The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-08-14
From the Hartford (Coun.) Times.

NJ eSSrS. EQltOfS-l SEM you tue euCioseo ,
thinking that perhaps you might be disposed
to republish it in the Times, and oblige
A SUBSCRIBERS.
Enclosed with the above letter we found
tn @ following article. Itwas originally pub
lished in the Cabotville (Mass.) Mirror. and
copied into the Times, August 18th, 1948.-
What terrible troubles might have been
avoided had its eloquence and prophetic
warnings been needed!
MADNESS.
We have read of two bitter foes meeting
on plat of ground, beside deep precipit-
Gus chasm They engaged hand to hand.
steel to steel, in the strife. One Of them at
length. feeling that his opponent was getting
tn better of him: grappled in, and strove to
bear his antagonist 10 the ground. They
struggled, they wrestled, the bent back wards
and forwards, and swaved on either side. In
the nerceness of the strife, they approached
the edge OF the cliff. Suddenly one of them,
by a mighty effort, and Ringing his whole
weight and strength towards the brink. bore
his foe Onward. and, in a deadly embrace
they both fell crashing, bloody, lifeless,
down in to the abyss below.
After all the blood and treasure, toll and
suffering; after all the prayers and watchings,
faith and hope, in which was laid the glor-
Gus Union of these United States; after all
the glorious results, aud ri CHI fruitions OF this
Union; after all the power. the happiness,
the wealth. the prosperity and the harmony
which have fallen into the lapse of two
ger er,tions, as the fruits OF that blessed
'Uuion,' is one general sovereignty of many
independent States; alter all the trium phs o:
war and peace which have add. ed glory to
hal ri,, oh IF : In
after all the haliowed, and holy aud sublime
deeds aud events Of the past and brighter,
greater, holier visions of the future; after al!
the fond hopes and strong faith of millions
of the oppressed and )wn-trodden in the
old world, who have gazed and watched our
rising brightness as the glad star of promise
to the world; after all this, and after we have
attained position among the nations of the
earth such as was never reached since the
creation. powerful. peaceful, harmonious at
home, honored abroad, happy and free-now
with insane madness, we must stir up the
bitter waters of contention between th e
North aud the South. With a suicidal reck-
lessness, we will urge on the crisis. What
though we can hear the silken cords of fra
ternIty cracking. and see thread after thread
parting, we will not falter. No! taunt the
hot Southron with the black plasue-spot
which be caught from Northern cup,dity;
curse him for his mis'ortunes; icer him for
his preiudices; madden him by our power;
twit him Of his poverty. and then sneerlngly
dare him to sever the Union.
Oh it is vastly fine, it is trauscendently
humane and philanthropic for us to talk and
dec lain about slavery, to mount the car of
liberty and ride in triumph over one half of
these peaceful happy States. 1t is high and
noble conduct after series of gross attacks
and aggressive movements, which have com
PEELED the South TO stand on the defensive
then TO hold up our hands in pjous horror at
the deep depravity of the South aud affect
to wonder men can be so wicked. How
lovely, how becoming in US, after pi.ing in
suit and indiguty on the STAKEHOLDER, and
arousins the fiery spirits Of the fervid South
almost to frenzy. to raise our hands aud eyes
to Heaven, and give thanks that we are not
as other men are, even as those shareholders
yonder. Oh yes; and at them again. APP
ply the scourge; talk of humanity and laugh
at your brother. He is STAKEHOLDER and
you are not-he is weak and you strong
-he Is sinner and you saint. ledge
HIM in; surround him with high wall;
chain him TO rock; laugh at his struggles;
boast OF your own strength and riches aud
then dare him to secede from the Union.
Such seems to be the chosen course of
some OF our superfne patriots and philau-
thropsts of the North, if we may Judge by
the gusto with which many journals fling
all manner OF taunts and opprC brious cpl
thets at the ''slaveocracy" OF the South 1t
Is not a labor of love, but orc of bitter hate
Reason Is thrown to the winds; Kindness and
fraternal feeling has given place to q strue-
Gle for supremacy. No sympathy Is felt for
their misfortune; no allowance is made for
their position: no consideration for the in
tlrmitles of human nature; but with whip and
spur they dash on upon their Southern
brothers. This is all noble, humane, and
high minded now.
But when they have goaded the South
on to the very brink of desperation; when,
as the legitimate and nevitabe results of
their own mad ca eer, they shall hear crash
ing around them the tumbling fragments of
our own once glorious and magnificent tenn
pie; when our land shall be full OF petty
Powers, rival States, and Jealous Principali-
ties; when revolutions, instructions. and in
ternal wars shall lay waste the land; when
vexatious tariffs shall lay waste the Ian !;
when veXa,ious tariffs shall hedge up the
commerce of one State with anot her; when
brother meets brother in battle; when our
land becomes, like other lands, the scene of
miSru!e, strife and ruin-then, perhaps. these
patriotic, humane lovers of
their kind may begin to think that there was
some reason Tor the earnest ard suprlicatory
cry-to'bear. 1t is pleasant and delightful
non to rail at those who strive for PEACE
those who will not pluck out an eve for the
sake of removing mote which is in it
lou who are so aboundng in love to all
mankind that you are willing to plunge your
country in all the horrors of civil aud SER
vile war. go on-from your Northern and
your Southern parties threaten, bully and |
taunt each other; call all those who have
the courage and the Independence to act for
the good OF the whole, in spite of all outward
pressure ughfaces;" yield not hairs