Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-11-09
Northern Fana,,cism and southern conser.

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We believe it is the generally received opinion
that the Southern people are impusive, excitable,
and frequently rash; while the people of the North
have the reputation of being sober, said and unex-
citable This estimate of the respective characters
of the two peoples, or to large extent we are two
peoples is untrue, to some degree, as to both, and
e> ecially as to the Southern people. How far this
estimate has been engendered and strengthened by
the suppostion that climate affects the tempera-
ment-a warm climate unduly heating the blood
and stimulating the BRAIN and cold climate insur
ing healthy equilibrium to both--we shall not now
pause to consider. Theories are often cobwebs,
easily brushed away by facts and when facts can
be brought to bear to dspe them, 1t is the easiest
and most direct way to do it, we'll as the most
efcctual. '-5
Both the Northern and the Southern people are
excitable, and so are all people; but tacts prove
that in the composition of Northern society there is
excitabilty than in that of Southern society.
The Southern mind, generally, is rarely, if ever,
excited by trivial causes or by any thing unworthy
of excitement In other words the element of cx-
ciiablity in the Southern mind is seldom or never
carried to the pitch of fanaticS,n On the contrary
scarcely question can be raised at the North but
that it excitcs commotion, amt is deeply lmbued with
the element of fanatcisn. From the most import
ant, down to the most unimportant matters-nay,
even down to the most absurd and wicked notions
of bad and crazy men and women, We find the Gle
ment Of EnatciSm, at the North, assuming huge
proportions. Let facts and incidents decide.
During the last generation how many attempts
have been made to overturn social systems, to up
root change religionS, and to remodel the world
on some utopian and impraeicable basis. Abo-
tionism the head and front Of family of islns as
numerous the catalogues of folly and wicketlness
capable Of containing embracing Frecloveism,
Know Nothingism, Black Repubhcanism, Fourier
ism. and thousand and one other ss, is still daily
bringing forth its progcnics to excite the base
passions of the human heart, and to the
try: and every emanation from the hot heads and
wicked hearts of men. finds its followers by scores,
by hundreds and by thousands, at the North
Nothing seems to be too monStrous for the creduity
of large portion of the Northern people Nothing
can he originated that docs not there find numerous
followers. There is an clement of wild. rash and
reckless excitabty that pervades small portion
OF the people of the North.
How many of these isms have arisen at the South?
Not one How many have ever obtained a
foohold at the South? only ont and Of that one it
is now difficult to find man that is not ashamed
In fact, so inherent is it in the Southern character
to resent insult or an offensive remark that it is
only at the peril of personal conflict that one man
dare charge upon another that he ever Know
Nothing? Such ismS cannot live upon a Southern
soil They take no root in the Southern mind.
They only flourish in the soft heads and depraved
hearts of Northern fanatics. The Southern mind is
too we'll balanced to be swaycd by them. They and
their cmissaries alike despised, and when they
dangerous aspects, they are s lmarily deal:
with. Deceptive and unsuhstantial ideas cannot
flourish in the South We have no Wnman's Rights
societies, no Spirit rappings, Molcl Artists
shows.-none of the fanatical combinations so rife
at the North and we'll calculated to fill jails
with criminals. our aims houses with paupers, and
our Asylums with lunatics.
(! There is no class of the Southern people who
either offer submit to- insult. There is class
at the North that with Pharisaical pety make their
pretended Christian mcekness the scape goat of their
cowardly spirits. Kick and cuff Seward, Greedy,
Sumner and others of the kind as you will, they
throw themselves back upon the long ago exhausted
stock of Puritanica pety. lin our estimation small
stock at first, and whine about "persecuon!' But
! let them get among crowd of their own dupes ant
| followers where there is no danger, and they are
the braveSt fellows in all chrstendom! Theirs is
religion that would justify them alike in receiving
blow or stealing negro. With them the hiehes
seat in Heaven is reserved for the biggest rogue
provided he is not detected in his rogucry. They
are all courage where courage Is required, and al
cowardicc where cowardice i'll serve their purposes
or where danger threatens. In word, they are tn,
meanest portion of created humanity, for they per
petrate all the rascaltss they can and responsi
bic for nothing.
We might pursue this theme further but it il
probably unnecessary at present. In conclusion W
we,id warn the Southern people to be on their guar
and to watch narrowly travelling Yankees W
know not how many John Browns and Coppees ant
Cooks we may have among us, protesting to b
agents for this, that or the other Keep eye upo
them, and if they are found tampering with slaves
or heard uttering incendary expressions give then
a coat of tar and feathers and treat them to rid
upon "a colt the fold of an acorn
VOLUNTEER CoMPANIEs.-At the suggestion of
gentleman who knows what's what, the Petersbur
Press urges the young men of that city to form sew
eral volunteer companies, who may he ready at an.
emergency to defend the rights and the fireSides
the country. We suppose the Harper's Ferry in
surrecton led to the suggestion. "
If similar event had occurred within twent
miles of Washington, we suppose We might hope t
stir our young men to do something in that line
Could we hope to move them short of thisy Ever
consideration Of prudence and iorethought, as we
as town pride ought to prompt to the formation
and continuance of one or more volunteer conlpa
nies in every town in the State. I '.tDsY51
To the honor uf Fayetteville we will state, ther
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