The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-05-05
specimens Of the bookrlaker's art.

SAdlt Inc Se.CleIS OF tlle New EifSSia1lu anu
Middle States to the disparage1nent OF
those of Maryland, Virginia. the Caro-
l1nas and Georgia. In the account of the
Revolution they make the most of th1 !
Boston tea party" where men SO conf
pletely disguised as Mohawk Indians that
they were not known at the time and
whose, names perish threw the obnoxious
| tea into Boston harbor, but they fail to
tell of the ''tea party" at Annapolis, Md,
where i'll broad daylight and undisguised
men towed the tea ship Peggy Stewart"
| out into the harbor and burned her and |
her cargo to the waters edge; or the ''tea
| party at Wilmington Il. c., where men I
without disguise, their names coming |
down to us, pitched overheard the tea |
brought to the port. They write as if |
the war was fought chiefly by the North |
ignoring the fact that the South not only !
furnished the most men but sent them to !,
Boston and to New York and New Jersey, |
shedding Southern blood OH every battle
field of the war.
They tell glowing stories of Israel Put
nam and other Nortliern heroes, but have
little to say of Sumter, Marion, Pickens,
Light Horse Harry Lee, Morgan Lewis
or George Rogers Clark, who, with his
Virginia volunteers, conquered back the
Northwestern Territory, preventing the
British boundary line from extending, at
the close of the war, down III Ohio, and
enabled old Virginia to lay in the lap of
the Union this princely domain.
The same misrepresentation or system
attic omission of facts cIlaracterizes the
Northern historian S treatment of the s1av-
cry question, notification in South Caro-
lima and the discussion of secession and
the civil war. In regard to secession,
they ignore all the historical and consti-
tutional theories and facts that tell against
the North They fail to tell, Of course,
that New England had through long
period of years an unbroken record in
lature of Massachusetts, passed all act to
the effect that the purchase and annexa-
ton of Louisiana would be a sufficient
cause for the dissolution Of the Union and
glance to the Union; that during the war
of 1872 the New England States not only
nullifed laws of Congress for the prose
cution of the war, but from pulpit, press
and rostrum boldly advocated secession
until the agitation eliminated iii the
:. famous Hartford convention, held De
cet1lber IS, 1914, i'll which delegates from
all of the New England States not only
. advocated the right of secession, but for
. 1na11y resolved that the New England
States would actually secsde if tie wal
was not stopped by given day Oh which
the convention was to reassemb1e, and i
% was only the close of tie war, as far a
can be seen, that prevented the actua
secession of these States; that April 80
- 1889, ex-President John Quincy Adam
made a speech, which was heartily ell
- dorsed by New England i'll which h
- said that it would be better for the State
ny to part i'll friendship from each othe
: than to be held together by constrailt,
and ''to form again more perfect unio
by dissolving that which could not bind
and to leave the separated parts to b
q reunited by the law of political gravita
- ton to tie certre, " that January "a 49,
- Mr.. Adams presented petition from til
" citizens of Haverl1i1l, Mass, to Congres
's' praying that it would Immediately adoT
IN measures peaceab1y to dissolve the urio
IN of these States and assigning seve
reasons for such action, and that whe
- Mr.. Marshall, of Kentucky, offered rest
~ 1utions censuring Mr.. Adams for presen
~ ing such petition the question was d
iol bated for two weeks, Mr.. Adams abb
i II defending himself i'll secession speecl
" which would have done credit to Villa
ai' L. Yancey or Robert Toonbs, and t
Oi- House Of Representatives by an owe
III whe1nling vote laid the resolutions
We censure on the table; that i'll 1888 al
~ again on the 22nd of February IS45, Il
COG legislature of Massachusetts, passed res
OF lutions avowing the right of secessi'
oil- and threatening to secede if Texas W
my admitted into the Union, at that date t
ihS right Of secession, being admitted in
70 sections, North, South, East and We
ol and, finally, after the election of n
uil- Lincoln, ard up to the actual break
lsu- out of the war, Horace Greeley, lin
'or- New York Tribune, the New York H
aid, the Cincinnati Cornercia1 and otl
the leading papers of the North, boldly
the vocated the right Of secession and
'ln) posed the coercion of the seeding Stat
ana These histories, moreover, ignore
ath- immediate grievances which caused
.lest Southern States to secede, as well as. s.tl
lelo efforts to preserve peace and secure &C
lalr' promises; the superiority of the North
lson numbers and resources; the brilliant
ana tories of the Southern armies and
1not heroism of her soldiers. They tell alb
the the burning of Cha1nbersburg, but o
lney all mention of the 'eternal infa1ny'
wall ''Shernan's March to the Sea, with
STU pil1aging and burning; of Hunters '
II u. da1is1n i'll the Valley of Virginia
:, J. sheridan's desolation of the same sect
) X They do not tell truthfully the story
9ton' the treatment of prisoners, of the ref
F1tz of the Federal government to accept
ades, era1 humane pronositions made them
'oteu the Confederate government, nor the
owed that nearly. four per cent. more COME
la1ne rates died in Northern prisons than
eS OF arals i'll Southern prisons.
The logic of all this, DR.. Jones III
estab- is that we should have chairs of Amer
tory" history in our Southern universities
lleges colleges fully endowed and equipped
little filled by competent professors, who
made teach the truth, the whole truth
others nothing but the truth, concerning
, and history of the United States, and
le so cl,,11