The Georgetown news., 1856-05-15
Northern Men with National Principles.

of its style and the business of its conclu-
sions commend it to the careful attention
of every intelligent mind 1t so well meets
the object for which it was written that we
make no excuse for giving it entire in our
columns Do not fail to read it through:
EDITOR HERALD:-Permit me, if sou
WILL a little space in your journal, for some
views which | entertain, with many others,
concerning the charges of toadyism made SO
frequently against citizens of California who
hail from free States.
"When the charge of wrong doing is pre-
ferred against man, it is natural for him
to ask himself if the source of the charge
has any weight with those whom he es-
teens, and if it appears to him that it does,
he casts about for some defense. To be
charged with misbehavior involves the ne
cessity of defense, however innocent one
may be of the charge. | am a northern
man, and am somewhat interested when a
party or sect arises which stigmatizes as
toadies all who will not subscribe to Aboli-
tionism, or Freesoilism, or republic.4nism.
[ gained the little knowledge | possess of
the ordinary branches of education at a
free school in the enlightened State Of Mas
sachusetts. 1 was taught in that State the
history of the Revolution, and was proud
to observe throughout that history, that
Massachusetts, had many sons who displayed
great patriotism and bravery during the
war; believe that for age and respecta-
bilty Massachusetts will compare fayorably
with any of her sister States.
II am Northern man, then, and lover
of free institutions, free labor, free schools,
free speech, free press and free opinions,
| belong to class of Northern men, none
of whom directly or indirectly Sympathize
with the so-called Republican movement on
the one hand, nor are they open to any
charge Of toadyism on the other. The class
| allude to are national men. They are not
to be fooled with the cant of false negro
sympathy, nor are they to be found adyoca-
ting slavery extension, nor defending slavery
in the abstract. They feel the Importance
which their great numerical strength gives
them in the councils Of the nation, and they
never apologize in piteous tones for having
been born in northern State, nor do they
boast any superiority because they we're
They never say they are as good as south
ern men, because they see no necessity for
laboring to establish a self-eyident PROPOSE
tion. They rejoice at the extension of free
dom, and believe that the people have an
equal right to declare for freedom or sla-
very They are in favor of free soil in the
State where they live. They heartily de-
spise the tracking of northern men, who,
casting away their manlneSs, are little
too southern to suit southern men. They
believe in States rights and not northern
States rights, or uice UerSa. In short the
large class, of which | am an insignificant
member, are not one-idea men, who can
think of nothing but opposing or advoca-
ting the extension Of slavery. They listen
to the counsels of great men with interest,
and learn that there is something worthy of
attention beside the negroes of the South,
and the Aboltionists of the North.
'The class of Northern men whom Ihaye
attempted to describe are called toadies and
dough-faces, by the su-styled Republicans
because they will lend them no aid. They
are called Northern Abolitionists, by some
few of the chivalric fire eaters, who never
speak of a northern man except to call him
an Abolitionist. The two charges are ra-
ther antipodean, and the makers of the one
and of the other are equally falsifers. Alb
olitiOnism is not confined to the North, but
is, on the contrary, in quite a fourishng
condition in several southern States; but rs
its votaries mostly congregate at the North,
all northern men are included in the sweep
ing charge of Abolitionism by the few ul-
ira pro-slavery men alluded to above
Toadyism does exist to some considerable
degree among northern men, and hence the
Republicans stamp all northern men as
such who will not act with them. The
toadyism of northern men | allude to con-
sists for the most part in denying that the
principle of squatter sovereignty applies TO
freedom as well as slavery, in bolstering up
the necessary evil of slavery by Bible quo
tations, in claiming to be of more southern
than northern sympathy, in short, in out
Heroding Herod, and by exciting feelings
of disgust in the minds of all sensible men
from all sections.
1T is exceedingly unpleasant to be pat
ronized by southern fire caters, for opposi-
tion to Republicanism, and equally as un-
pleasant to be patronized by Abolitionists
for expressing admiration for free institu-
tions, and yet it is hardly possible to open
ones mouth without incurring one or the
| other.
Il believe the class to which I belong are
National men who will labor to deserve
equally the i'll opinion of ultra slavery pro-
pagandists and of Abolitionists, Freesoilers
and Republicans
81 have written this that it may be of
record that there are northern meG who are
neither sycophants or fanatics