St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-06
North and South.


papers, with rare exceptions, are
charging upon the North, exclusively,
the responsibility Of the present dis
turbcd state of public feeling and hold
up the South as the aggrleved party !;
there are presses in the Slave States
that take q fairer view of the ques-
ton, and plainly show that the North
has more intolerablc wrongs and
greater grievances to complain OF at
the hands of the South, than the South
can claim or prove against the North.
Thus to the clamor so perslstently
raised about the personal liberty
laws" and their effect upon the CHI
forccment of the Fugitive Slave Act,
the Missouri Democrat responds by
the following striking recital OF South
ern aggressions upon the North:
But how stands the account be-
tween the North and the south !
Which section has more offended
against the Constitution, which says
that the citizens Of each state shall
be entitled TO all privileges and i'm.
munitics of citizens of the several
States Have not citizens OF the Free
States been prosecuted, robbed, lynch
ed, expelled, or hanged in many OF the
Slave States? The atrocities in lex
as are still fresh in the public rccol-
lection. and some of them are too
shocking to relate. Ministers OF the
gospel, teachers. governcsscs, artl-
sans, commercial travellers, pcddscrs
Yankees, Irishmcn and Germans. have
been tarred and fcathcrcd, scourGcd
and driven out, hanged, and burned
r at the stake by ruf1ian mobs III tho
Slave States, on bare suspicion, or Oh
, the testimony of negroes.
The American citizen from Free
, State who finds himself in South Car
, olna, Georgia or Texas, has no safe
;. guard in the Constitution of his coun
r try. 1t is dead letter as far as h'
+ individually is concerned. He ma,
cry ont under the scourge, | am al
American citizen, but it will not re
h duce the number Of his stripes
4 Neither can he obtain the slightes
O redress. Systematic outrage of thl
nature by Southern mobs is the prln
II cipal cause of the opposition evlnce'
a by some of the Northern States to tlI
:. Fugitive Slave Law. What sorr.
fpure South Carolina cuts in maxim:
70 complaints of the North when sh
- has the audacity to put colorcd cit
Is zcns of Massachusetts in irons, vii
happen to come into Charleston !
Northern vessels We say that a
n laws should be enforced that eve
n, the Fugitive Slave Law should be CT
forced to the letter, but nevertheless
we saw that the South should pluc
!, the beam ont of its own eye before
points at the mote in the eye OF II
brother. Arc there no rights but til
&c rights of shareholders
II Citizens from the Free States rcsl'
d ing in, or travelling through the Slav
States, have been robbed, not only
4 their constitutional, but Of their nat
!. raj rights rODOcd not o"ly VI u
right of domicile and transit, but
their property, their freedom, an
their lives. If the thing be at a
|. practicable, let new guarantees be !
"a tcrclangcd for maintaining the inviol
* bilty Of the Constitution in every OF
az tho thirty three States but il II
rs not practicable, let the complaint
Snuthcrn States come before the \
tional tribunal with clean hands Il
Il them secure to Northern and forcigl
It born citizens within their jurlsdictlc
the common rights conferred by Il
Constitution of the United States,
at once abandon the role Of injured i
is noccncc, and cease their clam"
IL about the violation Of the Fugiti'
Slave Law.