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

after his election to the Presidency
wendell Phillips was being ~ostracized
IN Boston and rotten-egged in Cincin-
natl; and in Emma c. Wizards His
tory Of the United States" she saws
that the people of Boston. as a BODY.
were determined to upp the fug-
tive slave provision of CIay's conpro-
mise measure; and that the public
prints declared that the opposition
to the execution of the law in Boston
was the work of negroes and a few
abolltlonlsts, among whom was George
thompson, a British membe of Par
lament"
3. This Thompson "sneaked ont of
Concord, New Hampshire, in the night
and IN Woman's ~OtheS and he wrote
TO the Leeds CEngland) Mercury that
rewards were offered for his abduc-
non assassination; that New Eng
land had universally sympathiZed
with the South, and that "in everv di-
rectlon he met with those who believ-
ed they would be doing God and their
country service by depriving him of
life"
4. In 1851 President Buchanan ap-
pointed as Governor Of Kansas. Rob
ert j. Walker, a native Of Pennsvi
vanla and an emancipationist, and IN
his inaugural address he exposed the
hypocrisy of the New England free
sellers" by declaring hat in their $50
called constitution, formed at Topeka,
they deemed that entire race me
grOeS) so inferior and degraded as to
exclude them all forever from Kan
sas, whether they be bond or free
h provision having been adopt by
more than three-fOurths of the votes
of the saviors of bleeding Kansas"
B. The platforms of the conventions
which nominated Fremont G856) and
Lincoln GS60) for the Presidency, de
clared that, while slavery ought to
be kept out Of the territories, the Re-
publican party favored "the mainten-
ance of the rights of the States. and
especially the right of each state TO
order and control its own domestic
institutions according to its own judg-
ment exclusively
s. In 1859 Abraham Lincoln, an Illi-
nOiS embe OF Congress-, introduced a
bill to extend the cd fugitive slave
law to the District of Columbia, and
when the news Of his nomination for
Wendell Phillips, the abolition leader.
denounced him as t slave-hOund Of
Illinois,"
Z. Horace Maynard, a native of
Massachusetts, who became IN able
lawyer and politician in Tennessee,
delivered the Washington's birthday
address in New York city in February,
1861, and in it, making not the slight
est reference to slavery he said:
1t is this bitter, sectional hostility,
originating far back in the old COlo-
NAL times, fostered and kept alive by
bad men for bad that has
given us so much trouble heretofore,
and has now brought US into the ex-
tremity of u present peril. Men
in the North win golden opinions and
attain substantial honors by the igor
of their assaults upon the South; men
in the South reap similar rewards &C
cording to the f~ierceness with which
they retaliate." (sic.)
Certainly Mr.. Maynard could not
have meant that ~"slavery' was a bone
of contention in "old Colonial times
and his use of the word "retallate'
shows that he knew which section was
the aggressOr.
8. In President Lincoln's first in
augural address he declared hat he
had no intention to NEEDLE with slaV-
cry in the States where it existed and
added tina he did not believe he had
any lawful right to do so.
8. In Rice's "reminiscences. etc,
David r. Locke petroleum V. Mas
by) referring to the celebrated de-
bate between Lincoln and Douglas,
SAYS: THE Republican leaders, and
Lincoln as well, were afraid OF only
one thing, and hat was of having
imputed to them any desire to aboIlsh
slavery"
10. In September, 1862, Mr.. Lincoln
notified the Southern people that on
the first day of the following Jan
uary he would issue q decree declar-
ing free all the slaves in such parts
of the Southern States as had not been
In other words, our peo-
pie we're informed that, if they Would
Law down their arms by the flrst DAY
of January. 1868, their right to hold
their slaves would not be Questioned
II. A few days after the President
ial election in 1860, a prominent
Democratic politician OF kentuchy
called upon Mr.. Llncoin IN opiiHs
cold III. and among the things the
president-elect said to him was this:
."The fugitive slave law Will be pet
tor administered under my admins
tration than it ever has peeh uho7i
thai Of any of my predecessor:
- r, Rice's "Reminiscences etc,
90, Don Plat, who canVaSSed the