Asheville daily citizen., 1894-11-21

became so specially offensive. those same
states together with Others sounded the
same crv. The Constitution. no faith.
iully adhered to and defended by ths
Southern states. waslareely denounced |
at the North, as League. with hell and
a covenant with den.h;" and the dag !
now worshipped as ''Old Glnrv"- and
we too glory ia the truth-dsiamed as
hates p,,liuted rae" Such change haa |
It TAX, n place uulyss the North had got
al it claimed, and the South lost all II
was alleged TO have aimed at.
But Dr. Curry has demonstrated thai
he preservation OF tine Constitution in
i original purity. aoi the security Of
its inherent rights guaranteed under
that Constitution was t extent the
South proposed to go An ex animation
oi the Constitution OF the Confederate
States would make that clear. 1t was
formed str,c,ly upon the principles and
bass of that OF the United Statss. As
was stated by President Davis on his
Inaugural address. I'VE have changed
tn clnstiiuant points. bat not the sys-
TEN OF our government. The Constitu-
tion formed bs out fathers is that OF
the Confederate States in their sxposi.
ton uf it," The chang S made we're
adopted; the protection "i our own iJ-
stitu,ious brought such change aud iu'-
pyuvement in the original instrument a>
to have won the admiration and appro.
val OF leading Northern thinkers. auo
were conced Il bv those to he worthy u
adoption bv the people of the Unite'
States We have no room further tina,
to refer to them as the calm exposition
of thoughtful, temperate statesmen, Wit
aimed at conservative measures to
secure protection to the rights aud
Liberties of the Southern peorc without
the admission of a solitary vagary OF he
theOrist or revolutionist. The SAINT
temper that ruled in the preservation of
the Constitution of the Sou hern States
prevailed, as when justice ot the Su.
p-,me Court SAID that the bass OF the
enigmt Of the sn-calcd slave power Ia,
in the cool. vigorous judgment and un-
erriug sense applicable to the affairs d
intercourses OF men which the Southc u
mode of lite engendered aud tost red"
l is gratifying to record the following
summary of the attitude Of the South.
which DR.. Curry points as characteristic
oi Southern conservation through long
period OF national trials. The South"
he says "wasa barrier ag 4inst lbidnous
democracy, In the revol ,tionary war,
and the nascent. formative period of the
Fcderative republic, there were no mu-
tln,s, no Shay rebellions, M Arnolds, as
since there were, upto the rtconstruc-
ii II period and later. no strikes nor la
Dor complications. These truths which
cannot be confuted, illustrate South
ern characteristics. fidelity to the con.
stisution, adherence to the systems
adopted; and il the South were Jealous of
interference with the institution OF sIav-
cry, 1t was in the maintenance OF guar
anteed rights III leieuce Of institutions
which had b,come incxtricably inter-
woven with the habits and interests Of
the pl ople. Slavery owed its unpopu-
lari,v at the Worthless to- sentiment than
tc interest. Climate and the character
i Northern pr reductions made it unprOf.
table. The negro did n It thrive or in
cease at the North as he had done at
the South under the bcngu Influence of
cil,Gate ard humane trca ment. II slav-
er> was SO abhorrent to Northern senti.
meat as it has since become, tn. African
slave trade would not nave been contin.
ued, under Northern demand, up to 1908.
and against Sou, ,hern protest. Dr. Curry
SAYS wistly and truly that history
shows S that progress has not been due
to intellectual aud religious forces alone.
but that economic forces which have
been at work in society have been the
most controlling OF ALL" Slavery is at
an end, and we rejoire at it. The South
Il relieved OF a terrible incubus upon its
future. AT the same time, while its *
i,terce NAV have weighed upon the
Southern section as a drawback to its
prosperity, the removal leaves no re-
proach upon its humanity. The same
conditions existing at the North would
have perpetua,ed 1t there. and emancipa.
tion might still have contcnded for the
humanitarian doctrine. OF the benevolent
Penn and his followers. while inexorable
interest would have turned deaf ear to
these demands for enfrauchisement.
DR.. Curry says, "the object OF this book
is to shield the south from unjust asper.
>ions, to vindicate her motives. to show
that her action did not proceed from any
sud len ebulition OF discomfort or hate,
was not the offspring of sudden caprice
or of a prcdsposi,ion to separation, and
to place her action in connection with