Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-05-01
THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH.

Under this head the Knoxville Press
and Herald gives synopsis of an ad-
dress delivered in that city. March 30.
by the Rev. N. G. Taylor. of the Nor
thern NJ. E. Church. Mr.. Taylor is a
native of Carter county. Tenn, and q
man ofgood reputation. His utter
ances are worthy of note by our Nor
thern friends. The Press and Herald
says:
A very respectable audience, in re-
spect TO numbers and intelligence, lis
tened attentively last night for two
hours and quarter to the Rev. N. g.
Taylor on subject not previously an
uounced, The North and the South.
The reverend gentlement is evidently
in the interest of peace, and is hearth
" DESTROYS that the sword shall be
beaten into the plowshare. He said
that the theory that the American
people are one because they have but
one government, was true at the De,
ginning, but it is not true now. ana
has not been for many years past, we
are a divided people, he said, and the
recent war did not make or heal the
breach. but only deepeDed and widen
ed it. The Federal Government tri-
umphed. but the South is still the
South. and the North is still the North.
1t is the duty of every Christian to do
what he can to harmonic this inhar-
monious state of things, and thus pre-
serve the country. A confederation
of free and independent States was the
result of the oppression by the mother
country, and difference of opinion III
regard to State sovereignty has caused
ali our trouble. Were there thirteen
sovereigpties, or only one? was the
question discussed by Federalists and
anti Federalists. The doctrine OF
State sovereignty was not sectionalized
until 1923. The Southern planters
failed to see the wisdom and justice of
that policy which. through the means
of protective tariff, built up the North
at the expense of the South. Happily
for the country there was q Henry
CLAW. whose wisdom tided the people
over the crisis of 1928 without a
war. --
The speaker eulogized the Wing
party and its mighty leader, and as
serted that its existence marked the
golden age of the American Republic.
The bold and daring effort OF the
Southern States to assert the doctrine
of State sovereignty by appeal to arms,
is fresh in the memory of all. Their
wrongs were not righted, but in the
terrible crash which came they lost
everything. A terrible responsibility
rests on the conquering North, and his
tory will hold them responsible for their
treatment of the yanquished. Carpet
baggers and scallawags, like vampires,
had well-nigh sucked the llfe-blood
out of the South, and reduced to al
most abject want both the white man
and the negro.
If, said the eloquent speaker, the
South did secede, and yet it be shown
that the North provoked the war,
then the great heart of the North
should nobly beat in sympathy with
the ruined South. Who made the
war? We must go further back than
the firing of the first gun. The fruits
of the tariff of 1928 Injured to the
North while the burden fell on the
South. Slavery at first was not known
to be the sum of villainies." 1t was
the heritage of our common country,
aud the Constitution. by the act of all
the States, protected slavery. New
England found it to be very wicked
and ungodly when she found it un.
profitable Slavery built up the COM
merce of the North, and her palatIal
residences are the result of the ''sighs,
tears and groans" of the poor African.
The bird that laid the golden egg was
Southern goose, but the North got
the egg, and afterward got the the
goose besides. 1t would be well for
the North to think of her Hartford
! Convention, her whiskey instructions,
and other acts of rebellion, before be-
ing too severe upon their Southern
brethren for their late rebellion"
Let us have peace, and let it come by
the removal of vile carpet baggers and
scallawags. and the withdrawal of the
military. The South is ready to re-
ceive with open arms every man com
ing from no matter what section. prOYi-
ded he come with the intention of being
a good citizen. There will be no con-
flict between the white man and the
negro if not interfered with by tlpse
who come to plumber, and for no other
purpose.
The speaker was frequently applaud
ed during the lecture. Mr.. Taylor is
an eloquent orator.