Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1860-02-03
1)oIitital
A Voice of warning from the south.

The following letter, addressed to the
IN. Y. Observer, religious journal, and
refused by that paper, appears in the
Journal Of Commerce. 1t is said to be
from source which entities it to respect
full consideration
ATHENS, GA, Dec. Goth, 1859.
Editors ". T. Observer:
Gentlemen-I am a constant reader q
your most excellent paper, and approve
generally Of your conservative sentiments
and temperate and wise counsels But
in your issue of 18th inst, in the article
headed "Our County, our whole Coun-
try" you use this language: "We look
TO Richmond, &C., to respond, rebuke
the non-intereourse and retaliation move.
ments Of the South so foolish and pre-.
posterous, that we are compelled to won.
der that there are men anywhere so weak
or excited as to give their support tC
such injudicious measures" &c. You
proceed to call this fanaticism, &c.
beg to trespass on your patience in
order to place you right You do moi
understand, or else do not appreciate
these movements. Time pdS when
such were mere electioneering schemes
of demagogues-seeking place and power
in the South, by appealing to sectional
prejudices-just as similar demagogues
have excited northern fanaticism by like
appeals. The difference then aoas that
conservatism nearly always triumphed al
the South, (and could philosophize and
show you the reason in our social sys-
TEN, but the demon aroused by northern
demagogues has become uncomfortable
by them, and sectionalism triumphcd
there. Your mistake lies in supposing
The present movements to have originated
in the same cause. am no politician
Messrs Editors, and have ever been ultro
conservative in my nationality. Take
my testimony, then, that you are mista.
ken. Listen to the truth /; for it con.
firms what you have long taught in YOU
columns.
! The sober, rejecting, conservative
men of the South, who for years have
rebuked sectionalism at home, and strug
glcd and hoped and prayed for the con
tinuance of our great Union, are non
fast becoming convinced that in the de
crees Of Providence, early to be execu
ted, IS tie dissolution Of this Union -
They mourn over the conviction, bu
they cannot shut their eyes to the fact
You and other good and true men tell us
the fanatics are but handful, and tn,
heart Of the masses of the North is sound
and you point us to the Union meeting
in Boston. Philadelphia and New York
Now we believe that you are in earnest
and we believe il is true that the sym
pathizers with the Brown invasion ar,
but handful. But what mean you b,
saying that the great masses are sounC
and conservative Let us look to facts
Almost every Northern State, in its loca
government, is IN the hands of politi
cal party ensi'se'ltly sectional. A party
that does not hope ever to organize mucl
less triumph in Southern State, party
upon whose banner is inscribed "no sla.
very extension"--'no more slave States
yielding to them the need Of honesty
when they say they seek not to interfere
with slavery in the States j party
whose avowed object is to ignore plain
provisions in the Constitution, and to re
peal tho Fugitive Slave Act.
Look again. This demon Of slavery
fanatieism has entered into the various
Protestant Church organizations has d.
yided the Baptist and Methodist Church
cs; has sectionalized one branch Of
the Presbyterian Church has Donation
allied the Home Missionary Society and
the American Board for Foreign Mis-
s;ons; has threatened destruction TO the
glorious American Tract Society; is ever
showing its hideous front in every or
ganization where it can be heard, and
with every return becomes more insolent
and more rampant. .
Look again, and SEQ men clothed with
the sacred robe Of the ministry Of Christ,
and endowed with extraordinary mental
gifts, from Sabbath to Sabbath, blending
this fanaticism with our blessed religion,
until their people, less astute and able
to disconpect them, feel that their saliva
tion depends upon embracing that fanati-
cism as much MS upon embracing the Sa-
yiour See from how many communion Ia
blcs the slaYeholding Christian Is cxclu-