The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-04

very familiar to me- And it caused thrill
OF secret exultatiOn to view even the pictures
OF CORVALLIS Red Coats grounding arms;
Paul Jones capturing the Scraps, Sergeants
Jasper and Newton rcscuing the Prisoners;
or Morgan s men chasing Tarleton from
Cowpens. Then, how gratifying to read
that the American fag,-the glorious stars
and stripes, received the homage of for
elgners wherever unfurledl How strong the
boylsh indignation against Dickens, Miss
Martineau, the Trollopes, Dixie, Kemble, ct
a., for their ''libelous' comments mon
American manners and methods. To this
day | cannot enjoy their writings, owing to
this patriotic prejudice.
Although of English family (and directly
connected on the paternal side with the
Cages, OF whom Gen. Gage, the British
commander at Boston, was member), all
my Revolutionary and subsequent ancestors
were strongly American, and republican,
in the old and true sense. Many an hour
have | sat in front of the portrait and read
the private journal, (kept when he as
youth OF 20, was surveying for the govern
ment the sources Of the Mississippi and it's
aff1uents, during which he discovered Pixies
Peak, of Gen. Zebulon Montgomery Pike.
who at the time he fei1 at York, Ontario, in
1913, was the youngest Brigadier-G General in
the army. His superior commander hesi-
tated to venture the assault. Pike begged
SO hard that he was allowed to land. Climb
ing over the battleHents, hedrove out the
British at point Of bayonet; then a secret
mine was fired, and a huge block Of granite
mortally wounded him. Bring me the
enemy's .tiogi" he cried, and as its folds
were placed under his head, ,-"n,y d,sty as
done II die satisfed r'-he said, and
died
Imbued with these early patriotic inspira-
tlons and union-loving associations, it was
but natural that [ should regard with sor-
row the approach Of storm which must
shatter the old time idols, dispel the glow
ing promises OF future growth and great
ness. verf5 the predictions Of monarchical
scoflers, and destroy all hopes of political re-
generation in the old world.
THE TWO STAND POINTS.
Herein consists, think, the essential DIFF
ference between Northern and Southern
Unionisin the one was Practical, the other
lScntjmeatat The North calued the Union,
because it was profitabic the South ad
mired it, because Of its past glOries and
cred it the best Government the world ever
saw, ,"-because he made money by its tariff
regulations; dis-Union to him meant a loss
of great monopoly. The Southerner toler-
ated the Union, because he had been edu
Gated by Farewell Addresses, Fourth of
July speeches, and the like to regard it as
Indispensable to National peace and pros
perity, though he we'll knew his section
would advance and flourish in ten-fold de
gree if relieved from the unequal laws which
made ii the bond servant of the manufac-
turing section. 1t is an undisputed fact that
prior to the Union the Southern States were
advancing faster than any portion OF the
country. In the first Congress, Virginia had
IL representatives to from New York; in
the last House, Virginia had | to 36 from
New York. Many causes brought about
this change: but the fact that the South
was the most promising section as colonies
before the Union, and States In the
Union up to the date of the protective
tariffs cannot be denied or evaded. Vir-
ginia and North Carolina were In
more prosperous condition during the first
years ui the century than ttCenty gears tafer :
But it is not singular the Southerners
clune to the Union with sentimental fond
ness, even against their material interests
They were sons of the grand sires who made
# their chimney-corners were filed with its
traditions their neighborhOOd and family
were interviewer with its brightest
pages. A rural conservative people, still
the old homesteads wrested from
virgin forest halfa-dozen generations back,
they were slow to accept innovations OF any
sort, much less a movement against the
.anc;ent regime, that GLORIOUS old I'm
ion'-s -s.for which our forefathers fought.
Nearly every Southern family had It's Revo-
Iutionary traditions, with constant re,
minder hanging on the walls, IN the shape OF
the identical sword, or rifle, or powder-horn,
or Or bugle, carried by some gallant ancestor n
who camped with Washington on Boston