Year: 1861

The South is not afraid Of us. The popular i'm
preston they have Of us is this: We are msera-
BILE set Of schemers, destitute Of every element of
honorable pride, and entirely unconscious Of the
first element Of patriotism--a nation Of selfish
pinching shopkeepers, close-fsted farmers, with
whom gain is godlness; unprincipled and greedy
politicians, who are ready to sell out their cGnstit-
ueuts, as their constituents are to sell out their
wares, far more ready to com promise than to de.
fend any position. When they approach us, they
seem to expect to hear us swear, and to see us
stamp, declaring we will never, no neverl But
they understand us better than 1e do ourselves,
and persevere Till the end 10 gained. No, wo would
not tave Texas-not we-but we had to take her
for all that. Then Texas should not have ten mil


lions; bat Texas did get tea millions for all that


Then slavery should never go to New Mexico; but
slavery ID there now for oil that. We never would
hunt slaves under the Fugitive Slave Law; bu. we
do hunt them for all that They should never re-
peal the Missouri ConIrtmise; Tut they did
repeal it for all that; and the fact is history shows
that the North has never been able to stand
against the power and purposes Of the South. IT,
deed, if compromise could possibly save the
UniOn,the Union could easily be saved; but thanks
to the spirit of tyrants, they want compromise.
They have got sick Of our company, and don't
want to associate with us any longer on any terms,
and they sphrh the compromises which we are
SO ready to make. Hence, we tako it that the
Union is and will remain at an end Those who
have looked forward to the dissolution Of the
Union as the one thing needful to the abolition Of
slavery, and remain of that faith still, may we'll
rejoice, as Mr. PHLLIPs does, for the fact of dis
union is indeed accomplished. To us, however.
the event does not seem quite so auspicous. The
Union is gone. but slavery remains; and we may
well ask ourselves what will be the probable effec,
OF the separation upon the question Of slavery
VIII the South become less intensely slaVeholdng
and the North more ant-slsvery


We anticipate neither result For ten years al
least we have seen that disubion was no remed "
for slavery, and hold the same view now. Once
let the independence of the slave States be recog
nized, as 1t will be by our Republican Admins
tratiop, and from that moment the question be-
gins to lose its hold upon the Northern mind and
conscience as question with which we of the
North have nothing further to do. We may speak
Of it and write of it, it is written of and spoken
Of in England, as a thing of foreign interest over
which we have no power, and. therefore, no re-
spOnsbili.y. Our pulpit, now largely silent, will
become absolutely dumb on the subject, and the
moral sense of the North will in few years prob.
ably die out; and thus will end the thirty years
moral warfars with the accursed slave system.
The Abolitionists have done their best, by moral
means they have faithfully exposed evil; they
have argued and expostuated with the slavehold-
ers. No cause was ever more faithfully advocated.
Learning, eloquence, zeal and ability and life it.
SELF have oil been freely laid the altar of the
slaves cause. Mountain testimonies for truth,
justice and humanity have been piled up to be read
~ Aitercoming generations. These will be perus-
ed with wonder and amssement. that the words Of
eternal truth we:e so little Needed by the slave
holders of the present generation. They will
wonder that against such warnings any people
could be SO head strong aud determined 10 rssh on