The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-01-07

the votes of two Southerners Gust
enough TO pass the measure) VINO nau
been strongly oppAsed to il. These
were Richard Henry Lee in the SEN
ate and Alexander White in the
House. thus showing that there had
been almost a Iie-vote in each House
at every rejection Of the measure.
This was a burden of about ffty-six
millions of dollars on the shoulders OF
less than -four millions Of people,
white and black, and old and young;
and Hildreth tells US Vol. !, PIP. I'll
Il. Second Series, History Of the Uni
ted States) hat eve Jefferson advlS-
ed a compromise to save the Union
Another sectional wrong was a law
to permit those spectators who had
not shared in the deal Ito a Y the
Union," TO axe $4,000, 900 of stock in
Robert Morris's Philadelphia bank,
which now became the Bank of the
United States, and pay for it with
worthless Revolutionary war ponds
thus enabling the stockholders to
draw out Of the Golfers Of other peo-
pie "a g~ratuity," as President Jackson
called it in his message vetoing the
bank bill, "of many millions OF dol
lars"
Now add together the sums paid for
the "Marietta' land, for stock IN Nor
ris's Bank. and for the new Federal
bonds, and we find that these lucky
NOrtherners were granted the enor-
nous bounty of a fraction over sixty
four millions of dollars.
The conscience of the North"
Jefferson's draft Of the Declaration
Of Independence contained a bitter
denunciation OF George III because, as
it said, "He has waged cruel wal
against the 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 MaSSachu-
sets; Benjamin Franklin, Of Pennsyl-
! vania; Roger Sherman, of Connect
cut; and Robert r.. Livingston, Of New
. York, this denunciatiOn was stricken
out,
e In 1.-The Sectional Controversy"
published in 1851 when the author
w. c.. Fowler, was a member of the
3 Connecticut legislature. the author
says that fifteen or twenty a be
fore this time, when a member O
: Congress, who afterwards became {
member of a Presidents Cabinet, wa!
coming out from a heated. sectiOna
: debate, he was asked by the writer, al
e old college friend, ''Will you tell m
Q what is the real reason why Northern
= men encourage those petitions Go
the abolition of slavery ?" The repl.
n was, 1.-The real reason is hat tn
South will not let us AVE a tariff, am
we touch them where they will fee
;, it."
e In the same work MI. Fowler re
peats h was said in 1869 by Sal
mon P. Chase. a New Englander, VIII
'r was then Governor Of Ohio, II do no
wish to have the slave emancipate
e because I love him, but because I hat
, his master"
When John Brown came into Vir
e ginia ito free the slaves by the au
~ thOrity of Zoe Almi~hty,"- Covering
'e John A. Andrew, Of Massachusett
was one Of his chief supporters; an
= when Brown was On trial for hi
crimes. "ever, possible advantage G
counsel was furnished him by b
s. friends in Massachusetts," as Alden
n Manifold Cyclopaedia" says. But,
Ia September, 1862, when Gen. Dix pre-
+ posed to remove a number Of escape
s slaves from Fortress Monroe ito Ma.
IN ~sachusetts. Governor Andrew object
ed, saying, II do not concur in ar
ne way or to any degreee in the plan pre-
say that the Northern States are
all places the worst possible to sele'
&c for an asylum"
er In 1895, as reported in Benton
az Thirty Years View, Senatoar Isas
&c Hill, Of New Hampshire, said: II kAA
er said that the people Of the Nerth d
more united in their opposition to tt
plans Of the advocates of an%ti-slaver
~ than on any other subject: The o.
ne position is confined to no polite
'le party; it pervades every class of Il
community" etc.
y. In Rice's "Reminiscences Of Abr
e. ham Lincoln" General Dom Piatt.
m Ohio. who a part Of Illino
ne for the Republican party in 1860, al
he spent some time at the home OF Il
gn P~resident-elect, says: He knew al
TIC saw clearly that the people of the fr
10 States not only had no sympathy wi
or the abolition Of slavery, but held
icy natics, as abolitionists were called.
utter adherence" And in anoth
Ia place he says: descended from t
Der poor whites Of a slave State throu,
me many generations, he inherited t
ess contempt, il not the hatred, held
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