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press, have found It in their way to entel
Southern ports. They have, under the law
been arrested, imprisoned, and detained. Nc
harm yet. Tine North are forbearinp. They
have, with all due Legislative deliberaton, de-.
termined on sending, and have sent, their choice
civilians down 10 those Southern ports, to ties,
these matters in legal way. Their emissaries
have, on arriving at their separate places of des.
tination, and making known their errand, oh.
served indications which were conclusive ia
their minds, that the only chance for personal
safety which remained to them, was to dsap-
pear without pelay. They have been discreet
and all is well. The North are true to their
climate, and to their principles. They never
hight, until they see what they deem worthy
cause for fighting, and we yet enjoy great
repose.
The South have, according to their estimation
OF action required duly lyncbed or committed
to theis pentensiarfes, at! the fanatics which
have appeared among them, whether clerical or
lay, male or female. And through excess of
zeal, some may have suffered who deserved a
better fate. Yet all is tranquil.
One step further in the march of advancement
and that is not unlikely to occur the way
has been duly paved for it ; and have observed
Southern society for twenty years, TO little pur-
pose, if there is not trouble.
Let but one Southern man be convicted on
Northern soil, on negro testimony, or be tried
by jury with but one colored man on it, and
not more certainly does the leafing of the fig
tree Indicate, that d" summer is now nigh at
hand; )" than does this event indicate, that the
end of this Union, with all its goodness, and
with all its blood-consecrated associations " is
nigh, even at the doors" Let but such an
event happen, and the match is applied
to the train The Declaration of indie
pendence,' as now held and construed in the
North, has worked out its inevitable Effects
Tampering with social systems, here, as in
France, has wrought to definite end And as
Governor Hammond. in his letter to Clarkson,
expresses it. "another cycle Of blood and de-
vastatIon has dawned upon the world"
The South vouchsaies no reply to anything
which rests upon negro testimony, because they
regard the needing OF it as beneath all contempt.
They are not aware that it has any weight with
any at the North, who regard themselves as of
consequence enough to be worthy Of being des-
pissed.
Southern people as instinctively take it for
granted that their Northern friends know that
Negroes testimony is rot to be relied upon, as
the Northern people do that the negro is poor
unfortunate oppressed being that has been UNI
warrantably seized upon, and degraded from the
high estate of intellect and mental aspiration
to the level of slave, and that he needs nothing
but to have the despotsm of his master broken,
IN order to his rising buoyartly and at once, to
a level with themselves. Sir, agree with you,
that it would have an excellent effect, if South
ern gentlemen could address assemblies OF the
Northern people, on the subject OF slavery.
trust that from my general remarks on Northern
and on Southern society, much of the embar-
rassment which lies in the way of the attain
ment of so desirable an object, has presented
itself to your mind, The difficulty may be &C.
neraly stated by saying of both the Southerner
and the Northerner, M, each r. a man Of but
one climate and community, and that of diff
ierent one from the other. As well might
tailor attempt to cut broadcoth with but one side
OF pair of shears, as for either Of these men
successfully to address the citizens of the OPP
posite community, upon subject that so deep
~ involves their distinctive peculiarties, as that
of slavery,
Whatever rough discussion may come from
a Southcrner on the floor of Congress. where he
acts in his representative capacity, think you
will agree with me in saying that he is aifabie,
courteous, and conciating, wherever else You
meet with him. If we could be prevailed on to
waive the strong position in which he is now in
trenched namely that if slavery is not proper
subject for discussion, and that he will defend 1t
to the death on his own soil, and nowhere else :
if he could. from motives o. patriotism, to which
he is ever feengly alive, be induced TO go to the
north and address the people, he would take all
his habitual consciousness of becoming dcport-
ment along with him, and that would lead hun
to defer to the Northern people, while he was
their guest. He would be forbidden by the law
to which he conforms, and loves, and prides him
self on TO saw any thing uncompllmehtary to the
people in public address. lie could therefore
say nothing on slavery Foras he naturally
Judges others by himself, and other communl-
ties by his own, he cannot conceive OF the idea
that he NAV browbeat the Northern people on
their own soil and that they will love and respect
him the more for it. He knows that such dea-
ling would not be kindly taken IN his own com,
munity, and therefore he will not do as he would
not be done by? Would to God, he could per-
ceive that forbearance in the Northern people is
a virtue, and not an evidence of doughiacedness
Would to God, that the patriotic pledge which
YOU uttered. coula have fellen with all its telling
influence on the South :; and that those who
read il, could have understood how much it
meant, and that the South could appreciate that
trait in the Representation and in the Consti-
tuency of the North, that renders it certain that
your pledge would be literally fulfilled, and that
not only is the blood Of the New-Engand dele
CATION pledged for the defence of Southern free
men and gentlemen, on New-England soil, but
that all the blood of New-England is so pledged
For what pnrpose,' would the yeomanry of
ewEngland say tos Southern gentleman Tor
what purpose. suppose YOU, did our fathers fight
at Lexington and Bunker Hill, but to make New
England place where YOU may say Just what
YOU please so YOU don't break any OF the laws p
The peculiar way in which devotion to liberty
shows itself in New-England. can never, fear,
be comprehended in the South, except as per-
feet idiosyncrasy.
A Southerner could not honor New-England
pride more, than by committing himself to their
keeping, unarmed and alone, while he uttered
the most hardmouthed rebukes, which his honest
convictions of truth would dictate. Nothing
would give the New-England people greater
pleasure, than an opportunity thus to exemplify
their devout attachment to liberty. Sir, a smile
must needs play upon your countenance, when
YOU learn from Governor Hammond's letter to
Clarkson, that, in South Carolina, small guards
in our cities, and occasional patrols in the coun-
try, ensure US repose and security known no.
where else"
Gould Governor Hammond any where sleep
sweeter or safer than he might in Vermont, i'm
after he had told the assembled free
men of that State. Just what he thought of them
and in the most undisguised manner the worst
he thought of them ?
One OF the first arguments which an indivi-
lual SoutheIner would be likely to use with an
individual Northerner, as he views the matter OF
slavery, would be, that interference on the part
Of the North is breach of etiquette which the
inhabitants of the several States ought to observe
towards each other, and that It is fitted to