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The assertion Of Senators Wade and Wilson, that the
nonayehode Of the southern States are restrained BY
the Oyershadowng influence Of the Aveownsrs in the e.
preston Of their real sentiments the question Of slavery
implies necessarily an imputahon upon the great body Of
southern men which feel it our duty promptly and em
phateay to repel II is impuaton upon the manhood
and the independence of spirit and courage OF nonAEe
owners which calls for marked ebuke. When or where
did the people Of the South who slaves ever give
color TO the uuounded insinuation that they were de-
6cient in moral physical courage We need not
tell the authors of this charge that their imputauon
finds fiat contradiction every battlefield, North or
South that has ever illustrated American yalor. The
slave-owners only to ten, says Mr. Wade but
those ten are such that they dare not ayow their
sentiments assert their rights for fear OF offending that
one And yet these ten are prompt to shoulder their
muskes and danger and death wherever neces
sary to repel foreign foe. The bare statement OF the
charge is an exposure of the calumny and If Mr. Wade
could diyes himself of tho dominion of fanatcism he
would see that the simple fact that the nonSavehoders
are living conentment and happiness with the slave
holders proves ncontesab that his southern correspond
ens have practsed great fraud him in the inorma-
ton they communicate.
We tell Mr. Wade frankly that if the false information
which he is spreading the North should result in
breaking up the Unon and in bringing on civil war be-
tween the North and the South, he will find that the
southern armies which he has to encounter will be
composed Of saveowners and non-sayeowners standing
shoulder 10 shoulder and if he discovers amidst the car
mage of battle that the nonsavehoders are more mpetu
and irresistible in the work of death than the slave
holders he may then learn not only the imposition that his
southern correspondents have pracsed him, but the
of that greater erceness the part OF those whom
he falsely supposes sympathize with him. We pray that
Mr. Wade may be subjected to such test Of the
rectness of his information but tell him. in all candor
that the legitimate tendency of his violence is to force upon
the country this practical and bloody Justification of his
statements We hope that he and his associates acting
under deluson and that they not guilty of premed
itaed design test in blood the true relations existing
between the and the nonsaveowner by STIR
ring up instruction and civil war; but will say that
they acuaed by such purpose they could not de-
wise certain line of policy for its eectuaton than
| that which they pursuing.
1t need not told that the undsguised object of every
word uttered during this session of Congress by Mr. Wade
and his associates has been promote the election of
I
need be added that this effort the
policy of that President will be shaped and controlled by
those to whom he indebted for his election When
| know as do, that the cooperation of the nom
shareholders of the South is relied to sustain the policy
so dictated after the installation of sectional President
it is as clear as the sunlight that Mr. Wade and his
cates are calculating upon tanning into flame the
smohered hostility which they imagine the non-save-
holders cherish towards the shareholders No could
the hopes they entertain at the South without see
ing that they pushing their sectional warfare under
the fatal delusion that if they elect Fremont by
exclusive antssvery northern vote they will find
supporters Of his sectional policy in the nonsaveowners
of the South. What desire TO be understood saying
in answer this deuson is that instead Of causing up
rising of the nonsaveholders of the South TO cooperate
with the supporters of the Fremont policy it will
result in that catasrophe-which all true patriots de-
pore-a disruption of the conederacy and the unnumbered
that follow. If the people of the North will dis
card the false information and the fatal counses of Mr.
Wade and his associates they avert dreful
amity but If the result is be ruled by truth and
son--f the experiment is 10 be madly made to know
whether Messrs Wade and Wilson and their southern
spondents understand the sentiments of southern nonaye
holders better than all other southern menthen will
not undertake to foretel the consequences