New-York tribune., 1912-08-26

- INC SldNc owners. Even In the ruder
communities public opinioD demanded that
when negroes were sold families should
oe Kept together particularly mothers and
chlidron' (p. 127) However pussy
rooted and patriarchal slavery may have
peen' the most revolving side of its social
ana sensual character has been very art
fully lodged by the doctor.
BLEEDING Kansas"
In handling the unpleasantness in Kan
saS' involving the struggle between the
forces of freedom and slavery DR.. Wilson
ignored the pro-slavery horrors He says
nothing about the border rufians. and
would have us believe that all the irregu-
larhies of the slavery supporters were
confined TO crooked and admittedly illegal
voting. John Brown is made the symbol
| and scapegoat of free state effort in Kan
sas. What Wilson says about Browns
| fanaticism is not important. It is worth
while TO quote the following as 10 what
Brown did. and on this point we read
His only intention in entering Kansas
was To throw himself and his sons into
the struggle going forward there against
slavery, and he was quick TO take n fore
most part in the most lawless and bloody
enterprises Of his party, going even to
the length of massacre and the forcble
liberation Of slaves" @. 2O3D No men
ton is made of the nameless barbarities
visited upon Browns sons and other free
state men. murder being among them. In
! fact We are left TO believe that all Of the
deeds which made bleeding Kansas a
tar Cft
party
The War Causes.
According to DR.. Wilson. the real in
citers Of the Civil War were the aboli-
tionists and the communities In the North
| which opposed the aggressions Of the slave
power, while the innocent and the injured
parties were those who fired on Fort Sum-
ter. The states Of the North that passed
personal liberty laws to keep their COM
munities from being overrun by kdnap-
pers after the passage Of the fugitive
slave law by Congress were the real
guilty parties. Bad as were the Northern
acts Of revolt against slave catching, they
were not the only or the worst causes
Of offending. We quote DR. wilson:
Southern pride, too, was stung TO the
quick by the position in which the
South found itself The agitation against
slavery had spoken IN every quarter the
harshest moral censures against slave
holders. The whole course of the South
had been described as one OF systematic
iniquity; Southern society had been repre-
sented as built upon wilful sin: the South
ern people had been held up TO the world
as those who deliberately despised the
most righteous commands OF religion.
They knew that they did not deserve
such Teprobation. They knew their lives
were honorable, their relations with their
slaves humane. their responsibility for the
| existence OF slavery among them remote.
! (p. 209)
Comment seems unnecessary. other than
10 remark that such a measurment In
view Of the fruits of slavery, enonomic
and moral and social, seems strange, II il
is academic
Hatchine Secession.
As explained and defined by Dr. wilson
secession simply appears as fine spun,
plausible theory. and not the reasonable
thing which the unphilosophical Northern
mind conceived II TO have been. After
South Carolina and the Gulf states had
pretendedly taken themselves out OF the
Union. the doctor palliates and excuses
the transactions as follows:
The legal theory upon which this start
| ling and extraordinary series Of steps
was taken was one which would have
hardly been questioned IN the early years
! of the government, whatever resistance
might have been offered TO It's practical
| execution. IT was long found difficult TO
| deny that state could Withdraw IRON
! the federal arrangement, az she might
| have declined TO enter 1t. tp. 2llD
II is admitted by the Democratic candi-
date for President that the Republican
party in 1860 was not an abolition party
and did not deny the constitutional stand
| ing of slavery and that most Republicans
were almost as much repelled by the
| violent temper and disunionist sentiments
NJ tho abolitionists as were the Southern
leaders themselves" But" says DR.. VIII
son. "the South made no such distlnc-
tions. II only knew that the party which
was holly intolerant of the whole body OF
Southern institutions and interests mao
| triumphed in the elections and was about
IN take possession Of the government, and
that # was morally impossible TO preserve
the Union any longer" o. 2eJ
II strikes us the least bit comical that
the Southerners should have been
shocked by the fellow feeling In pehal
| of disunion held by handful OF GarrIso-
nian abolitionists. The talk about the
continuance Of the Union being moral
irnpossibllity is almost mockery' ana not
Of the solemn variety either. great
ma aiorjtv of the national electorate Voteo
against Lincoln in 1850 Whether they
! had or not, the way to continued Chio"
was plain. Accept the results OF the eiec-
tion as the North had done many times
| IN the face OF defeat. and then coh'eho
for the turning OF the tables four years
! later.
History" as She Is Made
| When we get this side Of the ClVll war
pertod we are by no means free OF III
| Wilson'S bias and prejudice az "rltei'
| Passing bv all Of his silences regardihs
| administrative achievement, we reach inc
| campaign of 1854, when the partisah
venom Of the doctor is not even Velieu'
| He is careful and insistent on telhhg 'he
bovs and girls who study his history
that the Democratic candidates for fresl-
! dent and Vice-President were Gro'eI
| Cleveland and Thomas A. HENDRICKS o"t
| 81 any inouiring student should pecoi'o
curious 10 find out who the opposing ga"
didates were that curiosity couid not DC
eratided I'm this history" The names OF
| James @. Blaine and John A. Logan can
| hn