Year: 1877

of Hate. People at the North ciaim tc po
Union men, champions of the Union' III


fact, crazy for the Union. AS generAiy
| understood; the Union is brotherhood VI
States, and in it's truest, best meanine'
must be brotherhood Of the people. 40
give it real strength, real permanence' 'ne
people composing in ought to be not onIy
| fond Of their common country, but kindly
disposed towards one another. How could
the people of the South, for instance DC
truly fond of the Union and devoted to IL
| if they hated certain of the Northern States
and wished them harm 1t is clear that
they would be greatly tempted to break
| away from the Union just to get rid OF


those obnoxious States II they could not
dominate and persecnte them.


Does not the same conclusion hold good
on a converse supposition' That is, how
can the people of certain Northern States
be real friends of real Union If they vim
dictively hate the South 7 Is it not mani
fest that they would be tempted to quit


the Union, rather than consort with the
South on equal terms7 People that hate
one another are not very anxious to asso-
ciate together. As long as one party can
bully the other and trample on it, can rule
it as a master through thieving agents
supported by the national bayonet, can
rob it by proxy under the form OF SELL


government while constantly threaten
ing to deprive it even of that form, jnst go
| long the party in the ascendent can easi-
ly tolerate the association and call 1t
Union. But this is one sided Union.


Make it a fair and equal one, and the
ardent, blatant, open mouthed champions


of the Union of Hate will be found very


tame unionists they will be quite willing


to turn their weapons against the Union of


Good will.


The genuine unionist, then, is the man


who regards men of all sections as breth


req, the man who leves the country as a


whole and loves each and every section and


sub section of it as part of that common


country of which he is a citizen every


where throughout its length and breadth.


Now, at the North these two conflicting


species of unionism are in full, active op
GRAFTON. For a long time the former kind


had general ascendency, and, even now


has it in many localities. The haters o
the South were profuse in their protestation
! of devotion to the Union. They tried t.
cover their wicked and malignant feeling


under the sacred veil of virtue, the V'rta
of patriotism. Yes, they wanted Union
but for what end They wanted
. as an engine of revenge, of perseou
f ton. of devastation. Their hearts wer
d boiling with diabolical rage against cor
n ouered people who had fought them onl
II too we'll; they could not speak of tn
South without looks of scorn and words


ineuit.


If these men were not false in their pr'
# fessions of Unionism, how unfortunate Wi
It the policy which they adopted ! What q
10 feet must such conduct work on victim
O. animated with all the ordinary instincts
A DOOR human nature. Hatred begets batre
70 Injuries beget sense of wrong and
is thirst for revenge. Very we'll, says resen
he full humanity, you rob me now, you insu
th me now, you meet all my Efforts to esca


ruin with new plans of tyranny and subj
,v CATION; that is all very we'll, for you a
or, strong and l am weak, but the day m
lin yet come when my strength will have be
Of restored. Samson's hair grew again. a
'se when the day of retribution does come, "
to you, cowardly dastards, that could traI
i" pie on q fallen foe.


n0 Such would have been a result natu
ara enough for the miserable, narrow poll


of in-will which among the Northe


States has arrogated to itself the title
ish unionism since the war. But fortunate
of there were two causes operating agail
On this resmlt. First, Southern people loo
Eat ed charitably on Northern bitterness,
ne lieviug it, az they did, to be an involun
eSS ry tribute to the superior gallantry a
49, military prowess which had enabled
ths South to place the North in such peril'
asv and humiliating straits. Secondly, Il
tist spirit of meanness and malice was by
ng, means universal at the North. From