine Of coercion was proclaimed at Washington ;
and that new doctrine was now preached by Fede-
raj cannon and Fa1ara1 havonafo +.
The cause of secession dated far beyond the
Union OF the old thirteen States-beyond even the
doctrine OF self.government laid down in the cabin
of the MayHower and signed by thirty fugitive
Pilgrims The North was settled by the Purtans,
the South by the Cavaliers; and in this radical
fact lay the seeds OF perpetual antagonsm. Next
to the primary differences of religion and education
came the differences caused by climate and occu-
patton. In the North men worked for a living. In
the South labor, which was seldom luxury, be-
came less necessity Manual labor was there
not only irksome, but degrading and thus, while
in the North the majority paid the penalty of mans
dsobe dience, earning their bread by the sweat of
their brow, in the South they earned their bread
by the sweat of their negroes. Another cause was
the widely different legislative policy, The North
sought for the protection of her manufacturing in
with all the world.
This was rather a financial difficulty, and in every
Congress were found tariff and anttariff men fight
ing for their own pockets. He would now come
W. pn0 uloiG AliCGh anu luliltu1Hle cause OF Lle
American disunion, aud he pronounced it, in one
word, Abolitionism. Abolitionism caused the war
Secessionism precipitated it. This peculiar form
OF Abolitionsm was POLITICAL not social. It was
the Free Soil party, and not the philanthropists OF
Boston and Exeter Hail which had driven on seces-
sion. .G. +" n sNF5
The Free Soil party was opposed to the admis-
sion of new slave States, not on moral grounds but
because every State added two members to the
Senate, who acted as check on the laws enacted
for the aggrandizement OF the Northern manufac
turers. Sentimental Aboitionism had very few ad.
vocates in the Congress, and none in the Cabinet.
South Carolina wanted the manufactures Of France
and England duty free, and desired to pay for them
in her own cotton, without having 1t clipped at
New York on its way to Manchester. Slavery was
too great question to be fippantly disposed of
at Exeter Hall, or to be wiped away by those who
shed tears over the imaginary wrongs of fictitious
s.Uncle Toms ,and impossible Little Tobey's."
Slavery had ever existed in some formor other.
The South profited by it, and retained it.
The negro, who could sleep like the black snake
beneath the bxrning rays of q tropical sun, could
alone work proftably in the sugar fields Of the
South But slayery,n say the philanthropists of
the North, is grieyous wrong, and being impli-
Gated in its consttutionaty, we will rsot It out.
So they waged a fratricidal war that four millions
of Africans might be set atliberty, to work, wan
der, steal or starve. .l.,. "a = s-'gp-
He could testify that happier, healthier, better
fed or more lightly tasked class of laborers than
the slaves he had never seen either in Europe or
America. The master who will ill-treat his slaves
was everywhere detested and avoided, and even
the women who did SO were sent to Coventry and
yet the Christians Of the North refused to hold fe
lowshp with the Shareholder. Antagonism ripened
into hatred, and the result was open war. The
malignant anti-slayery policy of the North became
organic when Lincoln was elected President-he
who declared that 2" the States must be oil free Oh
all slave States." From the moment Of his elec
tlon to the Presidency secession was foregone
conclusion. =
Having drawn a vivid picture of the state OF
popular feeling in the North and South after the
taking OF Fort SUMTER the lecturer proceeded to
say that from that moment he had never heard
from man or woman in the South single word in
favor of reunion. On the other hand, they showed
Spartan determination to spend their last dollar,
and to shed the last drop of blood to resist inva-
sion, and even the women stripped themselves OF
their jewels to equip the army Of their defenders
| The Southern army was composed OF all classes
In some regiments it was not unusual to see three
generations grandfather, father and son OF the old
est families and, perhaps, no army ever went
into the field with so large proportion OF we'll
educated and wealthy gentlemen. 9@7.ga s.-4a
Men like these went into battle as it they were
entering on single combat; and, perhaps, no truer
conception Of the state of feeling in the South
could be gathered than from the words, ''the
spirit of resistance is up to the dueng point =
Women, priests and bishops were enlisted in the
cause, and even the slaves asked permission of
their masters to go and 1.-THE Yankee Abolition
sts The Southern States consisted of seven States
with territory of 100000 square miles. Allhope