Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1866-04-27

There is a fragment OF a party in the
Northeast, which like the junto created

There is fragment OF party in the
Northeast, which like the junto created
by Calhoun, the Cataline of the, South,
were never contented with the Constitu-
tion of the United States. The essex
junto of Boston dominated IL New Eng
land, as the Calhoun .junto Of Charleston
dominated over the slave ol;garchy Of the
South.-Both these factions We're imbued
with the British principle at war with the
spirit of Democracy Inherent Ill our
Constitution-and how invariable the
instinct of aristocracy works to the same
end will be seen By glance at the conduct
Of these iuntos Of Boston and Charleston
in producing the severe ordeals to which
they have subjected the constitution OF
our country. The war of 1872 was the
war brought on by the Essex juntos-
the Henry Hartford convention conspira-
cy, brought to head nv the Charleston
secession ordinance. The British Govern
ment made the difficulties with our Gov
ernment in sympathy with the malcontents
Of New England whom the triumphs of the
Democracy under Jefferson and Madison
had banished from power. They became
British faction bent on severing the
Union with the United States-uniting
with Canada and prosecuting their I'M
embargoed free trade under the British
Aag, the British having compelled the
embargo restriction on our Government
to produce the state Of feeling in New Eng
land to enable the conspirators to drive
the people to separation.
Tie Hartford Convention was the de-
velopment of tlfls scheme. Maine was
taken possession of by British force
It's power was recognized throughout New
Eng gland. The Government of the United
States was interdicted from 1evyiDg forces
in New En- gland to meet the enemy. The
British soldiers in Canada, and all along
oar frontiers to the far West, were sup
piled with everything from New England,
while the American soldiers we're perish
ing for want Of TODD ana clothing amid the
snow storms along the Canada line> At
such moment the commissioners Of the
Hartford Convention appeared at Wash
ington to proclaim their purpose Of seces-
sion to President Madison, to use the
phrase of one of them; >'peaceably if we
can, forcibly, if we must p Mr.. Forsythe
and his brother commissioners from the
South followed this precedent when they
came to Washington, spent month in
negotiation with Messrs. Seward, Holt
and Stanton asking ''audience TO adjust
ito use their own words) in spirit Of am
ity and peace.tEe new relations springins
from manifest and accomplished revolu-
ton in the Government Of the Union,
and as an earnest, acknowledging the fact,
the surrender of Fort Sumter was deman-
ded, and it was acceded to by Mr.. Seward
who gave Judge Campbell assurances au-
thorizlng him to say to the commission
ers. "I feel entire confidence that Fort
Sumter will be'evacuated in the next five
days" Fortunately, in the days Of the
Hartford Convention there was Genera
| Jackson, as there is now General Grant
The Britieh had felt his power throughon
! the war in the Southwest. as well as the
vigor OF the navy on the seas, and wher
the Essex junto commissioners arrived il
| Washington to renounce the Government
the victsry of New Orleans met them.-
They lost the voice which they came t.
utter when they found the roar Of ths
british iron husband on the ocean and OF
I the plains of New Orleans They wen
home but they were not proscribed.-
THE Governments OF New England hae
! |sympathized with the foreign enemy, bu
the mass Of the people had not syet beer
i forced into the ranks of the enemy. Thei
means had been largely contributed tx
i support the British power under the ave
|Iits presence inspired and the influence th
traitors among them exerted.1s But non
I! of these men were punished. Maine whic1
4 as In fact under the paw of its ensign a