Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-08-25
Exaggerated Peril.

Exaggerated Peril.
Under this head, the New York Mirror, o
sound conservative journal, takes issue with
Senator Benjamins views expressed in his re-
cent letter. We copy portion of the Mirrors
article, and may add that we have not yet seen
single Northern sheet, even of those most
friendly to the South, that does not repudiate
Mr.. Benjamin's allegations against the North
and denounce his disunion tendencies:
What we regard as uncaed for in this letter,
is the sweeping charge of fanatlclsm made
! against the North 1t is false and ungene-
rous charge-only proper to be made by dema-
gogues or fanatics, as Garrison and Fred
Douglas charge the whole South with being
God-forsaken pirates and robbers. We venture
to say that, in spite of the provocation to agi-
tate given by the consent of the South to the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and the
! passage of the Nebraska bill-two acts most
disastrous to the South, morally and politically
there is not one vote armed citizen out OF
every ten in the North, who would go with any
party that proposed to crusade against slavery,
| wherever it is guaranteed by the Constitution
or by reasonable boundaries. 1t is great
mistake to suppose aboitionists of the Garrison
| or even Oh inc CuaSt duu HuSOu oAOCA, oAo
predominant in the North.
The mass of the people here have been for
years sick and tired of fanatical agitation on
this subject, and the agitation would have been
dead and buried long ago-as long ago at least
as 1850, if designing politicians, North and
South, and quite as much South as North, had
not kept re-opening the bitter issue as often as
the people closed it up. 1t may be very easy
thing to talk about dissolving this Union, but
when the deed is actually attempted, Congress,
with all the politicians at its back, will fail to
consummate so fatal and infamous deed. The
people are strong enough and loyal enough to
maintain the Union-and they will maintain it,
until some better reason offers for its dissolu-
ton than has yet appeared. Even MIR. Seward
has been so tempered by time and experience,
that he could say in one of his latest speeches
in the Senate that the Union was worth more
than the emancipation of all the slaves that
exist, or are likely ever to exist in it. Politi-
cal common sense teaches this, and it is a libel
on the intelligence and patriotism of the Amerl-
can people to suppose them capable of e1chang-
ing this glorious Union for broken confede-
racy, in which slavery would continue to exist.
1t is just such arguments and platforms,
adopted North or South as Mr. Benjamin ad-
vocates, that most foster disunion spirit, and
facilitate the very evil the Senator deprecates.
The union of the South on sectional platform,
under the pressure of such false and calum-
NOUS appeals, would be the thing most likely
to unite the North as q section, and SO vsce
versa All such organization ought to be
frowned upon. There are set here in the
North who 20 for Northern sectional party,
but they are, and we trust ever well be in
minority, and we hope the same of Senator
Beniamin's party. We have come to pretty
pass if, after the lapse of only three quarters of
a century since our fathers founded the Re-
public, and cemented it with their blood, we
twenty millions of free men-cannot little
longer maintain the Union and institutions
under which we have grown and prospered
beyond all national example, and which, alone,
whether slavery exists and spreads or not, can
perpetuate our glory.
The unwise part of Mr.. Benjamin's letter is
his exaggeration, which it strikes US must be
wilful, else he is wofully deficient in correct
knowledge and judgment-of the peril of the
Union. No doubt the Kansas business will be
a disturbing theme of discussion in the next
Congress, and the Buncombes may as well blow
off steam on this as any other topic, but
that the representatives of the free States are
going to rush the Union to the wall, and pin it
there for dissolution, would argue that there
are more representatives fools and madmen in
the North then we have ever credited our sec
ton with. Besides, this lacking disunion upon
the appropriation bills, and thus putting it
through or cutting off the provender, will be
two edged sword operation, and Freesoiers
love provender as well as any other donkeys
We have no idea that the Nebraska bill will
be repealed. 1t cannot be, without robbing the
entire settlers Of the territory of vested rights,
which Congress has no power to do. The bill
was a deliberate act, and such inducements
have followed as must sustain the act, in spite
of its badness The question will be got over
long way short of revolutionizing the govern
ment, or dissolving the Union. Demagogues
may blow, and "galied jades be made to
vince, but Congress will not dissolve the Union
because the people don't want, and wont have
it dissolved. They have got ages of splendid
use for it yet, and long after our mortality and
Senator Benjamin's is clothed in immortality,
| the American people will continue to maintain
and glorify the Union.
We would advise the Louisiana Senator not
to despair SO easily-the case is not past the
skill of the medicine-man but to hold up
his hand as national man, aud appeal to all
notional men, all true Americans, North, South,
East and West, to rally together, not to save
| the Union, but to teach fanatics and dema-
gogues that the Union is safe, and will be safe
| until Americanism ceases to be more than an
| empty name Let the Senator league with all
true men to elect and sustain o practical, ETH
Gent American administration, that shall en-
ploy itself, not like Mr.. Pierces in agitating the
country and paying premiums for discord, but
in answering the actual wants and advancing
the real interests of the Union.
| SOMETHING FOR THE LADIEs.-The London
Gazette contains some information for the ladies' in
regard to the manner Of placing their lips wher
they desire to look amiable, dignifed, &c. 1t says
that when lady would compose her mouth to
bland and serene character, she should just before
entering the room, say Bosom, and keep the e1
preston into which the mouth subsidies, until the
desired effect upon the company is evident. If OF
the other hand, she wishes to assume distinguish
ed and somewhat noble bearing, not suggestive o