The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1872-12-13


red brethren, and gave an addition
al supply Of valuable land to III
South. Texas having been admit
ted into the Union as a State il
1915, and Florida also the sam
year, the clecen then stood ii
unbroken rank, eleven sovereign
States, now used theif untrammelec
efforts for.thc growth and prospect
ty of the Whole UrAn and especially
directed their strength to the uphold
ing of the many Constitutional cor
ruptions which had crept into the
body polite. State sovereignty was
emblazoned as their motto and such
as Calhoun, Hayne, Stephens, Writ
and Obj, fought like heroes for the
principles they loved. The great
triumvirate, Clay, Calhoun and
Webster, used their giant strength fol-
the preservation of that Union they
held so dear, and their strength was
needed, for the temple of Liberty
had begun to be undermined by
scheming demagogues, and the
whole vast cdi6ce was ready to split
in sunder. In 1850, the South vir'
tually controlled the Union. BY
the year 1855, in consequence of the
violation by the North of the Mis-
souri, Compromise, the North gain
ed more strength. Abolition and
Centralizing movements among
the Northern politicians became
more frequent and alarming
A crisis was upon the Nation. The
election of James Buchanan, mod
crate man in 1886, held fast the
sundering ties which bound the two
sections together firm few years,
1860 came on and Abraham Lincoln
a violent abolitionist was elected
Pre-, ident. John Brown had in
1859 invaded Virginia at the head
of a band of ruflians and sought to
excite a rebellion among the slaves.
He had failed and was hung. What
if Lincoln should attempt the same
thing on a larger scale, further South
where the negroes were two to one
Had not arms been found from time
to time concealed in coffins and box
es, shipped all over the South to arm
the slaves 3? What are things com
to? Our enemies are ccntralists,
abolitionists and would be murderers,
let us cut off from them. Let us
secede, We have the right and it will
be better. SO thought South Caro-
lima. She boldly, but, perhaps, too
hastily, come out from the Union in
December, 1860. Mississippi, Ala
bama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana
and Texas followed her example in
1851. But the North would not
permit them to secede quietly. She
must have these secen lawfully Sc
ccding States back-by force if
necessary. Fort Sumter fell soon
after and the bloody four years
struggle began. Virginia, Arkan-
sas, North Carolina and Tennessee
soon after cast in their lot with their
sisters, and by the middle of June
1861, eleven States had formed q
Confederacy against more than
twice their number.
The history Of that struggle is too
fresh in the memories OF most of my
readers to require recital here. Suf-
flee it to say that after four years Of
the hardest fighting ever recorded
in history, these States were forced
to give up the struggle and submit
to be rihed of their liberties, and Of
billions of their property, while an
inferior race was elevated into pow
err. In 1866, Tennessee was re-
constructed, and in 1868 all the 9th
err States, except Texas and Virgin
ia, who entered the Union again in
1870. Ruled by Radicals for four
years, these States are now far be-
low what they would otherwise be,
and South Carolina has drunk the
full cup of Northern hate and cruel
ty. But slowly and surely are they
all rising out of their ashes; their
enormous debts contracted by their
rulers, for the old war debt was an
nulled at reconstruction, are being
slowly liquidated, and, unless struck
down by their old antagonists again,
or new antagonists, the South will
one day attain to her former proud
rank among the great sections of the
! Union.
Such is a brief historical account OF
the South from the first settlements
to the present year, 1872. After
giving few important statistics per-
tanning to the subject, we will in
! another paper consider the South
descriptively, as regards its soil,
climate, productions, manufactures,
and commerce.
Dr. g., an old physician and
quite wag, was making profes-
sional visit one night and while
on his way home fire broke out
Not needing the fire, he still pur-
sued his way home, when passing a
clothing store, a young man steps
out land not knowing the doctor