East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-02-02
southern Treatment Of Northern Men--
Tho Cause Of Rec nj OccuTrences.

southern Treatment of Northern Men--
Tho Cause OfFlCccni Occurrences.
From the Georgia Patriot aud Union.
The extreme, and in many cases un-
Just measures taken in the South to ex-
pei persons suspected of entertaining an
ti-slayery opinions, are not calculated 20
aliay the excitement agitating the coun
try, or to elevate our opinions of southern
prudence and discretion Much as we
sympathize with the apprehenSions Of a
people who may be the victims OF scryile
fury excited 10y the operations of few
active and reckless incendiares, we can
not but regard the recent expulsion of
some northern men as hasty and unjust
1t is natural that, when the southern
mind is excited and cXaspemted to the
highest degree, every northern man
should be scrutinzcd with a jealous eye,
but it is learluliy imprudent and unjust
to proceed against them upon mere sus-
picion. Several cases OF this nature have
recently occurred in the South which
every moderate man must lament and
which many OF the most reasonable south
ern papers denounce.
Northern men have been compelled to
leave and some have been violently treat
ed to a coat of tar and feathers. We are
not prepared to say that this violent treat
ment was in all eases undcserved, but
presumption is that it was in number
Of instances, from their occurring at a
/ time OF great excitement, when danger
and anger tend to Danish calm investaga.
ton. The southern people have a right
/ to protect themselves by all means against
anti-Siavery cmissarics who would tampcl
with their slaves y northern farmer who
who would detect a man in the act OF fir
/ inghis house or barn, or poiSning his food
or plotting with his domestics to murder
him at the dead hour of the night, would
not consider the summary punishment OF
q coat Of tar and feathers too severe fol
tho nature of the offence. The crime o
whispering rebellion in the ears Of slave.
is fully as dangerous to the lives ola south
ern planters family, aad equally provo
cativc of the administration OF promp
punishment. 1t is an absurdity to tall
of the right Of northern men to preamha
late the South scattering tircIrands M
der the plea Of free speech, and exceed
iugly unjust to complain Of the South 70
checking such inccndaries. BIT the
necessity OF selt-protecton does not iusti
fy 4 resort to extreme measures. Ever,
northern man at the South is not an abo
litionist, nor every one who speaks al
. idle word an eacmv in disguise, worth
Of expulsion with every mark Of persona
indiguitv. Let the South act with rru
dence, and not be hurried into tho con
, m ssion OF oatragcs which must damaG
. Just cause and weaken the bonds ofSyu
pathy and union.
some Of the republican journals al
, making the most Of those occurrence
v and pointing to them aS the natural fruit
Of the Institution Of slavery, andcyidcnc
Of the 'revoiting brutality OF the south
!. crn population.
The northern agitators are directly r
sponsible for these lawicSS Performance,
" a if they were the immediate actors
5 Violence bcgcts violence, They Ia,
, invoked the storm, aud now complain
~, its scathing effects. ifthey really dcsit
to pat an end to this excitement tn.
y can do so by ccasing their sectional a
It grcsSionS, and in a short time we won
have no more of acts of injustice inHict,
. upon northern men by the people Of Il
South.