The dollar weekly bulletin., 1862-12-18


ing, the Constitution was adopted. and mat
ters went on smoothly enough until the pass
age of the Alien and Sedition laws. during
John Adams administration. Those laws
excited much dissatisfaction in the South
and were warmly defended bv the North
Next came the wat with Great Britain oil
1872, and the proceedings of the Hartford
Convention. which included all the New
England States Those proceeding were
certainly not calculated to promote harmony
among the States. The foregoing were
however, but trifing causes of discomfort,
and time would soon have healed them had
not new and far more dangerous cause of
dissension been thrown into the cauldron. in
the "protective policy.'' or "Am erican sys-
tem," as it is sometimes called. This self
sh, wicked. and unconstitutional measure
has been the fruitful source of call our
woes" In 1915 it was prayed for by the
New England manufacturers ds favor, to
be granted to them for three years, during
which time they supposed that, aided by
the new tariffs Of 25 per cent, they would
be enabled to get rid of their manufacturing
capital without m ateral loss. In 1920, 1924
1928, 1882 and even afterwards, they de-
manded as right that they should be per-
mitted to force upon the agricultural States,
the products Of their factories at their own
prices, by means of tariffs excluding com
petition from other lands. Th ese demands
were as strenuously resisted by the South
as they were warmly urged by New Eng
land, and ultimately the Western States
threw their weight into the scale with the
South. The coalition between the New
England manu- facturers and the Abolition
lists, commenced at this period, and has ever
since been maintained. 1t was necessary to
weau the West from the South, otherwise
the selfish schemes of New England must
fall and as this could not be affected by ap
peals to the interest Of the former, resort
must be had to passion, prejudice, hatred, all
Of which may be summed up in the one
word, A bolitionism. Who is there, among
our old citizens, who does not rem en- Der the
time when the Western mails were filled
with newspapers, pamphlets, &C.. represent
ing the ''poor negro" under the lash of his
cruel master, who, being unable to work him
in factories, was determ ined that nobody
else should engage in those healthful, pleas
ant and profitable EN- ployments? And who,
again, is there among us, who does not know
the many years which have been employed
in disseminating abolitionsm among our
people, and in traducing the South through
out the world by pulpit orators, lecturers,
school teachers, and through the instrument
ality of school books, tracts, newspapers,
pam phlets, books Of fiction, books of travel,
and even of history? Earnest. persistent.
and long continued labor, whether directed
to good or evil purpose, will always make
its impression upon society. The mass Of
the people had neither time nor inclination
to inquire into the true condition of the
Southern slave, or to Investigate the ques-
ton of his capacity for Improvement under
another system than that which had been
oS tn OF ,ho
had time and opportunity for such inv estga-
tons, regarded the subject with Indifference,
as one with which they had no practca con-
necrion, except as it affected our local pol
itcs. 1t was easier, and sometimes more
profitable, to assume as true, what the Aboli-
Zionist said, than to make the inquiry ne
cessary to expose the falsehoods and errors
which were propagated by him. We have
the fruits OF abolition zeal unopposed by
truth, in broken Union, terrible war, and
a -uinous debt. The contest in regard to
the Territories would never have been
made, but for the determination of the Abo-
lition party to influence and EN- bitter th 9
minds cf the people North and South against
each other, under the vain and silly pretence
that the South, with one-third the popula-
tion of the North, If permitted to TAX slaves
into the territories would convert them iuto
And if such contest had by chance arisen, it
could easily have been disposed of by means
of the Crtterden Compromise, which gave
to the North two-thirds Of the territory alb
solutely. and left the remaining third to be
disposed of by majority Of the inhabitants,
when they should be prepared to convert
their territory into State. Such settle-
ment, did not, however, suit the Abolition
party; by it, the South was recognized as
possessing some rights in the territory of
the United States, in common with the
North, rather than which. that party pre-
ferred that the Union be dissolved and then
restored by war. That Abraham Lincoln,
his Cabinet or his party, ever believed that
war could restore the ancient Union of the
States, that Union which our fathers made,
and which was the source of all our pros
perty and greatness as nation, cannot be
credited by any sane man. That they
did believe that the Southern States could
of vassalage, and compelled to submit to
whatever terms of peace the North, in
its magnanimity, might be pleased to
propose. l do not doubt. Greatly inferior
to the North in population, without arms,
or the means of providing them from
abroad in consequence Of the blockade,
which was early declared, without stand
ing army, destitute of navy. unac-
customed to raise their own provisions,
which has been hitherto supplied by the
West with but few manufacturing establish
ments. and having withal, large negro
populate 10 their midst, who, it was fondly
hoped by the amiabls Seward, Thurlow
Weed and their followers, would, when the
husbands, fathers and sons, were away to
the war with their white foes, commence the
work of death and dishonor in their homes,
upon defenceless women and children. Is
it wonderful, that such men should have
deeme ed it an easy task for the powerful
North, with its vast internal resources, its
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