Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-02-14
Savannah Convention

The February number Of Putnam's Month
" INDUCES in strain of ghastly merriment,
over the proceedings Of the late Southern
Convention, IL reference 10 Southern Lite
nature. It's laugh is unnataralit lacks
tic clear ring Of coed humor--and the wri-
thing of the stricken serpent sticks out bat
too plainly, through the awkward levity o.
the critic. "1Ien il Slave States scr, as
yalaabie articles, says the Monthly They
write we'll, and Ike 70 read what is we'll
written" How coaxias. The perez are
il danger That naughty Southern Con-
veution, it is feared, has reused Up spirit
in .he South, which may stop the eontiibu-
tons Of writer's in the slave States, and
twhat is atill worse1 toe subscriptions Of
slave holders to tie naudiin and pernicious
Trash, which the Northern praes is pouring
forth in poisonous torrents. The free
spirit Of the North the writer truly says,
encourages and fos.ers ese,y Kind Of men
tai Development" This Is lamehtably the
fact, and thereby Northern literature has
constituted itself nuisance, which ought
% be abated in every Christian and every
civilized community. The horror and dis
gust felt for such a literature ought not to
be sectional, but universal Il undermines
the foundations Of morality, religion and
social order. The Union, the Constitution,
and the Bible are the subjects of its crazy
assaults and pedante criticisms. Licentious-
aess--not freedom-is the ground on which
it rests. Why, then, should the Northern
States encourage and foster such viper
any more than the Southern? Are not their
most sacred and time honored institutions
equally tas objects Of attack with African
slave-y? Are not marriage and the rights
6 property to he abolished there and every
where. at the same time that the slaves of
the South are to be set free? The sane
Higher Law''-higher than the Constitu-
ton or the Bible-hieher than Col, HIM
SELF as he has chosen TO reveal himself TO
mans to be brought to operate on all. and
70 PROSTATE all at once. Save US from the
soouadrel, or maniac, whichever he may he,
who proiessas {. parity and wisdom greater
than that taught by the Biblo-who claims
t. be bette. than his Master.
This Nerthern Light Putnam speaks for
ths literature OF the country, when he says,
=. ne longer intends to turn pale when i.
aPcals of tue Soutli---it I'll tsea. Item as It
tzeats the North. thai is 70 say, it viii honor
tie honorable, and scorn an satiE,zo what is
mean. It will treat slavery as great mo-
raj. social, and political blight. It will
point to Southern literature. AID laws, ana
education, as illustrations q the truth OF
what it says
Now, if this "SchooI- Marm," as she de-
e;gnates herself, intends to be fair, and to
treat the South just as she treats the North,
why does she harp upon Southern slavery
alone Does she not know that a slavery
exists at, and all over, the North, ten times
worse THAI African slavery; that the down
trodden poor of the North groan under it,
and cry to Heaven for vengeance on their
oppressors? The Distinguishing differences
between slavery ut the North and at the
Gonth are these: The South holds in mild
bondage race difeger. from their own
redeemed from state of barbarism--eivil-
lied and Christianized in slavcry-utterly
incapable, as proven by ample experience,
Of governing or providing for themselves
in absolute need of the protection Of mas
,ers. The African has been submitted, now.
20 every condition Of human existence, and
the result Of all experiment is to show that
subjscticn to q master secures to him more
happiness, more moral elevation, than any
other state, and We defy all the Northern
School-Marms' to point to one single Afri-
can community ON the face of the globe,
which does not verify this position. The
North enslave their own brethren and sis
tsss and grind them to powder. How many
helpless women and children pine and die
in their cruel workshops, till in the mad
ness Of despair they have sought relief in
Woman's Rights conventions and socialist
organizations What has produced these
commissions of the social system. but the
;ron heel of capital warning on labor Yet,
in the estimation of Northern School
Marms' there is no slavery there. Their
poor are free to Stare and de That is the
Liberty they worship.
The next difference between Northern
and Southern slavery is this-The Southern
slave serves his master while able to work
but when sick, deerepid, in infancy or in,-
hacile age, his master series him and South
ern laws oonspel him to do II, to his last dol
lar. Northern slaves serve their masters
willie able to work, performing double er
uiple duty but when sick, deerepd, old
81 in iafaney. they are turned out to starve
ana freeze, Again, Southern masters love
their slaves and their slaves love them
They are ct The same household. bound TO-
-gether by the ties OF daily intercourse, aud