Sectional Prejudices

The Detroit I' ree Press h;is an arlicle against such prejudices. Douhlless all prejudicfs are wrong, and those for and agair.st particular sections of country are decidedly unphilosóphical. Wc ouglit, in our iliotiglits and words, to do equal and exact justice lo all men. That,hovpver, is not just vet to bc expectrV. Even the editor of the Free Press bas not nttained lo perfect impartialify between the. seclionsknown asthejfree and %laveholding. Mis syir.pathies are obviously wilh the latter. Tliis niay be owing to great liberalily,and.by po?sibility,it mnybe owing tothe fact that President of t-he United States - the dispensar of offices and print;ng - g himselfa slaveholder, and possessed, as all bis acts befo re and after he becanie President will attest, of o large share of scctiona! feeling in favor of the sjaveholding Stotes. The Free Press receives pay from the slaveholder, fh printing patronage, and his sympathies are with the slave States, possibly for that reason. Now, practical men know that one who is r.ot Irue to his own Stnte ond section can never be true to any. A man who would sell bis own seclion for the benefit of a rival section, would el! his own n.ition for pay from a foreign nation. Without any disparngement or ill feeling towards the South, the true Northern man will feel, in view of the fiict, too notorious to be denied, that, with one-tliird of the voters in the nation, the Slaveholding States have assumed, and, by the aid of such men as the editor of the Free Press,bave kept, the Government of the nation in their hands, and, for their special benefit, noarly the wholo fifty-e;ght years since the orginizaüon of the Government - thatsome sectional feeling at the Norlh is called for, by every principie of zelfrespect, to keep this great section froin becoming the mere instrument of the slaveholders. A Northern man, feeling as a Northern min should feel, will not be content to see te Government adminestered, almost exclusively, hy and for the benefit of the 250,000 slaveholders of this country. Besides these slaveholders, there nre in our confederated States some soventeen millions of free white people, who oughtto have some. voice in directing the machine of Government. Allowing it for the sake of the Free Press, to be a great merit to hold slaves, we liumbly conceive that it should not entitle the quarter ofamillion to make the seventeen millions subsrrviem to the ambition and interests of the forrner. The Whigs of ihe North, it must be confessed, have some feeling in favor of free labor nni free laborera - some jjartiality for the white men who labor on their own farms, and in their own workshops, over those who force the black men to work for them, on their plantations. This partiality may be sectional, and very wrong in the estimation of the ['ree Press, but it seems to us founded on a good principie of human nature. The free States, hnving more than two-thirds of all the voters in the Union, are not very unreasonable in entertaining a desire to put one of their own true men, once in o. while U least,in the Presidential chair, to see to their interests. This supposes, tobe su re, that the slaveholders have some scclional feeling. There have been some indications, but they have not, vo are bound to suppose, come to the knowledge of ihe F ree Press, thatslnveholders have sectionnl feelingsand views. We corlainly have heard of such tliings. Thoir love and impnrtinlity towards the North have nol, of late years, been manfest at Washington. The speeches of Southern members of Cengrcss have nol ehown o much loving kindr.eas townrds the srction in which tho F ree Press is pHnied, as one would expect from ihe tone of that pnpur.