, 1860-01-20

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1860.
THE CACSE OF THE STRIFE.
We have read with great attention, ard, we
need not say, with great pain, tic many
speeches which hare been made By the South
crn Democrats in Congress sinco the assem-
bling Of thatboly; and, VIC confess that, to cur
apprehension, they prove nothing except tho
gross Ignorance Of their respective authors, OF
the means and purposes Of the Republican
party, and Of the prevailing sentiment ol TIC
entire people Of the North. One assumption
and that as baseless as dream or crazy
,uan fantasy, is the corner stone and lo'laa"'
tioa ofthcm all: that is The avowed, or, II not
ayowed, the sscre', ,,:rpose Of the North 10
attack By political lueaus, aud If necessary
to overthrow by violence, slavery in the states
where it exists By virtue Of positive law. The
ot.scpcatcl aai emphatic deniaIs Of ali autlloF~
7at;ye Republican bodies, Of the leading and
most influential Republican journals, Of
Republican members Of Congress-, aud Of o,lor
prominent members Of the patty, aro passed
hy il silence or at most with an expression o.
rnbelief; and tic rabia ultraisrs Of Phillips,
Garrison and mcu Of that schoo! are taken as
The expression Of Republican sentiment: ane
from them deductions arc made as latal to the
,aace Of tho Seuth rs they arc injurious to the
poorlc Of tile North. To this continued, per
sistcut and unfortunate Misrepresentation OF
Northern continent, which makes Republicans
responsible for tic crimes and biundcrs Of Os-
saxatom Brown, for every rabld utterance
Of the men who would reverse Tie order ol
Providence and reform tho wor'din just day
aud.a.llaM by tho clock, for every malignant
wish aud trcasonahlc sentiment uttered or GUS
pected iu tbs Free States, tl'e excitement
which peryades the South aud which now
alarms men who were ncyer alarmed before, Is
due. We know rot what assurances. consistent
with their dignity aud self:respect, the Repuf-
licans can tender the South that they have
net repeatedly rendered 1eforc. We know no
form Of language more emphatic than that
which they have used as guaranty to their
brethren Of the seEvilc States, that their tri-
u.npi would bring nothing in its train incon.
sis.eut with the safety Of Southern interests
within constitutional limits, or destructive O;
those cut Institutional compromises by the agency
Of which, uader the protecting wing Of tlic
Union, the South has grown to te what sls:
il. II tic resolutions Of our National Con-
,.ontions, affirmed in all the Free ard in a few
II the Slave States. il the consistent and unit
quivocal declarations OF the men recog-
niz:d By the Son:h, even, Us the
cxponcnts Of Republican sentiment, il tho uni-
form action Of republican Legislative bodies;
have no weight or authority with Southern pol
ricians, and il evcry move mcnt Of the North is
to hc tortured into an attack upon the honor
nn1 rights Of the South, we cannot see where
tho rr. sent con'cs. is to end, or what will pre-
veut that catastrophe which all Republicans
would avoid. but which all the Democratic pul-
iticians oc the South unite in saying is close at
hand. 1u the discussion Of question like thu.
which divides the two sections, and which.
more than anything else in our Ia.
,ioua1 affairs is, calculated to provoke
radicalism Of opinion and action, it cannot bc
expected that respect for constitutional oblis,.
tioa will forever be able to bear up against tia,
unjust but wholesale jcnuncaliou with which
the conservative lnen Of the North are assailcd
and impulses that animate individuals. IL,
any ono Of the yocitcrouz gentlemen, who h
Congress, is belaoorins Tic North, calcula,e
how many times he could be tried for scdition
and treason without becoming reasonable and
sedilious, and lie will rot 4 figure which viii
approximately tell him how long be and his
arc now pursuing without insuriug that result
the shadow O: which has thrown them in.c
spasus Of alarm
Could the MASSES Of tho people Of tic South
ern States be informed Of the true feeling q
their countrymen Of the Nortl-could they see
as We see that Northern action OIL all qu-s
tions, will, in the crent Of q Republican tri
umph, be riEi6Iy confined within constitution
nj lmitation-tle strife would cease to-nlor
row. We appeal 10 those Southern journals
not yet seddeu with hate Of everything bear
ias the designations, Northern Or Free, Il
breast the storm which tho denaeogucs have
raised, and f:r their coan:zy's sake tell the
truth