The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-27
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E1g- The following is given, not as a por-
ton of ny sketches. but because at this
crisis,-and it is most serious crisis
our National affairs, it may be we'll that the
people particularly the younger people,
should be reminded of the facts in relation
to the founding of their government and
country:
LINCOLN 5 PLEA FOR COERCION.
The Northern Congress assembled July
4th. To increase the number Of States
John s. Carlile and VIM. Wiley were sworn
in as Senators from Virginia. Nr. Lincoln 5
message, amid many fimsy excuses for his
usurpation of power, in making war, sus-
pending ha5das corpus, and the like, con
tanned one extraordinary utterance. which
has acquired renewed importance by politi-
cal events of to-day. | quote his words :
THE States have legal status in the
:. onion, but have no. other legal status.
T. The Onion, and not themselves separately,
procured their Independence. and their
'liberty Bi conquest or purchase, the
Union 9are each Of he,p achaterer Of ade-
-.'older than any Of the States, and, !n fact,
III catatedthena as .Stetes. Originally Some
sdependent colonies made the Union, and,
',in turn the Unios threw off their old de-
''bendence and made them States, such as
they are Not one of them ever. had a
State constitution Independents of the
a'Union.'s
The doctrine of Capitalization, (or Ma
tionality with a big n. thus boldly laid
down was not a new or original one it had
been long held by a faction at the North
But Its formal eelnciation by the abolition
President, at time when no man dared
raise voice against the government, especial
" in advocacy Of State Rights, gave it the
force of a PrOnunctdmeato, declaring fun
damental change in the character of the
Government and undoubtedly set in mo
rion those sapping agencies which to-day
threaten the overthrow of Republican lnstI-
tutiops.
NIf. Lincolns motive was manifest
Aware that very large element, possibly
a majority,-of the Northern people were
foreign immigrants, and the descendants
thereof, with no traditional or ancestral
knowledge of the early history OF the Re
public he saw 1t would be easy to bring
them to the support of his coercion policy if
he could make them believe the Southern
crs We're traitorous and ungrateful towards
the Union which had created their States
and given them every Right they possess
ed
THE UNION NOT OLDER THAN TIRE STATES.
Yet Mr.. Lincoln knew as every school boy
knows, his assertions We're the most palpab.e
perversions Of historic fact The Union, by
which OF. course Is meant the General Gov
arnment, under the Constitution. had no ex-
f..,.E Z, I,,
ra' >ed the standard o. revolt against the
uother country. l. lad no existence for
thirteen years Il ,ne Declaration of lnde
nendencc L : net born for eight years
ate after the last shw shw in cone,' t@r Colonial Tree
The Tn;oo seed, the clover went in
n affect ON th the field pea l 17sg
wben Wssb;nnt, 1cfed it is better for . first
tmar;ca" n'nn Prs both as a manurial date
there was no Pvock in the summer form
herency OF any q :
It Is true the colonies had been acting
with Semblance Of unity. Common grley-
ances, common peril, and common patriot
ism, naturally suggested a con-joint, or CO.
operatlYa action IN selt-dcfence against the
common enemy. Even Wild tribes, IN all
lands, Will lay aside hereditary differences,
10 make common cause against OUTSIDE OPP
preston.
But nothing in history is better establish
e1 than that the struggle with Great Britain
had proceeded for years, with varying for
tunes, before the idea of Union of the
colonies under general government was SO
much as mooted in public. No thought of
a Union animated the minds Of the Massa
chusetts farmers as they piled their deadly
squirrel rifles against Ptcairn's Red coats"
at Concord and Lexington No one dreamed
Of consolidated American Government on
that memorable May morning when the