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

"a MI cause was destined to
3 vi fail. the humiliation
AEI which he knew was
OK unavoidable was not
~ due to the distress
h which the devastation
Of the South would
49, bring to his wife and
---5r.o mo-. 10 the subsection of him
~ and his people to a government
established by the consent of the
~~,,araea." but to the certainty that
history, If our sectional struggle
n,rI1 h. written by those whose ig-
araoln ur prejudice would unfit
+b.,o for doing justice to the memory
oe o,r mothers and fathers; and PEG
49,. VINO read the books, the maya
mna. and the newspapers which are
nou na.n4 scattered all over the oun
,~. cannot fail to agree that the old
e%arlter possessed some Of the fore
s.ht cl d prophet.
Will not undertake to present a
1.r as the Objectionable assertions
which a4re become almost stereo-
rv1ad in our literature; these few Will
h.. ..oa4h for my purpose:
In "}yit. Wisdom and Eloquence of
COL r. q. In9ersoIl," which has been
for sale at ii cheap rate or railroads
all over the south, he says: A last
the conflict came. The hosts of light
and darkness prepared to meet upon
the fields of war. The question was
presented Shall the Republic be
slave or free
Recently, An Autobiography by
a Southernar." was spread in daily
i~nstalIments before the readers of one
q. our most respectable
in which this assertion appears:
Fifty or sixty years ago u grand
fathers began d long wrangle about
slavery, and it Waxed in violence till
they thousht and talked and wrote
Of few other subjects. Then the con-
. troyersy came to the violence of
var, etc.
In . ~pretentious History of the
United States written by Henry Will
liam Elson. and published for the
Review Of Reviews Company by the
Macmillan Company slavery is as
serted to have been at the bottom of
the tariff quarrel in 1882. 1t
says: AT length. however, the de-
bate narrowed down to the great ris-
ing issue betWeen the North and the
SCUM with slavery as its background"
IN a dispatch which was probably
sent To all of our leading daily news
papers. Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, in
oVpaJe with Mr.. Clifford Pinchot, not
many DAYS ago. is reported to have
said.
/ 'ti 5'I sir. hat a party IAN nOt
s411 IN 81 single issue, although our
ga'lE DID stand on a single issue in
' 7Iedl conflict between serVile and
frea labor"
:" d Recent speech, delivered in To-
g, neAalor ''Immins said:
Ihe Republican party was not
''" 10 make men rich; it was born
" make men free"
AM there ar- very few Northern
rno3 % t1Dl htcp DelO1e tl1ti
rgdleFs the claim that Abraham Lin
sta1 lhe Great E~mancipator, liber-
~ lour millions of slaves"
man. lHg evidence tina these writer's and
ta aoA7IS have been misled by their
Hbrarii although partly hid away in
tmo ' r cannot be disputed; and the
aftar VII come when honest seekers
ganara t4e Truth viii satisfy unbiased
more% IONS as 10 the Influences which
lone 2oI ,atheFs and mothers in the
the ","hS+e between the North and
presa @3uth. With your permission 1
w wrStnt here some of that evidence.
tha nav space compelling me to omit
whom "iIeS OF many Of the authors to
W Ir" ! am Indebted.
was the Republican PARTY Or
Norb9 peashing Of conditions in the
tween ne" years before the war be-
Curtis. III Sng sections, George William
"T66.a IN his "Orations," saws:
fashion q,sluFch. the college. trade,
C%sI6oaInr,.s n .. vast political parties, took
PhiadaIES, side. i In Boston, in
New HfE aIphia in New York. in Utica in
when 'lsyen, ana in a hundred villages
to Say % @b American citizen PROPOSED