Civilian & telegraph., 1859-12-15
The Southern Animus

We have fallen on evil times. A spirit of dis
trust prevails throughout the Length and brcadtl
ofthe Southern portion of this great Coufedera
cy; and tho signs ass, that the North may try
but it will be all in rain, 30 recover the conf
dence of their Southern brethren. The cours
that has been pursued in the past, and the ter
rible sevslption ofthe IIarpers Ferry raid. seen
70 have made such an rnpressi@n upon the mine
of alarse purtioa of our fellow citizens of tb,
Southern States that they are not prepared tc
place any, even the slightest confidence in the
declarations of the North. How we are to live
together with such n state of things in existence
is difficult to tell When all confidence In been
destroyed, il is idle to expect eempanionship.-
Personally VIC have never been of that class oil
men, who see in every Northern man an enemy
aad discover in every Northern speech treason
against the South We can readily perceive
how man can entertain anti-sllvery views, and
promulgnte them too, and yet be ms true to the
Constitution and the Union as any man living
in the South In this country, freedom of speech
has bced ono Of our glories, one of our highest
priced prlviledges; and when il is exercised with
any thing like prudence, it is shame. that We
who boast of enjoying it, should find fault when
it utters sentiments not palatable to ourselves.
With the immense diversity of mind existing n.
mong the millions of our population it is not to
be expected that ourpeopc should see all things
in the same light. One man will look upon sla-
very as great individual and national blessing,
while another can see nothing in it but an in
divdual and national curse. 1t should rot there
fore engender personal hostility between the two,
hut be,ct mutual forcbearance. This however
has not been the case, our Northern fetlow-cit.
nens have suffered their minds to dwell upon what
they call the evil and wrong of slavery, until they
have come to entertain the mos: abhorcnt views
of evory Southern man, and have wrought them.
selves into such frenzie on the subject, that
many of them are willing to make any sacrifice
TO do away with the institution no matter how
destructive of the interests both Of the master
and his slave. Suppose the South should free
her slaves, would TIE North afford them an nsy-
lum? assuredly not, for many of the free States
by constitutional enactment prohibit their imi.
grafton thither But If they did permit it, how
In the free States at this time, as one of the most
violent anti slavery men, Henry W. Bcecher, has
declared, and which is a most remarkable testi-
mony they care almost without education, with
but little sympathy for ignorance" "TLcy can
not even ride in the cars of our city railroads.
They are snuffed ut in the house of God, or toll
Grated with i'll disguised disgust" The negro
cannot be employed ms n stone mason brick.
layer, or carpenter. ''Thcre is scarcely car.
penter's shop in New York in which n journey
man would continue TO w.rk if black man was
employed in it, There is scarcely one of the
common industries of life in which he cnn en- i.
snge. ale is crowded down, down, down, tbro'
the mort menial calings, to the bottom of socic-
ty." ave heap mpon them" says Bcecher, moral
obioqay more attrocious than that which the mas.
ter heaps upon his slave. And notwith standing
all this lift ourselves up to tulk to the South
ern people about the rights and liberties of the
human SOUL and especially the African soul"
But We commenced this article for the cxpres.
purpose of calling attention to the position.
which are being taken by the Southern press ant
the Southern people. Immediately after til,
Harpcr's Ferry foray and its devclopements,
a., .,
"""''s' " ''' '0"'"e'" ''u' ""''' """ohS 'hen
the leading journal of the Opposition in virg
niu, "Thc Richmond Whg," inferred wild,
spread if not universal sympathy with Brown.
reasonable and insurrectory movements among
the Northern people, because the fanatics among
them held meetings TO deplore tho fate. nna pro,
,ho ,;..u.h,, o,J ,,o, ,,os. ,;ro
' Wv ' ""' ''t"'
anu justly t'o' ior 'he ehorpous crime ne mac
committed, and there were none Of II contrary
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