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known that the successful ann1franr
for a pension was required to testi-
fy that he was unable to support him
self.
10 Although the southern states. in
order to deal justly with the other
members of the Union, donated to the
United States their many millions of
acres of land in Ohio, Indiana. uli-
nois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama
and Mississippi, Massachusetts never
consented to permit the federal treas
ury to receive the money which was
paid for the more than twenty millions
of acres of land in that part of the
state which in 1929 was erected into
Maine-a piece Of injustice which mas
never found, its way into the books
! and newspapers our people have been
reading for more than a century.
One result of these numerous acts
( of sectional injustice is thus given in
EIson's History of the United States.
while discussing New England's con-
duct during the war Of 1872: The
specie of the country drifted to the
New England banks. Public credit
fell to the lowest ebb; every bank in
the middle and southern states sus-
pended specie payments The
Boston banks would receive the notes
of "a Baltimore bank only at a dis
count of thirty per cent and the fed
eraD treasury notes issued from time
to time at a discount of % per cent
Now bearing in mind that it has
never been charged that up to 1860
any southern man, corporation or
state ever asked for the privilege of
prospecting ct the expense of the
northern people, We may be able TO
Judge how the sentiments OF lntelil-
gent southerners were affected by the
sectional wrongs mentioned above.
The Conscience of the NORTH
I. JeffersOn's draft of ne Declar-
alton of Independence contained
this bitter denunciation Of George-III:
I He has Waged cruel war against
! human nature itself, violating its most
sacred rights of life and liberty in
| the persons Of a distant people who
have never offended him, captivating
and carrying them into slavery but
when he submitted his paper to John
Adams, OF Massachusetts, BENJAMIN
| Franklin, of Pennsylvania, Roger Sher-
man, Of Connecticut and Robert r
/ Livingston, Of New York, the other
members of the committee. this de-
nunciatiOn was stricken out
,. In Rice's "reminiscences OF
Abraham Lincoln" Gen Dom Piatt,
who canTassed a part of Illinois for
: Mr. Lincoln in 1860. and spent some
time in the company of the president
elect says: He knew and saw clear
" that the free states had not only
no sympathy with the abolition Of
slavery but held fanatics, as abolition
lists were called, in utter adherence.
And in another place he says: De
scended from the poor whites Of a
slave state through many generations,
he inherited the contempt, if not the
hatred, held by that class for the
negro. @He could no more feel a
sympathy for that Wretched race than
he could for the horse he worked or
the hog he killed"
5. And to all this evidence it is
interesting to add the views of John
Sherman. a brother of the famous
William Tecumseh, and a descendant
OF a distinguished Puritan preacher.
On April 2, 1862, he said in the SEN
ate: I'VE do not like negroes. We
do not disguise our dislike As my
friend from Indiana, (Mr. WrighO
said yesterday. the whole people Of the
northwestern states are opposed to
having many negroes among them, and
that principle or prejudice has been
engraved in the legislation of nearly
all of the northwestern states" And
let il not be forgotten that up to that
time there were very few persons liv-
ing in those states who did not be-
long to the Puritan stock.
1t may be difficult therefore. for
honest seekers after the truth to I'M
derstand what northern writers mean
by the moral awakening Of the
North and the dictatorial policy OF
the South"
Some Samples of Sectional Injustice
1. I have already shown that the
Revolutionary war pension money that
went TO the northerners was, per cap
ita, about three times the share Of the
southerners-
2 From 17S9 to 1916 appropriations !
for roads, harbOrs and rivers in the |
southern states tincludinE the Mis-
sissippi and the Ohio amounted to 81
751,916. and for like purposes in the /
northern states they amounted to 4
Sl2,743.407, nearly five times as much |
s. From 1884 to 1915 the northern /
members Of the old thirteen" receiv- /
ed for internal improvements S6,32S,- /
0S0. while the southern members re-
ceived only Ss53,1OO.
4. From 1879 to 1916 the North re-
= o rvr-1~ r.h ~1a
coast defence.
5 In 1855 there were % light
houses in the North for every ten in
the South.
s. Between 1850 and 1857 there
we're built IS custom houses north OF
Mason and Dixon's line; not one south
of it.
= Up to 1850. as the reader will
Brightley's Digest or The Report OF
the Public Lands Commissioner" of
1888, about seventeen twentieths of all
donations of the public lands for
paid most OF the purchase money, had
gone to individuals, corporations. ter
ritories and states west of the Mis-
Sissippi river which could be relied
on to strengthen the northern sec
ton of the Union.
Now, bearing in mind that in 1850
there were 19 northern and Il south
ern states, and some territories near
Z
strengthen the North we may Judge
as to the hopes of the southern peo-
pie.
The Pretended ssVEedSe.7
Nearly all of the so-called histories
Of this country which northern au-
thors have written have boldly as
serted, with increasing assurance al
time rolls on, that slavery was the I
only cause OF the long wrangle be-
tween the sections; but the evidence 1
which has come down to US contra
diets the claim. The first serious /
sectional struggle over slavery" was
in 1920 when Missouri was applying /
for admission to the Union; and if it !
was a real struggle between what I
J ohm Clark Ridpath called the moral /
awakening of the North" and what !
Thomas B. Reed, on the day when the |
Wilson tariff bill was passed in the |
house of representa- iyes, called the !
ower civilization of the South, il is Z
impossible for honest seekers after the
truth to imagine any explanation OF
he mob violence which stirred COM
nunities all over the North as the
-eader will find in BelfOrds History
# the United States, BentOn's Thirty
Fears View, and Lippincotts "Gaz-
stteer" published in $3.50. In these
re find the following:
!. In 1885 an angry crowd broke