The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-10-30

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lot or title of the credit to which New
England 10 entitled in this work. dc
spise sectionalism, whether against the
North or against the South. | believe
no one section Of this country is all viz
tuous or all vicious and no one section.
exceeds the other in either TirIues or
vices. But if our history teaches any
two facts more undisputably than all
other facts they are these:
First-That slavery was PLANTED" IN
this country from Africa, and rooted"
in the South through "the hard aud
thorough discipline of New England"
Second-that Secession was both
planted and rooted rs doctrine in our
constitutional system by New England,
and was taught, advocated and threaten
ed as a constitutional remedy for State
grievances by leading New England
statesmen mary years before it was ever
whispered in the South.
The first threat of secession was made
in the first term of Washington 3 admin
istrstion. The New England members
of Congress had brought forward a prop
osition for the assumption by the Gen
eral Government of certain war debts oil
the States. The Southern States had
largely paid their debts, while the debts
of the New England States had mostly
been bought up at large discount by
spectators, some of whom, a Northern
historian tells us, we're then in Congress.
The proposition was rejected by South
ern votes. Great excitement followed.
New England threatened to secede, and
Congress could do no business but ad'
iourn from day to day, and it's dssolu'
ton was imminent. At this critical mo-
ment Mr.. Jefferson arrived at the Capi.
tai from foreign mission. He found
Mr.. Hamilton pacing up and down in
front of his house in utter despair Of the
Union. Hamilton explained to Mr.. JET
ferson the situation, and appealed to him
to ''save the Union" Jefferson did save
it. HowP Not by argument, nor by de-
uouncing the New England members as
traitors and criminals, but by q trade !!
He proposed trade by which the New
England members got their money and
the Southern members got the National
Capitol located on the Potomac instead
of further north. For two generations
sfterward the favorite method of saving
the Union was by giving the North the
money and the South the honors. Under
this process the North has grown 80
great that she insists on having all the
money and all the honors, and upon
treating the South as criminals and
traitors. My friend, did you refer to
this happy faculty of coming out OF ell
contests to save the Union with more
money in their pockets when you spoke
of "our institutions and thrift being
planted and rooted in the hard and thor
ough discipline of New England"2 If so,
Junius himself never made a harder hit,
and you must take rank as one Of the
tirst, if not the very first Of American
letter writer's. congratulate you on
your we'll won laurels.
Again you say: New York has loaned
to the South and lost more money there
than all the other States" How much
money has New York made out of the
SouthP From my earliest recollections
the. Southern people have been in the
habit of sending nearly all they made to
th North and of buving nearly all they
consumed from the North, and allowing
and paying heavy profits both ways
Will New York agree to pool her losses
and profits with the South ?
1t is a curious fact we'll worth our
study that the South has not made
one dollar either by slavery or slave
labor n
The North sold the slaves to the South
and then, keeping the price, denounced
the idea of property in hum n beings as
barbarous. Because the South defended
the title she bought and paid for in the
very manner New England had taught
was constitutional she is denounced as
rehellous and traitorous
You are a great and successful mer
chant. Will you do me the kindness to
cast up the figures and tell me how many
billions of money New York and Massa-
chusetts and Pennsylvania have made
out of slavery or slave labor If you
will work this sum l think we will all
be able to understand your boast when
you say New York ls now the financial
centre of North America and will soon
be the greatet money power Of the
whole world..' VIII such great and
rich State, in whose prosperity | rejoice,
still insist upon treating as traitors and
rebels the people who have done and
are sill doing 80 much to increase her
wealth and powerP Will State which
has so much wealth forget her own State
affairs in eecting her own State officers
in mad purpose to keep up sectional
fight with the impoverished South In.
sanity, my friend, insanity 1.-The insani-
ty of hate May it not prove to be the
very devil Of final disunion.
You say will not care to deny that
the South is united ia bold and per.
sistent purpose to control the Federal
Government in the name of the Demo.
cratic party" do deny it, though the
charge is 30 absurd it scarcely merits
denial. fear that a friendly remark
made to you during the Presidential
count to the effect that the people of
the North were wise in spending so much
blood and treasure to keep the South in
the Union, as l doubted whether the
North could maintain constitutional
government without the aid Of the
South" has unnecessarily alarmed you.
The South does not seek to control
either the North or the Federal Govern.
ment, but the South does greatly desire
to see both the North and the South re.
stored to the control Of the Constitution
the Constitution of Madison, Of Web.
ster and of the Supreme Court The
South will seek to exercise no power OK
cept that to which she is entitled under
the Constitution, and that power she de.
sires to exercise solely for the peace and
prosperity of the whole country. Allow
me to add that this bugaboo of Southern
domination is not creditabIe either to
the manhood or the intelligence of the
Republican party. The South is and
must remain the weaker section, She
has no interest in sectionalism, but every
interest in true constitutional national
ism. The South can have strength in the