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and unmisakeable should spring from every Souili'
ern heart: that reply is, "Let US unite-Let us be
free" And such, we believe, would be The response
of our section this time, but for the preudices OF
party rancor and the shackes Of party tactics which
exist among Us. In South Carolina, we sometimes
wonder at the influence thus exerled upon the course
and bearing of our several Sister States. Because,
free from The divisions which distract them, we can
not fully appreciate the might Of this influence. But
that it has been felt continually and is felt now to the
serious delay of that grand Southern rally which alone
can place US high and dry upon the rock of political
safety does not admit of doubt This party spite and
these party ranmels it becomes TO abjure anil re.
nounce. They are the stumbling block in our path
way, and have begotten in many quarters degree OF
enmity among those who should be brothers, which
seriously threatens to make Southerners the inslrl
ments of crushing Southerners. Whiggery and De.
mocracy, in their hatred Of each other, behold not
that great and common enemy steadily engaged in
effecting their degradation In their hot con.
tests for local and parizan success they become
blinded 10 The truth that every such success but in
creases the infatuaon Of the victcrs and The bitter
ness Of The vanquished thus driving them all togeth.
er nearer and nearer that gulf ofnatona denominations
and Georgia may be pointed to as demonstrating at
this moment the truth Of these reflections In the first
of these States, difficult contest is just over in which
her people were fercey arrayed against each other
the one party fighting under the banner of the Ne-
tona Democracy, the other under an equally Nation
al flag in which the colors of Whiggery and Ameri-
cansm were strangely blended. Is not Virginia, as
consequence of these exciting differences, further TO-
dey from unanimity at home Southern grounds than
she was before This contest begun! In Georgia,
similar battle is now progressing We see the animos
ty Of one National party against another increasing
daily Heart.burnngs and fsuds are its certain con.
comitants. At the end Of this warfare (whoever
shall be successfully is it not clear that these home dis
sensions will have done their work and that the chan
ces of uniting Georgans upon any platform for South
ern security will have become hopeless perhaps
than ever! The evil is incurabe SO long as National
party organizations are adhered to by the people of
the South For just so long will the demon of Dlscord
find ample ma erals to work upon amid the confirmed
political prejudces Of the old parties and the wild her
estes of the new.
We are among those who hope that this view Of our
difficulties is becoming evident to Southern intel
gence and that it will at distant day be acts upon
by Southern patriotism. This hope We base upon the
improving tone of the Southern people, manifested
within the last few months by the press OF our seclon
and upon the papabe fusion of the several Northern
wings of our National parlies-whch fusion, having
its origin in a common hatred of Southern slavery,
mus, and will starle the South into action We are
aware that there is ye with many democrats Of the
South, disposition believe that the remnant Of
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BE- fostered and encouraged by q warm support from
the party South. Some, indeed, affect large degree
OF confidence and tell us that this gallant remnant is
yet to earen the whole lump Of Northern politics TO the
final salvation of the Union on Constitutional grounds.
Such is the tone of the papers at Washington
and Of sundry regularly employed Administration
sheets in lower Latitude. But it is vain to dupe the
country with any such hollow hopes. The fact is too
prominent, that the North is n.nrly one man in OPP
position to the equality Of the Southern States in the
Union The evidence is too, strong, that .Whiggery,
Democracy and Americanism are alike nveterate and
mplacable upon the question Of Southern servitude.
Unless the South shall stretch forth her own right
hand and trust in herself alone for help, she is 10 be
overwhelmed and disgraced before the world. And it
is this earnest conviction which 10 detest all
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combination, which, while it shall be avowedly Sec
tional in its cast may yet prove an Ark Of safety 10
our whole country.
THE ANTI-lNOW NOTHING ARGUMENT.
WITHIN the last month we have presented our read.
ers with the "Speech Of Hon. A. II. STErHENs" and
"Thres Letters" addressed to Hon. 4. P. BUTLER by
writer whose name is not given 10 the public. To
our view the two documents together make up an ar.
rrlment against the New Order sufficiently convincing
to determine every fair and rejecting mind We re.
srct 10 have heard the objection thrown OUT that the
second letter. Of the Three" have given, smacks
too strongly of Calhclici,y This is entirely errone-
Gus. We selected the letters 10 some extent, because
of the mildness courtesy and fairness which chaac-
,ersed this very portion of them. They breathe no
spirit Of intoleranceno bigot prejudces. The ques-
liun of Roman Catholic interference with the Civil
authorities Of earth broached in the necessary prose.
cution Of the argument. 1t could not have been avoid
ed. But the tenets of that Church (olher than those
which bear upon this particular point, the creed Of
that Church, its merits or demerits its purties or i'm.
purilies. are neither discussed nor alluded 10. Ho"
then, any enlightened and liberal reader could have
conceived the notion that the argument Is o6)ectona
ble because of too much Catholicism we cannot easi-
y understand. The pity stand we here speak in the
bes, pir magnable) that many otherwise good Fro
testants are TOO much under the influence Of rabd
enm,y against the Church Of Rome to admit that any
thing good can come out Of it. The justification some
times offered in this connection, that such enmity is
engendered by tile still bitter hostility of Caho.
lies against Proteslants, is Of but little avail Gin toro
couscieut and still less when subjected TO the test
of that Religion which teaches 10 loue hcr en-
emes" 1t would be far better, we respectfully sus-
eest, if both Protestants and Catholics would learn
some charity towards each oer at least so much Ms
might enable them 10 each others names IN print
without abhorrence.-Bnt We are perhaps saying more
than the occasion calls for Yet TO say nolhing when
our selections are unusy animadvered upon, is not
our habit, especially when las in this case) those Sc
lections exhibit sound views, while they are at the
same time marked by candos and honest desire to
expose the wrong
AN Apostle TEXT.
Some of the Democratic journals in Virginia are
very iacetious in their remarks upon their victory and
one saws that "Sams" funeral sermon is to be preach.
ed from the following iext
/" For we are but of yesterday, and know. nothing,
because our days upon earth are shadow. JOB,
chap 8, verse 9.
So true is it that the Bible, like Shakespeare, con-
tans something for every possible case To illustrate,
at,nrt rorfQ