Year: 1860

/ of immortal beings, gifted in the mass with
/ the rudiments, at least, of such powers as
make men in the instance great,-would be
capable of discriminating between the right
and wrong, by the pure light Of reason and


the exercise Of a sound judgment Some are


but many are not To bring the matter home


to ourselves, what do we see in these United


States of America No less a spectacle than


this. Hundreds of thousands of sentient and


So called rational beings, whose VIEWS re-
garding all matters connected with the best
interests of their country, may be determined
/ bv the simple enquiry, "Where were you
/ born ?" or "What section of the Union do you
hail from % One is a Southerner, and thinks
that all the legislation in Congress should be
directed TO the exclusive benefit of the South.
Another is a Northerner, and he thinks that
Southern rights or Southern institutions
should receive no consideration at all. Sug-
gest to them policy for the General Gov
ernment to pursue, and they Immediately set
to work to see whether it is going to be OF
especial advantage to their section and OF
especial detriment to the other. Without in
quiring into principles; without aseertaining
the true character Of the proposed policy as
to justice, rs to wisdom, as to expedeney, as
to the furtherance of the general good, they
make up their minds at once, either for or
against it, upon the barren ground that one
is a Southerner and the other is not. If n
Southern statesman, of large and liberal
views, sees Justice in measure which is ad-
vocated by the North and concludes TO ap-
prove it, he is denounced, by thousands who
! know nothing about the measure except that
it is not to the direct advantage of the South,
as "a traitor to the land of his birth" If a
Northern statesman, upon the other hand of
equally large and liberal views, sees justice
in a measure advocat ted by the South and ap-
proves it, the howl is Immediately raised
around his ears that he is "a Northern dough.
face and miserable trucker to Southern opin-
ion" As though there could be, in the fitness
of things, either Northern or iSouthern
opinion as though the human mind operated
]
other way in a southern; as though right was
/ right in the Tropic of Cancer but ecrong in
the Tropic of Capricorn as though the eter-


nal laws which govern the human under


standing were changed and shifted according
tc the circumstances of climatology or geo.
graphical position. How paltry and how
| pitiful is the being who will stand up and
say, 81 believe thus and so because was born
and raised in the South" or 81 am opposed to
this or that policy, of course, because was
born and brought up in the North" The
danger to this Union is from the blind votes
of these unreasoning swine, driven on by the
sectional demagogues who use them for their
own individual advantage.


Why, even in the great matters " hich con.
cern eternity and the salvation of the immor.
tal soul, we see the people of this Union, in
thousands of instances, making up their minds
according to the accidents of geographical
position. We see the "meek and lowly fol-
lowers of Jesus" divided into a Northern and
q Southern Church. Guided or pretending
to be guided by the same Bible, and worship


ping or pretending to worship at the foot of
the same eternal throne, the Northern re-
ligionist thinks slavery is wrong, because he
is Northerner and the Southern relgionist
thinks it is right because he is Southerner.
We wonder if there viii be any Northern
and Southern sheep at the right hand of God,
on the day of final judgment, or Northern
and Southern goats at the left; or will the |
old dragon underground make any distinc-
tion in roasting Northern and Southern sin
ners We imagine that he will turn them
both on the same kind of a spit without dis
elimination, favor or affection, and stew them
likewise in the same broth. But, how SUI
premely ridiculous it is, that man should
be totally unable to discern truth, simply be-
cause he happened to be born in certain
locality How ridiculous that men should
be classified as entertaining such and such
/ opinions respecting the unutterable things of
eternity, by the rule that such ones were ma
tive to this place and such ones to that
/ viii the Sovereign Judge Of the Universe,
previous to awarding the golden borps and
the glittering crowns, inquire whether this
or that candidate for saintship was born north
or south of Mason and Dixons line? And
yet he will have to do it, if either Of the
classes is right, because the Northern Reli-
gionists, in the mass, are all of one way of
thinking, and the Southern of another
What could you expect Northern man to
serve God in the same manner that South
ern does? No, SIR, the thing is impossible.
/ \ ct if this same Northern man had been born
South, he would have worshipped his God in
the true blue pro-slavery style.


Why, we even have our Northern and
Southern Spiritualists A great hullabaloo is
kicked up among the Southern followers of
Andrew jackson Davis, because they have
just found out or think they have that he is
a "blue-bellied Abolitionist" If it prove
true that he is they are going to "secede"-
they are not going to follow his track any
further If Spiritualism is contrary to sla


very, why, of course, Spiritualism must be
wrong-in other words a damned delusion
or wicked, diabolical heresy. True, the
same arguments which induced them to be-
lieve it before, the same evidence which thev
formerly relied on are as potent as ever, and
in no manner changed But, Reason is one
thing in South Carolina, and quite another in
Ohio and Massachusetts, The human mind
is different essence in those respective 10.
calities. What is truth in South Carolina is
falsehood in Ohio and Massachusetts. No