The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-10-26

without fear and trembling, and without the
saddest forebodiags for the destiny of the
Union, and that of Republican freedom itself
This is no fancy sketch-no illusion of the i'm
agination-no idle vaticination of an easily
alarmed, timid, or despairing spirit II is re-
aity-stern and appalling reality, and it be-
hooves true men everywhere to eccept it as
such, and prepare to meet it. 1t is for North
ern men, particularly, to recognise the perils Of
the existing emergency, which the fanaticism
OF their own section has 80 foolishly and &c
madly evoked, and it is for them to take the
lead In q common, vigorous, and determined
| eHort TO strip OF their power for harm the des-
perate riDgleaders of faction and of treason
The South will stand where she has ever
seood-as long as she can thus stand without
dishonor-in the vanguard of the defenders Of
the Union. She hiss done nothing to bring
about the present unfortunate condition oil
| things-she has sought to deprive no State or
section of their rights under the Constitution
she has been the aggressor in nothing-she
seeks not war, nor strife nor contention--she
loves peace. but not without justice-and she
loves the Union, but not without full ac-
knowledgment of all her rights, and that OBJ
serVance OF and protection to them which the
Constitution requires at the hands of every
citizen in the land. Though the unoffending
victim of persevering and time-long aggression,
she is yet faithful to the spirit in which our
noble institutions were founded but she will be
ultimately compelled to take her own destiny
into her own hands, unless that aggression
shall cease, of which the signs in the North
leave but faint hope"
Now, ell this sounds very affecting, and poe
sibly may awake a treynor in nervous old fogy-
ism at the North, but the Richmond JVaig is
not half SO desperate rs it seems to be. 1t
does not believe tina. the South is in the slight
est danger from the movements of the North
Or that tho Union is imperilled-or that the
South has any notion Of taking her own desti-
ny in her own hands, Not bit of it. 1t only
means to let off little rhetoric to stir up Ma
tional Whiggery at the North for the great
question with the Wing, now that the Wing
Party is broken up is, "Where shall go?"
To show that the Whig is not in earnest, we
shall quote from another editorial in the same
issue, in which, amusing itself with the extra
zeal of its neighbor, the Enquirer, it vindcates
the North against the fearful imputations
brought against it in tho foregoing extract. II
says that the Enquirer is unjust to Gen. Cass,
little too exacting, and then proceeds:
awe humbly submit that the Enquirer is ex.
acting in the extreme. We submit, further, that
it has lately taken STEP long and fearful
step, backward. 1t has made a fatal admis-
sion--and at time when it cannot fail to ex-
ert a most unfavorable influence upon the
Northern mind In one breath it severely rasps
its Northern allies for expressing the opinion
that slavery is social and politioG evil;' and
in another, it tells them in effect that great
allowances are to be made on account of their
position, and that but little will be required of
them. Simple tolerance of our institutions. This
is oil ne demand' That is tho proclamation
the Enquirer makes to its Northern allies and
it so happens that it was made Just on the eve
of important elections in several of the largest
and most influential States in the Union. II is
likely the elections were not in our neighbours
thoughts at the time he penned those lines: but
the effect will be the same whether they were
or not. And aDe beg Leave to say that the uhole
North aoithout distinction of party, and uith
only here and there an individual exception. can
very properly, and ,cithout outrage to their pre-
JUDGE or convictions, take their stand upo, the
platform uhieh the Enquirer has erected. Simple
t0lerence Of our institutions is achat oil mes. at
the North, not Of the Garrison and Parker school,
ore aD1H1ng TO c0ncede.Y
Ah-you believe, then, that all men at the
North are willing 70 concede to the South
tolerance Of its institutions that is con-
cede that there is no power in the Federal Gov
eminent to interfere with Slavery in the States.
You, Mr.. Wing believe this, and yet in the
same issue announce that there is a general cru
sade of the North against the constitutional
rights of the South that "the whole Northern
sky is black with the surcharged clouds of the
widest fanaticism and treason that &c scsrce.
ly roy Of light or of hope CLEANS up to cheer
the heart of the patriot" sc.
We repeat, these Southern alarrnists do not
believe in their own " alarms" and the People
are beginning to find it out They know that
the Party which is now sweeping over tn, free
States like tempest, meditates no war on the
Constitution On the Uaion, on the Sovereignty
of the States in any section Of the Confedcraoy
but ia simply resolved tina. the Slave Power
shall no longer rule the Federal Government
and the destines of the country: and the sooner
they make up their minds to tell the truth
about it, and quit their absurd and mischiey-
Gus misrepresentation, the better.