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power of man to create by oath or mandate property i»i a slave — a revolutionary idea striking to. the root and to, the subversion of the fundamental law which Washington, Adams. Franklin, Hamilton, Madison, and their compeers had joined in making, and under which the United States had fought its battle and attained its wonderful growth for three-quarters of a century.

THE NORTHERN GIANT — FREE WHITE LABOR.

" The Impending Crisis," Helper's book, appeared, and, endorsed by sixty-eight abolition members of Congress, went far and wide. The spirit of the times is indicated in its doctrines. ** Never another vote for a slavery advocate ; no co operation with slavery in politics ; no fellowship in religion ; no affiliation in society ; no patronage to pro-slavery merchants ; no guestship in a slave-waiting hotel ; no fee to a pro-slavery lawyer ; none to a pro -slavery physician; no audi- ence to a pro-slavery parson ; no subscription to a pro slavery news- paper ; no hiring of a slave ; but the utmost encouragement of Free White Labor,'' ** Free White Labor ! ** This was the Northern giant that stalked into the field.

the SOUTHERN REVOLUTION.

Meantime the Northern revolution against the Constitution was being combatted by the rise of the Southern revolution looking to withdrawal from the Union whose Constitution was unacceptable to the Northern people.

But it was not hatred to Union or love of slavery that inspired the South, nor love of the negro that inspired the North. Profounder thoughts and interests lay beneath these currents. The rivalry of cheap negro labor, aversion to the negro and to slavery alike, were the spurs of Northern action ; that of the South was race integrity. Free White Dominion ! The Southern giant rose and faced its foe.

the south stands for race integrity.

The instinct of race integrity is the most glorious, as it is the pre- dominant characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race, and the sections have it in common. Fiercely did it sweep the red men before it ; swiftly did it brush away the Chinese in the West and North, burn- ing their homes, cutting their throats when they pressed too hard in rivalry, and then breaking treaties to hurl them back across the

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