The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-10-30

gentlemen, whom they knew personally
could be guilty of such atrocities. cowardice.
etc!
how much greater, then, must have been
the Impression made upon Northern minds
nHy the pertinaclous appeals to prejudice. the
circumstantlal Justification of facts, and the
narrowing pictures of Southern scoundrel-
ism, OF the lnnunerable abolition presses:
not only OF newspapers, but of millions of
pooAs' tracts, sermons, magazines and pic
loriaIs heeollect that a large proportion
grants, whose ideas of slavery ran back to
the etfete despotisms of the Old World from
which they fled. Most of them are working
people, mechanics, miners, foundrymen,
mill,hands, who while they read thrice as
much as Southern men Of the same class,
are TOO busy to reflect upon what they read,
ana iack the Information to retute there
lore drink III the malicious utterances of the
Abolition writer's and speakers without
doubt or question SO that in time most of
them became as bitterly sectional as if they
had been reared in New England, or had
received some deadly wrong at Southern
hands.
Another cause for the South hating cru
sade was the financial non-intercourse.
Not a factory, foundry, warehouse, or ira
80 Ant nun "dlUc " CdlIIOT1lid Out ItIl,
directly or indirectly, the withdrawal of
Southern patronage. The dependence of
the South Naturally the most independent
country on the globe,) upon the North, for
every thing common and except
the great staples OF cotton, rice, tobacco,
and sugar, would seem incredible, if it did
not still exist in a measure.
At that period 1S6l) the Southern babe.
r0bed IN Northern f~1annels, was fed with a
Northern spoon, rocked in a Northern
cradle, wheeled in a Northern carriage, and
amused with Northern toys. Entering his
teens, the boy with Northern books in a
Northern trunk, mounted a Northern car to
go to a Northern college. The daughter
ditto in all respects. In due season, both
made a bridal tour back to the North, with
costly Northern trouseaur bringing back a
complete household outfit Of furniture, car
machine, stoves, library, etc. The old gen
tleman, clad in Northern garments from
shoes to hat, spectacles. cane and umbrella,
rode forth in his Northern carriage, or
mounted a Northern saddle, to confer with
his Northern overseer, boss-machinists, or
mlll-boss, IN relation to the purchase OF
Northern machinery, or farming nipple
ments, as well as Northern bagging and ties
for his cotton, shoes and nails for his horses,
harness for his teams, etc. The old lady
carrying a Northern basket Of Northern
keys, dispensed daily %rations Of Northern
-four, lard, salt, soda, spices, pork or bacon,
etc., to be cooked in Northern utensils,
served in Northern dishes, with Northern
cutlery, on Northern tables; after which
she sat down in a Northern easy-chair to
ion-plate, while her Northern governess in
structed her children in Northern arts.
In short the ramifications Of this suicidal
dependence embraced every branch of trade
and manufactures, every article Of necessity,
utility, luxury, art, science or aesthetics, SO
that hundreds of thousands of Northern
firms, including schools, hotels, watering
places, ETC., saw certain damage, if not
ruin, stareins them in the face in conse-
quence Of the withdrawal of the Southern
States, and the setting up OF a new Confed-
eracy with ',Free-Trade' as its commercial
motto. Manufacturers of iron, steel, cop
per, machinery, locomotives, ships, and nu-
merous other industries to which bounties
are paid BY indirect taxes upon southern
farmers, realized plainly enough that their
occupation was gone, unless the South
could be forced back into the Union. 9th
ers, with that quick decision for which the
live Yankee is so admirable, resolved to
strike out in new lines, seeking to extend
their business in their own section by the
violence of their onslaught upon their for
mer patrons. Thus, for example, the H"r-
per Brothers, whose publications at that
date were found on every Southern centre
table, instantly employed all the resources
of their great wealth, with the artistic and
journalistic talent it secured, to calumnate
and destroy the people whose libera!Ity
founded the fortunes OF the house. For
eighteen years Hayper's Weekly, by. the
malign genius of Mast, has Systematically
villifed and abused the South. n!erverting
the truth, distorting fact, and giving to the
most atrocious falsehoods the appearance OF
credibility by a pretended representation
from our artist, on the spot. 1t IS not
easy to over-estimate the injury wrought BY
these pictorials, which at the North are
found in every dwelling, hotel, train, and
public library. 1t is safe to say that four
New York papers, the Herald, Trtb"ae,
Times, and Harpr's Weekly, circulating
around the world, have inflicted more lam
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