They
Will Tell You Of Domestic Comfort Invaded By Northern Falsehood.
They Will Explain To You How False Has Been
Mrs. Beecher Stowe.
Ladies will fill your ears and your hearts too with tales of the
daily efforts they make
For the comfort of their "people," and of
the ruin to those efforts which arises from the malice of the
abolitionists. To all this you make some answer with your tongue
that is hardly true - for in such a matter courtesy forbids the plain
truth. But your heart within answers truly, "Madam, dear madam,
your sorrow is great; but that sorrow is the necessary result of
your position."
As to those official reasons, in what fewest words I can use I will
endeavor to show that they come to nothing. The tariff - and a
monstrous tariff it then was - was the ground put forward by South
Carolina for secession when General Jackson was President and Mr.
Calhoun was the hero of the South. Calhoun bound himself and his
State to take certain steps toward secession at a certain day if
that tariff were not abolished. The tariff was so absurd that
Jackson and his government were forced to abandon it - would have
abandoned it without any threat from Calhoun; but under that threat
it was necessary that Calhoun should be defied. General Jackson
proposed a compromise tariff, which was odious to Calhoun - not on
its own behalf, for it yielded nearly all that was asked, but as
being subversive of his desire for secession.
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