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tha fwo sections. Norta anu sSo"S''
q, ,heir own credit Every thing they say
an the stand aside, am hotter taah uou'
.'r,no,n,e .sod. thank thee tina. am not
- ,nai nuei,can.,s The South is a land of
towards. elasterers and ignoramuses; the
North is the central seat OF purity, pie'y'
courage, science and civilization.
We should despise ourselves If we could be
rrovoked even by thesetitter reviiings into
.uch an act of injustice and folly a. to hur!
hack eni thet for epithet, or TO initiate that
fatal weakness, in which they are INDUCING.
of undertaking an adversary. We shall not
stoop to defend the South from the charge
of cowardice or tyranny. The day is too re-
cent when the South gave a leader to the war
of the Revelation and crowded its embatiiea
ranks. that war in which the South had no
interest and no earthly motive has generous
sympathy with the section which is no" pay
ing hack the debt of national dei'Verance oy
fire and sword: that day, we say, Is roo IT,
cant its blood scarcely dry, some OF its sarNi-
xors yetltying. TO require one word to be SAID
IN bebaH of Southern courage. We Will not
retort We will not deny the courage OF the
North. 1t has been shown on land ana sea,
and we fully understand that, when the strug-
Gle comes not with tie blatant abo!itonists,
who are nearly all towards. but with Tie
sober masses whom they in tend to force into
this firht--it will be no ehild's play. We are
willing TO do justice to every good quaiity
that the North can claim, to its energy, Valor,
system, aud industry, and, having made al
lowances for ALL we can calmly and, as We
venture TO suppose, intelligently. give some
reasons why we do not think that section mas
any right TO stand in the most conspicuous
place In the temple, and thank God that II
is not as this publican.
That the two people are different, that they
are as diverse in their characteristics, their sem
timents, and habits of thought and action, as
any two nations in Europe is as clear as sun
light. Frenchmen and Engiishmen are at this
moment more alike than Northerners ane
Southerners. You Will find in France grave
and unexcitable men, whom you might mis-
take for Englishmen, and in England demon
strative and enthusiastic individuals, whom
you would suppose to be natives OF France -
Similar exceptional cases may be found IN the
North and in the South: but they are merely
exceptional, and we are speaking of natlona!
charac terlstics. In the North the emigration
that gave the tone to society was, rs their
journals boast with truth, the Puritans. though
there were a Cavalier settlement even IN New
England, Dutch in New York, Swedes and
Germans in other parts of the North. and the
descendants of these men may generally to this
day, be found on the side of all that is conser-
vative in religion, morals and politics. They
are the gentlemen of the North, its arstocracy:
small, unluckily, in numbers and influence;
but they have ever been opposed TO fanatieisms
OF every kind and we know well enough thai
different state of things would exist, if the
rabble had not long ago pushed them TO the
wall. But, with this exception. the North is
Puritan, as the South is Cavalier, and we con
cede to them the Puritan virtues of courage,
economy, industry, ingenuity and self-reliance,
and II We give the other side of the. picture,
also. they have no right TO object to the truth
when they havsudealt 50 largely in faisehood
We think they will hardly deny, themselves,
that they are the most selfish race on whom
the sun of heaven ever shone No man takes
any interest in his neighbor, except to get the
better of him in a bargain. They can enter
tain strangers Hospitality, but how do they :
terrain each other The iceberg of the Poles
has as much heat and geniaIity and sympath 5
with the iceberg floating by its side, rs most Of
the New England race for each other. In this
we find an explanation of the fact that gen.
tlemen of Northern birth, who have made the
South their permanent home, are among the
their adopted land. II is because they find
themselves enc0mpassed and pervaded by Il
social warmth, a manifestation Of kindly re
gard, and aH expressive magnaniinity which
are rarely found In the iceberg regions and
because ii is human nature-eypn if il be cold
human nature--to thaw out and flow and
sparkle In the rays Of the sunshine. Such
men as Gen. GREEN, of iuustrious Revolt
tienary memory; Gen. QrITMAN, and SAR-
GEANT 5. PRENTIss, of Mississippi, and hum
dreds of Others, were born in the wrong latl-
tnde, and, making the South their homes. were
and are, as true, and. for the reason we have
mentioned, rs enthusiastic in their loyalty rs
The native citizen of the Southern States. Ii
We would have Just idea of the practical
sympathy of aboiitionsm with poverty, we
must look At the pOor-housPs in the New Eng
land towns see the poor wretches starved to
death in those institutions, or put up at auc-
non and hired out to the lowest bidder. and at
once we have a fair standard of the actual
sympathy with the poor of the men who pirate
SO loudly about the su1lerings of pampered
negroes In distant CLINE. This intense sell
hshhess, which renders them supremacy in
different to the suffering at their own doors,
makes them, OF course, callous To inconye-
hiehces, anhoyances, periis, horrors, i'll other
sections of their country. This it is which
Paraiyzes the hands of many who not ar
rayed against the South. They fear some in
jury 10 their personal comfort, in terests and
schemes, by throttling the abolition cock on
MS own dunghitl. They cannot enter into the
feelings OF the South at such a crisis as this
because they never enter into any ones feel
ings out their own, and have never learnt the
INST iessons OF practica Christianity and ofhu-
manly, In learning TO rejoice with those who
rejoice and weep with those who weep.
IL is the boast of the grim, round head col
nmn that now threatens the South, that they
are Puritans Of the Puritans, that JOHN
BROWN is OF the genuine old CROMWELL stock,
mat the blood of Puritanismi is revolutionary.
ana II burns in their veins. We know they
are they need not have told US; the child's
bright eye recoils instinctvely from those
Stern, sombre, starch, secretiNe faces which
have been significant of treasons, stratagems
and spoils for centuries. Not all the infdels,
whose blatant blasphemy ever insulted the
majesty Of Heaven and the reason of man,
have ever brought such discredit on the name
of religion, such scandal on its yirtuons pre-
cepts, nor SO demoraiized human nature Itself,
rs the canting tanaticism OF which all New
England is proud, which came TO America
for freedom OF conscience, and Immediately
forbade the worship OF God in any form but
its own. hung z uakers aud burned WITCHES
as an illustration OF its sincerity. From the
beginning II has been the same; -yisased;
turbulent; intoieraut; its base heart seethIng
with envy OF Its betters, and its tongue bah
oiing WIN aetracnon; ever frowuing upon in
nocsni enloyments, and ever INDUCING pride,
haired and malice;
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