The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1855-12-14
HoRTH AID SOUTH.

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The following article furnishes capital
illustration 9th different views which are
taken Of the obligations to "savo the I'm
ion T" which exist in different sections Of the
country. II illustrates anew the truth Of
saying, that "while ono man may steal n
sheep, another Is hung for looking over the
fence"
The difference between the North and
South 10 their action and the treatment they
receive for their action, Is nowhere better
seen than in politics. Senator Seward pro.
poses to elect northern President, whose
influence shall 30 perpetually and actively
In favor Of freedom. Tho way and manner
Of accomplishing that purpose does not COM
mend itself to our miEds, but It is legiti.
mate, constitutional object, which he intends
to attain within the laws by an nctual ma.
jority of the people and without saying one
word about the Union, leaving that to take
care Of itself as best Il may. All over the
country no Is denounced as o disunionist, q
yiolator OF his oath taken to support the
Constitution, and to be remembered always
in connection with Benedict Arnold. II his
name was submitted to the United States
Senate to-day, for confirmation TO an Office
of one hundred dollars per annum, he would
have votes against him because he is dis.
unionlst, and the press Of both parties would
urge his rejection. We would DO The last TO
Justify Mr.. Stewards policy, but we cannot
help asking why this is Mr.. Seward don't
say that we should dissolve the Union II
Kansas Is admitted as Slave State, but
simply that We should elect northern
President who will not allow other slave
States to como In.
Now look down south. The Governor Of
ed OF this same Kansas matter. He claims
the right,io discuss this question when and
where he pleases, though no won't admit
that Mr.. Seward can do 80. lie holds to
the same opinion on that point that Henry
A. Wise and Stephen A. Douglas expressed
in their Letters to the lecturing committee 10
Boston. But why has not Mr.. Seward as
good right to agita'e on the one side as
Mr.. Somebody has on the otheri We can
see no reason except that Georgia Is further
south than New York and rights even in
this country are somewhat geographical !;
and the length Of the days and nights has
more influence on the slavery question than
tho moon on lumatics. But the Governor
Of Georgia goes further and recommends
not the legitimate though unwisc action OF
electing only southern man to the Presi-
dency, IL Kansas is refused admission Us a
slave State, but an open, direct and imned.
late dissolution of the Union.
Now suppose tina, Mr.. Seward or the
Governor Of Massachusetts, had taken such
ground on the opposite side, and recon.
mended sovereign State, IL Kansas came
in slavelolding, to knock The American I'M
ion into pi, and in blood and civil war drown
the liberties Of the New World-yes, Of all
the world! How tho patriots. north and
south, from tho bar rooms to the State hou-
ses, would have rung the chanses-how the
press, from the north and south, would have
eroaned with the struggle to utter ITS NAL.
edictions-how the whole word and the
whole heavens would have stood aghast |!
Why, miserable wretch Of Yankee, that
saws his own wood and blacks his own boots,
talking of dissolying this glorious Union |!
Hang the wretch hang him high MS hea.
ven and let him hang till the crows and the
eagles have picked his flesh, and the cold
north westers have whistled through his
bones. Now, in our opinion tho man deser
YES to be hung who will do one act treason
able to the Union. 1t should be capital
offence in every State of this confederacy
but that is the very thing the Governor OF
Georgia is proposing and recommending ;
and yet nobody talks Of him,as they DO OF
Seward or Wilson; nobody considers him
dangerous ; II seems perfectly proper-they
sh ould utter those very sentiments; and IL
he was before the Senate for confirmation,
there IL not q Senator north OF Dixon's line,
who would refuse 10 vote for him on that &C.
count. One time South Carolina entertain
ed the idea that our Edward Everett did not
estimate negro wool as they did, and they
would not confirm him, for two whole weeks,
rs minister to England and so other men
have been treated aud when a party elects
an anti slavery man II taints the whole par
", and they arc read out OF national follow.
ship. Now nobody from the north acts
this way. Mr.. Jefferson Davis went into
the Cabinet without retracting one hetcio
dox sentiments Of his; Gen. Quitman is
elected from Mississippi, an avowed enemy
to the Union, but it does not effect the
standing Of the men who choose him-they
are good national men, while those who vo-
ted for Van Buren,, seven years ago, can
never get over it-and we never heard Of a
postmaster at New Orleans, collector Ut
Charleslown, or marshal at Savannah, re-
jected by the United States Senate for their
opinions about the UnioD.-Nepburyport
Herald.