Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-08-02
WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

"Abalc0IUc hEWS AMI 6USSIF
The South.-The New York Herald of the
day before yesterday contained letter from
Senator TOombs to an unnamed Georgia gen.
tleman, one from that individu al to the Her
aid, and also one from Fauquier (Virginia)
farmer upon the subject of the future of the
South il case of the election of Fremont. We
do not know how We can more aptly explain
what will surely be the political condition of
the South IL the demented efforts of the South
ern opposition to make diversion in Mr.. Fill
more's favor should result in Fremont's cleo.
tion-for if Buchanan should be defeated it
must be for Fremont's beneft-than by que.
ting the following paragraph from a recently
published letter from John Mitchell, who,
like a sensible man, has settled down as
quiet farmer among the mountains of East
Tennessee-yiz:
Mr.. Fremont comes forward as the leader
OF party which proclaims that the Northern
States, having now at last the power shall
give law to the Southern States as to the terms
and conditions on which the Territories be-
longing to the whole Confederation shall be
settled and peopled. The Constitution de.
States; this party proclaims their inequality.
1t asserts the right to brand these Southern
people with moral stigma before the civil
lied World-to treat them as communities af-
fected with loathsome leprosy-to set a.
plsgue-mark upon their door posts and TO saw
70 them, stay where you are; stir not one
step abroad, lest you infect US sound and
wholesome citizens these Territories, won by
our common blood and treasure, are for us TO
expand and revel in ; for behold We are clean,
Our dear sick brethren, We are compelled,
though 1t pains our heart, to hem you in and
lnclose you with q ring fence, so offensive are
you become to the general nostril. We shall
also furnish you with physicians, DR. Beecher,
Or. Parker, most eminent practitioners Purge
you, make you clean and when you have no
faint or odor Of the evil thing upon you, we
shall admit you to joint enjoyment of our
common estate, perhaps"
The letters TO which we refer first above.
illustrate the fact that with the Government
Of the United States in the hands of men as
suming to administer it according to the
view Of its rights and duties, and their rights
and duties as abOminators Of chatteI slavery,
which the supporters of Fremont all preach
and write, the idea of much longer continu-
snce of the present North American Confei.
sracy Is, simply, an absurdity. One of these
letters-that from the " Fauquier Farmer
Is indeed powerful exposition of the re-
sources Of the South for sustaining herself
most prosperously in case of q dissolution of
The present Union, illustrating by the way,
her European affiliations and political associ-
atoms in case she shall be driven to seek self
preservation in a separate national existence.
We desire TO say that the writer tells but
unvarnished truth in intimating that his views
"a to her duty to herself in such a contingency
as ne discusses are very exten sively concurred
in by the people Of all the slaysholdine States.
We honestly believe that at this moment a
majority of the voters of the Southern United
States prefer to make the experiment of a
separate nationality TO that of living in politi.
cal connection with the North with such nrip.
ciples' views and measures in the ascendant
In the General Government, as are commended
Tor by ali who advocate Fremont's election
and that none others will sooner clamor VIC.
ciierousiy for resort to that safe guard
against the fell spirit of AboIitionism, than
the men of the South who are now laborino
with might and main to bring about the tri.
umph Of Fremont, in the belief that thew ara
Strengthening Fillmore's prospects, which
nave no existence in reality.
within the ast four or FIVE years, the minds
Of nearly all in the South who take interest
In puohc Affairs have been earnestly turned
70 the purpose Of guarding against the ulti
mate tendency Of American abolition;sm and
We have yet to find the first person ouo,.
them all who has not come to the concln.;oo
that in separation at all hazards, and in ,h.,
alone, is there hope for peaceful, prospe,.
Gus and free future Of the slaveholding State.
with General Government essaying to carry
into practice in its administration Of the con.
Germs Of the Confederacy, such views as are
enforced in all Republican party speeches in
Congress 1t is painful to US to have to ex
press such conviction Of the condition ef
0Outhsrn sentiment but that should be COM
Prenended at the North, and we would be
Iscreant to our duty to the Union were wa to
faii 70 raise timely voice Of warning.
Free state speculstion-Ar rich .c.n.
We understand, came of at the Ind;.n os..
T. few days since. A spruce, wely.d,...sd
"oung man, haiiing from Boston, aDnlisd -
commissioner Manypenny for information =.