The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-11-20

from the South and returning moth
ing to it. II it returned to the
South the whole or even a good part
of what it exacted, the four states
south of the Potomac might stand
the action of the system, but the
South must be exhausted of its
money and its property by course
of legislation, which is forever taking
away and returning nothing. Every
new tariff increases the force of the
action. No tariff has ever yet in.
cluled Virginia, the two Carolina:
and Georgia, except to increase the
burdens placed upon them"
This is true statement of what LED
to Notification in 1882. South Car.
DINA boldly refused under the leader
ship of Calhoun to submit to the new
tariff: the war nearly came then
Why. I am told that the old brick
machine shop in front of the Gov
vernor's Mansion, was built to forge
guns to hight before submitting furth.
er to the new tariff, but "Old Hick.
Dry" Jackson was most too much fol
us at that time. A compromise was
patched up, and the war only post.
poned to break forth with greatel
ierceness and upon a grander scale
thirty years later. The question
arose about the new territories, ard
the North opposed the carrying ot
slaves into them, not so much from
hostility to the institution of slavery
per- Sc, as from the fear of trans.
ferrinS the balance of political power
when these territories We're admitted
into the Union as slave States, and
thereby imperil the system of protec,
ton. Why, even after the first bat.
tie OF Manassas resolution of the
Federal Congress declared that the
war was not waged to destroy the
institution OF slavery, but to pre-.
serve the Union. No fellow citizens
I do not propose to allow my chill.
dren taught that on one side the mo
tives Of the actors in that drama were
high, pure and unsel6sh, looking
alone towards the freedom and lib.
erty of all mankind, while upon ou,
side all was selfish and narrow, look
towards the perpetual enslavement oi
portion of the human race.
Men have motives which influence
their conduct, and sometimes .ignoble
and selfish as they are, God uses
them as blind instruments to execute
his decree.s Slavery had served its
purpose in partially civilizing the
blacks, and opening up and clearing
vast forests. It had reached the point
where it enslaved not only the negro
but the "poor white man., and by 6
life of luxury, in one more genera.
ton, would have enervated and
ruined the sons and daughters of ths
rich. No my friend, you who owned
no slave, and shouldered your mus
ket and fought for four long years
do not wish your children to believe
that you were fighting for owr
epslavement, as we'll as that of the
negro. The principles OF local sell
government and equality in taxation
with all these fundamental questions
which have lain under every con
test for freedora. were at stake, and ]
verify believe that slavery was the
only thing which kept the South from
succeeding, because that alone put
the God of Battles against US "Ren
der unto Ceasar the things that are
Caesars. I am thankful that the
negroes are''free; glad that my whole
life has been spent amid a nation o
free people, and for the sake Of pos
terity I want true history.
The average man North, in the be
ginning of the wer,iwas heartilyin ia
vor of slavery,.and fugitive slaves were
readily returned by the very soldier
who afterwards liberated them. Tb'
influential and wealthy classes in tht
North upheld slavery, because there
was money for them in the Souther:
markets. The pro-slavery vote helc
the balance of power, and United
States officials hunted fugitive slave:
across the Canadian border. A mol
of Yankee aristocrats dragged Vim
Lloyd Garrison through the streets o
Boston with a rope around his neck
Elijah Lovejoy was murdered because
he attacked human slavery and tn
Attorney General OF Massachusetts
presided at a meeting in Fauieu
Hall which approved the murder. q
S. Marshal Rbynders at the head of {
mob, broke up an Abolition meeting
in New York City. Forty years ago
no Orator could in any Northern city
attack slavery without endangerine
his life. Keep the record straight
The school histories used in ths
South are full of poison along these
lines, and I charge you as you love
your country, not to be placed in {
false position.
The North brought the slaves here
sold them to us, and through a pro
tective tariff enjoyed the lions share
Of the profits of their labor. She i:
as much responsible as we are, in the
sight of just God, for the institu'
ton: and cannot escape the truth O.
history by claiming motives that die
not influence her conduct. The Re
publican party, based on protection
and born through sectional selfish
ness, was not influenced by the ab
stract right or wrong of slavery from
a moral standpoint. Let me be un'
derstood. I speak of motives inAuenc.