Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-07-12
HATRED OF THE NORTH.

1t is absolutely astounding to a stran-
ger who aims at the preservation of de-
cent neutrality to mark the violence of
these opinions. "If that confounded ship
had sunk with those Pilgrim Fathers
on board" says one, "we never should,
never, have been driven to these extrem-
tiles :" "We could have got on with the
fanatics if they had been either Christians
or gentlemen" says another, "lor, in the
first place, they would have acted with
common charity, and in the second place
they would have fought when they insul-
ted US; but there are neither Christians
or gentlemen amongst them" Anything
on earth" eXclaims third, "any form of
government, any tyranny you will but
and here is an appeal more terrible
than the adjurations of all the Gods
" nothing On earth shall ever induce US to
submit to a union with the brutal, bigoted
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black guards of the New England States,
who neither comprebnd nor regard the
feelings of gentlemen. Man, woman,
and child, we'll die first"
Imagine these, and an infinite variety
of similar sentiments uttered by courtly,
well-educated men, who set great store
on the nice observance of the usages Of
society, and who are only moved to ex
treme bitterness and anger when they
speak of the North, and you will fail TO
conceive the intensity of the dislike OF
the South Carolinians for the free States.
There are national antipathies on our
side of the Atlantic which are tolerably
strong but they are all mere indifference
and neutrality of feeling compared with
the animosity evinced by the "gentry" of
South Carolina for "the rabble OF the
North"
There is nothing in all the dark caves
Of human passion so cruel and deadly as
the hatred the South Carolinians profess
for the Yankees. That hatred has been
swelling for years, till it is the very life
blood of the state. II has set South Car
olina to work steadily TO organize her re-
sources for the struggle which she lnten-
ded to provoke if it did not come in the
course of time. "Incompatibility Of tenn
per" would have been sufficient grounds
for the divorce, and am satisfied that
there has been a deep rooted design, con-
ceived in some mems minds thirty years
ago, and extended gradually year after
year to others, to break away from the
Union at the first opportunity. The
North is to South Carolina a corrupt and
evil thing, to which for long years she has
been bound by burning chains, while mo-
nopolsts and manufacturers fed on her
tender limbs. She has been bound in a
Maxentian union to the object she loathes.
New England is to her the incarnation of
moral and political weakness and social
corruption. 1t is the source of every
thing which South Carolina hates, and
the torrents of free thought and taxed
manufactures, of abolition and filibuster-
ing which have flooded the land. Be
lieve a Southern man as he believes him
self, and you must regard New England
and the kindred states as the birthplace
of impurity of mind among the men and
of unchastity of women-the home Of
free love, of Fourierism, of infdelity, OF
abolitionism, of false teachings in politi-
cal economy and social life; land sat
urated with the drippings of rotton phil |
osophy, with the poisonous infections OF a
fanatic press without honor or modesty, |
whose wisdom is paltry cunning, whose
valor and manhood have been swallowed
up in a corrupt bowling demagoguery,and
in the marts Of a dishonest commerce.
R,sSers Letter 10 tie london Times.