True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1856-08-13
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o1h' AOAASn SSanS OhOp last WthuOtI
charged a Northern man with having
said that in some contingency he would
let the Union slide. The man who made
the charge took precious good care not 10
tell us what the contingency was upon
which this Northern gentleman was will
ing 10 let the Union slide. Did that
Northern man (according to the accusa-
lion) express an intention to take any
active steps, to take the iniative in any
measure, to dissolve the Union! Not at
all. He only (supposing him rightly re-
ported expressed disposition to be pas
sive in some unexplained event and let
those who were anxious to get out Of the
Union, and were taking active steps to
get out, walk off without any resistance
on bis part.
This was terrible dereliction of duty,
an awful contempt for the Union, accord.
ing to the prOfessed ideas Of Southern
men. The Charlston Mercury, South
Carolina paper. had the horrors at the
idea Of such man holding any Office
under the United States. All ihe allies
of South Carolina doctrines and slavery,
North, South, East and West, were hor.
ri6ed also. The event took place. The
man holds an Office and the Union is not
dissolved. AS it still subsists we may
have time before the crack Of doom TO
find out who would dissolve it. In that
same Charleston Mercury of July 2lst,
1855, is on editorial article headed 'Mr.
Brooks Case
In it, after cOngratulating Mr.. Brooks
upon the personal fame he has acquired
by his attack on Mr.. Sumner, the editor
says:
"The whole affair has been most op.
perfume. In the first place, Mr.. Brooks
has acquired throughout the STATE and
South a wider popularity than speeches
and votes in Congress could ever have
given him." Again, ain the next place,
it has contributed greatly to the union of
Southern men in Congress. We do not
remember any act which has been so
generally and heartily approved from
Maryland to Texas as Mr.. Summers cas-
tigation and unanimiIy of sentiment in
tile people has reacted upon their repre-
sentatives in Washington. On the other
hand the furious demonstrations in every
quarter Of the North, have developed the
same feeling of unanimity among North.
ern representatives, and the result is,
that the lines of sectionalism have been
drawn deeper than -euer before, TO tile
disgust ofpariy hacks, andtA the saiistac.
ton of true men in The South. We re-
joice at any eUent ,chich makes common
cause at the South, and foreshadops her
destiny as separate and independent
people,"
In the same paper, of July 25th, the
editor says:
To unite the South is the cherished
ambition Of all true men in her borders
and every measure conducive 10 that end
claims their hearty cooperation. Mr..
Summers insult 10 South Carolina was,
through her, an insult 10 the whole South
1t was because Of her devotion to South
ern insllutions-because of her constant,
and vigorous championship of Slavery,
the life blood of Southern power and
progress-that he singled out this State
as the mark of his malice and abuse"
Now who, according TO this Southern
editor, are Disguised with sectionalism /?
Are they the patriots, the true and honest
men of the country! Oh no. 1t is, &C.
cording to him, the party hacks who dep
reca'e sectionalism. That he speaks, with
few exceptions, the sentiments and feel
ings of the South, is undeniabe. Who
are the men of the North who most loudly
exclaim against sectionalism as dangerous.
Who are traversing the Free States in an
agony Of patriotism urging the people to
save the Union The allies and abettors
of these same men. If they are content
TO bear the epishet of party hacks, thus
insultiugly applied to them by their allies,
| can have no objection. My wilhers are
unwrung. Whenever The South, with
its $500, 900 free population desires to
make the sectional issue with the North
with its 100000 free population, SC
far as ! am concerned they can be gratifed
If the South were to ask my advise about
ii, as an honest man a lover of my coun
try, should counsel them not to try it
Does any one remind me of Washington'l
caution against sectional strife! | should
send him to employ his eloquence on the
South, for bad as fraternal strife is, wher
one brother will assail, the other mus
defend, or submit to be stripped tamely
of his rights, and Washington has nj
where advised the latter.
The majority legally ascerlained thro
the ballot-box must govern in this coun
try whether the division Of parties be sec
tional or otherwise, under the restriction
Of the Constitution, and for any man t
vote contrary 10 his honest convictions q