Washington sentinel., 1854-05-09

scorned and trampled upon, as they should be;
If all their overtures were indignantly rejected,
they would soon fall to pieces
In some few congressional districts they out
number the members of either party; and
when such is the case, they invariably run and
elect their own men. The compact organiza-
ton of these people, their enthusiasm, their
energy, and their perseverance, coupled with
the fact that they have alternately acted as
auxiliaries to the other parties, have all tended
to infect numbers Of original northern wings
and democrats with the taint of unsoundness
Not that those latter think them right, but they
have fallen into the habit of acting and frater-
nizing with them.
ltis high time that the sensible men of both
parties at the north, who have suffered them
selves to be managed and deluded by these peo-
pie, should open their eyes. 1t is time that they
should cease to court and caress them. 1t is
time that they should utterly forsake and aban-
don them.
It's well for the peace of the country that
the more prominent of the democratic states
men Of the free States have manfully, bravely,
and nobly yopposed themselves to these nefarious
schemers and theirnefariouss schemes. With few
exceptions, the democratic senators from the
north are as hostile to these people as are the
democratic senators from the south. We sin
cerely hope that the democratic representatives
in the House Of Representatives from the north
will prove themselves as true as faithful, and as
independent when the Nebraska bill comes up.
If they do, and if, when they return home they
shall manfully vindicate their action, then the
death,knell Of factionists, radicals, and aboli-
tionists will be sounded.
The great aim and object of these people is
SO to construe, pervert, and abuse the Consti-
tuition, as to break down the south. They de-
sire to make southern people mere "hewers Of
wood and drawers of water for the northern
people. They hate the south. They find an
institution existing there that their own Sec
ton formerly had, and which the rigor of their
climate made it desirable to get rid Of They
find an institution existing there that their
ancestors founded, fostered, and fixed upon
the south. They have made more by the slave
trade than southern men have made by the in
stitution Of slavery. They find the African in
the south FURNISHED into shining and civil
lied man they find him loving and beloved
by his owner; they find him useful laborer,
in place Of a wretched savage; they find, too,
that they can no longer themselves profit by
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law, and they seek by all the means in
their power to discredit and to abolish the
institution Of slavery. In order to do so, they
endeavor to bring to bear on it distorted texts
of scripture, maudlin sympathy, and overstrain-
ed and stupid considerations of philanthropy.
They forget, or do not choose to remember,
the forlorn, hopeless, and helpless condition of
the free blacks at their own doors. They do
not bear in mind their own cruelty to those
degraded people. They do not remember that
those poor unfortunate beings suffer and starve,
whenever they attempt to compete with white
laborers.
They do not remember that, when sick, they
have no one to take care Of them; nor do
they remember that when the slaves Of the |
south are sick, infrm, and old, they have
kind and sympathizing masters and mistresses
to succor, help, comfort, and maintain them.
How can sensible men, who pretend to respect
the Constitution-who pretend to be Christians,
phianthropists, and patriots-whether they be
wings or democrats, consent to ally themselves
with so reckless and lawless set of fanatics?
Selfish, unprincipled demagogues may do it; but
how men pretending to be good men and states
men can do so, is more than we can compre-
hend.
The south asks nothing of the north but
equality. The Constitution recognises that |
equality. The two sections will be rendered |
happy and harmonious with that equality, and |
unhappy and unharmonious without it. Which |
will the good men of the country choose |
Will they fling away the blessing Of peace and
union to get the curse of discord and disunion? |
For such is the alternative that radicals and |
aboltionists would force on them.