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

page SIS OF Rice's "Reminiscences.
etc, President Lincoln gave to Ed
ward Stanly, whom he had appointed
Military Governor Of North Caro-
lima, the true reason for issuing MS
Emancipation Proclamation. which
was that the New England Radicals
had threatened to openly embarraS
the Government IN the conduct OF tho
war .by withholding supplies, etc.
and he told Stanly that he had prayed
to the Almighty Ito deliver him from
this necessity" adopting the very 4
guage Of the Saviour. If il be pos
sible, let this cup pass from me.
~Southerners and NOrtherncrs Com.
pared.
While Mrs. Stowe. a New England.
er, was searching over the South tor 2
suitable brute to ornament her Uncle
Toms Cabin, her eye fell upon Le-
gree, a New LnglAnder who lad NOV
ed tc q Southern State and become q
Shareholder, and thcn she said: IL
the mothers Of the free Statcs had all
along felt as they should. their sons
would not be the holders and. prov
erbially. the hardest masters OF
slaves
This was said in 1888, thirty-three
years after the conscience Of tha
NOIln forced Oh the country bilo
Missouri COMPROMISED"
The Pretended "WedSe."
If the missouri Compromise" was
the result OF a struggle between what
John Clark Ridpatk calls the moral
awakening Of the North and what
Thomas B. Reed, on the day when the
Wilson tariff was passed in the House
Of Representatives, called the lower
civilization of the South" We cannot
1 Y,n6arcfo pI fhic eco on in tho Cnnnnh
delivered by Madison on the 29th or
July, 1877. in the Convention which
framed the Federal Constitution:
The great danger to our general gov
eminent is, the great Southern and
Northern interests being opposed to
each other. Look to the votes in Con-
gress, and most of them stand divided
by the geography Of the country"
This was eight years before nearly
, twenty vessels" were shipping negroes
from Africa. Nor can We imagine any
satisfactory excuse for the mob vio-
r lence which stirred communities all
over the North, as reported in Bel
ford's History Of the United States.
Renton's Thirty Years View" Lip
pincOtt'S Gazetteer" published in
| 1850, and some other works:
l /. In the later months Of 1885 at
tacks on negroes and abOlitiOnistS
were Of daily occurrence" Such agi-
r tators as William Lloyd Garrison and
George Thompson, an abolition mis-
e sionary from England, who had come
d into Massachusetts, as John Henry did
IN 1909, to assist in inf1aming the sec
tional prejudice which might cause 4
: dissolution Of the Union, were mob
: bed in Boston, the former. as Alden's
o Manifold Cyclopaedia" declares, by
t gentlemen Of property and respect
ability"
. . TT I OoS - -,
up the school Of Prudence Crandall in
Canterbury, Connecticut, because she
admitted negro children as pupils, de
T stroyed valuable property. and had
her imprisoned in the town Jail.
d 3. In 1885 Thompson, who came
Is over at the time when sectional preiu.
II cice had been infiamed by protective
is tariffs, wrote to the Leeds eng. J
s Mercury that rewards were offered
q for his abduction and assassination
that New England had "uniyersally
ID sympathlzed' with the South; anC
$ Senator Isaac Hill. Of New Hamp.
shire, stated that Thompson had es
" capped from Concord in the night, ant
} in wOman's clothes.
20 4. In 1887 Rev. Elijah P. Loyeioy
II publisher Of an abolition newspaper
ct in Alton, Illinois. was killed by a mot
ana MS printing press was destroyed
8 5. In 1888 the Pennsylvania Hall
&c Delonglng to the Philadelphia aboli
tionlsts, was attacked by a mob am
reH burned, the Shelter for the coloret
orphans was fired, and the negr,
y, quarters were attacked.
p s. In 1888 John G. Whittier, nov
famous for his calumnious poems
ne faced an enraged mob in P%hiladelphia
which destroyed his printing ofic
Where he printed his abolition news
paper. The Pennsylvania Freeman.
us 7. In September, 1871. an angr
I'd crowd in Cincinnati destroyed severa
ne houses belonging to ab~olitionists.
I'D 8. In 1843 leading abolitionist
ee were brutally attacked and thel
dwellings, together with a number O
"a churches, school houses and negr
IL homes in various parts of the country
er were destroyed; Philadelphia had
he three nights riot In which the mob as
gh saulted nearly fifty houses inhabite
by negroes" and Arthur and Levi
by Tappan (natives Of Massachusetts