The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-13
N MULTIPLICATION Days
Hatred of South Against North
Never More Bitter
PAMPHLETS OF THAT DAY
Are Filled With the Very.
Venom of Execration.

1 an euhemeral animosity The two sec
tons had been brought up to hate eac
| other
Colonel Crockett said: I'VE have al
ways been taught to look upon the PEG
| pie of New England as a selfish, cunning
set of fellows, that were fed on fox ear
and thistle tops; that cut their wisdom
teeth as soon as they were born: tina
made money by their wits and hung OF
| to it by nature; that called cheatery
mother wit: that hung on to politica
! power because they had numbers; thai
raised up manufactures to keep down the
South and West; and, in fact, had SC
much of the devil in all their machinery
hat they would neither lead nor drive I'M
less the load were going into their own
cribs
James Parton likens the feeling exist
ing in that period between these two sec
tons to that between "a country gen
tleman of the proud old school, with an
estate heavily mortgaged, and a rich
manufacturer living in his neighborhood,
sprung from nothing, and carrying the
country all before him with his snowy
mansion ana pursuing purse.
This sectional bitterness is reflected in
the political literature of that time, which
abounds in invectives. caricatures, and
burlesques. In a few of the big libraries
of the country may be found copies of a
campaign document entitled 1.-THE Mem
oirs of Nulliier," which in a most hum
orus manner sets forth the Yankee as
seen through Southern ewes
A young Southerner, according to this
patrimony by the Yankees, sells his soul
to the devil. After living for several
years luxurious life. he decides to pay
a visit to the lower regions. He then goes
on to describe his Journey:
The opening to Hell is trough big cave
in Kentuckey. Travelling thus in the COM
pany of the Yankee, at length we reached
the River Styx There was old Charon
with his boat ready to take us across.
He demanded twelve and a half cents
apiece for ferryage. The Yankee in vain
higgled for nearly half an hour, endeav-
oring to get him to take cent apiece.
The Nullifier at length conducts the
reader to the judgement hall and reports
the OIL the SplTlI OF the Qe-
parted Yankee by Rhadamanthus:
Soon we heard one of the constaples call
out. Virgil Hoskins. Virgil Hoskins."
Here answered our companion, the
Yankee Pedler, quaking up to the bar.
was seated with a great
number of huge account books before
him.
Virgil Hoskins, is your name, is it?"
said he. Here it is among the HIS,
4s, 95S. All, Virgil, there's a terrible long
account against you. Let's see a few of
the charges" Reads):
Virgil Hoskins, debtor-June IT, 1S-, to |
petition, 497, $50 Spanish segars, made of |
oak leaves, 2S1,36S wooden nutmegs, and
CAT wooden clocks
''What do you say to that charge. Hos
kins?"
Hoslins: "why. that was counted in |
our place about the greatest peddling |
trip that was ever made over the PATIO |
mic"
Rhadamanthus reads: Dec. 13. 1S-.
To stealing an old grindstone, smearing |
it over with butter. and then selling it
as a cheese"
Hoskins, in great surprise: "Jimminy. I
Surely you wouldn't punish a man for
that, would your
Rhadamanthus reads: Dec. 8, IS. To
making a counterfeit dollar of pewter,
when you were six years old. and cheat
ng your own father with it."
Hoskins: Dad was mighty glad when
he found it out.He said it showed I had
genius
Rhadamanthus reads: July 2, 10. To
-aking a wornout pair of shoes, which
you found in the road, and selling them
o pious old lady as being actually the
shoes of ST. Paul.
Hoskns with exultation:,T made four
dollars and twelve and a half cent by
hat"
Rhadamanthus reads: July 2, IS. To
aking an empty old watch case. putting
cricket in it, and selling it as a patent
ever in full motion
Hoskins: He he, he. That was one of
Is rq5eSt II tt51fkfSi1 t,4 eyer rfaytq IN 9iry
ife. ''a i'''3 = ''' 90
Rhadamanthus: at would occupy me
week Hoskins. TO go through all the
harges against you. These few are suf-
clent. really am getting out of patience
With New England, for it gives me more
rouble than all the rest OF the world put
ogether You are sentenced to be thrown
nto lake OF boiling molasses. where
early alof your countrymen already are.
With that same old grindstone tied to
our neck and 10 remain there forever"
Later on in the pamphlet the Nullifier :
epresents the Yankee promulgatinE the
GLOWING principles Of political economy
!. That two and two do not make four.
" something else. I have not yet exact
: determined what.
2 Tha the higher the tax upon articles
merchandise the lower viii be the
rice; the Imagination can fix no limit TO
be cheapness TO be thus obtained.
5 That the higher the price OF North
m manufactures. the better for us. as
viii make Us rich
: That the lower the price Of cotton
I'd other Southern products, the better
,r those that raise them, as It VIII force
lem 10 be economical. and economy Is
he of the chief Of the virtues.
The NuIider. having violated his bar
ain with the Devil. his satanic majesty
lmes 70 claim his soul but offers TO re- ,
ounce his claim II the Nulliher inside OF
,ur days wiz furnish him with twenty
sc souls :
The NuniSer goes On:
I instantly set 20 work and published
le following advertisement
..WANTED-To PURCHASE
Immediately. twenty-five souls. Being I
lxious 70 obtain them. ard having Pleu- 5
81 money. the subscriber Is wiling 20
low s high price and pay the cash down Z
HENRY TREVOR"