Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-01-09
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Morals of the North.

Our beloved brethren of the North, the
men Of ideas and philanthropy, and virtuoua
distractions, have but one great grief in this
Confederacy-that their consciences suffer
because of the degree of responsibility which
is theirs, as connected with Confederacy in
which slavery exists. One would think that
o short process could be found by which to
relieve their consciences Of this dreadful NOR
al responsibility--simply by quitting the con-
nection. But the hypocrisy exposes itself
the moment the Slave States propose to re.
licve them by their own withdrawal from the
Union. And then they ignore their own
peace and philanthropy doctrines by insist
ing upon carrying war and carnage into the
South, to compel the continuance of that
very Union which was their loathing and hor-
ror. Dir. Lincoln and the Union.Savers ell
allege that they have no design against the
peace, the safety, or the institutions of the
South and all they ask Of the South is,
simply, that they should have trial, only
to prove how innocent they are. Excellent
Christians Admirable politicians Virtu-
ous philantbropists! They curse slavery,
threaten its destruction, and use all their en-
ersies to acquire the power to destroy it.
And when they think they have got this
power and are exultng in it, they suddenly
atjure it. The victim struggles. They did
not think that-for hypocrites are always
fools as we'll as knaves. He may free him
self, perhaps, before his throat is cut. If We
now can only persuade him to be quiet! There's
the rub Who shall we look to? Douglas,
Crittenden, Winter Davis, Botts-ay, Bolts !!
These tender consciences should be relieved
from the moral hurt which they suffer from
connection with Slave States.
We quit thu accordingly. We release
them.
These worldwide philsnthopists, peace men
and innocents, repudlate war, and strife, and
all bad passions.
We propose to quit them in peace, after
fashion prescribed in the Scriptures" You
90 your ways; we so ours.
Why will these Iunoceuts, who loath the
Union with the STAKEHOLDER, still insist upon
it, even at the risk of war; Alas, brethren!
They wish, themselves, to become shareholders; I;
not Of the negro, but the white races Of the
South They have long since cheated brother
ESAu, who was a simple herdsman, Of his
mess of pottsge. They would now sell him
into Egypt, and reduce him to brick-making,
without straw, that they should build them
selves mighty pyramids. Their weapons will
not prevail. But what fearful power have
they in their cunning! How dextrously do
they mask their faces with ESAu's hair, and
our poor benighted brethren, the
Patriarchs, Bell aud Crtteuden, and others,
persuade the p,or blind men that they are
the fsyorte brothers, the best friends, the
true heirs while, with cormorant appetites,
they derour the pottage; and, with irrever-
ant scorn, they mock the blessing. But the
great God of the world still governs it; and
His eyes are not blind to the acts of the
wicked. In His own good time, He will re-
sas 1ane IS u!9H esss'iss
els and the blessing shall become the curse.
Charleston Mercury.