Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-01-10

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self into all the social, religious, an'
political relations Of the North, :
This sanalieism nov labors under ibt
self;inspired conviction, that 1t is God
commissioned to overthrow the in
stitution Of slavery.
4 We have been told at times By
hopeful politicians that it was dead
Little did they understand its nature
and ne1rsighted was their view. /
only slept, at times, to arise refresh
ed and armed with greater vlgOr. :
lit has never halted in its progress
Oar wisest Statesmen, North anc
] South, have predicted the appalling
reality which now irowns upon oul
distracted country Henry Clay
,,iu 1883, with a p1triot's warning
and a prophets voice, ioretold its
bloody stages in the road to the dis,
solution of the Union. without Il
timely check. Wa were told, and
many cherished the illusion, that we
would see the end, in the settlement
of the Kansas troubles. never be-
llieved it, and have lrsqnen ntly warn
ed my country men OF the deipslon.
The Kansas struggle WIS only man.
ifesiajion of abolilioDism. The whole
his tory of our gostrnmehI shows,
! hat, whenever occasion offered, The
abolition elsmen: quickened into VI
tally, and begsn 10 move OF IN that
dire ciiun. Hence after we have
trailed John Brown, by biz tracks Of
blood, through Kansas, We see him,
cmb, ldtned by success aud lmpu-
ui,v, strike at the heart Of slavery
iu Virgiaia = hoping to ignite train
of combustion which weuld wrap the
South iD the blaze of servlle insur-
rection. We know that all who arc
iu abolition afliliation, are not aoan-
doned 10 thc desperate r1allgniiy OF
Johu Brown. But We have asSu-
rance that many OF them have led
upon the same meat, aud wonld have
reioiced at the complete success OF
his diabolical machiuatioos. "A S
proof, | sill resdss on an extract from
The communication Of "a NORTHERN
MAN. in the Philadelphia Christian
Observer, NV. %, 1860
( .'lf the North will abide by it
Ghe constitution) in good filth, the
South as in honor bound will all
here TO if, even though to their own
hurt. Thy will not shake off fHlle'
eisnce to il unless convinced by the
spceebes of ultra Black Republ!eans,
see smingIy endorsed b5 the popular
vote of the North, that in the con-
stitn:ion Of their country there shall
be to them no protection from an
..irrp pressible conflict which would
net only exclude them from lerrito-
ries which TIER Own aims helped
to couqner aad their treasure to Buy
but Will be driven onward Tor the
destruction of four thousand millions
of nrnn,tty which they hold In their
siayes a cot ilict which will end IN
nothing sho,t Of setting loose upon
them .foul millions of semi-barbarl'
ans to pillage and plunder, and De,
yas,ate their estates, to outrage and
kill thtir wives and daughters
and finally to wash out the stain o
their barbsrity in the blood OF sons
fathers, and husbands. That ther'
are fanatics in the country eapG6l'
of eahorting such things, dam0rng 4
overfun, and Orertmn, and orerfurr
untii. on the ruins cf this repu6ll
i hep shall be able to SET np"an ant,
/ slarery Bible, an anti-siGrery Goa
and an anti slauery Constfut'0" !"
! one can deny." :
! Here is depravity which has i'm
bibe.l It's cclor from the ''blacknes
1 Of darkne ss." / do not lift the Vel
to stir your Indignation; but to re
Iyeal the truth that you may com
prehend the magnitude OF on: dan
gers, and tax your patriotism an
wisdom to prepare a remedy. "
us calmly pursue our investigator
land endsayer to-get down bensat
: the surface Of party platforms TIA
{ We may find and analyze The ei'
ments which aIs at work 10 Ii
| North, and see whittier they al
!. drifting. Gnl three elements the
at work which, 10 my Opinion, Is n
j met and crushed by the force al
4 power Of the government, will, 500
d er or later, outgrow anil o'erturn u
S government itself
IL They are: i. A pergerslon Of I
i. social feelings.