The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-25

fancy, and, after suttig Her JOr sLrty on "
ssthe serenty years Of her ertstence, zee shat
stsurreuder her to you trtthOut q STAN upop
"her honor, Joundless N prosperity, '~acotc"-
sslabLe IN Aer strength, tie uoader, and the
ssado,tratiou Of the uorlH Time will show
what you will make of her; but no time
'can ever diminish our glory, or-your re-
'tsponsiblllty..
Senator Clay, of Alabama, made a vigor-
our ar%raienment Of Abolitionism, which had
become the master-spirit of the North, and
wronnht mischief from its birth. multiplying
the constitution and the laws, and seyerlng
the bonds of the union, long before South
Carolina arose in defence OF her rights.
"Itdenied us"-he o~ntinued-'christia communion
sbecause it could not endure what it styles 1.-THE MORAL
"IEpRosY OF sLAvE-HoLDISG - it refused US permits
.sion to soiourn. or even to pass through the North
with our property; it claimed freedom from the slave
..lated the constitution, and treaties, and laws OF Con
.sgress, because designed to protect that property II re-
FUSED us any share OF the lands acquired by our diplo-
.macy, blood, and treasure; it refused our property any
shelter or securely beneath the flag OF cur common
government; it refused to delivered criminals against
sour laws who fed to the North with our property, or
"our blood upon their hands; it threatens Us, by solemn
Legislative acts, with ignoninious punishment if we
pursue our property into the Northern States; it muir
''dered Southern men when seeking the recovery OF their
'property on Northern soil; it invaded the borders of
''Southern States, poisoned their wells, burnt their
dwellings, and murdered their people: it denounced us,
sbv deliberate resolves of popular meetings, of party
conventions, and of religious and even Legislative as
''semblies, as ''HABITUAL vIoLAToRs OF THE LAW OF
..GoD AND OF HUMANITY; - it exerted all the moral and
physical agencies that human ingenuity can devise, or
''diabolical malice employ, to heap ,odium and infamy
''upon us, make us a by-word OF kissing and scorn
throughout the civilized world! Yet we bore all this
'.for many years, and might have borneit for many more,
s'under the oft-repeated assurances of our Northern
friends that these wrongs and injuries We're committed
''by a minority party, and had not the sanction of the
majority
But the fallacy of these assurances, and
the folly of our own hopes, he continued,
were proved by the elections during the past
six years. The Republican platform he re-
garded as a libel on the character, and a
declaration of war against the lives, and
property, of the Southern people," No
bitterer or more offensive calumny could be
uttered than the coupling of slavery and
Polygamy as Twin relics of Barbarlsm.
1t not only reproaches US as unchrlstlan and
heathenlsh, but lmputes to us a sin and a
crime deserving universal execution. let a
large majority of the Northern people have
declared their approval of this platforms; and
thus by a solemn verdict denounced our in
~stitutions as 'outlawed, branded with
ignominy, consigned to execration, and speedy
destruction"
Eel DAVIS.
The farewell remarks of Senator Davis
will survive as examples of dignified and
impressive oratory. Although quite Ill, he
spoke in a manner to enchain every listener.
Addressing the dominant majority, he as
sured them he vacated his seat among them
without anger, without passion or prejudice
without hostility; and therein he but uttered
the sentiments Of his section and people.
But if'-he continued, with figure erect,
and voice ringing like a clarion,-"If the
powerful North shall resolve upon a policy
'of hostility and coercion, we will invoke
''the God of our Fathers, who delivered us
'from the power of the Lion, to protect us
''from the ravages of the Bear; and thus
putting our trust in God, and in our own
''tirm hearts and strong arms, we will vindi-
''cate the Right, as best we may!'
The day is coming | think, when the
world, and even the decent portion of the
Republicans, will recall with a feeling Of
wonder the blind malice and hatred with
which Jefferson Davis was blackened and de-
famed for years regardless of truth, reason,
or common sense. In fact the North ought
to look upon him with more favor than any
of the Southern leaders because his stilted,
dignified, heightened style of carrying on
war did more, in my humble judgment, to
defeat the South than all the armies of the
stead of adopting the red-tape methods of a
formal war between two nations, with old
established governments, he had conducted
the war as a Revolution, as a desperate
struggle for Freedom. making everything
give wa. to the single aim of-success, say |
ing to the people-''Let us win our indie |
pendence, then set up our formal govern |
ment, we should certainly hare ICON!
But leaving out the four years from Bull
Run to Appomattox, ifyou will, there is no |
grander character in American history than |
that of Jefferson Davis. Even had there
been a moral crime in plotting to disband
the Union (which there was not as the
Union was a voluntary one, and had far
less claims on the loyalty of its citizens than
had the mother country upon the allegiance
of Ben Franklin, John Adams, Geo. Wash
ington, and the Revolutionary leaders, the
faint could not specially attach to Mr.. DAVIS,
since he was probably not a disunionist Der
Sc, and assuredly did less to hasten secession
than an hundred others, North and South,
who could be named. Up to the hour of