The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-09-20

since the public were warned Of the aboli-
ton tendencies of Harper's Magazine, SC
clearly eyinced in the August number in AZ
article entitled Union Saving" 1t was ear
nestly urged upon the people of the South
amongst whom this periodical circulated ex-
tensively, to beware of the political character
which it was assuming, and to guard against
the abolition opinions and sentiments which
it was endeavoring to disseminate.
| The public mind had scarcely recovered
from the surprise Of the attack, coming as il
did from quarter wholly unexpected, before
another terrible onslaught is smade through an
other popular periodical, devoted to "Litera-
ture and art" upon the South generally and
the Southern democracy especially. The
leading article in Putnam's Magazine for this
month, is headed "Our Parties and Politics.
and its spirit is as bitter, and its tone as vio-
lent, as could we'll be conceived.
The immense popularity Of this Magazine
gives to its articles an Importance and consid-
Grafton beyond the ordinary partizan prints
of the times and its position as a family
Magazine gains for it access tomany individ-
ais and especially to young minds, on which
impressions are more easily made, and whose
feelings aud opinions are more susceptible. OF
bias and prejudice.
In view then of these facts it is incumbent
upon all true friends Of liberty and the con
stitution to rally into firm resolve to resist
any further encroachInents upon our rights,
to prevent all honorable means the circulation
of such nischievous documents as the one in
question. The design is palpable, and it be
,comes US to thwart It if we can.
Some idea of Mr.. Putnam's position may
be gathered from the following extract which
we make from theofensiye article:
We have dwelt upon the proceedings OF
the pro slavery party SO long, that We have
left ourselves little space for urging upon 9th
er parties their duties in the crisis. But we
will not speak to them as parties. We will
say to them as Americans, as fieemen, as
Christians, that the time has arrived when all
divisions and aniInosities should be laid aside,
in order to rescue this great, this beautiful,
| this glorious land from hateful domination.
| As 1t now is. no man who expresses, however
moderately, q free opinion Of the slave system
ofsthe South, is allowed to hold any Office OF
| profit or trust, under the general government.
| No man can be President, no man a foreign
minister, no man a tide waiter, even, or the
rneanest acullion in the federal kitchen, who
has not first bowed down and eaten the DIRT
| of adherence to slavery. Oh /! shameless de-
baselnent--that under a Union formed for
the Embellishments of liberty and iusticc,s-s
der q Union born of the agonies and cemen
ted by the blood Of our parents-a Union
whose mission it was to set an example of re-
publican freedom, and commend it to the
painting nations Of the world-we freemen
of the United States should be suffocated BY
politicians into a silent acquiescence with
despotisrn! That we shoull not dare to utter
the words or breathe the aspirations of our
fathers, or propagate their principles, on pain
Of ostracism and political death just Heav-
Ienl into what depths Of infamy and insensi-
bility have we fallenl
We repeat, that until the sentiment oi
slayery is driven back to its original bounds,
to the States to which itlegitimately belongs
the people of the North are vassals. Yet
their emancipation is practicable # not easy.
They have only to eviace determination to
be free, and they ere free. They are to dis
card all past alliances, to put aside all pres
ent fears, to dread no future coalitions, IN the
single hope of carrying to speedy victory a
banner inscribed with these devices: THE
REPEAL OF THE FUoIT1vE SLAVE LAw-THE
RESTORATION OF THE Missouri CoMPRoNIsE
No MO SLAVE STATES No MORE SLAVE
TERR1roRIEs- HOMESTEAD FOR FREE
MEE ON THE PUBLIC LANDS"
Louisville journal against the Know Moth.