The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-06-22
THE ABOLITION CRUSADE.

Northern writer's have flooded this coun-
try with volumes upon volumes teemlng
with Infamous falsehoods which they ask
the world to accept as a history Of the war
and the events which brought about the
conflict. All are unfair and misrepresent
the South. The South is entitled to fair
hearing, and the world wants the truth.
If any one desires to get correct lntorma-
ton about the cause of the War Between
the States-April, 1061-65-he should read
COL Hilary A. Herbert's history of the
"Abolition Crusade" The book contains
249 pages, and its contents are clear, ex-
haustive and truthful.
Gen. Charles F. Adams, Union veteran
Of the war, said, from Gen. Lees point of
view, he was right; and Gen. Adams also
said that Senator Cabot Lodge, of Massa-
chusetts, affirmed the right of secession in
a biographical sketch Of Daniel Webster.
Thus it is conceded by these eminent
Northern statesmen that the Southern
States had the constitutional right to Sc
cede.
And the Confederate States adopted the
old Constitution, with one exception, which
made the Presidential term six years in
stead Of four years.
William Lloyd Garrison, the foremost
Abolition crusader, presided at meeting
on Boston Commons in 1880, and took a
printed copy of the Constitution of the
United States, wrapped in the starry ban
ner, and then burned both into ashes, say
ing that 1.-THE Constitution of the United
States was covenant with death and a
league with hell.' This was denounced
throughout the South and West.
New England imported the first negro
slaves in this country, and when they found
that the Northern climate was too cold for
profit in slavery, the New Englanders sold
their slaves in the South. Then began the
warfare on the South.
When Senator Robert Toombs made his
farewell speech, Georgia having seeded,
every constitutional point-of view was so
clearly and forcibly stated that Senator
Seward said: ''Toombs' speech could not
be successfully disputed"
John G.. Calhoun never put the right OF
secession any stronger than did Abraham
Lincoln in the House of Representatives
January y, 1913: ANY people anywhere
being inclined and having the power, have
the right to rise up and shake off the ex-
isting government and form a new one that
suits them better. This is a most valuable,
most sacred right-a right which we hope
and believe is to iberate the world. Nor
is this right confined to the cases in which
the whole people Of an existing government
may choose to exercise it. Any portion OF
such people that can may revolutionize and
make their own so much Of the territory as
they inhabit." (Mor5e's "Abraham Lin
coln," volume l., page 76.)
| Mr.. lincoln was then cOntendino- for the
right OF Texas to secede from the govern
ment OF Mexico; but in 1861, when the
Southern States seeded from his fananti'
cal and despotical government of Black
Republicanism and assassination, as in.
spired by John Brown and Henry Ware
Beecher, he announced that he would "pu
the foot down firmly" and make Treason
odious." 1t was then not a question O
right with him, but question Of might
brutal might-and brutality won.
The South only desires historical fact:
in regard to the cause Of the war, and the
truth is gradually coming to the surface