Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-10-06
From the Savannah Republican.
A Word for the North.

We have q word we trust in season. for our breth
rem at the Norh. 1t may be too late if indeed il
can be heard at all in the present fury that has turn
ed and made mad the public brain in that quarter Of
the Union yet we shall at least have discharged
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Our private letters and the columns of the North
press bear testimony TO state of affairs that is
truly deplorabe. The minds of we have reason to
believe large majority of the Northern people have
been lashed into phrenzy, in which soberness,
thought, patriotic reflection are unknown One IA
natical idea seems to hold it in complete subsection
and there is no limit to the excuses to which that
idea may lead So blind have they become in its pur-
suit that they have lost sight not only Of all the pro-
prietes of life but of the obvious and inevitable fruits
of their folly 1t is boldly alleged that the Union
is invunerable and let the North do as it may, the
South will submit, and indeed that she could not
be kicked out of the Union" There is degree of
delusion and insensbty in such sentiments these
that is truly alarming.
They entertained in utter ignorance of the ma
ture spirit and feelings of the Southern people, We
belong to that party at the South which, while they
have quietly and sterty stood by all the constitu-
tonal rights of their section have INDUCED in
Incorporate harangues against the people of the
North, nor countenanced the movements that have
been set on foot by our own people looking to the
weakening of the bonds that unite u.s. their total
disruption We belong TO a class who, six years ago
were denounced as traitors to the South because
we upheld the bond that was cemented by the blood
of our fathers. We humbly conceive, therefore that
we have right to speak to Northern friends at
ton on their part to hear and heed what we say.
We, then tell our Northern friends that the most
reasonable and moderate among them have wholly
misconceived the true sentiments of the South at the
present day. We tell them that the cord has been
drawn to its utmost tension. We tell them that
feeling, deep and pervading is abroad in the land
which the patriot must contemplate with sorrow and
alarm.
We tell them, and with the deepest regret, the
mournful truth that the bonds that bind this Union
together were never 80 weak and treacherous in all
the struggles that have marked our history as peo
pie. We tell them that the South can be kicked
out of the Union, nay, that they can raise the flag
of independence and abandon it from choice This
is the Naked solemn truth let others blink it as they
may. We speak what we know, and we will be borne
out in the testimony we have given by many of our
purest and best men who have fought shoulder to
shoulder for the Union in times that are past May
we not, then appeal to the people of the North to
pause and reflect to look around at the mighty inte-
rests at stake and to rerace their steps before it is
forever too late
This slavery agitation mast cease. The South has
borne ii as long as she will No future discrmina-
tons must be made against her on account of that
institution. She had it when she fought by your
side for the achievement of independence. She came
with it, as an equal into the great family of repub-
lican States. She will remain in it only equal