Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-16
A Comparison that Doesn't Compare.


of Mr.. Henry w. Grady has move,
any short-sigh ted and narrow minded
| person to say is the observation Of tn.
| ST. Louis Globe Democrat that in the
professions of admiration and respec
| which Mr.. Grady had made on two
conspicuous occasions to the memory
of the Plymouth Pilgrims and that o
of jefferson Davis there was an incon.
consistency that could only be explai in
ed on the hypothesis that truth was
sacrificed on one occasion or the other
for oratorical effect. After quoting
what Mr.. Grady said on the two occa-
siOns the political philosoph er of the
Globe Democrat says:
1t can hardly be supposed that the orator
would undertake to reconcile these two vic y
lently conflicting aspirations with regard to
his sons tuition in the duties of good citi-
zenship. He could not expect Plymouth
Rock and an efigy of Jefferson Davis to
blend and harmonize in any intelligent boys
process of learning to be a patriot and a
hero.
Will the Globe Democrat please ex-
plain what its difficulty is? Does this
newspaper suppose that the Pilgrim
Fathers were a Republican campaign
society or that they were veterans of
the Civil War, sort of Grand Army
post, as it were? AS Mr.. Davis was
gentleman of the highest character
and honor in all the private rela-
lations of life and as he served his coun-
try gallantly in war with a foreign
power, ,and acquitted himself with cred
it as member of President Pierce's
Cabinet and was distinguished mem
ber of the United States Senate for
several years, We conclude that the
Globe Democrats objection to him is
based upon his advocacy of slavery
and his leadership in the Lost Cause.
If the editor of the Globe Den,ocr
knows that the Pilgrim Fathers were
the antpodes of Jefferson Davis on
these two points, so that the man who
admired the one could not honestly
say that he admired the other, he has
access to sources of history that are
closed to the rest of the world. Slav-
cry existed in New England for gener-
ations after the Pilgrim Fathers were
gathered to their ancestors, and ceased
in that section earlier than it did in
some sections farther south because
the climatic conditions made 1t nprofit.
able. The Globe Democrat must be
densely ignorant of history if it does
not know that New England capital
lists carried on the slave trade till COM
paratively modern times without re-
proach, and it can never have read
any of the histories of the anti-slavery
movement if it doest not know that fif-
ty years ago the abolitiOnists were ev-
en- in New England a little band of
fanatics, intensely hated by the over
wheIming mass of the population and
so distinctly recognized as the enemies
of the public peace and good that they
were repeatedly mobbed, not by the
roughs, but by the best classes of busi-
ness and professional men.
Ifthis unread writer of the Globe
Democrat wants a picturesque glimpse
of the attitude of Plymouth Rock to-
ward chattel slavery we advise him to
look in Mr.. James Russell Lowell's es-
say on New England Two Centuries
Ago" where he will find this passage:
ain a country where land might be bad
for the asking, 1t was not easy to keep hold
of servants brought over from England.
Emanuel Down ing, always the hard, prac-
tical man, would find remedy in negro
slavery. "A war with the Naraganset,'
be writes to Winthrop in 1915, SIS verie con-
siderable to this plantation, flor l doubt
whittier it be not synne in us, having power
in our hands, to suffer them to maynteyne
the worship of the Devil which their paw
waves often doe; 2lie, if upon a just warre
the Lord should deliver them into our hands,
children enough to exchange for Moores,
which will be more ganeyfull pIlladge for us
than wee conceive, for do not see how wee
can thrive until we get into a stock of slaves
sufficient to do all our busines, for our chill
dren's children will hardly see this great
continent filled with people, so that our SER
wants will still desire freedome to plant for
themselves, Il not stay but for yerie great
wages. And | suppose you know verie well
how wee shall maynteyne 20 Moores cheaper
than one English servant"
AS to the other charge against Mr..
Davis in contrast with the Pilgrims, it
seems to be very difficult to make peo-
pie who ought TO be familiar with our
history to understand that this nation,
w ith no matter how large capital in
itial, was formed by the union of 13 in
dependent nations on central specified
conditions, and that from the original
compact in 1857 down to 1865 there was
no lack OF eminent and learned men
who insisted that each pardner in this
union hand the right to withdraw at
will. While more Southern men than
NortherD men entertained this view of
the compact between the 13 nations
that had secured their Independence of
Great Britain, there were always men
in the North who took the same<view
of the Constitution, and the idea that
there was any turpituue ABOUT one con-
struction of the Constitution over an
other should be entertained only by
very shallow minds. What the Pill
grim Fathers would have said we do
not know, but t1e "reminiscences of
Oliver Dyer lately published, tell us
what one of the Pilgrim sons said
without the least idea of expressing
treasonable or otherwise Infamous SEN
timents, We quote the following par
agraph from the New York TriJune's
review of Mr. Dyer's booa.
Later, he come to know Calhoun with
some intimacy, and he gives here state
ment made to him by the great nu!ifier of
his States Rights doctrine, which is full of
interest. Mention Of this doctrine leads
Mr.. Dyer into pointing out that, as a matter