The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-01-06
THE ERA AT THE SOUTH.

eve are grateful, very grateful for the man
ner IN which our friends are responding to our
annual circular. Never have we observed
among them so much enthusiasm for the Era
and for the cause it represents. They have
carried our list up to near twenty five thousand
and still they come. Everywhere they are or
ganizing clubs and circulating newspapers"
Thus the National Era, an Abolition paper
published in Washington, d. c., glories over its
success. We have no doubt that one-sixth of
his $4,000 are Southern subscribers not that
they are Abolitionists, but subscribe merely to
get paper published at Washington, and to
see how hts organ talks about the institution
of slavery. The editor, Mr.. Bailey, often al
ludes to the sympathy for his enterprise in the
slaveholdng States, and says he feels encour-
aged by the signs to press forward in the good
cause of ameliorating the condition of the
slaves" This is one of the ablest papers in the
Government and well may he occupy ~ -, 9
of editor, when not only bic r~ y q; Ine North,
| but q large =. NE South, are clubbing to-
getner by hundreds, and ordering, with money
in advance, this chief of AbolitiOnism This
policy is furnishing the axe which is to cleave
your heads and dismember the very cord of a
national existence. The papers of the South
may drag out miserable life, with scarce sup
port, devoted to Southern soil and interests
while those which are its worst enemies grow
fat and powerful through Southern support
Will not men be influenced by interest, if not
by principle, to withdraw their aid from an
avowed enemy? We do not ask you to sub
scribe to Southern papers-they may not be
worth your attention and the erorbitant sub
scription rrice-but we do ask the Southern
man who feels himself identified with the land
that gave him birth and a shelter for his chill
ircn, and which yields him "bread and raj
men )" to see after its protection and internal
strengthened only by withdrawing from these
organs whose objects have already been ac-
complished, particularly in the late Lennon
case, but keep your money here; educate your
children in our own colleges employ teachers
who have been educated with Southern feel
ings upon them to instruct your children and,
above all, help those who are laboring for the
harmony, strength, and perpetuity of your own
"sunny land."-Montgomery (AIa) Times.
We certainly do not desire to interfere with
the circulation of any Southern paper. Our
subscribers in the South, we are sure, are full
able to support their home papers, as well as
to patronize the Era.
The merchants, principally, in New York
have subscribed $1,000 as remuneration
for the judicial robbery perpetrated by Judge
Paine, In the notorious Lennon case Does any
one South believe that these ostensibie sumpa-
thizers were moved with spirit of business and
benevolence, or rather was it not an impulse
sprung by the thought of commercial gain Do
we infer that they looked to any other fact
than that such just indignation would get
hold upon Southern merchants as would drive
them to Charleston or Savannah to trade, in
place of New York? Such would have been
the case, and they, foreseeing this withdrawal
have attempted to repair the injury by the re-
Enumeration of a few thousand dollars
Montgomery (Ald) Times.