The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-22

narsnal, ana then refused obedience Supreme sea Court 0s or s5s0f s6s united S states All this the Republican press and Re, publican orators. some of them winkee at; rhn Snd snr, most of them applaud1sdd. pas. sion was at a white heat Northern, slaves they had sei6 torus to antieipat' risively called doiisr.hunters, devoid ol from the Supreme Court the Dred Scott x decision that the territories ne1s wers and that slave owners had the righl to take their property there. insteao or settling the main question m dis,, With With sc sssrm n'vans Of sindRsnsson Rsnss the of which rang out for generation
 Make the slave holder odious" was sas sors sossS m Ssi ssd charles t Tes delivered fl, the United States. senate two days speech, modeled aarer the t,e sss sgsssn oss,o os Dsmosthsnss Tne tbe athen ians to fury against the enemies Q, their country, the Maeedoulans. was to be, as Sumner himself declared llvered in a ieeisia,ivc body. and no doubt lt was. The veteran senator Cass. of Michigan. arose at US cont un- American and urpafriotlc that ever erated on the ears of this body .
 Sumner had vfrulcntly attacked the veteran sen*tcr Bntle-. of south caf,.ns, falsehood. and this without warrant. nFooSs nEnSSdss' vo, embsr R of iss tss1 from isr Rnomins rHna d. a'ia he sas spast tsst Sumner did not recognize tho "code of honor. caned suriner unnsrri s,:l!y. knocking
 m aown do, and gyies h no 1be the North glorified Sumner as q riartyr so free speech and the victim of 2
 On March s. 1858. seraator seward. of New York. who was the real leader or the Republican party in that body ali lnounced the following as his program Fights aIes ts has a ais its It's destiny. and Is organising itself to assume s. the gove ..,nacnt of the r1p1SS- tniS ly and. resolutelys nere; IL VIII, meet you everywhere-ih tho tcrrit"r,es or out of hem-wheieysr you may go 10 extend slavery. + has driven you will Invade you soon in Delaware. Maryland, Virginia. Missouri. and Tex as."
 I remember about this time to have paper. that of course had wide cir. culation at the South, to the. effect that the. Southern. people had become fluences of slavery. that nothing could regenerate them but amaIgamation-- an infusion into their veins of the warm. generous blood of the ne-
 In october, 1859. came the John Brown raid in .virgfnia Brown knew the history of San Domingo and in light." (Rhodes. Vol. II, ?. 4oo.) With him for a model, Brown thought by
 exciting slave insurrectfons to de- all the white inhabitants, but he was captured. tried. and finally hanged news as of 90.h John q Brown's s invasion % wa. va. It cannot be portrayed. At the Nortf conservative Deople strongly denounc. Southern homes and Southern civili. zation. but many church bells in, that section tolfed in mourning. and ex. on this new martyr to the cause oi liberty. Thoreau said on the day oi the hanging:
 Some 1900 years ago Christ was cruci- tain Brown was hung. There are the two ends of a chain which is not with out links He IS not Old Brown any iisSss iGnseT' RSodea. eS $ voi aa ssnsel e 4lt q Ralph Waldo Emerson had previous to the execution spoken of him as the new saint awaiting his martyr- QOtn. thnOQ691 VOL Se f4o-y and the same great author later. sum- ming up his estimate of Northern opin- ion among non professional politicians. said. in public speech at Salem. Jan
 All women are drawn to him by their predominance of sentiment. All Gentlemen are of course on his side What a revolution since 1881
 Republican politicians in public gen. orally. though not universally. depre- cAted the whole affair; but Horace Greeley was then writing privately, as MT Rhodes shows. to ColfaE:
 Do not be down-hearted about this old Brown business. Its present eff feet Is bad and throws a heavy load on us in this State sbut Its ul- timate effect is to be good. It rages . It presses on the ire pressible conflict
 Soon Afterwards an attempt was made by individuals at the South. de- flying Northern sentiment and defy ing the statutes of the United States. to reopen the African slave trade. The Wanderer and one or two other yes sels illegally smu~gled in slaves from Africa. The slaves found ready buy CTS In men who wished to flout Abol- itionists; and worse still. Georgia ju- ries refused to convict the violators ot the law on what was believed to be
 There was now no reosan. North or South: Reason had fled to orutish beasts"
 That these slave traders did not rep resent Southern sentiment was soon to be proved by the Confederate constitu- tion which forbade the African slave trade.
 materially affect the elections then pending. In 1880. the very next year, the tidal wave of anti-slavery sentiment that had been started by The Libera- tor in Boston in 1881. swept the Re- pa into fha White House at Washington. The Southern States ss- oeded. They meant to free themselves from this crusade and these crusaders. Who can wonder at the exultation with which the South greeted the Conreder- ate flag?
 By the election of Lincoln the North had, in the opinion of the South, open ly avowed It's Intention to carry out its own views simply because it had the voting strength. These happened just then to be certain views on slavery But If majority section could. to fur ther its own desire, violate the cousti- tuition and laws sanctioned by it through its mobs and its courts and its legislatures then that constitution was no longer sacred local self-governmen was no longer safe Every speech foE State-rights made in the South after the birth of the sectional Republican Party, had this for its keynote; The cause of the excitement tkat had brought about at the North these vio- lations of the constitution and the de- struction of public tranquility was undoubtedly slavery, but the plea of the Southerner to the Southerner when advocating secession at the musings in 1S60-1 was not fol slavery-it was for something higher and holier; 1t was for liberty regulated | by law. for the Consultation of ta' l fathers. which our people had beer taught to regard as the noblest work O. man, the very palladium" of theii rights If this Constitution was nov nov