The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-08-07

the anxiety ana ln0lgna1lnn Oh DOtH -
tie c Juntry. They prove that there are Aoon
tionists among lis 'ully capable OF organizing a
s Mnrrt in tn. H II I states. They show
whist IS more impoTt3n that among our eminent
public men nave f-lt constance Ds 1neit abp% 70
wink at insane sedition. They failed to expose
knowledge. lest. such exposure should cost them
votes"
THE ERA OF IRRITATION.
The farther We get away from the liar
per's Ferry outbreak, the more readily we
perceive Its disastrous consequences. 1he
effect upon the public mind both North and
South, was that Of a fierce breeze Upon a
prairie fire flaming the smoulderlng embers
of sectional passion and prejudice into furl-
Gus coni1agration. beyond check or control.
1t is curious to note the sudden revulslon
of sentiment in the Whig-and-U Union Journals
all over the South. Synle's Raleigh Regs-.
ter, for example, then one of the ablest OF
two or three dozen Wing papers in North
Carolina, on the l4th of October teemed
with articles expressing the loftlest regard
for the Union, and the most decided de
nunciations Of the Democrats, especially
the fire eating Southern Democrats who
threaten disunion." But on the 10th OF
November, less than a month later, the
Registers leading editorial was as IN these
words (Which ninety nine in the hundred OF
the Southern people re-echoed j
1.-THE outbreak at Harper's Ferry, the disclosures con-
sequent thereon, the dangerous character of public SEN
tinent at the North as manifested by the tone OF the
press and pulpit, and the result of the late election IN
New York, lead unerringly to the conclusion that the
election of a Black Republican to the Presidency is pro-
bable, and We must infer that it would be the signal for
the Immediate secession Of the South from the Union.
8 : : Not content with fighting with the ballot box,
the enemies of the South have resOrted TO the cartridge
box. The soil Of the South has beeninyaded, Southern
blood has been spilled, and Southern property forcibly
fatan fro1p thn rnGSaSiDn IFS riDhtfI OyvpprS and
facts have been brought to light which impllcate some
as aiders and abettors in this foul conspiracy against
Southern lives, rights and property. To suppose then
that the South would submit to see one of these aiders
and abettors of murder, treason and robbery placed at
the head of, and invested with the immense power and
in the OF the army and navy,
invested with the control OF armories, dock yards, forts
grasp, and all other national property under the control
of himself and partisans, is to suppose that the South
has run malder than Old Brown is alleged to be, and to
suppose what will never occur. No! The South will
never submit to the election Of Seward or any sectional
Republican,. =
we were capable of either, it would be thrown away upon
inpervious as well TO menace, as to reason and common
sense. NJ man in the Union values it more than we
do. No man has a more painful perceptiou of the con-
sequences which must easue upon its dissolution"
Many Northern papers openly admitted
that the South had received notice to arm
and stand upon her defence. The New York
HeiuM declared that John Brown had mere
~ put into practical operation the theory of
" irrepresslb!e conflict, as proclaimed at
Rochester by Senator Seward, and that Gin
this act Of the old Abolition cut-throat the
South IS gifen q argnHtng tchtch connot be
~disregadel by her,"
The South accepted the warning. Hun
dreds OF volunteer military companies
(which afterwards won the battle Of Bull
Rum, sprans into existence within a month.
Nearly all the Legislatures passed strong
resolutions denouncing the Abolition assaults.
Three hundred medical students from the
Philadelphia universities seeded in a BODY.
and proceeded to Southern institutions.
On the other hand numerous mass-meet-
lngs were held throughout the North to
denounce the fugitive slave laws" and
the decision OF the Supreme Court in the
bred Scott case. Many OF the Northern
States passed acts called Personal Liberty
Bills designed TO nuiiify the constitutional
rights OF Southerners to pursue their stolen,
or fugitive, slave property, and recapture it
wherever found. All manner OF ~inAamatorv
tracts were shipped INTO the South by yari-
Gus methods, netting the negroes to revolt.
and rise at midnight to use the torch and
the sword against their owners. No less
than one hundred letters per week were re-
celVed By Gov. lse during the tendency Of
the outlaw trials warning him Of plots, or
threatening vengeance. Three or four times
the Virginia military was called out by
seemingly authentic accounts Of advancing
armies Of Abolitioli9tS. Many incendiarV
fires occurred in all the border States. and
many supposed spies were arrested. Intern
perance of speech and action was endemic
on both sides Of Mason's and Dizon's line.
These calamitous consequences Of the
Harper 5 Ferry Rad were no doubt well
~fOreSeen by its iRStiratorS Aw,ra +bat
Southern patience was already grown thread
bare, they projected this mad blow in the
face, a. the best means Of prec:Ditatino !
crisis Brown Of course would fail. and
be SACRIFICED, bat his murderous onslaught
would throw the excitabIo Southerners into
a fever of resentment, and could scarcely
tau to provoke their hotter-heads to saw and
do very many things that would in turn
Intame the already irritated North thus
bringing. the whole force Of sectional preiu-
ace TO JON the Black Republicans in the
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