The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-19

by ignorant or false teachers to accept
as logical sequence the reconstruction era
and humble themselves under the ban OF
retributive justice, meted out as the cost
of rebellion" ''insurrectlon," "seces-
sion and other derogatory epithets in
vented to impeach their great movement
of 1861 for self preservation.
The reconstruction era was one example
only, thus far the latest of organized eff
forts on the part of the political factor,
now known as the republican party, to do
the same thing
Despite the authority of Mr.. James
F. Rhodes. set forth in his erudite three
volumes of History of the United
States" and the more circumstantial
"History of the People of the United
States five volumes, by DR.. Wood
row Wilson, the facts go to show that
collision between the northern and
southern sections of the union had
been attempted at various times prior
to the events of 1861 in the south and
that in each instance the north was the
aggressor; and moreover, the desper-
alton that marked the course of these
earlier hostile movements exceeded the
most vicious incidents of carpetbag
and negro supremacy of the latest
time.
In a word, the southern people In
1861 accepted the election of a Presi-
dent of the United States by a polit-
1cal party that had record as prima
facie evidence that this party proposed
to advance its ancient and destructive
purposes through the direct and indi-
rect instrumentality of the federal ad
ministration which it had just brought
into power.
This much stated, we shall go some
what over the record of the triumphant
party in the presidential election of
1860
The New England Anti-Slavery So
ciety" was organized by half a dozen
young men of Boston. at Boston, in
semi secret way in the year 1882. Many
years prior to that portentous event
Quakers of Pennsylvania had organized
small abolition societies in that state
and in Ohio. Einissaries from the
Qual<ers had penetrated even Virginia
and North Carolina by the time OF the
war of 1872. They set up small
chapter at Richmond and supported a
larger one in Ohio.
They published third in North Carolina.
Promptly upon the spread of the news
in London of the organization of the New
England Anti-Slavery society, with evil
dence that William Lloyd Garrison,
young man of unbounded enthusiasm and
ripe intelligence, supported by associates
of like description were the leaders. the
older abolition society in that city, known
as Exeter Hail. took the enterprise
under its active and most solicitous care
In three years. aided and advised by
Exeter Hail. the New England society
had organized throughout the entire
length of the south. a grand slave in
surrecton. That was in the year 1885,
The outbreak was to begin on July 1
at a village Vernon, situated in the plan
tation region of Mississippi. From that
point the massacre of the whites and
the pilage of the land was to proceed
throughout the whole southern country
with savage revenge.
The method of preparation for the up
rising was through school teachers OF
both sexes, distributed as the local GUS
tom then was, as tuors and governesses
in the families of planters. Singing mas
ters and instrumental music teachers
came to reinforce laborers in the work.
To these were mailed from society head
quarters in New York illustrated incen-
posing to the view of the unlettered
black man, many of whom We're then
imported Africans, the free white farm
ers of the north in their cottages, sur
rounded by every comfort OF life and In
contrast the southern negro under the
overseer's lash or seated comfortless In
his poor hut without floor. The Illus
trated literature went into the hands of
the plantation negroes and the more in
telligent domestic servants, who attended
upon the emissaries.
A great deal of this mail matter
reached Charleston. S. c., by sea~from
New York. Outraged citizens seized it,