The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-07

h true, therefore, a. our author says, that
New England needed an institutional
regeneration; the original home Of out
spoken secession. Il still held TO passive
secession and proclaimed the same doc
trine during the two closing months OF
1890, so deeply separative.- Mr.. Snider
does not forget. however, to acknow ledge
that the attitude Of New England wa
quickly changed at the call Of Lincoln.
Passing from New England to New York,
It IL interesting to near Mr.. Snidsr recall
how different an atmosphere was enooun-
tered and how different a principle was
seen TO be at work. In New York during
the crisis the great word was Compromise
The commercial spirit OF New York was
terrified at the loss Of It's trade with the
South. Almost all the New York Repub-
licans became astonishinRly weak backed
and were getting ready to knuckle down TO
their Southern customers. Thurlow Weed,
Stewards friend and editor Of the Albany
Evening journal, proposed a compromise
which, in substance. was q surrender Of the
main plank OF the Republican platform,
that relating to slavery in the Territories.
Other leading Republican newspapers sup
ported such q renunoiation. Seward was
silent. Crittsnden OF Kentucky on De-
cember Is, 1890, introduced into the Senate
his compromise measure, whose chief clause
sacrificed the principal result Of the Re-
publican victory OF 1890. Our author points
out that It was lincoln who came to the
rescue by a letter OF December II in which
he said Entertain no proposition for q
compromise with regard to slavery In
consequence OF this letter Seward got some
backbone. New York newspapers, Hike the
Times, stiffened up n even Greeley began
to change from a passive secessionist 10
an active Unionist. Lincoln had, in fact,
started to transform the Eastern States,
one Of his chief preliminary tasks. As he
had made them Republican in 1868, turning
them from Popular Sovereignty, so he had
to make them true Unionists in 1890, turning
them from their tendency TO compromise
away the main purport Of their victory.
All can now see that Lincoln in this matter
was the true representative Of his party
and voiced Alright its world historical mis-
sion"
Notable; also, is the authors comment
on the Hrst Of the bitter fruits Of secession
which South Carolina was to garner.
Scarcely had she set the in6ammable Cot
LOh 0bhOCo AAOlh bGOk goo W AOAAo ADhuE
when the separation began to become or
ganic, the seeding States soon forming
a c~onfederacy, adopting a Constitution
and electing a President and q Vice-Presi-
dent. Yet, although the example Of South
Carolina was so quickly and so widely fol-
owed, there was at the same time evinced
a decided counter current OF reaction
against her, a fear Of her precipitancy,
and possibly a touch Of jealousy. IL was
to be observed that Charleston, although
she had been so active and from a Southern
point Of view so deserving, was not chosen
as the seat OF the new Confederate Gov
ernment; military control Of her own forces
was at once taken from her and handed
over to Beauregard; the Confederate Con-
gress fastened to the tariff Of 1857,
South Cardinals great bugaboo and q
chief pretext for her secession; neither the
President nor the Vioe-President wal
chosen from her citizens. In a word, her
leadership in her own movement is dis
credited and taken away. and she feels
from an unexpected quarter a restraining
grip on what she has been won't to call her
freedom; but which in fact had been her
caprice. such was the first harsh lesson
administered to South Carolina by her
experience in the ~Confederacy.