The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-01-07
EVIL SURVIVALS
OF
Injustice and Ignorance Which Is to
BE Exposed Before Our Traditions
Are Fixed.
(By HON. B. r. GRADY.1

n W ssA1it i8g has D11AA II AA1dt i
have impressed on my mind the i'm
portance of exposing the misrepre-
sentatiOns which have almost been
4 etereOtyped in the literature which is
guiding present generations of our
people and will guide those of the flu
ture into untruthful representations of
fathers and grandfatherS. The
necessity for this exposure becomes
more apparent since, as time rolls on,
The old sectional a~ntagonism Is dis
appearing. new generations ave their
directed towards the future,
and the struggles OF the past no long
or arouse the bitterness of other days.
] will mo- undertake to give a list
of the misleading authors or Of their
untruthful statements about the caus-
cs Of our long sectional quarrel; and
the reader must be content with the
following passage which appears in
the so-called History of the United
States written by Prof. Henry Will
liam Flson. a gentleman who has sue
coded in having his misrepresentation
adopted in the libraries and school
of many Of the Southern States.
AT the close of the recent war with
England he South was more favora-
BILE han the North to a protective tar
if one cause Of this was. it is as
serted. that the South, at first. expect
ed To work its own cotton; but this
st could not do. Slave labor had not
the intelligence to manufacture, and
white labor could not flourish by the
side OF slave labor"
n is all misleading, aside from
the difficulty of explaining why a
White man was denied the right to
work in a factory because a slave was
incapable of working there. Public
records inform us that this law vas to
Ha IN fnrcc for only three aarS 60 as
TO compensate capitalists for the losses
which necessarily result from changes
OF occupations: and. as to the attitude
of the South" the Tariff Complica-
ton OF 1885 shows that New SnglanC
gave seventeen yeas and and ten nays
that the middles States (includine
Maryiand) gave forty-four yeas ant
ten nays. and that Virginia, NORTH
Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia
gave fourteen yeas and thirty nays
North Cardinals vote being unani
nous in the negative.
Let us now go to the records ant
search for the evidence which ough
to satisfy any fair-minded persons a
To the responsibility for the sectiOna
struggles which have saddened tn
hearts OF all patriots.
The Two Sections in the Revolution
!. Although. according to a state
ment made by the late Senator G. F
Hoar. of Massachusetts,. the Southern
people had not the slightest particl
of personal interest in" the struggl
between the British government an
the enterprising business men Of Mass
achusetts, they furnished as soldiers
larger per cen OF their pOpulatiO
than Massachusetts, did. and paid. &C
cordinG to the report Of General Kno,
the first secretary of war, a large
per capita share of the cost OF tn
war.
2. In November. 1775, after Ger
eral Washington had been for som
months in command Of New Englan
troops at Boston, he became DISCUS
ed with them and he wrote: "Such
mercenary spirit pervades the who
that / should not be surprised at an
disaster that may happen. Coul
have foreSeen I have exper
enced, and am likely to experience
no consideration upon earth Shoul
have induced me to accept this con
mand."
3. In November. 1915. while Gel
eral Richard Montgomery was b,
sieging Fort Saint John. he was col
t~inually thwarted in his plants by h
New York, Connecticut and Ne
Hampshire troops; and he wrot
Were I not afraid the example wou
be generally followed, / wOu
not stay an hour at the head OF trOOl
whose operations l cannot direct"
4. General Philip Schuyler. who w;
cooperating with General MOntgOn
cry in the Canadian expedition, was
disguised with his troops hat he i
formed the Continental Congress tn
he intended to retire from the servic
but the entreaties of General Was
ington and Of the Congress caused hi
to abandon his intention.
5. After the defeat of Colon
Raum's Germans and Indians at Be
nington, General Stark's 500 militi
men. flushed with the success Of tt
day, abandoned the pursuit and ga
themselves up to plumber"
s. During Washington's struge
with the British on Long Island a.
in the city Of New York. more tn;
four thousand New England militi
men deserted and carried their al
munition home with them-"a SCI
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