The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-09-17
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE SOUTHERN NOM.
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SrRiSariElp, MASS, Sept. 3,

iNss Wceh BhNo buCH u tTutHIul picture Ot
factory life in New England-that portion
of our country where originate so many of
the silly isms Of the day-that have con-
cluded to give you brief description of
matters and things i'll and about the city
Of Springfield. Here, as in most of the
Eastern cities and towns, the spirit of Re
publicanism, or rather abolitionism-tha
being more proper TERMS rampant in
the extreme Every phase of society is
tainted with it; every department of bust
ness is made subsidiary to it. 1t follows
us from our breakfast table to the workshop,
from the social circle to the political arena,
from the parlor to the pulpit! Like
black shadow, it lovers ovor and around
us, revealing itself in bitter discussions, un-
compromising enmity between neighbors,
and hostility to the very Constitution which
has made us the greatest, the freest, and
most prosperous people in the world
Frequently have we met men, whose hoary
locks are freighted with the frosts of age
men just topping on the verge of the grave
who, with the most awful reservations,
declared to us that they chad not voted for
fourteen years, and nevey acould sohilc such
a compact a0iM he'll as our nat;on's Gnti-
tuition eristed" These men enjoy the
advantages which that instrument confers
upon all the States and their citizens alike
do not murmur at paying their quota of
tax to support the General Government-
receive the protecting aegis and arms Of the
laws enacted and enforced under the Con-
stitutson {; and yet, because that document
imperatively demands that a I" fugitive from
service escaping from one State into another
shall be given up" on application of the
owner thereof, they refuse to perform
duty, and deny themselves
the privilege of exercising electoral preroga-
tlves-thus making themselves slaves to
their own passions and ignorance. These
same men will coerce their own children
into factories, apprentice them during their
minority to serve task masters who will
exact from every moment of time which
physical endurance will permit, and, if they,
in order to free themselves from such in
human treatment, attempt to escape into
another State, they are brought back again
to ser0itude a0ithout trial by jury, or
locked up in dungeon in order to teach
them humility to the laws! These pseudo
philanthropists are mostly of the John G.
Whittier school of fanatics, whose only
literary taste seems 10 be negro theology,
and whose afflatus seeks no more elevated
acme than the caput of Southern slave!
Yet their conversation and conduct exer:
baneful effects upon society. The young
are induced to believe what such venerable
headed parents teach, because of the vener-
alton usually folt for age; and, as they grow
up, they become more implicit in their
faith. Thus, like constitutional infirmities.
legal and theological interpretations are
transmitted from father to son, from mother
to daughter, until the whole social body is
affected by them. Hence it is that we
find so much difficulty in impresaing the
minds Of such people with principles of
truth and justice.
New England is peculiar in this respect,
but we rejoice to know that light is begin.
ming to break in on the darkness of the age,
even here in the beautiful city of Spring
field. The evil influences spread broadcast
ameng our people by the Springfield Re-
publican, an abolition journal, and CARR.
'onlan orators, are beginning to be cica-
tried by more healthful state of public
feeling, and even those who were once
loudest in their cries against the South and
her institutions, are now regrettiDg their
former course Of conduct, and are humbling
themselves in sack.cloth and ashes. They
see the folly of such measures, and frankly
confess that they only pursued such a line
OF policy because it assumed a popular
shape. But such men are not to lie trusted
politically. If they will follow ";gn;sfatui."
they must be content with being bedaubed
when led into quagmires and swamps. We
nope that the Independent and bold language
OF the Monitor will arouse the dormant
sehs'oii'tles OF our people to sense of the
duty they owe to themselves and to their
ne'ghbors of South, and that their own
feelings may lead to an entire abandonment
OF that intricate question of slavery, whicl,
mas so nearly destroyed our national uuitv
and neighborly intercourse. More anon.
HAhiPDEN.
lie HIND to Your sisiers.-Boys, be kind
70 your sisters. You may live to be old
and never find such tender loving friends
as these sisters. Think how MANY thing,
they do for you; how patient thew arc
with you; how they love you in spite of
all your il-temper or rudeness; how thought.
fal they are for your comfort, and be YOU
thoughtful for theirs. Be ave, ra.dv =.