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

4. IN 1875 there We're tWenty-thFee
in the North for every
ten IN the South.
i Helween 1880 and 1881 there
were built eighteen customs houses
on the north side O Mason ana
ixon' line: not one on the south
side.
8. Up to 1860. according to The
ReDort of the Public Lands tonainls-
sion. of 1883. about seyen,een-twenti-
eths of all donations Of the pubic
lands. for which, as is Well known, the
South paid most Of the purchase
money, had gone to individuals, cor
porations. Territories and States west
of the Mississippi river which could
be relied on to strengthen the North
ern section Of the Union.
Now, bearing in mind that IN 1861
there were eighteen Northern States
and fifteen Southern States. and some
Territories in the NorthW est about
ready to come into the Union ana
strengthen the North, We may judge
as to the hopes of the Southern peO-
pie.
The Pretended "Wedge."
About all the sO-callcd Histories of
the United States which Northern au-
thOrs and publishers have managed to
get adopted as text o in some Of
the South's colleges and high schools,
or as reference books in their libra
ries, boldly assert that slavery was
the only cause of the long Wrangle
between the sections, but the evidence
which has come down to US contra
diets the assertion, and makes it clear
enough that humanity was only
the pretended excuse of those who
were denying to the Southern people
the "justice," the general welfare
and the BLESSINGS Of liberty which
were promised to them when their
forefathers carried their States into
the Federal Union.
The first one of the apparent strug-
1920 when Missouri was applying for
admission into the Union; and If it
was d real contest between what John
Clark Ridpath called tho moral
awakening of the North and what
Thomas +. Reed, on the day when
the Wilson tariff bin was passed in
the House Of Representatives, called
the lower civilization Of the South
it is impossible for Us to imagine any
explanation of the mob violence
which stirred communities all over the
North. as the reader will find in Bel
ford's History Of the United States, =
Benton's Thirty Years View" and
Lippincott's "Gazetteer' published in
1850. In these we find the following:
la tAC AICS1hS IL VI
fifteen years after the wrangle abou'
Observation-Disclosures or negroes anl
abOlitionists were of daily occur
renee Such ag%itators as William
Lloyd Garrison and George Thompson
abolition emissary from England
sent over here, as Emma Willard be-
lieyed fSee her History Of the United
States p. 452), to assist in weaker
ing that attachment to the Uniol
which had cooled somewhat durins
the qualification" controversy, just a.
John Henry was sent to warm the Sc
cession spirit of Massachusetts, whe1
Jefferson's retaliatory measures wer,
adopted to check England's aggres
siOns on the shippers Of New Eng
{ land, were mobbed ia Boston, tn,
| %for1ner, as Aldcn's Manifold Cyclic
paedla asserts, by a mob
| Of gentlemen Of property and respec
tability.'
t 2. In the same year an angry mo-
. broke up the school Of Prudence Gran
dali in Canterbury, Connecticut, be
cause she admitted negro children a
pupils, destroyed valuable
and had her Imprisoned in the tow
jail.
1 5. In this same year Georc
Thampson wrote to the Leeds eng
s land) Mercury that rewards wer
8 offered Tor his abduction and assas
sination'; that New England ha,
: universally sympathized with tn
) south; and Senator Isaac Hill. Q
I New Hampshire, stated that Thomp
e son escaped from Concord in tn
: night and in woman's clothes"
4. In 1887 Rev. Elijah 2. Loveioy
publisher of an abolition newspape
IN Alton, Ill. was killed by a moi
5 and his printing office was destroyed
y .. In 1888 the Pennsylvania Hal
belonging do the abolitionists Of Phi
was attacked by a mob an
burned, the Shelter for the cotore
orphans was fired, and the negro qual
tiers were attacked.
6. In 1888 John CT. Whittier, no
), famous for his calumnious "Barbar
Ireltchie" and his "Astraea at Ii
= Capital" faced an enraged mob