Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-12-20
SECESSION No. Y.

DIsUNIoNIsIs SouTH AND ABoLITIoNIsTs NORTH
NOT TO BIZ CoSsuLrED-THE UNION MEN NORTH
AND SOUTH Musr SAVE THE UsIoN-THE
BORDER sLAvEHoLpINe STATES MUST BIZ AP-
rEAsED-No GENERAL HAIRxp Oh THE NORTH
AGAINST THE sorrH-GARR1sos AxDKsIrf.-
To the Psopl. South and NORTH
In considering the remedies for the present diff.
fculties OF our country 10 is essential to under.
stand the elements with which we have to deal.
There are two classes Of rpen whom tits needless
to consult
The first Of these is the South Carolina leaders
and their confederates in other States, who have
long desired the destruction Of the Union, and
avail themselves of existing circumstances as a
pretext far they concerned, to accomplish
their cherished object.
Nothing, a. these men openly avow, will deter
| them from their predetermined course, and IL
they be consulted at all their policy viii be- az it
has been In their connection with the admins
traton and their control of its newspaper organ,
to prevent all compromise and hasten the dissolu-
ton of the Government To consult such men,
when seeking means to preserve the Union, 10 but
to take enemies into your counsels.
The other class whom It is not only unnecessary
but dangerous to consult, are the extreme men of
the North who would at once rush to civil war
for the preservation Of the Union, without listen
ing to the just complaints Of the Union men of
the South. They do not seem ts reflect. that
secession arguments the one hand and Union
arguments on the other, are, in the border slave
holding States, addressed to men who are smart
Ing under'a sense Of wrong and outrage from
northern Interference with their domestic institu.
lions 1t Is but NATURAL that men 80 situated
should listen with complacency to those who
promise them relief and satisfaction by means
however desperate.
Keeping clear Of the disunionsts per SO on tie
one hand and those who would at once rush into
civil war on the other let the lovers Of the Union
North and South, particularly those Of the border
slaveholding and the middle free States on whom
the calamities Of disun!on must most heavily fall
confer together and devise, IL possible, peaceful
remedy for existing wrongs. This Is not very
difficult task IL approached In the spirit which
gave birth to the Constitution
To secure the cordial adhesion of the people I'm
the border slaveholding States, 1t Is only neces
sary to relieve them from the apprehension of Der
petual fnterferences by Northern demapogues and
fanatics, with their local affairs In several of
those States not fourth of the voters are slave
holders; but they justly consider slavery an inst-
tuition with which their more northern neig hbors
have no business to interfere and they resent such
themselves. Neither class have any interest to be
subserved by the disruption Of the Union. and no
men would be more loyal to 1t, II satisfied that
the reserved rights Of their respective Suites will
be sacredly respected.
IL Is great error to suppose that all the north.
ern men who voted for Lincoln and Hamlin have
any disposition to interfere with the rights of the
south large mass Of them are democrats who
Were driven from their party by the acts Of south.
ern disunionists, through whose insidious fn6u
ence one obnoxious issue after another culmIn,
ting with the Lecompton constitution and the act
relative to the admission Of Kansas into the Union
was attempted to be incorporated into their creed
They are as they always have been-the staupcb
friends Of State rights Another mass of those
voters Were from the old WING party, who what
ever may have been their errors in other respects
had no design or desire to interfere with southern
institutions And 1t may be safely assumed that
not one IN twenty OF those who voted the repub-
iicdn Hcke' nad the least conception that by 90
doing tney were endangering the union of the
states. How they now shrink back from the
consequences Of their own work is shown bv the
result OF The recent elections In Boston and sur
rounding towns; and II such be the reaction In
the very hot-bed Of abolitionism, what mn.t
1t be In the less excited portions of the North
In snort, Lincoln's election by a minority OF the
popular votes was the result Of diyis ons a,tfn,I
produced with a view to that result bv IN, so.tk.
"H dt'nHfontsss Themselves and now for the
purpose OF carrying out their disoroa nizing
schemes, they falsely assume that there IL settled
hatred In the North towards the South incomp,t,.
BILE with the existence Of the Union, Woe, 10
themselves as well as their country. IL thew ,b,I
succeed In infaming the whole North with the
hatred which burns in the bosoms of a t;ar,i.on
and Keitt, one Of whom calls our Constitution
" a league Vith he'll" because It protects slavery
ana Inc other pronounces 1t " accn,ssd,, became
IL does not! IL these inculcators Of popular hatred
North and South shall succeed in their infe,n,,
work, how long will Ii be before the North ,nd
the South, whether in the Union or out of II viii
preciPitate themselves upon each other in co,
met more terrible than the pen Of history has ever
yet recorded.
Lest this number should be too long, po,.,o,.
70 another my remarks upon the specific remedie,
which the occasion suggests.
AMOS KENDALL.
P.s.-Since the foregoing was written, the fol.
lowing additional evidence Of decisive reaction
In the North, has come to hand, viz.
boston, Dec. 1s.-A strong address In In. n.o.
pc Va Massdcnusetts has been published de-
nounclng the unconstitutonality Of the Pe,,.on.1
iV BIZ; and recommending its repeal, Its
signed by tnlrty-tve gentlemen inclndino p
Chief Justice Shaw, r. r Curtis. late Jndsa ~
tne 3 supreme Court, Ex-Governor IincoIn
CIuofo, Washourn, Gardner and othe, eroinan,
State. wy 'ounS IN ue
AGENTS For THE WHOLE wOpLD-a,