Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-26


slavery physician; no audience 70 pro-
slavery parson; no subscription to pro-
slavery newspaper; no hiring OF a slave;
but the utmost encouragement of Free
White Loboy.n "FREE WHITE LaBoR!"
This was the northern giant that ssalked
into the field.
THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION.
Meantime the northern revolution
against the Constitution was being CON-
hatted by the rise of the southern revolu-
ton looking to withdrawal from union
whose Constitution was unacceptable to
The northern people.
But il was not hatred 70 union or love Of
slavery that inspired the South nor love
~ the negro that inspired the North.
Profounder thoughts and interests lay bo-
meath these currents. The rivalry Of cheap
NEGRO labor aversion to tho negro and TO
slavery alike were the spurs Of northern
action: that OF the South was race integrity.
TarE WHITE DOMINION. The southern
giant rose and faced its foo.
TEE SOUTH STANDS FOR RACE INTEGRITY.
The instinct OF race integrity is the most
glorious. as 1t Is the predominant charac-
tcristic OF the nglo-Saxon race, and the sec
tons have II IN common. Fiercely did 1t
sweep tho red men before 10, swiftly did It
brush away the Chinese IN the West and
North. burning their homes, cutting their
throats whom they pressed too hard IN
rivalry, and then breaking treaties to hurl
them back across the Pacific Ocean 10 thor
native shores. -Four million OF black men
lived in the South side by side with the
white race: and race integrity now in-
eensed the South % action.
Look farther southwark beyond the con-
fines of our country and behold now the
Latin races have commingicd their blood
with the aborigincs and the negroes. croa-
ting mongrol republics and empires where
society IS dcbased and where governments
resting on no clear principles. swing Ike
pendnlums between the extremes OF ty-
nanny and license.
On the contrary tho American element
at the South, and | quote profound
northern writer in saving it. guarded It.
self with tho strictcst jealousy from any
such halcful contaElinations." But what
a picture Of horror rose before its eyes ms
II contemplated the freeing of the slaves.
John G. Calhoun had drawn that picture
in vivid cOlOrs which now recalling the
days of carpet bag and negro asccndnncy
seems like prophets vision. " III owned
the four millions of slaves IN the south.
said Robert Lee, II would sacrifice all for
the Union" And so indeed would tho
southern people. But Ice never indicated
how such sacrifice could obtain its object,
nor was n possible that II could. Ii was
not the property invested in the slave that
stood in tho way. for emancipation with
compensation tor them was then prac'lca-
stages Of the war and was indeed offered.
But free the slaves they would become
voters becoming voters they would pre-
dominate in numbers aud so predoini-
Mating what would become OF white CT Will
zaflonY 3,
This was the question which prevented
emancipation in Virginia IN 1882. XII
slavery. what Will you do with the corpse
Only silent mystery and awful dread an
swcred that question In 1891. WINE .ho
clamors Of abolition grew louder, and the
forces were accommodating strength TO forco
the issue. In fourteen northern States tho
fugitive slave-law had been nulliiied. In
new territories armed mobs denied access
tosouthern masters with their slaves. Negro
eoualitv became a text of the hustings and
inCendi appeals TO the slaves themselves
10 murder and burn filed the mails.
Thelnsurrection of Nat. Turner had given
forecast Of scenes as horrible az those OF
the French Revolution. and the bloody
hutcheries of San Domingo seemed Ike an
appalling wRnlng Of the drama to be
enacted on southern SOL.
Tho crisis WAS now fastened by two
events. In 1854 tho Supreme Court IN the
bred Scott decision declared the Missouri
COMPROMISE Of 1870. which limited le ex-
tension Of slavery to certain line OF Iati-
tude. unconstitutional. This was welcome
10 the South, hut it fred the northern
Learf. In 1859 John Brown, fresh from tho
pcarcd at Harper's Ferry with a band OF
nsguided men, and numbering innocent
citizens invoked the instruction OF the
slaves. This soldificd and almost frenZed
the South. and in turn the fate he suffered
threw oil upon the northern flames; mus
fell ont OF the gathering clouus inc nis mrs.
bic drops Of the bloody storm. In 1860
Abraham Lincoln was elected President,
md ia bis inaugural address he proclaimed
his party's creed that the Dred-Scott decl-
sion might be reversed. The southern
States were already in procession OF seces-
sion. The high tides of the revolution
were in their flow.
THE SOUTH AND THE UNIoS-ITs BATTLES.
Pause now upon the Threshold, and
geography and history will alike tell you
that neither in its people nor its leader was
there lack OF love for the Union, and that
WAS with sad hearts that they saw its
lcaments torn asunder. Look at the
southern map There may be read the
ZANE of Alamance, where in 1771 the first
drop of American blood was shed against
arbitrary taxation, and az Mecklenburg,
where was sounded the first note of indie
pendence. Before the Declaration at
Philadelphia there had risen IN tho
southern sky what Bancroft termed the
bright morning star of American INDIE
pendence, where on the 2sth of June, l776,
the guns of Moultrie at the Palmetto tort
in front OF Charleston announced the first
victory of American arms. At Kings
Mountain is the spot where the rOugh-and-
ready men OF the Carollnas and the swift
rider Of Virginia and Tennessee had turned
the tide of victory IN our favor, and there at
Yorktown is the true birthspot OF the free
nation Right here | stand tonight on
the soil of that State which first OF all
America stood alone free and independent!
Beyond the confines of the South her sons
had rendered yeoman service; and would
u - Il. hux-a
been scarce less than omnipotent had not
Morgan's rihemon from the Valley OF Viz
ginia. and the peerless commander OF MI.
Vernon appeared on the plains of Boston
You may follow the tracks of the Contl-
nentals at Long Island, Saratoga. Trenton,
Princeton, Brandywlne, germantown.
Valley Forge, Monmouth, and Morristown
by the blood and the graves OF the south
ern men who died on northern soil, far
away from their homes, answering the
question with their lives: Did the South
love the UnionS
THE LOVE OF THE SOUTH FOR AaKsIcAS INsrI-
TUTIoNs.
Did not the South love American institu-
ti0nsY What sohool-boy cannot tell
Who wrote the great Declaratonr who
threw down the gage, Liberty or Death
Who was chief framer of the Constltu-
tion2 Who became It's great expounder
Who wrote the Bill of Rights which is
copied far and wide by free Common
wsaIths : Who presided over the conven-
tion that made the Constitution and be
carnein field and council its all mall defend
er? jefferson, Henry, Madison, Marshall.
Mason, Washington, speak IRON your
graves and give the answer.
YEy SOUTH LEADS IN ACQUIRING THE ma
TIoSAJ DOMAIN.
Did not the South do its part
in acquiring the imperial domain of
the nation? When the revolu-
ton ended the thirteen States that
that lay on the Atlantic seaboard rested
Westward in q wilderness, and the Mlssis-
sippi marked the extreme limits OF their
claims as the Appalachian range marked
the bounds Of civilization. Tho north
western territory north of the Ohio river.
which now embraces Ohio. Indiana, ILL.,