The weekly union record., 1865-01-21
THE UNION RECORD.
Ths Cause of Difference.


The following, in relation to some OF the
Heading spirits of The rebellion, taken from a
Boston paper. shows how Northern men with
iSouthern principles" are imbued with the
tdoctrines out Of which the rebellion arose.
The late ex Governor Hammond, OF South
Carolina, was model Southerner in tone con
riction and preiadices. He was the originator
.of the epithet "mud-sll7 as applied to the
.iaborer of the Northern States-a term which
he frankly Acknowledged to be equivalent, in
his meaning, to ''save" at the South. He
said be could not conceive of a complete state
of society which was bot built upon "a class to
do the mean duties-to perform the drudgery
OF life Governor Hammond had, also, the
whole range Of Southern idiosyncrasies He
believed that the world of commerce would
drop into chaos if DO cotton should be produced
at the South for three years. By virtue of
thus threatening to withhold cotton, be said of
foreign nations without firing gun, without
drawing a sword, when they make war on us
we can bring the whole world to our feet"
Was there ever more thorough So1iherner
shan this? One would think him slave lord
by descent from the original settlers Of tie
Palmetto State. And yet be was the son of a
Massachusetts man. who went down South
after completing bis New England education
A still more remarkable case was that OF the
hate General Quitman, of Mississippi He was
The link which connected the labors of Calhoun
with the era Of the rebelIion-for duriug that
interval bis was the most constant mind and
the most energetic will which was enlisted in
the cause Of the South. Garrison, during the
same period, was not more infexible in his
IDEAS of freedom than Quitman in his devotion
TO slavery. And yet he was born in Dutchess
county, New York, and spent all his early
years at the North. So, too, John Slidell is a
native of New York city. Adjutant General
Cooper, who supervises the military strength
OF the rebellion, is hated "Yankee" by birth,
as are hundreds who are conspicuous for their
venomous hostility to the Government of the
Union The chances, indeed, are more than
even, that, when Southern man has been
beard to harangue the loudest about the people
OF the South being peculiar people, impossible
10 be understood at the North, and all that
kind OF Southern shibboetb, the speaker was
either directly or by descent from the North.
What then, is it that converts Northern
born lad into fiery Southern man, hater of
Tree society, devotee OF slavery, a believer in
The omnipoency OF cotton, u prepared rebel
against the best government ever granted to
man 1t is not cllmate-for the same air was
oreathed by Washington and the early patriots
ef the revolution. 1t is not the peculiar pur.
suits or associations of Southern life, except so
Or as as they are connected with the great
Fundamental cause of difference between the
South and the North, to,wit: slavery. 1t is
@at-on which Governor Hammond pro
bounced Washington, Jefferson and the South
ern leaders of their day defective and heretica
which the rebellion has made its cornerstone
that wholly distinguishes the average South
srner from the Northerner. the traitor from the
patriot, the rebel from the defender and up
holder of the Union. But for that, every
Southern man might have rivaled the patriotism
Of Farragu;, of Wuslow, Of au Andrew
Johnson, and of those other Southern men who
lave so gloriously risen superior to the claims
of class and sectionality. But the terrible
bower of those associations is seen tbrouohout
he rebellion. They have constituted wall
of llre against all the intelligence of the North,
against reason, justice patriotism and human
nature itself. But, thank Heaven, they have
made their boasted institution the victim of The
iery conspiracy designed for lis benefit, aud
when 1t is swept away, as it will be, the last
barrier between the complete union of all our
,eople Will have disappeared
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