Worcester daily spy., 1854-10-09
South VS., North,

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of school in Jackson, Miss, dropped a letter
into the post Office of that town, upon which he
had forgotten to to put the superscription.
| The Postmaster, instead of sending the letter
to the dead letter office, at Washington, broke
the seal and read it. 1t was discovered to be
from Mr.. Smellee to friend in the North -
and was found tie contain the following "dread-
ful abolition" sentiments:
GA B. talks as if Mississippi is to be his
future home He appears pleased with all
things-Slayery not excepted. In my opinion
he is one of those men Cor going to be) who,
cradled in the land of Liberty. come here to
give up their principles, and become the warm
est apologists and advocates Of the cursed sys-
TEN of Slavery. For Southern men, born and
nurtured in the midst of Slavery, and even
taught to believe it as right, and to ophold it,
l have the deepest sympathies aud respect; -
but for that Northern man, whose education,
conscience, and experience, all teach him bet
ter, and yet who comes here and becomes the
apologist for, and uses his influence in favor
of Slavery, have the most unmitigated con-
tempt. 1t is the basest sacrifice of principle
to selfish ends, and proving recreant to that
which every Northern freeman, especially,
must feel and know is the vitality of our Re-
public-the safeguard to society-the element
of national prosperity,to every institution that
tends to elevate and dignity men.
He who thus acts, with eyes open and
conscience goading him, willingly steps uron
and crushes beneath his feet the poor and
helpless masses, that hemay rise and be lord
| Of the earth. There are thousands of this
very class of Northern men in this country.
| and they have done more to perpetuate Sla-
| han al
| Now, the honorable postmaster, who was
| guilty of the indictable offence of breaking a
sealed letter and of the meanness of prying
into Mr.. Smellee's private correspondence, did
not stop there. He did not seek to conceal
his baseness; or to shun the terror of the
"laa0." He ran to the Mayor of Jackson, as
if the Salvation of the South depended upon
his speed, and dumped the letter right before
that august functionary. The Mayor, being
also an honorable gentleman" according to
the high sense and elevated standard of honor
which prevail in Mississippi was completely
taken aback-not at the postmasters baseness
but at Mr.. Smelee's dreadful sentiments,
and he forthwith rushed to the trustees of the
Jackson Academy, who flew to their commit
tee rooms, and forthwith deposed from his
incumbency the incendiary Mr.. Smellee.-
Then there was mastering, in hot haste, of
rowdy ruffians and bowling dogs and Jack
son, from its centre to its circumference, was
moved; and loud its gallant chivalry did
swear that Mr.. P. Smellee must forthwith re-
move from the State. And the press, that
great engine of light and palladium of lib
erty," came out and pursued with its fiery in
dignation, &C., the daring schoolmaster whom
the chivalry had pursued with their tar kettles
and revolvers. Mr.. Smelle was constrained
to flee from Jackson to save his life.
Now, similar occurrences to the above could
not occur anywhere except in some one of the
Southern States of this confederacy. This
inviolability of a mans private correspondence
is an established. sacred right. which even
despotic governments dare not dispute, and do
not pretend to violate, without skullxing be-
hind some scoundrely pretext Men of honor
shrink from the appearance of even listening
to private conversation, to which they are not
invited to listen but the i" chivalry' of the
South, unaffected by any such delicacy of
feeling, violate the public post Office in order
to steal from a mans private letter his private
opinions; and having done SO, they chase
him, like blood hounds, from their midst
America possesses every variety of climate,
and we must admit that she also possesses
every variety of state intelligence and honor.
The State which has produced the infamous
Judge Sharkey, and which has so persistently
repudiated its honest debts, was not likely to
have any scruples about breaking "a Yam
KEGS" lettersan,d tlen seeking to murder him
on account Of what they contained.
We are continually talking about American
liberty, American freedom of speech, and
American freedom of opinion; but it would
be difficult to find any of these things in Mis-
sssippi. The most rigid ,cruel, ,unrelenting des-
potlsm that ever existed anywhere, exists at
tne South. Czarism, papacy, and that system
OF base political espionage called Foucheism
all combined, could scarcely make up sys-
tenn oil mental, moral, and political oppres-
sion, SO atrocious as that which prevails in
Mississippi. We wonder that rattlesnakes
and alligators consent to remain in the same
region with the men who have authority
there. Those animals are natura, and consis-
tent They sting, bite, and wallow in tho
mud, because instinct impels them to do SO
but the human creatures, who rule Missis-
sippi, appear to be scoundrels and towards
from choice.
The Southern journals describe Mr.. P.