The State guard., 1848-05-30
Trcachery totl,e Souih.

ceive9 information of the ratification O the treaty."
 Trcac chery tO tie South.
 Can any citizen of the South read the letter below, without shuddering at it's basencss, and its willtul and downright lying? By such falsehoods as these is the abolition fever of New England blown into a blaze. When such false misrepresentations are made, they use it for capital among themselves, represent ing that slavery is not so much favored where it exists after all. We dare say there arc some among us who, if they were not fearful of that melodious tune ol 'sotng on a rail-" would avow opinions, Gas this letter proyes) in favor of the ex- tinction of slavery. But we will venture to say that no man, inmaterial from what section of the world he may be from, can witness the operations of the institution of slavery, for any length of time, without saying that that institution has been Q blessing to the American people. This letter is dated at town in Alabama, and written to an abolition paper in N. York. We will not attempt relutation, but give the main extract, so every one can place their own estimation as to its correctness and justness.
 "In the southern and Western slave states, oppo sitioa to the free territory prin. ciple is active exclusively among the owners of slaves. Now, leaving out the blacks, and the most ignorant portion ol the whites, and estimating what answers to your Northern respectable society," these shareholders make perhaps one- twentieth of the population, the rest are professional men, merchants, traders, me- chanics, small farmers, and those follow ing miscellaneous avocations. The other ninteen.twcnticths of the ''respectable" whites, not shareholders, though they are passive in this discussion of the free ter ritory principle, arc not opposed to that principle. Some of them are in favor oI the principle, others are indifferent; others know little about it; none have any mo- tive to stem the voice of the shareholders, who, at public gatherings falsely assume to put forward their views as the senti- ments of the South.
 ''It is time this error should be correc- ted. Of the thousands of intelligent me- chanics at the South, who are compelled to work side by side with black slave me- chanics, lawyers, physicians, teachers, edi- tors, and many of the merchants, are from the North, and of course they are by edu- cation opposed to slavery; their tone and opinions are gradually spreading in the South. Other classes are from custom, enemies to ''niggars, but, having no in terest one way or the other, don't bother their heads about it. In the midst of this state of things the twentieth, the slave owners, step forward and cooly put for ward their opinions as the determined sentiment of the south. This is unblush. ing eff ontery, to say the least.
 ''Let the New York Radicals rest assur. ed that if the Wilmot Proviso principle should be passed by Congress to morrow there would be not the least shadow O dsaflection in any Southern State nol would the white people feel that any con sttutonal or moral right of theirs hat been iniringcd. Candid southerner: know and admit this.
 Singular as it may seem to some per sons, the .Barnburners " of New Yorl occupy much higher position in South ern estimation than the "Old Hunkers. , You must yourself have observed the su perciliousness, and thinly yelled contemp of the most high toned Southern papers towards the Conservative lactiSn in the North. On the other hand, while a DOT ton of the South-thc save-owners-bit terly complain of the New York Radi calls, on one point only, they give them tht credit of being, on all points, open, honor able, sincere, and talented in argument
 1.-The "Old Hunkers' carry their charac , ters in their conduct; and he must have poor vision, who cannot see through them ' Traitors to the North, and to its free labor ! ing classes-m making politics a mere l game, where the people are kept in har f mony, not only for the purpose of voting greedy men into fat oflices-totally de void of any generous appreciation of thos' noble elements of politics that involv, the good of man-iawners to power--,ls g ing the morfcy they have gained from thu l people to destroy the integrity of popula l. will in almost every point of view, vile selfish and treacherous--this wicked littl, faction deserves to stand among parties 5 as the traitor Arnold stood among his tel . low officers of our revolutionary war.
 Louisiana Republican,
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