St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-05-28
The South.

The tide of battle between slavery
and freedom is setting SO strongly in
favor of freedom that the Southern
journals are becoming responding in
their tone. The Charleston Mercury
lectures the Southern people for their
supineness in relation to Kansas. 1t
says "thc lofty zeal which was at one
time manifested in regard to Kansas
seems to have waned into cool indif-
ference" adding
"The period is fast approaching
which will determine whether or not
Kansas will go into the Union with
constitution favorable to slavery
Her Importance to the South makes it
imperative on us to do all that proud
and highminded people can do to Sc
cure her for ourselves. Our efforts, if
well timed and properly directed, will
yet be of avail in the final struggle
which is to determine freedom or slave
ry--anarchy, or "the constitution as
our fathers gave it," Let us then be
up and doing, and if we can not make
her slave State, make her at least
democratic"
The Newburg(S. C.)Rising Sun sets
up prolonged and ludicrous howl
over the prospects of the South. Its
remarks are so decidedly rich that we
copy them in full:
CLOUDS and darkness, threatening
clouds, ominous darkness, gather
around our political future. A night
gloomy and terrible sets in upon us.
We are drifting slowly, silently, into
an ocean Of storms, furious whirl-
winds, quicksands and fearful whirl-
pools. A solemn silence prevails ;
tits the precursor of a horrible tenn
pest. Hank !! the low-muttering rum
bling of distant thunder breaks upon
the stiffness. Fitful flashes reveal
the sullen gloom. The lurid air is
heavy and chill The storm APP.
proaches-nearer and nearer it comes,
louder and more loud it bowls. Man
the sails-all hands to their posts
The South expects every man to do his
duty. Life and death, honor and lib
erty, are involved. Let each heart be
firm-each nerve be steady. The
conflict will be fierce as hate and
malice can make it. Stand firm
Hank what crash was that? Kan
sas is gone s! List triumphant
shout from the spirits of the storm
Missouri is yielding. How fierce Tho
blasts, how lurid the lightning =! How
terrible the tcmpcst-sea and HEAVIER
are comminglcd Howls horrible
yells terrific, tear our ears ! Virginia
is assailed. Gloomy, dark, terrible
bowls the tempest Waterman, what
of the night :? All is dark !! dark
no dawn appears"
There the reader must have held
his breath while reading this startling
and graphic picture. Let us turn tc
something more matter of fact The
New Orleans Delta, one of the most
radical of the Southern organs, casts
about for means to resist the onward
march of freedom in the frontier slave
States. 1t says:
"The remedy is plain enough. Fo
example, Maryland has 90,36 slaves
/, Virginia, 472 1923; Kentucky, 2l0,0sl
Missouri, ,422. These States iron
their position, have long been regard
' ed as picquet sentinels of slavery
n They may resist the anti-slavery pres
Y sure, Int selfdofonse should urge tn
States lying south of them to look Il
the permanency of the institution
: along the frontier and render assur
S ance doubly sure This can be don,
/, by passing stringent enactments pre-
, venting the four States above named
from emptying their population, a
they are now doing, into the countr,
south of their boundaries, until al
fear of emancipation shall have BEEF
dispelled.