Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-12-18
EVENING STAR.
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

conceal from Northern conservative opinion,
the so evident fact thai the recent attempts at
insurrection in the Southwestern States grew
out Of neither more nor less than the organi-
zation, speeches, publications and aims of
their political party and its allies under what
ever name Or, In other words, of the current
Intensity and so general diffusion Of abolition
sentiment. We will not argue when and
where that sentiment over steps the bounds
of consttutionality and proper frsternal
feeling; because, in its tendencies and re-
suits, its phases are all identical. That is,
they lead to the same end; the difference be-
ing only in the celebrity with which they bid
fair to produce the common end, if the South
ern States continue deaf and blind to the
thousand and one notes Of warning inseparable
from abolitionism's gradual aggregation of
strength. While Fremont preachers and teach
srs were found to be the leaders and trainers
of the guilty negroes in these late efforts,
their (the negroes minds were full Of the idea
that Observation-Disclosures partyism-in
the non-slaveholding States was aiding and
abetting all their schemes of plunder, arson
and murder.
Well may the Fremont press seek to break
the force of the legitimate effects of these facts
We name. But will they change the course of
their political labors! Will the Republican
party in Congress be less extreme, and less
evidently bent on interfering with slavery in
the States' He who fancies SO has not been
a calm and thorough observer of tho signs of
the times. This insurrectiOn will only prove ir-
citement to Republican-party politicians of all
degrees to persevere. Their violence in the
halls Of Congress will be intensified, though
they will jesuitically continue TO declare there
that the President has slandered them in
showing their aims to be what this event Gn-
surrec.ion) as well as the doings of their fol-
lowers in Kansas prove them to be. How long
will the South remain inactive as she is now,
| with this contest for her very life raging not
only within hearing but in the bosom Of her
family circle What boots speeches in her
defence in the halls of Congress- Have they
so far effected aught, or do they bid fair, from
their pr.viou, results, to accomplish sught
substantial by way of defeating the ultimate
purposes of Fremont abolitionism.
Is there a really we'll informed Southern
man who does not comprehend that the time
| has arrived for the concerted action on the
| part of the people Of every Southern State
| with reference to their domestic police, self
reliance In commercial and all business mat
| ters, in educational affairs and literature, &C.
&c which shall say to the North in a tone
| that will be reSpected-so far shalt thou pro
ceed in this warfare on Us, and no farther.
We are not among those who believe that the
| South will fail to combine for self defence
| The sentiment of self-pIeserystion, the first
Las Of nature, is more powerful than party
| organizations, or even small individual saw
i1gs or profits, which must be ignored for the
time being if an effective orga1isation through.
out the South is to be brought about. We
lock to the different Southern State Legisla-
| lures to initiate and get under way such or.
gauizatio2, rather than TO an irresponsible
Southern convention, over which spectators
on the national treasury, and dreamy schemers
| of course obtain, to some degree, undue in
| fuence. -
Wincing late brief exposition of the
| fact that Hurlbut, the writer of the false and
| calumnious statements and views concerning
| the South, published in a late number of the
| Edinburgh Reptep, is lot a Southern man in
| the acceptation in which he is represented by
the New York EVsnsng Post, has raised
hornets nest around the Stars ears. "Tray,
Blanche and Sweetheart, little dogs and al" )"
have been barking at US on the subject
through the Post, Tribuns, st al. All they
| have written in thi. connection goes TO prove
the general accuracy Of our statements con-
corning this man Hurlbut- the only point on
which We prove to have been in error, being
that in which we write him down as having
been Unitarian preacher. 1t turns out that
he studied and was graduated at Harvard for
| the Unitarian ministry, but did not pursue
the profession.
His father was, as represented by Us,
peripatetic Yankee school master, who resided
for some years in the South, South Carolina,)
and the son was born during his s0jOurn there.
| writer in the I'rtbuns over the signature Of
a South Carolinian, (whO we take to be Hurl-
but himself) in endeavoring to break the force
Of our recent brief exposition bears, that out
almost to the letter; for he gives such history
| OF his immediate family and its associations,
as to make it clear that though for q time
transplanted to southern soil, it maintained its
Yankee proclivities and characteristics until
| it went back, bag and baggage, wheLce it
came. The only Identification which its issue
on whom We are commenting has with the
South, is that he was born Of New England
parents " in South Carolina, and was brought
up partly in that State and partly in Penn
sylvania, until he reached the age Of eighteen,
| when he won. from Carolina TO enter the Uni
versity at Cambridge" Since then Carolina
has had nothing to do with him, we presume
1t appears that some Of his relatives inter
married with Southern people and still re-
main in the South. We take il for granted