The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-10-20
Southern Sentiment.

against the conduct of the North. 1t is
again beginning TO revive its old charges OF
innovation and encroachment of the North,
accompanied with the usual threats which
have ever been the burthen of its song dur
ing former sectional controversies.
We annex below extracts from several
leading Southern papers, to which we Invite
especial attention. 1t is evident that anoth-
er"slavery agitation" incomprehensibe in
the seriousness ofiis nature, is now impend-
ing the nation, and it becomes all parties of
all sections of the country, to be prepared
to meet il. The threatening sentimen ts ut.
tered blythe Southern press, il they correct.
ly represent the feelings of the Southern
people, are certainly portentious of an agi-
tation which may result in inconceivable
mischief and danger to the harmony and
well-being of the Union. The Baltimore
Patriot has collected the following opinions
CT the Southern press, which it presents in
the language of warning to the North:
We wish TO disabuse the minds both OF
our Northern foes and friends. By doing SO
we may arrest their insane progress TO dis
union; %e may also encourage conservative
Wings to stand fast and prevent the total
decentralization of the party. We add the
evidences of Southern opinion. II our fell
low citizens at the North will proceed to ex.
tremes, it shall not be without having been
duly warned of the condition Of public opn-
ion, and the consequences of their conduct
The following declaration of the Rich M md
Wing, is copied and endorsed BY the Fin
castle Valley Wing, and the Bedford Sem
tinel:
awe for one, shall never be willing to
sacrifice further, one jot or title of the rights
OF the South, for the sake of keeping on
terms with any party; and we are not advis.
ed that we stand alone in this determination.
1t is the sentiment, if we mistake not, of the
the entire Southern Wing party; and we
boldly say it that the Wings of New York
and other Northern States may not be de-
eeIved as to our true position. Union or dis
union, that is the ground upon which we
stand-nOt, indeed, that we love the Union
less. but that We love the South more.
The Danville Register unhestatirgly de.
nounces the Saratoga convention-its orig
inators, and all who gave their sanction to
them, as abolitionists and men who are inim.
ical to the South and the Union. We can
hold no fellowship with any man or set OF
men, who coolly and deliberately give utter
ance to such sentiments as are embodied in
those resolutions.
The Roanoke Republican says of the
Northern Wings:
"We once extended the hands of brothers
to them. We argued and reasoned with
them, and our sympathies mingled with their
misfortunrs; we warned them of the danger
and folly OF interfering with the rights o!
the South-but it has all been vain. We
have Withdrawn our hand and sympathes.-
We have ceased our warning an entreaties
We can no longer worship at the same
shrine.'
The Piedmont Wing says of the New
York Wing nominees:
ga miserable set of Aboitionists, whom
no man can vote for without treason TO the
constitution
We may add to these The Petersburg In.
telligencer, the Raleigh Register, and othe
influential conservative journals.
The North will doubtless listen to the i'm
precautions of their Southern brethren with
as much unconcern as in times past. The
charge of encroachment upon the rights o
the South, will fall harmless at the leet o
an unoffending people, who have neither in
stigated nor perpetrated any wrong agans
tn il restless accusers. If the "pe
culiar institution" of the South has been
threatened by the effects of recent egisla
ton, or by popular demonstrations in the
North, the South is alone the originator o
its pretended cause of complaint, and will be
alone responsible for the consequences
which may flow from it.
The demolition of the Missouri Compro
mise, through the agency of the South, anc
especially for the benefit Of Southern insti
tutions, is the sole cause of the re- opening
of any slavery agitation which may ensue
IT'S this breach of national faith on the
part of Northern and Southern Shareholders
which has produced the existing excitemen
in some parts OF the North, and has led tn,
Northern people TO assert their rights will
energy and decision. TIE North feel, a
they have right to feel, that their rights
have been encroached upon; they feel tina
the great national barrier TO slavery agita
ton has been ru;hlessly disregarded by The
South; that it has filched from it, a large
amount of its free territory without shad
ow or pretext o! right, that the peculiar in
stitution" of the South might be perpetual
ed and extended. The cry of 'siop thie'
from the Southern press, will not divert t.
tention from its own pilierings, nor intimi
date those whose sacred rights have been
tramPled upon. The averment by oa
Southern brethren that they "loue the Soah
more than The Union'i is sad (but we fear
truthfuD commentary upon their boasted pa