The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-05-07

ton. voted for the extension of the slave
trade from 1900 to 1908, in order that
thew might retain the traffic as long as
possible. They sold their own slaves to
the South. and it was their ships that
afterwards supplied the Southern labor
market with importations OF negroes IRON
Africa. The slave trade having been
abolished in 1903 their vocation was gone
They were then suddenly seized with
horror of domestic slavery, which meant
they wanted monopoly ofthes poils OF that
office and of the public lands, as they for
merly claimed an exclusive patent from
Heaven for religious persecution Divine
right to do wrong. OF secession, treason
and rebellion they also claimed monopoly.
The party cry became, "The Potomac for
boundary-the negro States to them
selves" John Quincy Adams, on the
adoption of the Embargo act in 1907, wrote
to Mr. Giles, of Virginia, ''that the object
of the leaders had been, for several years,
the dissolution of the Union and the estab-
lishment ola separate Confederation know
from I'M equivocal evidence.
MASSACHUSETTS, FOR SECESSION.
In the second war with England, 1872
10, they refused to allow their militia to
be used against the enemy, and gave the
British all the aid and comfort they dared
to. The New England States claimed
they were sovereign, and had Il right so to
act. Massachusetts, among other disloyal
and reasonable acts, directed the jailOrs
of the State iails ITO discharge at the end
of thirty days all Britt h officers captured
in the war who had been committed to
their custody" 1t was by the troops of
the South that the honor of the country
was then redeemed
When Louisiana was about to be adj
mitted to the Union Massachusetts by her
Legislature declared she would secede, and
when Texas was about being admitted
again voted herself out OF
the Union prospectively, but never carried
out the act In 1889 she declared John
Brown was right in numbering, in cold
blood. the dcfenscless and unarmed inhabi-
tants of Harpers Ferry, and in 1861 she
was very loyal to the Union, very ardent
in her desire to coerce the seeding States,
and very forward in sending her militia to
the South to inaugurate a civil war, under
the pretext of enforcing the laws, while of
slavery, secession and revolution she was
herself the chief source and origin. Massa
chusctts and the Puritans of New England
have been for the Union and against the
| Union; for State rights and against State
rights, Just as the question at issue hap
pcned to affect their particular section.
They were heartily in favor Of prosecuting
the war upon the South, for the double
reason that it was profitable to the manu-
featuring interests of New England, and
because they saw in it means of attaining
Ia political supremacy.
ABoLITIoNIsTs DID NOT FIGHT.
When the war broke out the Conserva-
lives rushed to the battlefield to defend
the Union. The Abolitionists stayed at
home to abuse the President for not trans
forming the war into an abolition war and
thus supcrscding the Constitution. The
Abolitionists of Massachusetts were too
precious to be exposed to the hazards and
horrors of war and paid as high as $500
.or substitutes for ''the grand army"
Accordingly, the prudent government of
hat State had agents in all countries of
he world buying up human stock for the
,hambles of the war. While the Adolf |
.ionists remained at home manufacturing
Tor the army and navy there came ships |
rom Bremen. Antwerp and Hamburg
alden with Germans, and from Cork and
liverpool crammcd with Irishmen, all on
account of Massachusetts and to be credit |
I'd on her quota" The activity and en-
icrprisc Of that shrewd people, first in every
market of human flesh, was indeed admi- |
-able When the Federal Congress au-
.horizcd recruiting within the limits Of the
Confederate States, the agents Of Puritan
were instantly in the field,
md on the lines of the Northern army, |
rom the Potomac to the Gulf and to the |
Mississippi, picking W negroes as Massa-
;huSctts soldiers, and we read that ''imme- !
lately on the fall of Savannah Governor |
Andrew dispatched agents to that city to
recruit black loyalists to be credited to the |
quota of his State In such hurry was
he to be first in that market that he even
anticipated the permission of the Secretary
Of War for that purpose. The permission,
indeed, was given without delay; and We
are informed that the docusents arrived
about the time the first squads were on
their way to Massachusetts The Boston
papers also announced that the negro col
onists who had just returned from Hayti
In the same State criminals were released
from prison ON condition of their joining
the army. Thieves, convicts, diseased men,
all things in the shape of humanity that
could be pushed into the ranks, were sent
to the front, and levics were made on all
parts of the country and all races to fill its
regiments in the field Several regiments
were also largely recruited from ConfedeF-
ate prisoners at Fort Warren, Camp Chase,
Camp Douglas and other Confederate pris-
ons, among those who were anxious to es-
cape the horrors of Northern prisons.
HOW THE SOUTH HELPED THE UNION.
Notwithstanding these efforts of Massa-
chusetts to fill up her quotas, she only
contributed to the Union army about IS
per cent. of her available men, and, accord
Ing to the records of the War Department,
about % per cent. of these, or one in every
four. were deserters. Maryland, without
rcsorting to such disreputablc means to fill
her quotas, did nearly as well, having fur
nished to the Union army about 40 per
cent, although her people were divided in
sentiment and many volunteered to fight
for the South. Delaware, slave State,
furnished lis per cent. of her available
men to the Union army, larger proper
ton than any other state in any part of
the country. New Hampshire contributed
only about 81 per cent; Vermont, IS;
Maine, 80, and Rhode Island, &C. The
border slave States did nearly as well as
the New England States Kentucky re-
sponded with nearly A per cent; Mis-
souri,, almost AZ per cent; West Virginia,
Y,,po tbn,, nor .anf onI