Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-05-18
Consider what You do.

~ !''oN VIC pI's d.
scrIlng popular sovereignty, and tie
equal rights Of the States, known
as the Nebraska bill, we ask them
10 read and calmly consider the fol-
lowing article from the Nashville
Wing, especially the Concluding
paragra phs. That which is ncedful
10 be do ne, should be accomplished
when we have friends u help us,
as we cannot Go il ourselves:
"DoN'r OFFEND TnEE NoRrnn'
Such is The import u much that
is said in opposition to Illq Nebraska
bill and the repeal of thb Missouri:
compromise. What doe it mean?
Does il mean, don't Offend Tic frca>
soil and abolition sentiment Of the
North: / II II does, we r. ankly con-
fess we have no paIience with it
When did ireesollels and abolition
ists cease 10 assail tile Sohth. at
every opportunity The very ex-
istence of Southern institutions .oC.
tends them grievously, and either
with or without PROPAGATION they
are ready TO hew down Southern
rights and Southern Interests. al all
points and at ell times, to Tile Ut
most Of their ability.
Why, then, should'Ihe South seek
10 cos1iliate The free soz North
As well strive TO COZ ciliate the adj
der in your bosom. Whenever they
have Pomcr and opPoIi tuajty they " IL
strike with poisonous m alisnllY 10
her very vltals, in all the future as
they have done III all tho past
! " hen was irecsoillsm known 10
yield Southern right until wrested
from it .ty tie 1,ouer of lie South.
and her faiiilful cons, rvaiivo friends
"t The North. Nevcf! Every inch
4 Of foolhold compromised away IN
defer cnco to this spifit Of fanatical
and d aggressive cncroachmcnt, is as
pearls throw d 10 wine. The only
way TO cope with this spirit Of in-
'cen.linry mis- chief, is 10 fight il inch
by inch at all points, aud -neve,.
tompronise Or yield an inch OF con-
servalise.grorInd 4 prime induce
neni with Us, aud prime argu-
Tnent used 10y Us, in advocating The
compromise of 1880, was that the
tloctrine Of non-inIerveniion The rein
embraced might lie made nalipnaI
ioclrine--as the Nebraska bill pre-
4 poses.
u. Frec-soilers and abolitionists new
Or have foreborae, and never will
ipi bear TO assaiI Sou thern rights ana
Interests, aud their pretenco that
ihd repeal Of the Missouri conpro-
mise would create such excitement
~ the North as TO dndaRger. other
Southern Interests Of the hand Of
Congress, IS mere feather and pru-
ilciia; sentimental pretehc mere.
y 70 answer their present purpose
If soaring the south, If possible
trfe-soilcrs AND IabolltlonistS would
raise a storm in i teapot, no doubt,
and IN many localities at the North
misht give the elections at the polls
70 whichever patty they might think
pro ,'er 10 combine with for the
tim {. But the excitement, confn-
ID, as il would be, mainly to the
ranks Of frees pilism in some one or
another OF lis phases, aud identified
as ii would be with odious agitators
as lis leading active opponents in
most cases, and above all, having
no just aud reasonable ground to
stand upon, would soon die away,
and the country would settle dow d
INTO its wonted condition of peace
anu quiet, scarcely conscious that
it. had been ioslled from che even
tenor Of lis way.1
But, we shPuH beware how wei
oflfnd--how we cripple and de-
strpy, conservative national men al |
The North, who tender US their sup.
port against the unlighteous fanat-
lclsm oi their owil section, for the |
repeal of a great national wrong 10 |
The South, a misnamtd 'Compro-
Mise which the South accepted asl
a dernier resort at the time--as q |
choice of half a'loal instead Of no
brcad'-Which violated the express
of a solemn treaty Of
the United States with France, o ld {
is SO iniqnliously unjust in principle
and 10 Southern Constitutional right
that lapse ofyears can never sane
tify il. Let the South take dare plI,
such Northern friends as these, in
stan ding by them, accepting theirI
nafrioiic oteriures. and IrecoUnizino