The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-11-20

contrast with the system and institutions OIL
those who claim the privilege OF reforming
our manners and of making us altogether as
they are themselves Domestic quiet and re-
pose are invited to give way to agrarianism,
socialism, spiritualism, and all of the other IN
fnitely diversified isms which agitste and keep
in continued turmoil what is called, by an
abuse of terms, free society"
As to Education
"Must the youth of the South be
longer doomed to exile in uncongenial chimes,
where the most sacred associations of their
homes are denounced, as those of the savage
and the barbarian, the heritage OF guilt and
crime, and where grave and reverend professors
and clergymen leave the pulpit and the desk
to sign and circulate incendiary political ad-
dresses, substituting rifles for Euclid or the
Bible, and finding in Kansas fields more classic
and consecrated than were ever before furnish
ed to them by Attica or Palestine? The time
for action is noe. 1t will be well at least to
look to our school books. Can the making OF
these be intrusted so exclusively to those who,
by instilling an occasional heresy, dangerous to
our repose, imagine that they serve at the same
time God and Mammon-their consciences and
their pockets Withdraw at once the contri-
buttons which are returned too often to US now
in contumey and insult"
The Committee closes by urging a large at
tendance from the South at the Convention
which will meet at Savannah on the 9Th De.
cember ensuing:
"Let every village and town throughout the
South respond promptly to this appeal in the
appointment of delegates, instructed in regard
the several States and the Mayors of cities,
Boards of Trade and Commerce, Agricultural
Associations, &C., will, it is believed, appoint,
according to custom, delegations of tried and
approved men, who will certainly attend, or
who will, in the event of failure, communicate
by reports or otherwise full information for the
action of the body upon some or all of the
points indicated"
In accordance with the call, Governor Wise
of Virginia, and Governor Ligon of Maryland,
have already appointed delegates to this Polit-
ical Convention, whose main object seems to
be to Establish a Southern Union, and which
may be regarded as just one of those comb
nations" recommended By Mr.. Rhett, to pave
the way for dissolution.
Bear in mind, the men conspicuous in these
movements are the leading supporters of Mr..
Buchanan in the South. Will they fail to ex.
ercise their power-to unite and concentrate
upon him a tremendous pressure in favor Of
the peculiar interests of Slavery? Are they
men who will be satisfied with anything shor,
of the use of Federal Power to promote their
sectional schemes? General Pierce attempted
to secure their support by appointments to Of
fee and the distribution of patronage-and to
day, the Disunion party is far stronger than i,
was four years ago. Mr.. Buchanan will prob
ably pursue the same course, and then, where
shall we be at the end of his term? Had Ere
mont been elected, that Party, too weak now to
combine the South in support of its wild pro
ject of Disunion, would have been bafled and
exposed.
Four years hence, under the fostering wing
of an Administration which it claims as pecu
larly its own, where and how will the country
stand?