Children's stories of American progress . hat it finally seemed thatthey no longer belonged to one race and onecountry, and they grew to look upon one an-other as they would look upon foreigners,almost forgetting that North and South hadalike borne the dangers and glory of the Revolu-tion, and that North Carolina and Massachu-setts, New York and Virginia, had more thanonce joined hands and fought bravely under thestars and stripes, proving to the whole worldwhat great things a young and feeble nationmight do when united in the bonds of brother-hood and love. There were other reasons than slave
Children's stories of American progress . hat it finally seemed thatthey no longer belonged to one race and onecountry, and they grew to look upon one an-other as they would look upon foreigners,almost forgetting that North and South hadalike borne the dangers and glory of the Revolu-tion, and that North Carolina and Massachu-setts, New York and Virginia, had more thanonce joined hands and fought bravely under thestars and stripes, proving to the whole worldwhat great things a young and feeble nationmight do when united in the bonds of brother-hood and love. There were other reasons than slavery toaccount for the bad feeling that grew up be-tween the two regions ; the principal one beingthe different way in which they both lookedupon the rights of the Republic. The North regarded every State, no matterhow powerful, as only a small part of the na-tion, and subject to the laws of the GeneralGovernment; while the South, on the contrary,declared that every State had a right to decidefor itself in all matters, and that if Congress. A TRUCK BKTWKKN PICKETS. THE REBELLION. 301 passed any law that might displease the peopleof one State, no matter how beneficial the lawmight be to the nation at large, that State had aperfect right to object and leave the Union andform a separate government, either alone by it-self, or with other States that might sympathizewith it. This was the doctrine of States rights,which the South cherished more dearly thananything else in the world, quite forgettingthat the early days of the Revolution had shownthe colonies that they possessed no strengthexcept in union, and that North and South alikehad tried in vain to obtain recognition in Europeuntil they joined together and formed one na-tion. Another cause was the great difference inthe habits of the two sections. In the Northevery laboring man could vote for or againstany law which Congress wished to pass, andthis gave every man the feeling that he was apart of the nation, and that its interests
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