The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-09-03


| causes Of the civil war we're FAR different
| from those generally assigned for r. mat
| II owed its beginning and It's continuance
| to causes widely different and that Ia quo
| light OF events now current, these causes
| are not hard 20 comprehend. anu most
important point OF all. that these causes
OF the civil war, when vel unQaI'lp '''
make It easy 70 forgive and ioiset 20
shake hands and DO really friends anu
brothers again.
1t was I'm order 20 show the enormous
difficulties encountered by Lincoln ITO.
only in the South. but IN the Norm anu
west and to set forth the msE achleFc-
ments OF the Republican party ~ curry
ng out It's great aims not Only as'I"se
| the resistance OF the South, but ast'hsl
that OF the great Democratic party ol .ui
North and Wcst-lt was foc these Two
purposes chiefly that Northern writer's
have furnished the evidence ABOVE pr
forrcl They have put on record N'to
proof Of q wide pread conviction through
out the North I'm i,6i that the use ol
force 90 retain states in the Union vas
not only inadmssl0le under the consul
tuition. but abhoront 60 The principles On
which their political institutions f-'Ieu'
They record that these views We're aFoW'
Cd. when the secession began, by very
large part OF tho people or the Noi'h
and by n yet larger proportion on tncr
representatives and responsible leaders.
They record the yet more Significant
fact that @ reprolauou. of the attempt
10 c0orce states Or 20 free the slaves was
avowod and acted ON 10y both houses
OF Congress. by tho President and bis
Cabinet and by the Supreme Court.
They record that the advocacy Of these
views I'm the North did not cease when
The war began dangerous as it soon
became 90 advocate them. imprisonment
without trial, trials by c0urtmart.h,
sentences to- confinement in prisons or
fortrcsscs remote from home and friends,
did reduce go last 20 silence an but tho
boldest. even Nissourilns kentucNans.
and Marylauders. Like methods of re-
pTessiouwero used iu States romo'ast from
tbs scenes of the war. Everywhere thrfe
were men who made more or less oiit.r
protest or resistance against sueh su1-
version (by methods known only 20 SUD-
iects Of the Sultan or the Car, NJ what
Americans had been taught to call the
foundations of free10m-L free press. free
speech. the writ of habeas corpus ala
trial bv jury. I'm Cincinnati. in chicago
I'm Boston and elsewhere demonstrations
towards violent resistance very olarrl-
ing 10 the administration nc Washington.
were suppressed with the strong hand
before coming 90 a. head Mr ldil1nls-
hams opposition developed SD formidable
n following in Ohio that sos leader Was
sent into bar.shmeut When % de.esa-
ion urged ~ Lincoln 90 emancipA.e
the negroes by proclamation he expressed
the apprehension that. if De should 10
as they wished. fifty thousand rifles from
the border States. then serving n tne
army OF The Union, might 60 oter 20 the
opposing side. and I'm Mcclure Maya
zine for May. 90 Miss Iaroell Tolls Us
that Mr.. Lincoln said that ~ ne anouIt
enlist negroes in his army. two h1Hai.
thousand muskats that he bad put INTO
the hands of border State mon wound be
turned against the Union army
Tho army showed the strongest sym
Dathv with its always immensely poDui 'r
general Mcclellan. in his bold pro ca'5
AGAINST any thought of emancin hoh-
There was actual danger of revolt in mo
army aeainst the emancipation n-oc.ama-
rion at the time when Burnside turned
over hle army of 00) men to Iooker.
General ROserraus reported to Washing
ton The existence iu the Western States or
secret orders of mon bound py oaih t7 CO.
0rcrate with The C0ul.de ates CD tho NUM-
Der OK FOUR hundred thousand mon N CO.
- ,... o. o,oooorsfr1 e.u
--, 80 .,.,r ,,rr,b.rs M, re09'e 9t
- VII. ,t... t,s4 v.ber t1i. fgn- cam.
.-o.t...t,.r, r... and fafo1 IN.
Federal government. keeping control for
5.,.. 7, ,..s , ,ro5 Inn th.v had
,.,,,.fl, ss..,r4noe ~ sympathy I'm fho.r pur.
,oss from s.fch mon as the Catholic Arch
Bishop Hughes. and th. chen Governor
........,.,.. ,r4 .b-,. aolor,rf.rof fhalr
'.,,.-.'l,. oe .t..,-rro. tn. 4rarf until a
.t.h 49, ...+--,,,, ,,..~, hr9rob- IRON,
~ -. 80 .r. r5o,o,,,.. and N.g, y.-I,
ms ,,,o5. .,r,ro-1" cosharr tho 'ates.
,.fo.,r9,rer NJ SECRETARY stanton saws that
tod cs--,.ebi,r.- rasrffol differently New
vi, ,.ot,,4 ta,.a made ao submission.
Thfe same Torlt.o SEYMOUR had ba.n
.,,-.,.. ,r, forar,-sf d, qvovv when tina
ers- s..+.- -a.e1-f thqf The South had
s,ffer.5 v.ronrs that hustled her -ecas.
Sion ana 10 protest that States sh1ulI
not be ninuel 10 the Union w.th lay0ncts
That hts course was u0r the1 or there
after ecnsurel. but was on the contrary
appr0ved. was shown bog0nI M. d.ub-
bv the fact that after The way was over
he was selected bv rho Democratic parry
as IT'S candidate for the Presidency H0w
persistent the OPP tidon continued Cd be
may Dee jrdg d by DE .aet tha. AIR. Zine
coins emancipation pro'ama..o Ton failed.
as late 3s June 1884. to eat n Congress tha
rwo-thigds vote necessary fo nN BE- n the
constellation and han CD c1 over t0 tle
next session, when the wac was practical
Is ended
But The crowning proof OF the attitude
OF q very large part of sine people li The
North during the war toward taa rvo