The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1858-11-20
NORTHERN SENTIMENT

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may shut our eyes to unwelcome facts for Ion
timer but We get nothing byit,
Many persons are in the habit of believing tn,
considerable portion of the citizens Of the No
thern States are either wholly Indifferent to slav
~ or approve of the institution This is not Sc
} Unfortunate as it is, we might as well make u
our minds to look squarely inthc face the ia,
That as far as sentiment is concerned there are n
} Ipro-slavery men in the Norh-nct one in fy
hundred. One might traveTin any Northern Stat
from morn till noon, from noon till dewy eve
and find no one man OF Northern eduction VIII
was not in the abstract opposed to slavery
4 Apologists for Southern shareholders, who hay
learned their fallacious plea in too many case
from Southern men, may be found in considerable
numbers; but nowhere can we meet with me-
who assert and maintain the rectitude of the sys
tenn of the South upon the principles of mora
right.
We often hear it said that the anti-slaver,
feelingis species of fanaticism which must di,
out, This too is grave error. The feeling ha,
been growing constantly and steadily for the last
twenty years. There has been no year or month
IN all that period when the anti-savery sentimen,
was less in extent than the month or year proceed
ing began with few and operated in a limited
sphere but it has now swelled to a mighty flood
II was at first too weak to form the basis of q
party-it is now so strong that no party save one
can withstand it. The wing party strove with it fol
brief season but was. crushed beneath the weiabt
Of Aoolitionism. The prOscriptive Buntline party
mas melted away like snow before it. HH
All the presses of the North partake of this
abolition sympathy, or else are wholly silent upon
the subject. Northern lecturers almost infallibIy
cater to this sentiment. Northern preachers are
oohged by the notions of their congregations to
denounce slave-holding as one of the cardinal
SINS Most popular among the songs sung in
Northern concerts and parlors are those which
depict the fancied hardships of slavery The
most saleable of all books are the novels in which
african slaves are made heroes and their masters
represented as villains.
The sentiment of opposition to slavery NAV be
said to be universal throughout all the non-slave
holding States. No preacher, no lecturer. no
candidate for office is tolerated in any attempt TO
justify it. No candidate for Congress could get
one vote in twenty in any Northern Congressional
DlStrict were be to declare that he believed slave
ry as 1t exists among us is right No Northern
congregation would suffer pro slavery preacher
inr single week A pro-slavery professor can.
not occupy chair in any Northern literary in
stitutioD. Antagonism to our social system Is an
Ill perFading one in the North and we only de-
'eIve ourselves when we suppose that the mem
oers OF any party are exception to this universal
Northern feeling.
very large and we fear increasing majority
" the Northern people are so earnest in their
sentiments upon this subject that they are deter.
mined to pervert all federal Legislation to the re-
tncton and ultimate suppression of this institu-
ion Which they look upon as a curse and a crime.
ney VIII be restrained neither by the solemn
eclslons OF the Supreme Federal Court nor by
he plain and papable limitations of the Constr
utlon Their declared aim is to get possession
all branches of the Federal Government and
ring its whole ponderous power to bear upon the
estricton and ultimate overthrow of slavery.
Yet IN spite of this universal anti-slavery SEN
ment there are men in the North who viii not
low 1t to influence their votes, who adhere to i,
le law and to the letter and spirit of the Con.
ituhon, who respect and govern themselves by I
e supreme judicial decisions, who recognise the
shts OF the States, who regard the national ,
rrltory as the common property of the people
all the States and who admit theoretically and ,
the right Of all to settle therein with
elf property As far as the anti-slaverv feeling
yes 'hey do not differ from many of their Black 6
neighbors, but they differ from them ,
THIS that they will not suffer their feelings and Q
onions upon that subject to influence their M
ical action. They are disposed to leave it g
mere the Constitution leaves it, They choose
disregard 1t altogether rs an element of politi t
j contest. Twelve hundred thousand Northern t
On gave their votes in 1856 to the Democratic t
hdidate and their adhesion to the Democratic D
atfOrm.
0uch maintenance of sound political princ- u
Is III spite OF that pervadng sentiment which s.
'uid, If unrestrained, lead them in an opposite (
rectiOn, is an evidence of their patriotism which
titles to our respect. Bearing constantly in a
IND that these Northern Democrats constitute =
G only barrier to that sectional party whose .
umph will be our disgrace and eventual ruin.
seems to us that there is wise forbearance on y
r part towards them. So long as they adhere =
those grand political principles which form the :
SIS of our party creed it is the extreme of fol- "
10 attempt to apply to them such tests as will :.
enate them from our cause forever. we can s
better afford to tolerate in them difference of :
inlon on minor details than to force them into -
ranks of our bitterest enemies by unreasona- =
and unnecessary exactions We should Mt !,
'st never forget that there is wide difference n
tween mere sentiment and the adoption of such n
ltment as the basis of political action. u
leans Courier. a
GOVERNOR FOR KANSAS "A dispatch from o,
lshlngtou City to Cincinnati paper. states Of
u ueo. N. Saunders, now in Kansas. will nroh n,