Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-12-13
From the philadelphia Bulletin.
NORTH and soutl,--Plain Truths in plain English.

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"A truce to sophistry and soft words. The subject
-the discase-needs caustic. We have looked so
long, and heard much upon side, that It's like
lie which often told assumes theshapes OF truth
of words and newspaper bullets is hercely "a
ging between North and South that truth is well
nigh engulphed. Many look upon the South as a
mountain crater. filled with all manner of concelya-
BILE SIM burning and boiling and heaving it to the
surface till nothing can be seen upon it but scum
and corruption and like the dark room, if Illuminated
by the sun, it borrows all its light and redeeming
features from the North. This is fiction men
here preach it and insist upon it and from the i'm
plict confidence have in the sterling, ungullble
good sense of all or form Il 'gOod respect for the
opinions of Others monstrOus errors, at first nsldl-
ously, and then, after hold upon the mind is OBJ
tanned, barefaced falsehoods impudently and
SIMULTANEOUSLY put forth as truths, and their per-
nicous influences allowed full sway till, presently
whole communities surrender dignity, proprlety and
common sense to fanatical influences and follies.
We have held Union meetings! If one of the he
roes of the revolution could rise from his martyr
grave and hear it said that we have held meetings
to sustain the Constitution and government he and
thousands of his companions died to establish, he
would scorn the idea of such necessity And when he
understood that there were, country. enough OF
dwelling fanatics to create such necessity, he
would exclaim q I'll HE me quick to my grave again
Ill not fellow with such, my country tarnlsh-
ed with their polutng breath " Yet such is the case
In the South there great FOOLS in the North there
are greater This bound to say. when the SUBJ
ect is fairly presented Invested of all sectional feel
ings and preiudices And when the country is tot
terng it is not time to mnce words
Years ago some said prophetically, the Adolf
toniss will bring trouble - others said bark to
the croakers and panic makers-never fear" and all
reposed in the confidence that would be base
enough to stab the vitals of Union The idea
was pshaw'd away, while the germ growing :;
but it will take more than breath to topple over
and root up the strong tree. We permitted, and
even nurtured. its growth and now we are frighten-
ed at it's giant proportions But what to be done "
This is to he done. People to be guided more by
truth. If they compare they Will see that we are
equally guilty with if we not more culpable than
the South that large portion of the people OF the
North, under the effect of BIASED judgment, are
now rushing to an extreme, which threatens to tram
pie upon law and the Constitution and that they
have met with too little opposition in their disunion
sentiments and efforts. Some say, who's afraid 9
but their valor runs ahead of discretion No one is
simple hearted enough to quake at the physical force
of the South: that is not the idea; it involves
both moral and physical principles too important and
magnificent to comprehend at glance.
We inveigh against the South, and those who COM
posed the Nashville Convention and to some extent
Justly but is there not beam in own eye g
Were they not peaceable enough before the fanatics
of the North exerted every and artce to send
frebrand and instruction in their land and homes
Have they not been for years insulted beyond all
forbearance; branded as murderers and robbers ,
Have not societies existed for years. holding their
sittngs and conventions in midst and openly adj
vocated extensive and thorough system of steal
ing their property9
| Years ago, when O'Connel in Ireland, stigmati-
zed America as den of robbers and murderers,
it reused the indignation of the whole country; but
soon the notes were caught up by few enthusiast
tic meddlers in the East, and the echoes of these,
with other slanderous epithets, have rung in the
ears of the South to the present moment At first
weak, and apparently insignificant, but now strong
and trumpet tongued aided from the pulpit, the
press. the stump legislative halls, and the o. States
Senate. The few at first excited ridicule ant
contempt but now of political eminence, truck
ling to party dishonesty have joined in the cry am
with hypocritical pharisacal horror hold up thei
hands and say, how much iniquity prevails in tn
South"
The moral right to hold human beings as proper
ty needs discussion. fit wrong, the question
ses whether men can be drtUen to do right, just a
hogs are driven out OF a corn field Or whether
is not better to let the sure work of example and in
terest effect the right The constitutional right
beyond question. The institution of slavery is de
precated by many in the South; but say they
what are to do They are our property, be
queathed to US from generation to generation, an
who is to pay us for it e.
How can we answer these questions No on
proposes to pay them. We are very righteous $
long as pockets are untouched and our virtu
and Indignation very convenient when they cos
nothing; but utterly useless and hypocritical whe
cry unclean,: and clutch our purses still tight
err, when money is the only agent whose power will
remove the evil at once. How many among ar
willing to part with their goods, cattle and lands
to crafty the benevolent and pious ideas of the rant
ing aboltonists of the present day Yet it amount
to the same thing with the South they demand tn
REIMBURSEMENT of their property and pursue then
with the tenacity of bull dogs. and we sit comfcra
bly, in our homes and cry g sic 'em!"
1t is Of the strongest feelings of our nature
defend our property; more instinctively vig
liant in protecting that, than in guarding gu
morals, or our honor. This the student of huma
nature is forced to confess. Yet fanatcial societ
in the North have not only impudently interfere
with the domestic relations of every home in til
South, and goaded their feelings to an nsufferabl
now complain because they will not let them stea
all, or want some back that is already stolen. Til
is about the plain English of the whole matter.
We pay particular attention to the notes of 81 81
cesson" when they from the South, but VIII
have clamored most for dsunion! The shout
mo Union with Slavery" came red hot from tn
threats of the abolitonist before the nullifcato
schemes of Calhoun thought of here The II
o termeddling of school of fanatics in the Nortl
to disturb the peace of North and South, and to ur
turn the federal constitution, than all the sedito,
# ranting of the South, from the brilliant Calhoun
g down to the dullest demagogue there. They bega
treason, they plot it and they avow there sha
be no peace until that hated document is torn
l. er ponder upon consequences, together with man
g over Jealous" people. follow Them and contribu
towards the general distraction.
They could not sting deep enough here, so thu
steamed it across the Atlantic, atd travelled, wi
l their coloured nursing England, Ireland, al
III Scotland. to tell their inhabitants what murdero
re set of villains the Americans are. No place t