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u They had planned for years. England had commis- 

 sioned and fed her Thompsons and other emissaries to 

 scatter the fire-brand of dissension among our people. 

 Sectional strife, hatred and animosity were created, engen- 

 dered and encouraged. Slavery was made the bone of 

 contention, and Northern and Southern ears were rubbed 

 by the emissaries of the gold king, until both factions 

 were wrought to a pitch of wild frenzy. The Bast began 

 to see slavery with new eyes. Its enormous wickedness 

 and ungodly form were magnified with every new rub of 

 the ears. The South was goaded and lashed into fury at 

 the growing anti-slavery sentiment of the East When 

 their ears had been rubbed up to battle pitch, but feared 

 their weakness, the money king's agent, August Belmont, 

 planted himself at the head of the Democratic party, and 

 pledged slavery, a divided North and a Democratic 

 alliance. 



"In the North, the Goddess of Liberty and John 

 Brown were carried to the front to intensify the patriotism 

 of the soldiers of Mammon. The fires of the Revolution 

 were kindled afresh upon the decaying altars of liberty. 

 1 Star Spangled Banner' and 'Hail Columbia' were set to 

 new voices to fire the blood of sons and sires. ' f 



Mothers and wives caught up the refrain and offered 

 up their husbands and sons with the zeal and devotion of 

 Hindoo mothers yielding their offspring to the crocodiles 

 of the Ganges. The best blood and treasure of the South 

 were yielded up. Planters and farmers were badgered into 

 the support of the war through fear of losing their chattels. 

 Laboring men fought to u protect their rights," and even 

 slaves doubled their chains for fear of being captured and 

 eaten up by abolition gorrillas. In the North it was said, 

 that it would be a mere u breakfast spell" to quell the 

 insurrection, while the people of the South were told that 

 one Southern man could "whip five Northern men," and 



