The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-08-25
sECTIONALISM.

One Of the principal charges brought against
the Independent Democracy is that Of encour-
aging sectional spirit and of seeking to en-
bitter the people Of the North against those of
the South. Nothing can be farther from the
truth. The friends of Freedom, in seeking the
enfranchisement of Humanity from bondage.
aud the elevation Of Man, labor not only for
the permanent interest Of the Northern people,
but also for that of the Southern Our country
is one. We ali love her, and seek her pros
perity and happiness; and it is because we love,
her and hope to promote her prosperity, that
we speak Of evils whose continuance would
check her onward march among the brother
hood Of nations. The charge of Sectionalsm
is therefore unfounded and unjust We OBJ
serve some excellent remarks on this topic in
the Rhode Island Freeman, which we commend
to attention
1.-THE South as well as the North, is our
country Its honor, Its prosperity its intelli-
gence, its virtue, are the common property of
the nation; and the disgrace and Odum of
Southern injustice, wrongs, and crimes, are
likewise shared in by the whole country. As
we are one family-one people-the stigma
which rests on any particular section impairs
the integrity and reputation of the whole. IL
one OF the members suffer, all the members
suffer with it, This is true, socially and DO
litically, as well Us physiologcally and reli-
giously. The South, blind to It's highest inter
ests and greatest good, is rushing headlong to
destruction, having neither the intelligence nor
III r
On the wisdom and intelligence Of the North
depends the South's salvation"
A fit commentary on the charge of Section
alism by Southern men, and those who sustain
them, against the independent Democracy, is
the resolution of the Wing State Convention of
Alabama, that they will oppose the annexation
of additional territory to the United States,
"unless the equal rights of the South Slavery p
be expressly guaranteed by the articles of the
cesson" Is that national!
HEAT IN New YoRK.-The deaths from
heat in New York. during the past week, have
been quite numerous. On Tuesday there were
more than one hundred bodies in the dead
in a communication addressed to the board OF
Ten Governors by Mr.. DAILY warden of the
Bellevue Hospital, who stated that, during
the I4th and 18th instant there had been
as many as fifty bodies exposed in and about
the place The house could only contain
about half the number, and the remainder
were exposed to the sun The friends OF
many of the deceased having required to see
the bodies the hospital men were obliged to
be continually moving them. The floor of the
desd-house was covered with decomposed mat.
ter an inch thick while outside, bodies were
piled six or seven high. The recent change
in the weather hos operated favorably, and
deaths from heat have ceased.
THE YELLOW FEVER at New Orleans con.
tinues to rage with undated vrulence. On
the 18th, the number of deaths from fever was
1877; on the 10th, 2O6 the forty eight hours
ending on the morning Of the 18th, 4l0, inclu-
ding 500 by yellow fever; on the 18th, PAP, in
GLIDING 2s7 from yellow fever The total for
the week sums up 1882, of which 1861 were
from the fever
The Howard Association during the last four
weeks have ministered to the wants of 1900
unfortunates, and they expect soon to have un.
der their care 1000 at cost of SO each
They earnestly appeal to the citizens of the
North, and the friends of humanity every
where, for aid.
Business is reported rs almost at stand. |,
was matter of difficulty TO find workmen To
dig the graves and i25 bodies were burned fo
| want of places of interment. n