The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-11-23

ara r.CSc:iiit-tuS u TIC t"L' NSteH, VI
couGs:&ticns Of property and the exc
cution Of the leaders of al unsuccess-
f;,l revolution. Had this been il
lalaytl IN utter our war two centuries
wcr!i! not have restored the harmony
which uuw exists.
II England tie Puritans and Caya
licrs, tic Taccu;i9s and followers OF
Hanover .aevcr joined hands in har-
n;onv. The :cai!oI'!: and prescriptions
q the restoration! were offset later by
those which followed tie bloody field
Of Culioden. i vas Only after several
generations had passed away that
Gr=a! Britieu ceased to 5e TORI by
party hatred ou;i Instructions. No
arc satisfied with the result Of the var,
and former deadly zoos meet IN friend
ship. But c"eE TO this day what Irish.
nan can family accept the position
into which England forced his COIN
try: What Polish patriot has ever ac-
krow!ege1, even after sixty years,
that Russian ccnG'iost was best tor bis
people; We al nov ad.ait that j. vas
best to have preserved tie Lnic., il.
tact. and the time LAS come when,
without bitterness. the very actors ii
tha great DIANA car tllacuss lie oYsnts
% tie war
Il this connection. ior the sake ot
the truth and the young people that
arc present. I desire briefly to a!lNdc
to tie real motive 0: the var So far a5
1aan Was concerned. It has become
the !ashionin some parts Of The North
to make il appear that the War was ua-
gun and fought upon tie high moral
groan%? Of freeing the slaves. This Is
not true. The Emancipation PEocla-
nl..ticn of Mr.. Lincoln was VA
r.asuro and an afterthought. The
real cause cf the war lay deeper aGd
Va: Of z more commercial character.
Alter the revolutionary war was over
and thc n4w government commenced
- run. political parties were iozn1e1
on sectional lines, based upon the di-'
terene industrial systems of the resDac-
tive sectiouG
Tic Soutl,, agricultural, with slave
labor; The North, manufacturing and
COMM crc:al, with free labor. The
North wanted bounties ior her ships;
tie South opposed this. The North
wani"I a government bank; the South
onr,;s1d i. The North wanted pre-
tpcti"n for her manufacturers: tie
South opposed this. Wealth, through
Z protective tariff, was insiaiouSly
jira;unl fcoi4 iHc South into the North.
II 1928, Benton, ot Missouri, in 4
speech il the scllntc: said: ave enith
has fied from the South aud scttiad in
regions north Of the Potomac: and this
in tacc u tic fact that the South IN
i:ur stnplcs alone has exported, since
the revolution, eight hundred million
dollars. anl the North comparatlvel :
nothing. Virginia. the two Carol:nss
and Georgia may be said to defEa5S
tnree-: -:onrths Of the annaal expense OF
the federal government: and of this
.s,,,.n annually incnis!hed hsS.t:AeG moth
sag, or nest 20 ncthlrS, - returned II
the shape OF governmental expenditure
The expenditure flows in o. opposite
ylirccti3n--it flows nurthward il one
uninterrupted aud perennial stream.
This is the reason why wealth dlsap-
Dear; from Inc South and rises up IN
the North. Federal Legislation does
all this. It does it by the simple pro-
cess of ct"rnally taking al from the
South and returning nothing to 1t. Ii
It returned 10 the South the whole, or
even good Part cf what it ezected: the
.foar States south of tie Potomac might
stand ;l2 action of the system, but the
South must be exhausted Of its money
md its property by Il course OF ieGlsia
ton which is forever taking away end
returning nothing. Livery new tnrlt1
increases the course Of to-: action. No
tariff Las ever yet iuclHslcd Virginia:
the two Carolinas and Georgia, EXCEPT
TO increase tue burdens placed "ncn
them"
This is 4 tru8 statement Of what led
to notification in 1882. South Caro-
liza boldly refused. under the leader
'ship OF Calhoun, to submit to tic new
tariff. The war nearly came then.
Why. I an told, that the old brick ma
chine Shop in front ot the governor
mansion, WAS built t. forge Cuus to tight
before submitting further to the new
tariff, lat ':Oli Hickory Jackson was
most too 1auch for IL at that time. \
comprcnlisc was patchc'i up ard the
war uuly postponed 10 h.c;A forth with
crsut"r ti.rccnc&S sad upon Grandel
scale thirty years later,
The question alosc about new terri.
tories. and the North opposed tic cal
ryiug OF slaves iuto thcnl, 40: 50 much
from hostility 10 the institution @.
slavery pcr SC, as from the fear 81
transferring the balance vi polisic;i.
power when these territories were cd
mittcd into the Union rs slave States,
and thereby impsrilliDg the system o.
protection. Why, even after the t!rs
battle Of NanNssas. q resolution q th(
Federal Congress declared that the v'a1
was not uagel to destroy the institn
ton Of slavery: but to preserve the In
ion. no. fellow citizens, I 10 not pro
pose to allow NY children taught tina
on one side TIC motives OF the actors IL
that drama were high, pure and unset
!ish, looking alone towards the free
dom and liberty 0; III mankind. while
71Don orr side all was ..ellisl ard ner
row; looking towards the perpetual ;.n
slaycmcnt OF Il portion Of the human
race.
Men have motives which infUen,;
their conduct, and sometimes lgnobl'
and selfish as they arc, God uses thea
rs blind instruments 10 execute his tic