The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-06

anu unpTOVOkeu. the act or secession there
could be no forcible suppression of it,-no
plnnlng OF unwilling States to the Union by
bayonets, without a violation of justice,
and the principles of liberty, surprising any
thing charged upon the secessionists. 1t
should be remembered, moreover that these
Northern Democrats stood up for the rights
OF the South, not only at the peril of their
own lives and property, but in the face of
the scorn of their n~eighbors, the p~romptings
OF sectional pride, and the irritation INSOFAR
able from hearing their States and people
sweeplngly denounced by the Southern hot
heads OF little brain but much mouth.
Indeed nothing could have been more I'M
just, not to say impolitic, than the indis-
crlmlnate ~arraignment and abuse of all
Northerners as yankees, and all yankees
as 'abolltionists;" for as | shall duly show
thousa. ds OF our truest Confederates were
OF Northern birth, and it is a we'll known
fact that the bitterest hater of the typical
blue-law, WITHDRAWING New England Phar-
isee is his next door New England Demo-
cratic neighbor.
Unfortunately our people, a scattered
agricultural people, with meagre mail and
railway connections, had little knowledge OF
the North except through the party leaders;
hence when each day brought tidings of the
sudden conversion OF prominent Democrats,
the impression gradually deepened into
conviction that the whole North had become
carried away by the abolition and South
hating fury. 1t was but natural that a feel
ing OF disgust and betrayal should be arous-
ed by the detection of such men as Frank
Pierce, who had said only a few weeks pre-
vious that the war would not be on the
Southern Border, but in Northern streets,
Benjamin f. Butler, Stephen A. Douglas,
Caleb Gushing, James B%uchanon, Lewis
Cass, Willard Fillmore, Senator Bigler,
Edwin NJ. Stanton, Geo. d. Prentice, Arch
Bishop Hughes, and others. Three days
after Lincolns Proclamation the largest meet
ing ever held in New York city, was ad-
dressed In the most violent language by
Democrats like John A. Dix, Robert J..
Walker, Daniel S. Dickerson, the Northern
man with Southern principles, +" John Coch-
rane, and Mayor Wood, who in January had
suggested in a formal message to the city
colncil that New York might secede and
set up for a Free Trading city" Cochrane,
formerly a toady to the South, raved about
drowning the South in her own blood. SEN
ator Baker, ofOregon, holding the tattered
flag of Sumpter' raised a storm of yells by
declaring there should be no peace until it
were written in blood at the heart of the
traitors.
These however were professional r%olitici-
ans, time-servers trained to float with the
tide, regardless of consistency, or principle.
Many of them secretly believed the South
could never be brought back into the Union,
and as the AbOlitionists must remain for a
generation the dominant party at the North
| their only hope Of preterment lay in speedy
| evolution of the most violent antlpathy to
the Southerners, their late party allies.
Hence these sudden converts Out-heroded
Herod in their NARROWING virulence.
But they could not abolitionize the whole
Democratic party. This is proven as | said,
by the numerous cases OF mobblng,, by the
crowded political prisons at Washington,
Fort Lafayette, Camp Chase, Columbus,
Fort Delaware, and elsewhere; by the de
claration of Martial Law; by the resistance
to the draft; b. the iettres de cochet: and the
constant tinkl;ng of Stewards little bell. .
If it were not so, how should We account for
the fact that In 1862, tw~elye-mOnthS after
the war began the Democratic peace par
ty'' carried so many OF the middle States,
reversing in New York alone a majority OF
To-, 0O0!
BLOOD BEGINS TO Low
Amid the noisy cfferyescence of cheap
'patriotism" of the foregoing nature, came
the tidings of Virginia's prompt measures
to secure Norfolk navy yard and Harpers
Ferry arsenal; followed by the sanguinary
street fight in Baltimore. Bya strange CO
incidence, this first blood shed Of the South
fern revolution was, like the initial conflict
in the first revolution, an attempt by unor
ganized citizens to resist armed cohorts OF
the invader; and occurred npon the a%nniver-
sary of the older event, to-wit, the battle OF
Lexington.
As before stated, several Of the abolition
governors were secretly notified ofthe scheme
to reinforce Sumpter, and the probable con
sequence thereof. They at once took steps
to assemble large bodies of troops at short
notice. Massachusetts, needed no hint to get
ready. To her shame be it said, that she,
who in 1S12-'14 refused to furnish a man tc
protect the National Capital (soon after
burned by the British invaders), or to up
hold the honor Of the American flag (Which
was being daily dishonored by arrogant search
of our ships, and seizure of our seamen),