The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-05-13

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have passed from the halls OF Con-
gress to the United States court, and
back from the court to congress, and
now there are pending in the United
States court many questions at this
time that involve principles vital to
the rights of the individual States,
the decision Of which will either
further strengthen the ce%ntralizing
power OF the general government or
will stem the tide and protect the
States and the individual inhabitants
of those States in the enjoyment OF
those rights that the Constitution
grants to States and individuals.
2. The question Of the tariff has
been a subject Of discord from the
very formation of the United States,
and is now the most momentous and
important question before Congress
and the people themselves.
After the revolution, in 1874, to
meet the needs of the government for
money, a tariff for revenue was pass
ed. The hatred to anything British
at that time was so intense tnar
many who would have otherwise OBJ
iected agreed to it, through the de-
sire to keep out British goods and
encourage home manufactures. But
a tariff to pay the governments ex-
penses soon became a tariff to protect
home industries, and has truly year
by year been the means Of lmpoVer-
ishing the South and enriching the
North.
This tariff has built up the fortunes
of the millionaires, the monied cor
porations that have robbed you and
the trusts that now control prices in
our country, and may yet bring on al
revolution that will shake this gov
eminent to it's foundations.
3. The negro.
These two questions, States rights
and the tariff, had been the bone OF
contention up to the Mexican war,
but with the admission Of Texas, and
the opening Of her vast extent OF ter-
ritory to the extension Of slavery, q
abolition party of the North, that had
been growing steadily under the in
flammatory writings of William LLOYD
Garrison and the bitter de~nunciations
of Wendell Phillips against the South
now assumed increased activity and
bitterness.
AS a little boy Of twelve years, l
heard in Washington our congress-
men and senators discussing THIS
question, and they were all looking %
the future with forebodings Of evils
to come, and the feeling in the North
as it impressed me was that the
South had really but few trends
! among the Northern politicians or
people. Then and there became a
Democrat, believing in States rights
tariff for revenue, and slavery, n
! have been a Democrat ever since.
DR.. Mcintosh then spoke of the ad-
mission of Kansas in 1854, and OF the
test of strength between the abolltl-
onists and the prosslavery party on
the plains of Kansas, which led to a
/ bloody conflict which it took the
strong arm of the general govern
mont to stop. But that blood shed
in 1854, he said, bore hts fruit. AS
a. volcano, it slumbered until 1861
and burst out in civil war. Ne"oer-
~. be said, was represented in the
Kansas conflict by her sons, S. Pope
and James Glenn, J.. M. Crosson. Con-
scious of it's strength, the abolition
party put forward eGn. Fremont an
it's candidate in 1856, and polled a
vote surprising it's W leaders. =
The Kansas war, Mrs. Stoves
book. Uncle Toms Cabin" and the
vote Of 1856 cemented the following OF
a5olitionists in one solid column
whose demands and threats against
the South grew steadily until in 1893
there was planned and attempted
that crime against. humanity, that
blot upon a Christianized civilization
carried out by one man, but assisted
and sympathized with by others as
leaders-a negro Instruction Will
all its attendant crimes of fire, muir
der, lust upon the defenceless and IN
nocent. In the history of North
America nothing equals this dlaooll-
acl, fendish act Of Johp Brown as ne
Manned and carried out his negro IN
.surrection at Iarper's Ferry, Va.' ID
7s5e. October 20: Fortunately for the
sake of humanity it was crushed at
once. and under a court OF Whlcn