The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-07-05

l ne chion Is a lie. The American
mon IS an imposture. a covenant with
death and an agreement with hell. We
are Tor its overthrow Up with the flag
Of dlsunion, that We may have i free
and glorious republic of our own
Wendell Phillips. the most eloquent
orator in New England, and whose
.aaoershlp was commanding, fed the
flame of sectional animosity with
speeches such as this:
There is merit in the Republican party.
It IS this: 1t is the first sectional party
ever organized in this country. It is not
national it is sectional. 1t i the North
against the South. The first crack in
the iceberg is visible: you will yet hear
lt go with J crack through the center"
The New York Tribune. for many
years the acknowledged and most in
tluential organ of Republican opinion
IN the United States thus bade the
South a respectful adieu:
The time is fast approaching when the
cry WI become too o~verpowering to re-
SlSt. Rather than tolerate national sla-
very as 1t now exists, let the Union be
dissolved at once.
With such utterances, ana the ap-
Dlauding echoes of a party flushed
with political victory ringing in their
ears, the South had little occasion
to hope for aggressions to cease and
conditions to improve. But through all
the years that this storm was fiercely
raging, the cool, sagacious Jefferson
Dawn never lost the c~learness of his
vision or allowed himself to be swept
from his political moorings. He fought
with all his superb skill and Hercu-
lean strength for the rights Of the
States. and warned his opponents hat
continued Federal invasion might
drive them from the Union; but at
the same time he reiterated his indy
ing love for the whole Countr and it's
organic law, aud prayed that the day
OF disunion would never dawn.
III an eloquent speech delivered at
) - l. OE H---s-
s~trikingly demonstrated the fact that
state pride and devotion to State in
tegrity strengthened, rather rhan
weakened, our attachment to the Gen
eral Union; that the larger love we
have for our national flag is fed by
the passionate devotion We manifest
in the welfare Of an individual State.
lie said:
mo one more than myself recognizes
the binding force of the allegiance which
the citizen owes to the State Of his citizen
ship; but the State being a party to our
compact, a member Of the Union, feslty
to the Federal Constitution it is not in
opposition to, but flows from, the allie
gisnce due to enc of the United States.
Washington was not less a Virginian when
he .conmanded at Boston; nor did Gates
h honnd iF fhem " to their !n Several papo States sh' by
their campaigns in the South. IN pro
portion as q citizen loves his own state,
will ne strive to honor her by preserving
her name and her fame free from the
tarnish OF having failed to observe her
obligations and to fulfill her duties to her
interior and seaboard. North. South. East,
and West, alike feel proud Of the Yankee
sailor who has borne our flag as far as
the ocean bears its foam. and caused the
name and character Of the United States
to be known and respected where there
S wealth enough to WOO and
Intelligence to honor merit? So long as
we preserve and appreciate the active
ments Of Jefferson and Adams, of Frank
c nn and and M a nnf3ed o. halel,'o mho q lab nnh1
for the whole country and lived for man
kird,-we cannot sink TO the petty strife
which saps the foundations and destroys
the political fabric our fathers erected
and beQueathed as ah inheritance to our
posterity forever
And a few weeks thereafter. when
on a visit to Boston, addressing a
great audience in Faneui Hall, n
speaking not only for himself but for
the entire South as we'll, he uttered
sentiments as broadly and Loyalty ma
tional as were ever spoken by Thomas
Jefferson or sung in the Battle Hymn
of the Republic. Said he:
LAS we have shared in the tolls. SO we
have gloricd in the ~triumphs of our coUn-
try. in our hearts, as in our history. are
mingled the names Of Concord. and Cam.
den, and Saratoga and le1lngton. and
Moulfrie. and New Orleans. and York
town, and Bunker Hill. Grouped all to
get her. they form q record or trf2mpnS
Of our cause, a monument Of the common
glory OF our Union. What Southern man
would wish it less by one Of the North
ern names Of which it is composed? Or
where is he who. gazing on the obelisk
that rises from the ground made sacred
by the blood of Warren. would feel bis
patriots pride suppressed by local jeal-
ousy?"
AS late as December 90, 1869, after
the presidential election, and when
events were Fastening to a crisis, on
the floor of the United States senate,
Mr.. Davis r~e-announced his passionate
love for the MO and pathetically
plead cd for q spirit of Cancellation
that would max unnecessary the
withdrawal of the Southern states
from the national fraternity. He said:
.fhe Union is dear to me as a Union
Of fraternai States, 1t would lose It's
value if I had TO regard it as q Union