Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-12-24
A Plea for the North.

North.
The absurd attempt of two nations to live together
under common government, Injuries the North too as
wei as the South but the sort Of injury is different
The Union while it lasts puts money in both pockets Of
the North and hurts only its feeling and moral senti
ments. We shall do ourselves the violence to admit
Qor the sake OF argument) that all that benevolent
moral sentiment of our Northern brethren is sncct
and unafected-that the people of the North do Seri
ously feel the legal sanction of slavery and savehod
ing to be blot on the honor of their country Con
slider, them their hard they profoundly feel that
man ought not to be chatte yet they help to SUP
port Federal Government, and are amenabe to the
jurisdiction of Supreme judiciary, which airms that
shocking principle, and acts upon it, and compes them
to act upon 1t. They made by law hunters and
captors of fugitive slaves they compelled by law
to tolerate system which is based upon total indfer-
ence theoretical Indifference at east as to whether
the common Territories Of the Republic shall be abods
and strongholds of the Slave Power or not. This
is all very hard how Northern brethren meet
the reprovlng gaze of the nneteeh century? How
they maintain their friendly relations with the civilized
world, under these circumstances? We would be in
cined most respectfully to urge upon them remedy
tor all this the only practical and sufficient remedy
are aware of, namely the dissolution Of the Unon-but
| for cOnSideratiOn-the Union pays them for all
these humiliaons and it is generally believed that
our Northern brethren always prepared to submit
to humiliation and to sacrifice put in allegiance
tieIr sacred moral sentiments for pecuniary consider
alton.
Even as to that " wild theory that Southern plant
erS ought to be allowed to purchase their field hands
in the cheapest market, that is in Africa where field
hands grow it is held by many that the Northern phi
anthroplss will not vehementy oppose this measure
seeing that however revolving to their moral sense,
is certain to be highly profitable to their business
houses In fact, the multiplication of slaves at the
SoIth would be more beneficial to NorthernerS than
even to the Southern planters themselves; and
Sarlca sardonc ard rreverent politicians do say that
when this question of the African savc-trade shall be
fully opened and discussed before the people, it will
lind more warm advocates at the North than at the
South.
This is unhandsome and illiberal it assumes that
our n Orthern brethren are more influenced by cOnsd
cratl0ns OF trade and traffic than by principles OF mon
atty and sentimenality. TO the suspicious mind there
might seem in this iliberal inference for
undoubtedly Northern philanthropists make a good
thing of the negro and negro productions Their ships
are trelghted, their warehouses filled by the slave
power and the civilized world begins to surmiSe that
they submit to the black blot the escutcheOn of their
country because it pays. Worse than this, the civilized
world begins to suspect that their horror of slavery
mere pretence-that they prefer reights and commits
sions to human freedom !'-and that their sectional
quarrel with the South must be rather (ndeed solely
and exclusively for political power and government
plumber.
There is one way in which the North can relieve 1t
self from all these unpleasant surmses and from the
vi DelllS luduc nOG only CONSERVING hJ
to such system, but balf, police officer and Gala
boose keeper for the Slave Power it is to secede from
the Union.
There is other mode in which they might possibly
save their dignity, their feeling and their moral sen
ment-and we think of no third way-lt is to con
quer the South by force of If they think they can
do ttat one understand why they contlue IN INC
Union
There many hard, home hits in the above aruce
and vet with the general tone of it. we are not prepared
to agree. We are not prepared to be dsunionists pei
se-the South is not-nay South Carolina herself is not
Then, what is the in talking Of what people don't
really mean or intend We don't like anything that
not real.