Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1893 — The Old Secessionists. [ARTICLE]

The Old Secessionists.

The Knoxville (Tenn .) Republican, aud a stalwart one it is, has the following: “We got a pointer not long since from an old Union Southerner. He said: “The old secessionists in the south have always been freetraders since the war, because they have a friendly feeling toward the free trade England, who was friendly to them during the war. This regard for England out-weighs the consideration of homfe industries, because they, have heretofore been regarded as purely Yankee institutions.