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The Fruits Of Abolition Fanaticism

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
September
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Charleston (S. C.) Mercury, publishes a communication from a Baltimore correspondent, selting forlh that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is to termínate atVVheeling, and that all connection with Pittsburgh, or any other portion of Pennylvania, is to be avoided. The cause of lis change of purpose is said to have riginated in the recent disgraeeful riot t Cailisle, Pa. in attemptng by violonce nd bloodshed to arrest frorti tlie custody f their masterr, three runaway slaves. 'he attempt to enforce this new law of Pennsylvania, and the new law iiself, dds this writer, has debarred all connecon of Pennsylvania with this great Marvland work. Fur, under this new luw, f the road passer! througb Pennsyl' vania, the citlzens of the whule Souili wuuld be deprived of is use, if accotnpanicd by their servants. So great s the feeliug throughout the whole South, snys the writer, that Pennsylvania will be shunned in future by Southern dealers of nll kinds, as they will make saciifices, if necessary, ratlier thangive their business to a State that is interfering with iheir constitutional righté. In commenling upon this the Cduricr remai-ks that it " notes it as a significant indication of what is the the necessary and legitímate result from the Northern moveraents on the slavery question. Can they expect that we will uniie omselves more intiafately wiih them, wlien every co'rd is used by them to bind us more closely 10 the stake- while their Wilmot.s and IJaxnibal HamlinS are orgnni.ingthe destrucción of our institutions ? We can as safely trust fire in a magazine as such spirits ia the intímate communion that an active commerce would bring about. Maryland is the frontier slave State, and she has decidcd wisalv for herself and happily for the slave Siates, in separating her people from those who seek todisturb her repose, and drawing more closely the ties of union with good old Virginia. Happy fur us will be the day when the .vhole skiveholding country shall be perforated' with railroads, connecting , n i uniting every portion of t. We shall then be impregnable, and if the vvhole world were to cease intescourse with us, we could live within ourselves, independent in our vast resources. We rejoice in the spirit ofimprovement which is now so rife in the South, and we exultingly look to it as ihe surest and most efficiënt means to give us not only prosperit v but safety. "But we forbear for tho present. - We note this dcision of Marylanë, and the groundsof it a= one of the most important evenls of the ;ime. Leading Northern men are yielding step by step to abolition, and thereby cutting one by one the ties that unite us. They compel us to seek safety in new relations and item arrcnigements. They first swrrendered the feeüngs of harmony and aflection - They have invaded our political riglits ; they trainple on our social relations ; ihey excommunicate and drive ofl' our churches, and most naturally follows our trade and commerce. Is it not time for their men of thought and influence lo reconsiderand retrace [heir steps? We entreat them to pause ere it is too late. We luve this Union inits purity, and we would save it as a Union of peace and love ; but thal can only be done by the Nonh and West- by wise and timely return on their part to that fraternal course towards us which dislinguished the conduct of their ftithers ín the eaily and best ilays of the Republic."

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Signal of Liberty
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