The farmer and mechanic., 1906-09-04

..r been anxious for forty years
..s south should be put in the
.uI kept in the right. and that
........c and faIsehood should be
..d in dealing with the facts Of
.r The North has always sland-
and misrepresentcd the South.
.. 80 because Of ignorance, or was it
... the om-shOOt Of malice and
...t. When the Hon. Benjamin
..I. Grady. Of Sampson county.
uad his remarkable ana most in
....tr "oTk entitled 50 aptIy, Tine
"l The South against the North"
,ttng, ana used il often as Il
val udbIe assistant, as cmbDdyIug
..p-t instructive ana useful inf0r-
.....r every way trustworthy, be
81. BASED upon facts at once solid
HGrOntToVcrtibIe. ] urged upon
u'elIgent men Of North Carolina
...i it, to study it, and that it
..I oc taught in our public schools.
....Ico that my able friend ANA
...' faithful student OF the historic
and material concerning the two
-..H. sections, has been at work with
.rrustoIucd diligence, fidelity ana
..u"cy in the preparation Of an
#.- work that Will prove an cnlight-
..# for all careful. honest students.
.. that will shed much light in some
.... dark places. 1t is to be Il volume
Bearing the Impressive title: The
..Eu'- Burden: The Curse Of Sec
s.a.iem in the United States" Such
. work. is greatly needed. for from
a. beginning Of New England IN
4anrc there have been gross exh1bi-
r..H- of intolerance, and the South
.- been the target for the fusiladeS
.f prejudice and slandcr and misrep-
#.-eulalions Of that selfish. grasping
.H4 ambitious section. The new book
.+ Mr.. Grady will consist Of twenty
.l.s,.f .f..,s.
of them indicates how
..ratN refreshing and inform
.aG they are. 1T viii be news to both
aatious for only faithful students are
sell posted here. | will merely indi-
cato the contents of few of the
Chapters: l. The Puritans and the
1-1aIicrS; 3. Slavery; 4. Sectional
ISM. =. The sections in the Revolu-
ION. &. The War of 1872; 8. The Ira
tuccrS Of the South; 10. LincoIn's
combination Fiction; II. Regulations
:.- 10 Prisoners; 13. Savage Warfare:
'6. Morris Island Barbarity; IS. False
I'1rtcnCcs ana Deception; u. Abra-
h3m Lincoln. You viii md in these
chapters many things you do not
know but should know. Let me pick
ont here and there a few appetzing
samples: Massachusetts Bay Colony
had the first SlaVeship called the De
slrc.' The New England slaVeships
eugagcd in business until 1862 Rum
WAS the principal article exchanged In
Africa for slaves. Fancuii Hall, Bos-
Iun, was built with money made in
the SIaVc-trade. Kansas was to be
settled by white people alone, and be a
"h"uc market" for New England
mluuG0cturers. The plan was to ex-
rIudc free negroes from Kansas Free
ucGrocs were excluded from Massa-
chIsouS in 1883. Free negroes were
excluded from Ohio by the New Eng
land settlers. Washington was dis
gu~tod with the Commercial spirit"
mHuifrsted by the New England
troops. and he regretted that he had
accepted the office of COMMUNICATIVE
chief The New Englanders did not
behave we'll in the battle of Long Is
.Hnj They plundered friends and
fee. without discrimination. In the
first War of Independence. the South
furnished 1S1 soldiers for every 1000
citizens while the North furnished
but ll6. Fisher Ames. leading Yankee.
favored a force bilI'' to compel
@"uthcrners to patrOnize New England
shippers. That was SO much like New
England character. Look at the way
tho Quakers were treated and also
tho Catholics of Maryland. Threats of
secession rOerCed the President to
permit New England leaders to feed
tho British. New England wished to
nave The slave trade to continue until
J@oN. Mrs. Stoves Yankee. Legree,
Qor most brutal slaVc-driVer, repre-
@'nt"d to the world OF ignorance as a
~"uthcrnor. New Englands wish to
include all slaves when fixing a popu-
lar basis for taxation, and her un
Willingness to include any of them
~ hon liking a basis of representation,
ml@uud"rstood. and the South's "arro-
-anc"' denounced. While the census
of 1850 showed that "A per cent. of
tho rojorod people in the North were
mnAttoeS, and that the per cent in
North Carolina was II. the South S
Critics were suffering bitter pangs of
conscience because Of the liCcntiouS-
4luadroon Girl'' was bringing tears to
""@S Of SOuthernerS: and LOngfelloW $
heir eyes. Northern and Southern
schools furnished with books which
."aou that the "God-fearing Puritans"
-1H0r did, \ forged address of Alex
@njrr II. stephens. Whittiers Iibels \
n0w Gve-volume History of the Uni
~d states gathers up all the old eX-
1@goratiOnS misre representations and
.."nders. Lincoln used all of the pow
orS expressly delegated to the Con-
gross during the first eighty days of
tho war. The evidence Of Northern
-#NaGcIN furnished by the War Rec
"rdS Prisoners allowed to freeze; they
we're shot; they were gagged; they
we're snackled: they Wexe hand
"H1cd, negro guards were preferred
.or the prisoners; they were fed on
rotten corn meal and pickles: they
verc kept. when sick. lin wards reek-
ing With filth and foul air" Private
E2miliCs robbed. Of money, jeWelry
plate, clothing. President Johnson's
dwelling in Tennessee converted into
d negro brOthcl."
The outrages in the South perpc-
t"atod by the Government and the
-\"rlhcrn Army, are brought out
Among them Shcrmans' crimes in Fay
ef"NjlIo, \. c., Buffers outrages in
.\oW Orleans. LincOln-s claim that the
'F"Ncrnmcnt' had fallen heir to al
tho property belonging to a COnfed-
"Ei't". Military commanders ordered
Z" Subsist their armies on Southern
communities. wholesale highway rob
h'rN ordered. the mdrauding baadS Ot
slough, GriersOn DahlGren. landoWn-
'r@ driven from home, and their farms
.flzod and leased out to negroes anc
i'HogadeS, Grants order to have