The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-07-17


,..al. IS Ire Would. liay. Hccn prc-i-
l.u n Andy Johneon'7 Piace--Eui-
r... savage Plan or E"co"9trttcllcl-
-.rsnru property TO IIavc Bccn Con-
l-.m.d-~outhcrn States 10 have
I..n AboIi~hcd and HIcir rcrg Names
uEa.ruod-NortIr Carolina to have
4... huoun as Tie District of tie
tar rear.
.... of the many narrow escapes
....u tlI. prUstrdl SOulh had a., ihc
.... ul the war from even 3. l4r5cr
... .I woe and Il Dittercr, t!faE She
... 60. Jn1u, WAS htr narrow escape
... u.u@ under thc dominion Of
.....r "I:rJSt' Butler. or. "Spoon''
...e. AS the South dubbed him. Had
..# ,utIcr declined the second place
. nc ticket With Lincoln in 1864.
..r-u strongly urged to accept il, he
...I have succeeded to tha pres;-
aa=. instead of Andy johnson on
I..5'ns assassination.
Z. .a. spring of 1864 the prosnccts
u. I...-oIn'S reelection We're bad. He
himself lid not expect to be re elected.
A.. .. and his administration bad
grown very unpopular in the North.
la.t.I- assaults on Lees lines north
.I f..u .uuoud had day after day. week
.u.r week. been hurled back in blood
..U 0iaaetcr. Sherman WAS 50 far
...I.aIg more successful against
uu.fou in the movements on ht-
.utH. 81 WAS clear to all that the Con
|uHt.ary true to her word meant to
.i w he last ditch. The North
WIS growing sick of blood, of Tie
huge "ou5chors bills" that her gen
rr.L- urrc forever sending in. The
Northern democracy and the rapidly
era#u- peace party were rallyinS
HHouua Mcclellan, who holding that
sword having failed to re-2stablish
tl. lu.ou, demanded that truce
.GoaI Ae declared and negotiations
uiad IS things were then growing,
is seemed morally certain that the
peace. move must prevail and McCicl-
lam h. .igrtod.
lH.olr. after the fashion of all
politicians, was cry anxious TO save
tba country. IT is rare to find poll
ulaa Who has not two ways of saw
ing he country one way Is to be
elected 10 office; the other way is to
DE w-c.,ctCd to Office.
TIL south and even the country at
large ter undertakes Lincoln's ability
aas aboyc all his astutencss and
.hg..Jup~s. Than he. this country
ls Hn.cr produced a shreWCr p@liti-
clau- @tur production of hers though
the dHuWd politician be. He could
safely have given Mark Hanna odds.
-or li0roln's shreWdncss was Of that
via nlud that used simplicity as
eaE"y horsn and used it so craftly
taa. even the quarry never knew
"ncare camo the shaft that struck
1T JoNU. He saw that Ilatnlin, WHO
uJ .uD with him in 1860, and was
then yicc-prcsidout, would weaken
q 1,..,, hi 81 i'm
'|' coming election. Now within
Ia. uulieus of ReDuhlicaHism Lin
'nn WAS dictator though without at
au .rrmiug to be so. IL went 70
".rN lo dl@pllce Hamlin and suhsu-
'".c "Funuin@ mate" as our horse
#Hg viii have it, who would
r"1hnn instead OF weakening his
'.A". But not the faiutest inklinG
't IL MUST reach Fiamlin or he and
III" fu'iOWiu~ might be diSgruntfcd
.Hl probably thrown into the opposl-
".A. Therefore. Hamljn was dis
placed ao deity and So coVcrtly that
." e2W every other hand but Lin
,..n.. jo his undoiuS. Nor did Ham
.. ever &u>Dt ct Lincoln Until every
taur was accidentIy disclosed to him
nearly thirty years afterwards
Lincoln, casting around for the man
'""r IjEcly to bring strength to him
, H"# lhe Mcclellan movement, de-
'I'ai ON Eutler. Butler had been q
~."HHg and influential Democrat be-
."." The war and was still one, but
-."i been quick to take up arms
a-lust the South and now held high
command in the army. Butler as
%. uuaj~credited by political jealousy
"a considered, as he probably was,
81" ao."&t officer in the Federal army.
Ae powder boat farce, over which
IND generations have laughed, was
f,Ey- A
.'iIrE on Fort Fisher in December,
1885, a boat loaded with about 800
...r "t powder was exploded near the
'"'l i'm the belief that it would demOl-
" It's Wall, or at least create pane
..H9NS The defenders and so demoral-
.. ,t"m as TO materially lessen thelf
..%@r Of resistance. The result OF the
'<H."~ion was that the garrison was
.'".u"Iy aroused from it's sleep and
..c only panic made was among the
.."r"I fleet which left its station, put
i" s"' and lowered its head If steam
0oncussion burst its boilers. II
"#s great haScO. The Niagara of
'ar"ic that followed was deftly
.a"avd on Butler by his political enc
- Really his only part in it was
'".' ac suggested the idea Us he had
'''' less others, most of which the
."'"l# used TO great effect. Dynamics
hen an infant science and
'iIecJ OF recent explosives IN
'"E.and has led many of the best
'''m"d men of the day to believe
Great possibilities lay in that way
"iiarkinG forts. The Dutch Cap
which he was never permitted
.H'sh, brought added ridicule on
".' Nevertheless it was a most
''fi and unitarian affair in
NY cutting across four hundred
~ saved about seven miles IN
navigation and at the same time
'"'3 strong works and instructions
the EOnfederatcs had placed in
river. 1t was completed. soon
me close of the war and mas
. .'hce been in regular use. But
like the powder boat affair and
.. other things, was used to heap
a. hu'irr that against which we
,,fl l't even the gods are impotent-
rI.@. mountains of ridiCule But
cut very different figure a