The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-09-27

representation We're projects
TOO hopeless. as we'll as too unpopular
IN their origin. 10 be renewed. The
to the new territory west of
the MISSISSIPPI Of the Ordinance OF
80 against slavery. seemed To pre-
sent a much more feasible method Of
accomplishing substantially the same
object. The idea. spreading with
rapidity, still further obliterated old
party lines, tending 10 produce at
the North a political union for which
the Federalists had 50 often sighed
3 Discussing proceedings in Con
Sress about the time OF the admission
of Louisiana. Hildreth gives the fol-
cred by Josiah Quincy: The debates
on the Federal Constitution would
show that the effect Of the slave rep
resentation tthree-tifthsl and Of
the transfer Of power to the West
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky
subjects OF great jealousy to
some of the best patriots Of the North
ern and Eastern States. Had it been
fOreseen that, besides all that. the
population of the world beyond the
MISSISSIPPI was to come in. TO change
all existing proportions Of political
weight and influence-to make our
laws, control our action. and decide
our destiny-would such an
ment. such a throwing Of our rights,
liberties and property into h~0tchpotch
with the wild men on the Missouri.
have been listened to for a m~ornent?'
Thus We have un~questionable evil
dence that the opposition to the ad-
mission OF Missouri and the long
Wrangle about the extension Of sllV-
cry had no other foundation than
a determination to prevent people Of
Southern syTnpathies from settling in
the lands west OF the Mississippi, and
to insure the North's control Of the
Federal government: and it is inter-
esting to add here that Rufus Choate,
having abandoned the Fcderalist par
ty beause he was alarmed at The frjc-
ton which would necessarily result
from the labors Of his party to Eek
pand' the North. said this to a friend
in q letter written in 1856: Il turn
my eyes from the nsequence To
the fifteen States Of the SOuth"-in-
Guiding DelaWare-"that government
viii appear an alien government. 1t
will appear worse. 1t Will ppear a
hostile government.
We have, then. the key 10 the long
and bitter c~OntentiOn: We can under
stand why the so-called anti-slaTery
movement became more violent after
Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Georgia and Alabama condemned
the system Of tariff protection and Wc
can understand the f Ill significance of
the incident mentioned by William
Chauncy Fowler IN his sectional
Conflict" Some fifteen or twenty
years before the war; he met IN old
college friend (Who afterwards became
a cabinet officer), coming out from a
heated debate in one of the halls Of
Congress and he asked him what was
the real reason why NOrtherners On
couraged the introduction of abolition
petitions. "The real reason is he
replied, that the South will not let
US have a tariff and we touch them
where they viii feel it."
Such is the evidence which can
leave no doubt in the mind of an in
telIigent human being as to the base
lessness OF the charge that the Cor-
federate soldier risked life and for
tune in a four years struggle to per
petuate African slavery and if the as
founded reader wishes to know how the
truth here presented can be shown u
be consistent with the apparently un-
disputed claim that the civilization OF
the North is superior to that Of the
South. that the people up there have a
higher regard for 'the rights Of man
than SOutherners have, and that. as
Allen Thorndike Rice expresses it.
moral conviction guided the North
during its dealings with the slavery
question. let him turn TO Uncle Toms
Cabin, and see how Mrs. stowe. q New
Englander, the NOrthernor
with the SOuthern-r. Looking over
the South for a typical brute to orna-
ment her novel, she selected Legre".
a New Englander, who had moved
to Louisiana n become a slayc-hpll-
er and then she utterS this lament:
Of the mothers of the free Statn'
had all felt as they should in t1nrs
past. the sons Of the free states W@r'#
not have been the holders and. prove
bially. the hardest MASTER OF sl1N"
Since. then the ''sin2l@ issue ~
existed. and neither Mr. Cann"r
ANYBODY else can name any reason
the organization of the Repuhl
party except to prevent southern
lilies from settling in the TIA TFs-A
sippi lands for which the kin
tern of he Federal government lr
required them and their fathers II tE
more than a fair share Of the p@I
chase money, it seems difficult for
honorable man to suggest any corn
excuse for the organization
of such a party, or for its co1tinaet