The true Democrat., 1854-04-25
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 think this sufficient reply to the reverend gentleman's interrogatory. He says: "See the venerable MT. Hoar mobbed in Charleston. For such an insult South Carolina never made an apology" No, sir no; nor will she ever. The State that produces such men as the "Hero of New Orleans" Calhoun, McDufe-aye, and may say Butler-never has nor never will pro- duce sons to apologize to traitor-a traitor to his country and his God.
 have assumed the responsibility of answer ing for the South. It is the land of my birth the home of my childhood. love her sons and daughters, her institutions, and her "sunny cllme." The ashes of those who gave me being repose in peace and silence in her soil. love and cherish her. As the mother loves and che rishes her first-born, so love my native land.
 "Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
 Who never to himself hath said,
 This Is my own, my native land?''
 The pebbled brook, the clustered vine, the mellow fruits the waving fields, the garden walks, the majestic oak, and the "old planta- tion," are yet dear to me.
 While in my childhood, became an adopt ed daughter of new but growing State in the West; with her growth have grown. Herin- stitutions, her sons and her daughters, may have equal, but they acknowledge no superiors. They are as liberal, high minded, noble, and in- telligent as any on earth, and I am proud of her as my adopted State and the birthplace of my son, and from her have imbibed no senti- ment Or feeling incompatible with pure love and reverence for the whole Union.
 1 will state, for the information of the rever- end gentleman, that some of the Senators whom he chooses to denounce publicly as traitors, voted for a bill, few days after the passage of the Nebraska bill, which will prove of immense benefit to himself and his northern fanatical brethren. It is an appropriation of public land forthe establishment of insane asy- lums. have no doubt some of the Senators were induced to support the bill with special reference to himself and the insanity of others which may be superinduced by his hypocrtical onslaught upon the Nebraska bill.
 According to the statistics shown by an hono- rable Senator when this bill was under discus sion, think the North will be much benefited by the appropriation. The statistics show the number in the North of this unfortunate class (the insane) to be much greater in propotion to the population than in the South and West. This state of facts can be truly ascribed to the fanatical teachings of such reverend gentleman as Mir. B. If the South had not given her aid, the fanatics of the North would not have been thus benefited, and the bill would have been lost.
 The reverend gentleman says "that IS just the spirit (meaning the spirit which refused to apologize to the North) that will force Nebras- ka upon the Union, as purposed by Mir. Doug las; and when she has come in as sister State, her jewels will be dragons teeth, and as they drop from the string on which they hang, for every tooth there will spring up an armed man.'
 If the imaginary army which the reverend gentleman has here raised exists, except in his own brain, it must be composed of such fana- ticts as himself, political divines of the North, spirit rappers and strong minded women. Per- haps this army would be mustered into service by the Rev. Theodore Parker, and governed by his articles of faith as their articles of war, in- scrbed upon their banners, which are as fol- lows: "I do not believe there was ever mira cle or ever will be; everywhere find law the constant mode of operation of the infinite God. do not believe in the miraculous inspi- ration of the Old Testament or the New ~Tes- lament. do not believe that the Old Testa- LIeilG WdS OOO IuSU WOIh, uOI Uuc ANcW l oSld- ment his last. The Scriptures are no fnality to me. Inspiration is perpetual fact. do not believe the mirculous origin of the Hebrew church, or the Christian church; nor the mira culous character of Jesus. take not the Bible for my master, nor yet the church; nor even Jesus of Nazereth for my master. feel not at all bound to believe what the church says is true, nor what any writer in the Old or New Testament declares true; and I am ready to believe that Jesus taught, as think, eternal torment the existence of devil, and that he himself should ere long come back in the clouds os heaven. I donot accept these things on his authority. Itry all things by the human faculties''
 Opposed to an army of such discordant ele- ments, with such articles of war, would be the lovers of our country-those who obey her laws-those who are patriots and true Chris tans at heart, and whose evrey fibre of the soul is interwoven with the institutions of their country. Who can doubt but that the result of this conflict would be the overthrow of this incongruous army, and perhaps be the means to once more restore these miserable fanatics to reason and common sense?
 A. P. PETIT.
 To Mrs. HARRIET BEEcHER STowE