The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-14
the presidential election by the union OF
the North against the South.

the North against the South.
And he says further on:
THE South was invaded, ana d Wei q
subiugation destined TO be the mos 81
Eantic which the world has ever seen was
begun by the Federal Government aadla is
the seeding States, in complete aho
amazing disregard OF the foundation Pr
cple of its own existence as aiiitiieu 40
the Declaration OF Independence tiisi- 50
ernments derive their just powers from
,+he consent of the governed, and as ies-
tablished by the war of the heso! .e..o,.
nor the people OF the States respecttVeis.
The South accepted the contest tnuS iot ecu
upon her with the eager ana leso. ',-
courage Characteristic OF her ptouo-ss1
tied people +,;
var aid nos really begin with the saiilns
of ,+bat Northern fleet, and certainly not
~ Enr+ Sumter and that the first dow
was actually struck by John Brown anu
his followers as the representatives OF the
abolitiouists Of the North, in OCTOBER
1859. at Harper's Ferry, va
Northern writer says Of the John
Brown Raid:
..Of course a transaction SO faSitious
with It's attendant circumstances. afford
ing such unnlistakeable proof OF the spirit
nv which no small portion of the Northern
population was actuated. could but pro-
duce the profoundest impression upon the
| and armed aggression. whether clearly
understood and encouraged beforehand.
certainly eNultel in afterwards, by persons
| of very different standing from that OF
| the chief actor in this bloody incursion in
| a peaceful state"
JOHN BROWN.
John Brown and mis- associates did at
tempt instruction. and did commit muir
der. in that attempt. upon the peaceful,
harmless citizens of Virginia, and ne eS-
plated these, among the highest crimes
known to the law. upon a felon's SaHows.
How was that execution received a t the
North? And in what way did the repre-
sentatives Of the Republican party en-
dorse and adopt as their own the conduct
Of this felon in his outrages. his first
blow struck against the South? We will
let the same Northern writer tell He
says:
I'm the tolling of bells and the firing of
| minute guns upon the occasion of Browns
funeral; the meeting houses were draped
| in mourning as for a hero: the prayers
/ offered; the sermons and dscourses pro-
nounced in his honor as for saint
Two of Browns accomplices were
| fugitives from justice-one in the State of
| Ohio and the other in that of Iowa. Re-
| questions were issued for them by the
| Governor of Virginia, and the governors
| of each of these Northern States refused
| to surrender the criminal, thus making
| themselves, and the people they repre-
| scented, to a degree at least, particeps
crim!nis. And the newspapers have re-
| Gently informed us that the present Chief
MAGISTRATE OF this nation. and the head
| Of the same party which detfed John
| Brown and approved of his crimes, has
visited and stood 'mcovered'' at his
! grave, as If he still recognized him as
| the "forerunner" of him whom they term
the Savior of the Country" So we re-
! gard, and rightly regard, his attempted
| instruction as the legitimate forerunner
| Of the cruel, Illegal and unjustifiable war
| inaugurated and waged by Mr.. Lincoln
against the South.
! But we advance still a step further IN
| the argument, to show from Northern au-
| thorties alone, still other asgress:o1s OF
| the North against the South in bringing
! on this war In his speech, entitled I'm
| der the Flag" delivered in Boston, April
| q. 1861, Wendell Phillips used this Ian
guage which we are persuaded is the
! opinion of many misinformed people to-
| day both at the North and at the South.
! He says:
For thirty years the North has ex-
! hausted Cancellation and compromise.
! They have tried every exped1ent; they
! have relinquished every right. they have
! sacrificed every interest, they have smoth-
! cred keen sensiblity to national honor.
| and Northern weight and supremacy in
! the Union; have forgotten they were the
| majority in numbers and in wealth, in
| education and in strength; have left the
| helm of Government and the dictatlon
| of policy to the Southern States" &c
| we propose to show, from the highest
| Northern sources. that SO far from the
| above statement being true, 1t IS exactly
| the opposite Of the truth.
! Gen. John a. Logan, afterwards a
| Major-Generai in the Federal Army. a
| United States Senator. and candidate
for the PRESIDENCY on the Republican
| ticket, in a speech delivered IN the House
| OF Representatives on the 5th Oh Feo-
| ruary, 1861, usss this language:
s.Thc AbolitionistS of the North nave
| constantly warred upon Southern insutu-
| tions, by incessant abuse from the pulpit
| from the press, on the stump, and IN tie
J halls of Congress, Gerouncing them as
| sin against God and man BY these
| denunciations and lawless acts on the
| part of abolition fanatics such results
| have been produced as to drive the people
! of the Southern States to sleepless
vigilance for the protection OF their prop,
erty and the preservation of their rights,
| The Albany Argus of November loth'
1850. said:
SYMPATHY FOR SOUTH.
, I've sympathize with and JUSTIFY the
South as far as this; their rights have oseh
invaded to the extreme limit possible VIII
in the forms of the Constitution, anu pc
You'd this limit; their feelings have oeeh
sailed hv almost every possible form o.
remuneration and invective;; and we
deemed it certain that the real ani minus
OF the Republican party could be carried
into the administration Of the feosls.
Government. and become the p perm. .,at
! ttap yyf
al an.' the instincts OF seif-nreservation and
Of Of manhood mai tightly l,npelled them to ,rs re-
sors 70 revolution and ass rars,a . taen
the Union. and we weu;d spp,aa aaon,,nn
OF such remedy.r d,v,
The Rochester Union two OF three days
later said: