The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-08-28

parishoners-" Do not bring them to OHIO.
We don't want any more negroes here. we
do not love the darkey so much as we hate
worse any mar that will own a slave" The
same spirit was described by Richard Grant
White, writing to the London Spectator,
six months after the war ,-thus:-"You
in Europe seemed to think most of the in
dividual negro. 1--WE Republicans care little
"for the negro personally, but we hate the
"barbarous institution of slavery" 1t
would have been truer to add-''and all
Southerners generally'-for even at this
day-fourteen years after the "barbarous
institution" was changed into "Freedmen's
Bureaux,' "Banks," and Loyal Leagues"
there is the same envy, hatred, and abuse of
the South as when the Chicago convention
opened the final anti-slavery crusade.
PAIR OF ABOLITIoNIsTS.
On the third ballot for Presidential Nomi-
nee. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois was chosen
with apparent unnanimity. Senator Seward
led the field with 1874 votes, on the two first
ballots, showing him to be the popular ia
vorite, as he was in reality the head and
leader of his party. But as his nomination
would be a square challenge to the South,
and might alarm timid Republicans, as we'll
as moderate men inclined to throw away
their votes on "Bell-and- Everett" the con-
v~ention wire-pullers decided to cast an
unanimous vote in favor of the Illinois back
woodsman, whose well tried firmness against
his enemies, and easy ~good-nature with his
friends, were supposed to be the precise
characteristics desirable in a Party-Figure-
Head to be manipulated by powers behind
the throne. [ am inclined to think the
party managers subsequently found they had
selected a stubborn and unmanageable pup
pet; but this does not concern us.
For Vice-President, Hannibal Hamlin, of
Maine, was chosen. AS little known, out
side OF his own state, as was Lincoln him
self, he was a good deal more narrow-mind-
ed and sectional in character, and doubtless
owed his nomination to the fact that he
was the most available Down-Easter Of the
abolition %straightest sect.
Thus for the first time in American histo-
ry was witnessed the unseemly spectacle of
a great sectional party, confined to One-half
the union, and founded on hostility to the
other half, nominating for the highest
Offices under the government, a pair
men, who by birth, residence, educa-
ton and sentiments were extreme sectional
lists, and who could not expect to represent
in any sense a single constituent throughout
One-half of the nation!
So sectional were the Republican candi-
dates that neither of them had ever been seen
in the South, nor scarcely heard of. if we
except a small portion of the Kentucky Dor
der adjacent to Illinois. So sectional were
they that neither of them pretended to can
vass the South, nor even to make a tour
through the Southern States to ascertain
public sentiment, manifest an interest in the
wrongs of which our people complained
True, the abolition candidates, with a record
and a platform of open enmity to the South,
could not hope to win southern votes. But
had Mr.. Lincoln joined Senator Douglas in
descending the Mississippi valley to New
Orleans, thence through the Gulf and Allan
tic States, via Raleigh and Richmond, he
must have seen enough of the deep-seated
agitation of the South to show him the
necessity of conciliatory utterances in the
event of his election, and patriotic concessions
in favor of peace. AS for this, however.
neither he, nor his party desired peace. AS
lack Chandler wrote to the governor ofMas-
sachusetts-"A little blood-letting will do
the country good, and benefit the party"
OPULA UPROAR.
The Presidential canvas early developed a
StIlhlHS uIHcltuCc III feeling DoCWoen the
people Of the rival sections. At the South
there was perhaps less than ordinary stir
and excitement, the public mind seeming to
settle into a condition of gloomy qu~iescence,
awaiting the result, as a man sets his teeth
and braces his nerves to meet a blow, which
he knows must begin a mortal struggle.
At the North, 0 the contrary, the whole
land appeared to be bubbling over with
boisterous commotion and efervescence. 1t
was the studied aim of the abolition leaders
to heighten the excitement. To add point
to their sneers at the Southern chivalry''
the rich arristocrats who wish to make
mud-sills of our honest Northern mechanics
md working-men'-they dubbed their own
candidate The Poor Mans Friend,"-
1.-The Rail-Splitter Candidate, "-alluding
to the fact that at one time he, and his
brother-in-law, had split a quantity of fence
rails to enclose their farms. 1t may be men
toned as showing the design of the leaders
to create a false sentiment, and gain votes
from outsiders who could not forsee the con.