New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-10-09
DEVOTION TO THE UNION,

| cially by the intense "patriots of New Eng
Hand, is, as we have more than once had coca
ssion to show, q mere pretense. It is, indeed,
"a bold humbug, Fond as they are OF, calling
us of the South rebels End trail ars, the his
tory of the past shows that they have been far
more hostile to the Union than ever the
people of the South were, except that they
never had the courage to uphold their words
by manly deeds, but were content to express
their hatred of the Union onlyjn idle vapor-
ings and unmeaning threats.
The following facts, collected from history,
by the Richmond Examiner, are familiar to
many of our readers but it is well enough to
keep them in mind, and to have them ready for
reference. If there were any shame in the
so-called patriots" of New England at the
present day, they would be the last, in view of
their past record, and the record of their an
cestors, to profess an exclusive and supreme
devotion to the Union Of the States, or to
question the doctrine Of State sovereignty.
On the 18th Of January, 1909, at town
meeting of the citizens of Gloucester, Maine,
the following was one of the resolutions
passed:
s'Resolved, That to our State government
we look for counsel, protection, and relief
at this awful period Of general calamity. :"
| (Referring to the embargo.)
/ At town meeting in Bath, Maine, on the
9th of December, 1908, resolution was
passed for memorial to the legislature, re
questing them to take such immediate steps
for relieving the people, either by themselves
alone or in concert with other commercial
States, as the extraordinary circumstances Of
our situation may require.
4 In a memorial from the cody town Of Bos-
ton, adopted at ia meeting january 25, 1909,
we find the following extraordinary seees-
sion sentiment, no doubt borrowed at sub
sequent period BY Mr.. Calhoun and South
Carolina. Here is an extract from their
address to the Massachusetts legislature
Is"Our hope and consolation rests with the
Legislature of our State. to whom it is com
petent to devise means of relief against the
unconstitutional measures of the federal gov
eminent that your power is adequate to this
object is evident from the organization of the
confederacy."
The Boston Centinel, of September 10TH
1908, in advocating resistance by Massachu-
sets to the embargo act passed by the United
States Congress, says: The government of
Massachusetts has also q duty to perform.
The State is still sovereign and independent y
Such is the record of some of the New Eng
land revolutionary forefathers on the question
of State sovereignty. 1t is almost as bad as
that of Chief Justice Chase on the subject of
secession, which, by the way, we hope will be
thoroughly ventilated when ex-President Da-
Wis is tried for g treason" N.
In the famous Henry correspondence with
Sir James H. Craig, governor general of
Canada, we find in his letter dated Burling-
ton, Vermont, February 14th, 1909, the fol-
lowing interesting relic of patriotism and love
for the Union and the flag, ETC.;
/ learn that the governor of this State is now
visiting the townsin the northern section of it ;
and makes no secre5 Of his determination as com
| mander-in-chef Of the militia, to refuse ODE
dience to any command from the general govern
ment, which can tend to interrupt the goodIlnder.
| standing that prevails between the citizens of
Vermont and her maiesty's subjects in Canada
1t is further intimated that in case Of a war he
Will use his influence to preserve the State neu-
trial and resist, with all the force he can com
maud, any attemptto make it party. l need
not add that If these resolutions are carried into
effect, the State of Vermont may be considered
an'ally Of Great Britain.
Such was loyal Vermont according to Mr.
James Henry an enissary Of the English
government, sent thither under authority
from Mr.. Robert Peel and Lord Liverpool in
1909, to ascertain TIE sentiment of the New
England people towards the government of
the United States. The accounts he sent his
government from the other New England
States as to the feeling of the people, were
similar to the extract we have given.
But to the attachment Of New England to
the Union As early as 1896, there appeared
in the Connecticut Courant, published at
Hartford, by Hudson & Goodwin, a series, Of
papers over the signature of Pelham" adj
yocating a Northern Confederacy .separa-
ton from the South These articles were
contributed tby an association of men of the
first talents and influence ii the State" New
England was then purely commercial, and
they thought the legislation of Congress on
tariffs acted adversely on her interests, SO
she wanted to seeede a report made by a
joint committee Of both houses Of the legisla-
ture Of Massachusetts,, February IL, 1914, as
serted the propriety, justice and necessity Of
forcible resistance to the measures of the gen
eral government, adding, g the question is
not a question Of power On right with the
Legislature, but Of time and expediency" This
is loyal Boston!
War was declared after long forbearance on
the part of the United States government,
against Great Britain, on June 18th, 1872.
Money, the sinews Of war was called for, and
MIR Gallatin went into market with his lpro-
posals for loans. The Boston .Centinel, Of
January IS, 1913, then advises its readers to
refuse the government assistance sMy
brother farmers if you have money let it lie. y
The Boston Gazette, Of April 14th, 1914
says 1T is very grateful to find that the uni
Fersal sentiment is that any man who lends
MS money to the government at the present
ime viii forfeit all claim to common hon |
ssty and common courtesy From the adver-
isements of Messrs, Gilbert 4 Dean, bro
1ers. in the Boston Chronicle, April 18th,
1914, and of Mr.. Jesse Putnam, in the Bos-
on Gazette of the same date, we find that
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