Washington telegraph., 1854-10-25
NortI, and South.

between slavery and anti-slavery-is be-
coming every day more strongly marked.
/ This distinction would not exist if each
norton of the country devoted its capaci-
ties and energies to the promotion of Its
own interests. We are proud to say that
the South has never violated this whole
some rule of action. The North and South
differ, in many respects on account OF
their peculiarities of education, religion,
and State Government but the South has
never assailed the North in these particu-
lars-has never denounced the non-exlst-
ence of slavery there, or attempted, IN
anv way, to induce or force its people to
adopt it. The course of the South has
been forbearing and magnanimous, as if
she prided in our National Union, and
scorned to do anything which would tend
to weaken or sunder it. The memory Of
other days, when North and South were
banded together fer Freedom, and when
no Earrings were permitted TO weaken the
ties which bound them, or darken the
prospects Of that holy cause, has been
cherished by the South, and reluctantly
and painfully, step by step, has she been
( forced to the conclusion that the North,
regardless of the memories and endear-
ments which should hallow cur Union. is
opposed to cur interests, and has determ-
! ined on a crusade against them.
We know there are hundreds of patri-
otic citizens at the North who deprecate
as much as we do the fanatical spirit
which is gradually alternating our kind
feelings and arousing our antpathies, and
who deeply deplore the course of the abo-
| litionists and higher-law factionists against
the South; but it cannot be denied that
the general sentiment of ;he North is
50 strongly set against slavery as to be a
controlling influence in elections, and dan
gerous to the interests Of the South The
comparatively few, Of right hearts and
sound judgments, who would rebuke and
subdue this irsolent and aggressive spirit,
are powerless before the rancorous gust of
popular prejudice, and must submit with
out murmur, or be denounced as trail
torsl
Traitors indeed Patriotism glories in
such treason. Is it treason to respect the
memory of the noble men who achiev-
ed our independence Is it treason to re-
spect the Constitution of the United States,
and to regard its violation as a stab st our
National Union, and an insult to the men,
cry of the dead patriots who framed it
Is it treason not to denounce slavery, al
though that denunciation may injure a por-
ton of our confederacy, and eventually dis
solve our Union ? Has the very idea of
sustaining The Union become to be treason
A wrong feeling exists at the North, in
relation to National obligations and duties,
and the great men who most deplored its
existence, and who exerted their great
minds to arrest it, have been called from
the scene OF action, and the roar Of the
unnatural clements was, perhaps, the only
sound which saddencd their departing mo-
ments Other statesmen have succeeded
them, who. alt hough less talented, may lift
their voices for the right, and do what they
can to check the demon Of fanaticism, and
if aided by the rght-minded citizens of the
North, their efforts will prove successful
If these withhold their aid and tamely OIL
carelessly yield to this unhal!owed spirit o
aggression on the South, the unrebuked
monster will become still more formidable
and dangerous. If soher-minded intell
gent citizens at the North would exer
their influence with fearlessneSs and ener
gy, it would do more than anything else II
crush the dark iSnaS of that region, anC
bring back their erring votaries to proper
sense of their duties as republican citizens