Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-06-14
JOHN MITCHELL, JR., : EpITOR
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well as the old antagonism aroused
he has only to read a few extracts
from some Of the Southern journals
of that section. The Charlottes-
Willie Chroaicle. a Democratic jour
nal, in it's issue Of the 9th inst,
says:
''To us, the most hateful sentence in
the English language, so often found in
the writings and speeches of Southern
men is that AFFECT apology for the hol-
lest cause man ever fought for, embodi-
ed in the expression They fought for
what they then thought was right.
The men who upheld with courage
uneQualled in ancient or modern times,
the fortunes Of the Confederacy not
only fought for what they thought TO be
right, but they fought for what they
knew then and know now to be right
1t would be well to note the far
reaching nature of its assertions.
The South fought for secession
and perpetuation of slavery.
In the year OF 1890, after witnes
sing the magnificent display In this
city on the Goth ult, the Haunting
to the breeze of the stars and
bars of disunion, this editor de-
clares that the doctrine that a
state could secede from the Union
was right. and that dealing in
human beings, selling children
from their parents, wives from hus-
bands, sisters from brothers we're
right and the South in contending
for these things by force Of arms
was right.
We quote his words. They come
from man who has witnessed
twenty-five years under free gov
eminent, and enjoys the enlighten
ing influence which should neces
sarily shed itself upon a communi
ty which rests within the shadow
of the University Of Virginia.
The following is amusing, Co say
the least:
1.-THE Northern people, whose liber
ties rested upon the assertion of the
right of a people TO choose their own
government, deliberately went to wal
10 exterpate this right as asserted by
the Southern people. The Southern
people went TO war-or rather were
driven 20 war TO maintain this centra
idea of the Declaration of Independ
ence."
We give the journal the benefit
of Its principal assertions. 1t at
tempts to dispose of the truths O
history by the following language
at is utterly futile to bring the que
ton of slavery in TO mitigate the out
rage of the North on the cardinal pril
ciples of the Charter of American Lii
erty. The question of the right o
wrong OF slavery was not in ISSUE"
If the DRIED SCOTT decision
which may be linked with thu
Fugitive Slave Act" the "JoHl
BROWN Instruction y followed b,
the election of ABRAHAM LIN
COLIN, who was regarded as tn
champion of the Anti-Slavery ell
ment, as well as Ofthose who were o
posed to secession, did not preciE
tate the Great Rebellion what did
"By the repeated out givings OF bot
President Lincoln and the legislativ
branch of the government, the Sout
was over and over, up to few month
before the surrender, invited to the fu
SCI l. IN, Z .n It,tl -.
and with additional guarantees if ne
essary.'
1t matters not as to what Nj
LINCOLN was cOerced into Otferin
in order that the paramount ide
in his mind might be accomplished
namely, the preservation of tn
Union, it still remains fact thu
the preservation Of slavery was til
paramount idea in the mind of til
South. Had it not been, what els
could have actuated him in maxim
such an offer
This journal endeavers to on
Herod Herodu in it's malignit
when it says elsewhere:
In spite Of all they can say the wor
persists in exalting Lee above Graz
above Sherman, above Lincoln"
Talk Of this kind Injuries t.
South, but the veil of prejudice
so thick over the eyes of the Boz
bons that they cannot see, VIII
they iDjure the best interests
the Southland by their blind ful
Colorod man datand vonr HON