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are It's daily food and just now the chivalrous
South treats it with dish full of juicy cow.
nioes and inviting bowie-knives A little shud.
der, and 1t will swallow them too "Bon apDe.
III !-1urn Zeitung Cincinnati, November
l3, 1855.
sERvILE SOULS.
1t Is known, that Immediately after the pub
hcation OF the Anti-Slavery Resolutions adopt
ed by the German Turner's Convention at Buff
faio, I'm September last, the Turner's Associ-
alton at Charleston, s. c., seeded from the
Turner's, Confederacy. OF this fact little was
to be said. The members of the Charleston
Turner's Association had right to separate
from social league which, according to thei,
OPINION, compromised the position of their as.
Sociation, and threatened their personal exist.
ence. The Turners' Association of Charleston
was not satisfied, however, with that step.
They published in several German and English
(Amerlcanl papers their determination to sepa-
rate from the Confederacy, and also the causes
thereof; and from that it was to be concluded,
with pretty certainty, that the servile individuals
who seem to form ma jority in the Charleston
Turner's Association which is withal itself in
significant, intended directly to compromit all
the other Southern Turner's Associations in the
eyes of the Slavocrat Rowdies, and to make
the position of those members of the Confede-
raey, as such, difficult, or even impossible.
The said publication was as follows:
The Charleston Turner's Association has
unanimously adopted, in an extra meeting, on
the 9th of October, the following resolutions:
81. ResOtred, That the Charleston Turner's
Association-on account of the following reso-
luton, adopted at the Buffalo Convention,
The Turner's are against Slavery, but particu-
larry against the extension Of the same into free
Territories, as they consider it to be absolutely
unworthy of Republic, and directly contrary
to free principles declares to separate from
the Confederacy, as the above resolution op-
poses the Southern State Rights, and as we
cannot declare ourselves to agree Herewith.
"2. RESOLVED, That the Turner'S Association
adopts the name of Charleston Independent
Turner'S Association
80. ResOlced, That the Charleston Independ-
ent Turner's Association remains true to its
rinciples-cultivatio of the body and mind i,
"a. ResOlped, That the above shall be in
serted in the German Gazette (DeutSche lei
tung,) and the Courier.
as. ResolUed, That the Association requests
all the exchange papers of the DeutSche lei
tung to insert the resolutions
:" In the name of the Charleston Independent
Turner'S Association.-TAe Committed"
We see that even that portion of the Conven-
ton resolve which is directed against the ex-
tension of Slavery into free Territories, offers
to the doggishly faithful adherents to the slave
holders ground for separation. But let us go
further. Whether this publication was really
to be ascribed to the vulgar sentiments Of those
Sot-dtsdnt Turner'S, or perhaps more to their
cowardice, stupidity, or idiotism, was thereby
not yet fixed. But now, writings are sent from
different sides to the Diet, and to the Editors of
tho Turn Zpifu,,U which pritpoc tho Cbor
ton Association causes to circulate among all
the Southern Associations and that is evil
IDENTITY done for the purpose of separating the
latter Associations from the Turner's Confede-
racy, and of establishing a particular, slavo-
cratical-minded Southern Turner's Confederacy.
We abstain from further remark about those
despicable fellows: they characterize them
selves in the eyes of every honest man: we
only wish that the thanks, on the part of the
Southern Slavocrats, for such a doggish-hum-
BILE serviity, may also be the due contempt
with which the "Moor" is rewarded, when he
has done his service"
We on our part need not again return to that
portion concerning the principles of the Slavery
question, which has been more amply discussed
in another part of this paper. But, in conclu-
cling, we can give our readers the assurance that,
according to all accounts which till now have
come from the South to US, not one single asso-
citation approves the conduct of the Charleston
association, or thinks of seeding from the Con-
federacy. Honor to whom honor is due and
to the dog the whip l-7wn-Zeitung, Cincin-
natl, Nor. l3, 1855.
Cone Week Laler.i
FROM GEORGIA
Facts stand above principles, and rule them.
This position has lately been corroborated by
four of the Southern Turner's Associations,
which (four) declare suddenly their secession
from the Turner's Confederacy, because the res.
olution of the Convention lat Buffalo) concern
ing the Slavery question " makes longer con-
tinuation in the Confederacy impossible" Why
these secessions were unavoidably necessary we
cannot conceive, as till now the associations of
the South have not yet occupied such an emf
nent position in public, that they should have
been obliged to sacrifice the Confederacy to it.
We thought another course might have been
taken, if they would absolutely not allow the
nights rest of the shareholders to be disturbed
by the spectre of "Aboltionism," clad in gray
linen and with a red neck knot although we
entertained some modest doubts, whether it
ever occurred at all to the save-breeding gen.
try, that the Southern Turner's might as Adolf
tionists, become dangerous to Slavery. These
dS5OOidllOuo huOW tudt buCb Cdu
scarcely figure in the Confederacy, and the few
Turner's who have permanent domicle in the
South are not willing to endanger their bust
ness existence by confession of their Anti-Sla-
very principles. Thus facts overthrow princi-
Piles. What an Inconsistency it is, that Germans
who, with only few exceptions, like to be count
ed among the true liberals, declare themselves
in public papers tor the maintenance OF Slavery,
need not be discussed here. On the other hand,
it must be considered that Know Nothingism,
80 closely affecting the Germans, presents itself
particularly energetic in the South, and that it
would be Z" impoliticaL" to put also into the
hands of the Know Nothings the dangerous
weapon of having to accuse the " foreigners
here of Aboitionism. All this ought 10 be cell
considered, in judging Of The steps Of Southern
associations. +. w. W.
We add to the above correspondence the fol-
lowing resolutions of the Association of Savan-
nah:
l. In consequence of the resolutions of the
Convention at Buffalo, we can no more be
members of the Turner's Confederacy, and
initiate the associations of Charleston, S. c.,
and Houston, Texas.
2. Those resolutions are impracticable, in
compatible with Southern Rights and interests,
and prove gross ignorance of Southern life.
g. We recommend to all Southern Turner's
associations the secession from the Confederacy,
as the only means against the communication
Nth the Northern A6olitiontsts, and urgently
recommend an organization of the seeded as
sociations on an absolutely Southern Platform.
FROM ALABAMA.
The Turner'S Association at Mobile, Ala,
announces, with some regret, that it be likewise
obliged to secede from the Turner's Confeders
cy, in consequence of the AntiSlsvery resolu-
tons of the Buffalo Convention. 1t shows that
those who form this association are also too
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