The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-14

In the north abOlitlOnlSts were
hated and despised. They were
mobbed. shot and hung. United
States officers hunted fugitive
slaves and returned them to their
masters in the south. A mob of
Yankee aristocrats dragged VIM.
Lloyd Garrison through IN e
streets of Boston with a rope
around his neck and the attor-
ney general of Massachusetts
presided at a mass meeting in
flannel Hall that approved Of
the killing of Elijah Lovejoy be
cause he attacked human slav-
cry.
A United States marshal. nam
ed Isaiah Rbynders, broke up an
anti slavery convention in New
York city by force of arms. The
press and the pulpit as a whole
| in the north, we're behind the in
stitution of slavery in 1860. al
most as unanimously as in the
south, and in any of the large
cities of the north a public ora
tor who preached abolition did so
at the risk of his life.
The reason for this is patent,
the pro. slavery vote in the nation
held the balance of power, and
the influential commercial and
manufacturing classes in tn e
north upheld slavery because
there was money for them in the
trade of the south, whose cotton
brought gold from the whole
world.
The Republican party was born
through sectional selfshness and
the abstract question of the right
or wrong of slavery from a NOR
al point of view did not enter in
to it. There were people in the
south who freed their slaves be-
cause they thought slavery
wrong. Seward first announced
the impressible conflict between
industrial systems that were
built one on free, the other on
slave labor. There was more
money in it for the north to have
new territories come IN as free
states, because it meant a larger
white population, hence more
buyers for their manufactured
goods. There was something
tangible upon which to build a
political party appealing to a
people who we're greedy for
money. The inevitable shock of
battle came, when the Republl'
can party went into power by a
plurality vote. The south seced
ed and the national instinct rec
ognized that enduring prosperity
was impossible unless all the
states formed one government,
and right there is the reason why
we failed. President Lincoln de-
cleared repeatedly his utter in
difference whether he saved the
Union with or without slavery,
but it must be saved.
I will tell you why the slavery
question was brought in and the
issue changed from one of money
to morals. The first two years of
the war, the south beat the north
to a standstill. Bull Run and
Manassas had aroused Europe;
England and France were about
to recognize the Confederacy as
a nation. This would have ended
the war at once, for really it was
not Grant who defeated Lee, but
lit was not the blockade of our
ports, which kept US from the
markets of the world. If we had
had access to world markets and
been able to utilize our resourc-
es, the war would have been end
ed before 1862 in the triumph of
the south.
I have often wondered why it
was that England did not recog
nize the Confederacy, and I be
lieve that the injection Of the
slavery issue had much to do
with it. The English govern
ment is singularly responsive to
public sentiment, and they had
just gone through with the agi
tation of the slavery Question in
their colonies, and once the idea
became prevalent that it. was the
cause Of human freedom, the
government did not dare recog-
nize the Confederacy. believe
that the acknowledge of this fact
was responsible in part for the
injection of the moral issue of
slavery. The other reason Was
the war policy to destroy our in
dustrial system by creating in
surrection and disorder at home,
so that we could not feed our
armies. At this distance of time,
fifty years or more, it is easy for
anybody to look back and show
that secession was foley and
fore doomed to failure. It looked
different though, in May, 1860.
There never has been in any
country stronger, ADLER and
longer headed set of statesmen,
than the men who planned and
carried through the secession
movement. There has never been
nor never will be abler generals
or a finer army than followed
Lee and Jackson. We came so