The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-10-12

We have referred the calm and quiet condition of the
southern mind in with the agtaons and fasions
which characterize the pending political contests at the
North 1t not be supposed however, that the South
is calm and quiet because is indifferent spectator oil
the exhibited at the North AT no time have the
people of the South watched with soctude than at
present the probable course of political events southern
men are calm because they are determined TO maintain
their rights but they do not choose to manifest aus' o
their northern brethren in anticipation OF the resu or
which they are looking with much anxiety The iol-
lowing remarks by the Lynchburg Virginian, we hink
may be regarded fair specimen OF the southern mind
in regard to the political aspect of the North
"NonrHEaN ELEcrloss.-The elections now in progress
in the States suggestive of serious reflection to the
people of the South The test is made the Nebraska
bill in all of them. The repeal of that measure the war
cry. Old landmarks being obliterated and everything
made to turn upon issue purely sectional Abolition
fstspersons who failed in either expounding or prac
tiaIae the preceps of the Bibecantng conservas-am
bilious dsmagogues, ever ready to raise whrwhu when
they think themselves capable of riding upon into Office
and every seem combined into hostility to this measure
of Justice to the South The wing party absolutely dsor
and become abotonzed there be any northern
wings opposed to these incendary movements tey preserve
silence which csnnot be justified Even Mard Fillmore
the TYNE with southern wings of never yet
raised his voice against he mad schemes and triumphant
combinations of Seward The aboitlDn element mas oeeh
allowed to control the selection Of candidates ana the or
nation of platforms Fillmore and bis friends, conscious OF
their weakness or perhaps sympathzng fully with his tra
torous fanatc INCREASINGLY permitted Seward to as
ume direction the canvass in New YORK In TACT the
state f the North goes far to induce the belief that
tb organization parties rapidly tending to regular as
"a - - th S,.th II is not ut all improbable that
Tho t Congress will present ~ overwhelming majority OF
northern members pledged to the repea. Oh oie p'
Such fact cannot fail to produce state o. sVe y 80
means favorable to tranquility and peace.
are those who believe that the Union of the States
greater danger than in the struggle of 1880
At that time Webster and Fillmore sustained the Compro-
MISE Webster is in his grave now, and Fillmore, like
Achilles in his tent declines to strike blow for those south
wings whose mistaken idol he is There Dotand we
defy contradiction single northern wing of national
taon seeking moderate the storm of anatcism Everett
upon whose shoulders it thought the mantle of Webster
fall turned handsome penny by publication as his
literary executor went into the Senate deserted the South
and association with Seward spoke and voted against the
Nebraska bill Seward undsputed head of the northern
wing party. He controls its policy and pulls the strings
which the machinery of its organization Fillmore
and his friendsif identified with hmhave at least
uiesced his leadership and assented to his supremacy
From the wg party of the North there cannot consequent
expected the slightest aid in the great struggle coming
Another powerful element eisted against the South is
the religious sentiment Until the agitation of the Nebraska
bill northern preachers kept within the proper sphere of their
holy duties They selected for their from the
Bible and not from sections of laws before Congress- They
preached religion and not politics But the pulpit has
become of the main organs of fanaticsmone of the
through which flows the turbd and poisoned stream
of treason and abolitions These preachers will exert
powerful influence upon public sentiment Many plain and
unthnkng Christian who else wonld have to his grave
loving God and loving his country will be made to believe
that the emancipation of the slave is religious duty and
record his vote with reference the accomplishment of that
mad and impossible object Political abolition is element
difficult to control Religious abolition is powerful force,
whose destructive energy the more dangerous from 'he
sincerity dension Common effort has crushed
the one Nothing less than combined and vigorous resist
ance can control the other