Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1857-05-30
Fraternity of the North and
SOuth.

that friendshlp, amty, and brotherly love
should ex ist between the people of the
North and South, giving their Legitimate
fruits Of kind offices and benevolent acts
we expese ourselves to both denunciation;
and censures. We are denounced by the
obtuse and fanatical abolitionist, and cen.
sured by the timid time-serving politician.
who cares moro for the tiiumph of his
party, than for the prevalence of true
principle and unquostionable justice.
But, nevertheless, we contend that the
true spirit of friendship and fraternity
should exist between the people Of the
Northern and Southern States of this
Confederacy. Once it did exist, Before
and during the Revolution, the people Of
these two sections Of the Union, were a
limited and friendly people. They were
engaged in a common cause, and exposed
to common dangers. They were involved
in the great struggle for freedom freedom
for themselves and for posterity. Like q
band of brothers they met together in
council; like brothers they shed their
blood together upon the field of battle like
brothers they slept the sleep of death TO-
gether in one common grave, upon the
same field of strife, after the battle was
lost or Won. They thought, then, only of
their country, its liberties imperilcd, and
the great boon for which they mutually
pledged their lives, their fortunes, and
their sacred honor. That was true fra
ternity. 1t achieved the liberties of the
Republic, and founded its indepe ndence.
That spirit should ever have existed.
But, after the great battle for freedom
was won, new interests grew up; changes
in the domestic institutions of some of the
States took place; suspicion, jealousy, and
rivalry, superseded the kindly and friendly
relations which existed during the period
of common danger; and acrimony, denun-
citation, and estrangement have followed,
uutil the people of the North and South,
instead of regarding each other as friends
and brothers, stand in battle array, threat
ening hostility and warfare against each
other, at the hazard of the destruction of
this great and glorious Union, and the
SPLENDID superstruction of civil government
which their fathers jointly founded,
What has produced this unfriendly feel
ing, and this outward and perilous state Of
things! We hesitate not to say, that it
proceeds entirely from the injudicious and
unjusti6able interference; by por ton of
the people of the North, with the domes ic
institutions of the South. All who have
watched the rise and progress of this con-
troversy, cannot fail to be convinced, that,
the first aggressions touching the subject of
slavery, came from the North. AT the
birth ofthe Republic, all the States, with a
single exception, possessed the institution
of slavery. Then there was no crusade
preached up by the fanatics Of the North
against the institutions of the South. In
the lapse of time, because slavery was not
profitable in the northern States, and not
from any superior philanthropy, sympathy
for the negro, or love ofjustice and humani.
ty, tho institution was abolished in the
Worth And, as the northern States got
rid of it, the spirit OF fanaticism upon the
subject, began to grow and increase, until
not content with the fancied good it had
done at home, it began 10 meddle with the
affairs of the people Of the S oath And
this spirit of fanaticism, although blind, and
without reason, would have done DO grea
mischief il it had not fallen into the hands
Of unprincipled political demagogues, whc
saw in it the ladder to power and place
Under their nurture it hes grown to be +
formidable danger, and menaces the peac,
and integrity Of the Union.
The position Of the South with regarc
to this unfortunate controversy, has beel
one Of defense and resistance. They hav
contended for the right to be let alone il
the enjoyment of their own institutions
and for the enjoyment of the rights cOnce
ded to thomin the great COMPACT OF UNION
the constitution OF the United States. ]
is very probable that the fact that thei
institutions had been assailed by the fa
na,ics and political demagogues of tn
North, has prompted them to take measure
for their defence, which perhaps may b
te regarded as unreasonable. But, the
fud ample apology in the unjust an
senseless crusade against them, preache
up by portion of the people ofthc NORTH
We believe that the chief cause of all th
troubles which now threaten the peace {