The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-09-22
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Public Sentiment at the South.
A Georgia correspondent, who has read
with surprise Governor Hunts letter sugges-
ting appeals to 'the conservative men of the
South for aid in restoring the Missouri Re
striction, writes to the Tribune as follows:
MACON, Ga, August 20, 1855.
ri was in the South at the time
when the Missouri Compromise was repealed
and have been ever since, and have had very
good opportunities of learning the views OF
neople here on that and other current pOliti-
cal questions. I have never yet heard a
Southern man regret, however family, the
reneal of what all here affect to regard as a
measure at once unconstitutional and humil-
;atinp. and dishonorable to the South, viz,
the Missouri Compromise act. haze heard
many express joy and gratitude at its repeal.
I have never known Southerner intimate
the least disapprobation of the course of the
Missourians in forcibly taking possession OF
the polls in Kansas, and electing members
from among themselves to her Legislature,
or in resorting to means of whatever kind to
force Slavery thither. 1 haOe heard numbers
of them declare that the crisis demands that
course of action which Missourians have pur
sued, condemn in unmeasured terms the tard-
mess of the President in removing Governor
Reeder, and express their determination to
fight, if necessary, to the bitter end, to plant
sthe institution on the soil of Kansas.
CT have indeed read that there is, now and
then, person to be found in the South, who
looks upon the repeal of the Missouri Re
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emn compact, and on the irruption into Kan
sas of the citizens of Missouri and their sub
seauent acts as outrages that should have
been promptly redressed. But | have never
seen one who holds opinions akin to these,
and would not know which way to turn to
find one.
GIN the canvass now in progress here the
question of Slavery itself is seldom, if ever,
discussed. But other questions are consid-
cred, chiefly in reference to it, and are re-
garded of more or less Importance, according
to their adaptation to the maintenance and
extension of Slavery. 1t is presumed, of
course, that every member of both parties
desires its permanence and extension, and
parties appear to differ chiefly in their choice
of means for efecting these purposes. So
tar as can learn 0tLs- r-ir,oirles are talk
ed about than those of -Nothingism,
and these are discussed with almost exclu-
sive reference to their presumed relation to
the all-important subject of Slavery. Demo-
Gratis taunt Know-Nothings with affiliating
with Northern Abolitionists, and declare that
the present Administration are entitled to the
credit of the repeal of the odious Missouri
act and of the consequent introduction Of
Slavery into the Territories of the North
west. Known othings say in reply that all
foreigners are abolitionists, and that the in
mates of the prisons and hospitals of Europe
are shipped by cargoes to New York at the
expense of their respective governments, and
are conveyed thence to Kansas by the assist
ance or at the entire expense Of emigration
aid societies, where each head of family
receives one hundred and sixty acres of land
donated to him by the votes of Philanthropy
ic Democrats. Party feeling is thoroughly
aroused, to be sure, and trouble begins to be
apprehended at the coming election. Still
the bitterest foe of the present Administra-
ton has not word of rebuke for it's 'infat-
uated Congress- or its desperate Executive
for the parts they respectively performed in
the Kansas-Nebraskad drama. All parties anu
all classes of men manifest equal devotion to
the interests of Slavery. Even those who
depend upon their daily labor for support,
whose labor comes in direct competition with
the low-priced labor of slaves, and who, what
ever their desire, have no hope of ever be-
coming slave-owners themselves, are as jeal-
GUS of the rights of the South appar-
emily as earnest in the expression of
their wish for the extension of Slavery, and
as bitterly hostile to Northerners, nearly all
of whom they consider 'cussed Abolitionists,'
as are the wealthiest slaveholding magnates
in the land.
"Probably the majority of Southern men
are greatly obliged to Gov. Hunt for charac-
terizing as dishonorable their 'upholding of
the lawless doings of the Missouri borderers,'
and they may perhaps feel SO deep sense Of
their obligation to him as to lend him their
aid in his endeavors to preserve National
Wing organization. shall be curious to
know what encouragement they offered him
in his enterprise. Perhaps the extent of it
will not be known until Kansas is refused adj
mission as Slave State"