Year: 1862

Slavery has hitherto for generation and
"a half and up to the outbreak Of the civil
war been maintained not only or specially
by the South but by the whole power of the
Union. The party that denounced it has
always been unpopular and small. The
Abolitionists have met scarcely with more
rough or lawless treatment in the slave
States than in the free cities of the North
and West. The shareholders have always
been backed, aided and maintained in power
by Democrats of the free States. Ii was
not merely the Representatives and Senators
from the South OF the Potomac and the
Ohio who in Congress steadily resented all
attempts to make Columbia free and hurked
all slavery discussions--but the Representa-
tives and Senatots from the North of that
boundary as well. 1t is one Of our chief iu
dciments against the Union that the love
of il, lis grandeur and its pride, has induced


the free men of the North TO support the
demands, to endorse the principles, 10 eX
tenuatc the crimes and 10 swear solemn al
| legiancG to the institutions Of the Sontl.
and l'nr the sake of a political idol, TO silence


their sentiments TO drug their conscience
and tn soil their souls


We make the above extract from late
number of one of the ablest and most in


fueniial Of all the British periodicals


And ii il with all the more satisfaction from


the fact that we have rarely met with Sc
much truth 50 well stated in any Of these


representatives of British opinion, NJ
| American who with an unpreiudiced eye liza,
watched the course of American politics io
the last quarter Of Il century, can deny 0n'


sentence Of this humiliating statement. W,
pervert facts and do violence To the trutl


when we deny that for years the politician


Of the North, alike with the oligarchs of th,


slave States, have been responsible for al


the evils which that heaven-accursed system
of negro slavery has brought upon GU


nation. The difference so far as there


any, is in favor of the South, where lor


atmosphere generated by oppression la


vitiated and corrupted the universal con
science Of the people in State and churcl


The slave-holding politician when plead


ing for the interests of his section was {
r least sustained by the universal customs


seilishness The Northern demagogue an
dough.face, destitute of both principle an
a apology was simply clamoring for plac
power and spoils and while we might hay


limited respect and even admiration Il
the one, we surely could cherish no lie
feeling than contempt for the other. 1t hi


not been exclusively nor chiefly on the areI
of Southern political strifr, that stump or
/ tors have Illuminated against freedom al
g the inalenable rights" of man, hut in ey
;, ry city and village of the North these IN,
d have had their echoes, and the agitation
u the slavery question has been monopoliz
n for the aggrandizement Of that polite
t party which for half a century has controll
a the government and ruled in the councils
e the nation 1t is freely admitted on eve
+ hand that the South has had the balance
e of power in the Administration of the cOu
u try. But who has helped them to get it a
b retain it? No one believes that their n
o mercal strength has been equal to it, nor a
], we willing to set all TO the credit of the
e superior craftsmanship. The key 10 it is
i be found in the statement at the head Of I'll
e article. Northern democracy has been I
= right arm Of Southern control. Every p'


house politician who would have place,
, pay, or promotion, could see that his VT
T to eitheror all of these lay through ce


and distinct pronunciation Of the slavocra


shibboleth, and he was too ready to 81


himself for even so small a mess of pottsa