Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-07-05
Hatred of the North.


1t is Absolutely astounding to stranger
who aims at the preservation Of decent
neutrality to mark the violence Of these
opinions. IF that contounded ship had
sunk with these ---- Pilgrim Fathers on
bsard," says one, "we never should, never
have been driven 10 these extremities p
ave could have got on with the fanatics if
they had either been Christians or gentle
men, says another, "for, in the fist place
they would have acted with common charity.
and in the second place they would have
fought when they insuted us but there are
neither Christians nor gentlemen among
them" Anything on earih," exclaims
third, "any form of government, any tyran-
ny you will; bul"-and here is an appeal
more terrible than the adjuraions of all the
Gods-"nothing on earth shall ever induce
us 10 submit to q union with the brutal, big
oted blackguards of the New England
States, who neither comprehend nor regard
the feelings Of gentlemenl Man, woman
and child, wen die first"
Imagine these, and an infinite variety of
similar sentiments utterd by courtly, well
educated men, who set great store on the
nice observance of the usages of society,
and whe are only moved to extreme bitter
ness and anger wien they speak of the
North, and you will fail TO conceive the in
tensity of the dislike of the South Caro-
linians for the free states. There are ma
tional antipathies on our side of the Allan
tic which are toleraby strong but they
are all mere Indifference and neutrality of
feeling compared to 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. 1t mas set South Carolina TO work
steadily to organize her resources for the
struggle which she intended TO provoke if
it did not come in course of time. "Incom-
patiblity of temper" would have been suf-
| fcient ground for the divorce, and | am
satisfied that there has been deep rooted
I design, conceived in some mems minds
thirty years ago, and extended gradually
year after year TO others, 10 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
monopolists and manufacturers fed on hel
tender limbs. She has been bound in
Maxsntian union to the object she loathes
New England is to her the incarnation O
moral and political weakness and social cor
ruption. 1t is the scource of everything
which South Carolina hates, and the tor
rents of free thought and taxed manufact
ures, of abolitionism and filbustering which
have flooded the land. Believe southern
man as he believes himself, and you mus
regard New England and The kindred state.
as the birthplace of impurity of mine
among the men. and of unchastity of womer
the home of free love, of fourrierism, o
iufdelity, of abolitionism, of false teaching.
in political economy and social life lane
saturated with the drippings Of rotton phil
osophy, with the poisonous infections of ;
fanatic press; without honor or modesiy
whose wisdom is paltry cunning, whose val
or and manhood have been swallowed ur
in a corrupt bowling demagogy, and in the
marts of dishonest commerce. Russell.
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