The Newtown bee., 1901-07-05

white laborers of the North as well, and the inhuman doctrine that 'scap- ital should own labor and the laborer" made the cornerstone of new, ,despot- ic empire, new Rome, with it's white Saxon slaves and it's swarthy Southern Caesars. But the actual effect of that shot was to snap the letters of four millions of black slaves in the South (SOme of them winter than their mas ters!)-to ennoble and sublimate the freedom and heroic manhood of the free, white laborer of the North as a soldier and martyr for human freedom and progress,-and to send thrill of emancipating enthusiasm for liberty around the world.
 The idea has existed, and still exists, in ill-informed and prejudiced minds, that the war against the Union was caused by the encroachments of the Northern states upon the so-called "rights' of the South, especially by the rise of the Republican party, and the election of Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency. Such people confound cause with mere occasion. They seem to forget that "free speech,' and a free press," and free ballot' are the peculiar glory of America, and that majority of the voters is under no obligations to minority ds to what men, or what measures, so they be con- stitutional, it will vote for. They seem also to forget that the Republican party had only just come into exist ence, created by the determined pur- pose and efforts of the South to na- tionalize slavery, and that Abraham Lincoln was it's first candidate, where as the South had been planning and preparing for 30 years-a whole gener- ation before the Republican party was | bOrn-fOr the very acts of secession, rebellion, and the dissolution of the l Union, which they at last committed. THERE ARE SOME NORTHERN PEOPLE who, to this day, do not know that l fact, and refuse to believe it. They | do not realize that the intended design of the repeal of the Missouri compro- mise, as accomplished by the slave power in 1854, was not only to open all our new territories to slavery, but to effect it's entrance into all the free Northern states also. They do not re- alize that for just that reason, and with just that expectation, United States Senator Robert Toombs, of Georgia, made his boast that he would yet call the roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill monument, a boast which Divine Providence turned into fine irony when chaplain of the United States army, Rev Mansfield French, as United States Commission CT for Freedmen, called the roll of TOombS' slaves from the porch of his own plantation mansion, and annOunc- ed to them their emancipation, while there was not even "a dOleful sound" from ''Toombs," who was hiding in the neighboring swamp! But those of the purposes of the South, have only to consult the printed writings and speeches of the leading Southern statesmen of those times, and to be- lieve that these men knew their own minds, and meant what they said, to be convinced.
 In the secession convention of South Carolina, in December, 1860, MT Parker said, "It is no spasmodic effort that has come suddenly upon upon us: 1 it has been gradually eliminating for the last 30 years" MT Keitt said, "I have been engaged in this movement ever since entered political life." MT Rhett said: 1.-The secession of South Carolina is not an event of day: it is not anything produced by Mr Lin cOln's election, or by the non-execution of the fugitive slave law; it has been matter which has been gathering head for 30 years." MT Mullin said, urging immediate action by the con 1 ventiOn, before the cooler counsels of many could prevail: If we wait for cooperation Ii. e. by the more conserv- | ative Southern StateS], slavery and state rights will be abandoned, and the cause of the South lost forever" :" What then, we may ask, was the
 'cause of the South," if the conserva- 1 tive masses were ready to "abandon slavery and what they called state rights, /" for the sake of peace? What was there left to be ''the cause of the South, , save the desperate determina- tion of the old slave-holding aristocra- cy to ruin the Union when they could no longer rule it, and to found new nation which they could rule as des- pOtically as they chose. It was for this end that the old Democratic party was by them broken up into three hostile fragments with three sets of Democratic presidential candi- dates making it impossible for any to win. It was for this that the ma tional treasury was brought to the verge of bankruptcy, the national arsenals in the North stripped of arms and war