El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-18
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stroyed.
IN 1858 the Pennsylvania Han
belonging to the aboIftiOnists Of phil
S0elphla, was attacked by n7ob and
turned the shelter for the neorC
oIplahs was fired, and the negro
lgrs were attacked.
O. IN that same year John G
WI " i. ..I6, now famous for his calumnI-
us barbara Frietchie," and his Is
tIdsei at the Capitol faced an enr.s-.l5
I bi9 IN, n Philadelphia, which DESTROYED
ms printing office where hi =
olition newspaper. the Pen,s I5 81 %
FREEMAN, was published
q n September 1871 an ane-r,,
crowd IN Cincinnati DESTROYED ssve7eI
belonging TO abolitionists.
o IN 1888 leading lighthouses
We're brutally attacked and .L5
oMeIIihSs, together with a number ~
- eHes' schOoInOuses. and negro
,-eols IN various parts Of the country
ere destroyed; Philadelphia had a
three nights riot in which tn -
assaulted nearly 50 houses Inhabited
Dy negroes; and Arthur and Lewis
Isappall' natives Of Massachusetts bur
~ 55- IN new York, were mObbed,
me dwelling house Of the latter and it,
contents being destroyed: and
>, Far into the "fifties" as We are
Iold IN Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia-
enoell Phillips delivered his abOlf-
uon address in the face of threateD-
ed attacks of mObsi. or as Cen Donr,
Flatt states it in Rice's 'Reminfsce1-
ceS OF. Abraham Lincoln he vas rs
Iraelsed IN Boston and rotten-egged Ii
The Real wedge
After the enactment Of laws to en-
aDle We" england TO prosper at the
expense OF the southern people, II
became a matter of supreme Import
ahce 10 maintain the then existing
Da4ance between the TWO sections -
the Union5 and hence. as Naclav in
1OrIns Us, New England opposed the
passage Of a naturalization bin: and
their opposition TO an -expansion's OF
the south was the sole cause of our
long sectional quarrel as is admitted
oy intelligent and honest northern
missions
J. In Banerofts History of the
United states discussing the views OF
statesmen about the purchase of the
LOUISIANA -ouisIana territory. he says: An in
eradlcabIe dread Of the coming power
OF the southwest lurked in New Eng
land, especially Massachusetts"
= One of the demands of the notO-
rious Hartford Convention was that
lhe constitution be so amended that
no state be admitted into the Union
except by a twO-thirds vote of both
houses Of congress"
3 In 1885 was published a six
volume History of the United
oreTh- a Massachusetts lawyer. In
volume VI, page SIS, he says: s.JeaI-
ouSy OF southern domination had as
We nave seen, made the northern
-ederalists dissatisfied with the pur-
chase OF Louisiana. = : The keep
iag out of new states and the aItera-
ton of the constitution as to the
basis of representation were projects
100 hopeless as we'll as too unpopular
IN their origin 10 be hoped for The
extension for
ne Mississippi of the ordinance #
1899 against slavery seemed to pre-
sent much more feasible method OF
accomplishing substantially the same
object The idea spreading with rap
dly, still further Obliterated old
party lines, tending to produce at
he North political union for which
he federalists had so often sighed.
4, Agreeing with Hildreth. Josiah
quincy, of Massachusetts said in
etter to Timothy Pickering. a Mas
achusetts senator; The influence OF
'ur part Of the union must be dimin-
shed by the acquisition of moro
weight at the other extremity
Lodges Life and Letters of George
,abot, p SS4-) And remembering the
motives of the fathers, senator
'lumb, of Kansas, on September 25,
SIS, said in the senate- 1T is there
ore. but natural that when the Dem
cratic party succeeded to power in
$50, it should at once attack
ne Republican administration Of the
ublic lands. It was to be expected
hat its leaders should seek to break
own the system which had in the
revicus quarter century so siSnally
multiplied, developed and strengthen
d the North"
The time win come. therefore. when
Intelligent persons will wonder how
o-caled historians in this country
ave managed TO shamefully misrepre-
ent, for more than a century. the
haracter and the disposition Of the
Outhern people. and TO convince mil
ions OF even southerners that their
atherS and mothers were unworthy
f the respect of the upright and the
1st of our race
B. F. Grady.
Clinton, \. c., July Il.