The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-03-26

dwelling house of the latter and
contents were destroyed.
9. Referring TO the Boston r-,.
which in 1850 resisted the ex@rutpu
OF the fugitive slave law. Emma
Willard says (p. 1861: "Publlc prlts
asserted that the opposition WAS tpo
work Of the negroes and a few aba-
~litionists. among whom WAS cnuSp.
uous George Thompson. 4 Elt.~,
member OF Parliament"
10. far into the 'fifties.' -
we are told IN Alden's Manifold Co.
clopadia," Wendell Phillips delivered
his abolition addresses I'm the face -
threatened attacks Of mobs.' o., -
General Dom Piatt states it III Rice
"Reminiscences Of Abrahan Lincoln"
'he was ostracized in Boston. 2al
r~otten-egged in Cincinnau.'
The Real "Wedse.'
After the enactment OF laws to en-
able all classes Of New EnglanderS
except farmers. to prosper at tn.
expense of the Southern people, II be-
came supremely important to naain-
tain the then existing relative weights
Of the two sections; and hence W.
cannot fail to understand the sianin-
canoe of the following:
1. Maciay says that the New Eng
leaders opposed the passage Of :
naturalization bill.
2. In B~ancrofts History OF tia
United States he avs that after tn,
Louisiana purchase, IAN ~ineradIcabi,
dread Of the coming power Of ths
Southwest lurked in New England,
especially Massachusetts,
3. One Of the demands Of the no.
torious "Hartford ConSention' Wa.
hat the Constitution be 50 amended
hat no State be admitted into tht
Union except by the affirmative votes.
OF two-thirds of the members in each
House of the Congress-"
4. IN 1895 was published =
six-volume History Of the United
States" the author being Richard
Hildreth, Of Massachusetts. In Vol
ulne VI. page 6S3, he says: "JealnI>,
of Southern domination had, as ~
have seen, made the Northern Eeder-
alists dissatisfied with the purchase ot
louisiana. The keeping
out Of new States n the alteratiot,
of the Constitution as to the basis %
representation were projects too hope
less as we'll as too unpopular in Their
origin to be hoped for. The extension
to the new territory west Of the Mis-
siSsippi Of the ordinance OF 1887
against slavery seemed to present .
much more feasible method Of accom-
plishing substantially the same obiaat
The idea, spreading with rapidly, a.att
further obtiterated old party lines
tending to produce at the North 4
political union for which the Federal
7 lists had SO often sighed"
5. Agreeing with Hildreth, AMI
complaining at existing conditions,
Josiah Quincy. Of Massachusetts. who
was president Of Harvard Coiles"
from 1929 to 1S49. said in q letter {,
Timothy Pickering u Massachusetts
senator from 1903 to 1870: "lh>
influence of our part of the Union
must be diminished by the acquisition
of more weight at the other eXtr"u-
ity."
s. And admitting the injustic" -
the sectional management Of the pub
lie lands. Senator Plumb. Of Kansas,
on September 25, 1888, said in tn
Senate: cit Is. therefore, but natural
that when the Democratic party sue
ceeded to power in 1885, after tWentf
) four years Of enforced retirement, =
, should at once attack the RepuotIeA.t
! administration Of the public Lands. -
was to be expected that its leaders
? would seek to break down the system
which had in the previous quartz
; century SO signally multiplied, de-
veloped and strengthened the North
But our Professor Eison tells l. {
readers this: The South was qui, :
to see that the only way to pre>ca-
: future legislation unfriendly to SIN
2 cry was 10 increase the number -
slave States being apparently ignnI
:, ant of the fact acknowledged by Co
r eral Dom Piatt lin Rice's "RtmiuI,-
cences.' etc.) that the South mad,
. without saving all that We tthe North
J. accu1nulated'; and ignorant. too. -
, me significance Of what lie states ~
. page %. Discussing New E~ngianl's
conduct during the war Of 1912, -
says: The specie Of the countr'
drifted to New England hanks pub
Y nc credit fell to the lowest ebb: egtF,
q oanK IN the Middle and Southern
9 states suspended specie payments
The Boston banks Won.
: receive the notes Of a BAN
= more Dank only at a dis.ouHt
of thirty nor ant 80 fa,
treasury notes issued from time -
Y Ena at d:>oo4-