The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-06-21

81 Southern Dlsllke OF the N0rths &c.
We make below, few extracts from the
letters Of Mr.. RUSSELL, published in the
London Times. The following letter, evil
IDENTIFY commenced at Charleston, bears date
of April 30, and appears in the Times OF
May %:
WHAT THE SOUTH WANTS.
Nothing could say can be worth one
fact which has forced itself upon my mind
in reference to the sentiments which prevail
among the gentlemen of this State. have
been among them for several days.. have
visited their plantations, have conversed
with them freely and fully, and l have en-
joyed that frank, courteous, and graceful
intercourse which constitutes an irresistible
charm of their society. From all quarters
has come to my ears the echo of the same
voice; it may be feigned, but there is no
discord in the note, and it sounds in won
derful strength and monotony all over the
country. .t
Shades of George ILL.,, of North, of John
son, of all who contended against the great
rebellion which tore these colonies from
England, can you hear the chorus which
rings through the state of Marion, Sumpter
and Pinckney, and not clap your ghostly
hands in triumph? That voice says, "If we
could get only one of the royal race of Eng.
land to rule over US, we should be content"
Let there be no msconception on this point.
That sentiment, varied in hundred ways,
has been repeated to me over and over
again. There is general admission that
the means to such an end are wanting, and
that the desire cannot be gratifed. But
the admiration for monarchia institutions
on the English model, for privileged classes,
and for a landed arstocracy and gentry,
is undisguised and apparently genuine.
With the pride OF having achieved their
independence is mingled in the South Carroll
mans hearts strange regret at the result and
consequences, and many are they who
"would 60 back to morrow if we could"
An intense affection for the British connec>
ton, love of British habits and customs,
a respect for British sentiment, law, author
ity, order, civilization and literature, pre-
eminently distinguish the inhabitants of this
State, who, glorying in their descent from
ancient families on the three islands, whose
fortress they still follow, and with whose
members they maintain not unfrequently
familiar relations, regard with an aversion
of which it is impossible to give an idea to
one who has not seen its manifestations, the
people of New England and the population
of the Northern States, whom they regard
as tainted by the venom of " Puritanism."
Whatever may be the cause, this is the fact
and the effect.
DISLIKE OF THE NORTH.
1.-The State of South Carolina was" am
told, "founded by gentlemen" 1t was not
established by witch. burning Puritans, by
cruel prosecuting fanatics, who implanted in
the North the standard of Torquemada, and
breathed into the nostris of their newly
born colonies all the ferocity, blood thirsti-
ness, and rabid intolerance of the Inquisi
ton. 1t is absolutely astounding to a
stranger who aims at the preservation of a
decent neutrality to mark the violence of
these opinions. eff that COMPOUNDED ship
had sunk with those - Pilgrim Fathers on
board" says one, 1--WE never should have
been driven to these eXtremeties !" "We
could have got on with the fanatics if they
had been either Christians or gentlemen"
says another "for in the first case they
would have acted with common charity, and
in the second they would have fought when
they insulted us but there are neither
Christians nor gentlemen among them"
Anything on earth p exclaims a third,
"any form OF government, any tyranny or
despotism you will but"-and hear is an
appeal more terrible than the adjuration of
all the Gods-"nothing on earth shall ever
induce us to submit to any union with the
brutal, bigotted blackguards of the New
England States, who neither comprehend
nor regard the feelings of gentlemen! Man,
woman and child, we'll die first" Imagine
these and an infinite variety of similar sem
timents uttered by courtly, welleducated
men, who set great store on nice obser.
vance of the usages of society, and who are
only moved to extreme 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
The contests of Cavalier and Roundhead,
of Vendean and Republican, even of Or
angemen and Croppy, have been elegant
joustiDgs, regulated by the finest rules of
chivalry, compared with those which the
north and south will carry on if their deeds
OuPROAU ShCA WOAuSs 4muIOl t0l udtC, GuC
study of revenge" will actuate every blow,
and never in the history of the world, per-
haps, will 60 forth such dreadful "a victis
as that which may be heard before the fight
has begun. There is nothing in all the dark
caves of human passion so cruel and deadly
as the hatred the South Carolinans profess
for the Yankees. That hatred has been
swelling for years till it is the very life blood
of the State. 1t has set South Carolina to
work steadily to organize her resources for
the struggle which she intended to provoke
if it did not come in the course of time.
"Incompatibility of temper" would have
been sufficient ground for the divorce, and
1 am satisfied that there has been deep
rooted design, conceived in some mems
minds thirty years ago, and extended grad
ually year after year to others, to break
away from the Union at the very first op.
portunity. The North is to South Carolina
a corrupt and evil thing, to which for long
vQQrc che has hpon hnup1 hx,h urp,r~~ 10,