The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-22

one side. to George Clinton and George Macon on the other, Who regarded the new system as anything but an expert- ment, entered upon py the States. and from which each and every State had
 the right to peaceably withdraw, a ercised"
 plainly written down in the constitu- tion that the general government was tc be the ultimate Juoge of it's own
 In Tier, only eight years after the adoption of our Federal consultation. Oliver Edwards, who had been a mem Der of the convention, and Rufus King,
 both then United States Senators from Informed John Taylor no Of 0eHoinss caroiine.
 lsee his letter recently published by Gaillard Huntl that if Congress should persist in carrying out certain policies d1,s, the New s.s Esrgiand states might con
 During the war of 1872, Congress. as war measure, imposed an embargo on American shipping. This bore hard on the shipping interests of New England. New England States in a convention at Hartford threatened to sscede from the union. Bur New England did not secede, Soon after the Hartford con- a1n. the embargo terminated. and the trouble was at an end.
 ! Had the New England States in 1915 put Into effect their. threat to have been no effort to resist the move rnent by an. armed force. Public opinion would not have sanctioned It: But during. the forty-five years of and 1860 there had been wonderful North, which had found in the cotton producing South the best possible mar It's meats and It's breadstuffs. 1mmigra- tien, too, had greatly strengthened Union sentiment at the North. Millions of foreigners had come into that sec- of our government. or of the diaiec- tics of Secession, and with them dis- memberment was not debatable. There Ss %as 1sS nss D tss rsypSSg s strength and pomsr of , the fnert pn1ass ranf of nations. But the Southern peo. plshGw priss could rney in wbeh iie ,rem their view point no longer protected them in their rights?
 The agitation of the slavery ques. two sections Tn my effort to show how this depiorable result came, shall rely for my most important state ments on the two most eminent North
 
 Goodell. the Abolition Historiar, siav. cry and Anti-Slavery" 1852, and J F Rhodes. History. of the united States" Boston. Goodsll IS the hisnsst authority among Abolition writers. MT. Rhodes is a broad minded historian. through he makes no attempt to ais. guise the fact, that he Is a devoted adherent of the Republican Parsy tyy,,.,on.
 The name Modern Abelitionists" attaches to those who founded in the because they promulgated the Idea. then distinctly modern, that the people of the. whole Union were morally re- sponsibie for the sin of slavery wner part of the United States. Previous opinion had been that, as the consti- tuition gave the general government vo voters nowsia in fher fhe free States ought not to trouble their conseiences about the ef their friends in the slave States. This new or modern established In Boston. Mass. January l. 1881, by Wpiiam
 The consequences which followed the which it is the purpose of this chapter to briefly sketch, constitute one of the most remarkable episodes in the only in the crusades of the middle ages for the recovery of the Holy Sep uIchre, and in the history of the Re formation. Yet the acknowledged or to speak more accurately: organizer of Modern Abolitionism,s was not intellectually remarkable. In this regard he was distinctly inferior lo Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker. James Julian, and hundreds of others who accepted his tenets and became his disciples. William Lloyd Garrison was great. if great at all, only in his self and he attracted attention not by his ability as writer, but by the boldness with which he denounced slavery and His success illustrates the fact that a wire of moderate size sufiices to bring down lightning From 3 cloud that Is surcharged with cleo tricity.
 sentiment that sprang up in Europe In the latter part of the eighteenth century was just about in 1881 to com plete It's great work in the British it had also freed. or pro- yided for the ultimate freedom of slaves in the northern States of our Union; and now the progress of manu- mission bv State legislatures had stop ped short, at least for the present. 1t the borders Of those of our States where slaves were most numerous. But within these States the problem was being debated. and at tue time fIar