The Subject Is One As Full Of Difficulty As Any With
Which The Politicians Of These Days Are Tormented.
The Northerners
fully appreciate this, and, as a rule, are not abolitionists in the
Western sense of the word.
To them the war is recommended by
precisely those feelings which animated us when we fought for our
colonies - when we strove to put down American independence.
Secession is rebellion against the government, and is all the more
bitter to the North because that rebellion broke out at the first
moment of Northern ascendency. "We submitted," the North says, "to
Southern Presidents, and Southern statesmen, and Southern councils,
because we obeyed the vote of the people. But as to you - the voice
of the people is nothing in your estimation! At the first moment
in which the popular vote places at Washington a President with
Northern feelings, you rebel. We submitted in your days; and, by
Heaven! you shall submit in ours. We submitted loyally, through
love of the law and the Constitution. You have disregarded the law
and thrown over the Constitution. But you shall be made to submit,
as a child is made to submit to its governor."
It must also be remembered that on commercial questions the North
and the West are divided. The Morrill tariff is as odious to the
West as it is to the South. The South and West are both
agricultural productive regions, desirous of sending cotton and
corn to foreign countries, and of receiving back foreign
manufactures on the best terms.
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