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ornment, in all social intercourse, and in all religious toleration. South-
ern people who honestly differed from them in opinion, have been stig-
matized, even on the floor of the United States Senate, as "ruffians
and barbarians;" atid because they dared to uphold the rights accorded
to them by the Constitution and the Laws of their country, they have
been driven off with imprecations and denunciations and excluded from
Christian fellowship and Church communion with their Northern
brethren. Thus have all the great Christian denominations, save one
or two alone, been rent asunder, and Southern members of the same
household of faith, been exiled from the homes and altars of their
fathers, because forsooth, their presence was offensive to their negro-
worshipping brethren. Thus have great bodies of fellow-christians
been split in twain, and bigoted intolerance and Satanic fury have
usurped the dominion in Christian hearts and expelled from human
souls the only terms of future life, "brotherly love and Christian
charity." Thus have Southern churches been expelled from social
intercourse and religious communion with Northern churches, and
Southern Christians been held up to infamy and branded as felons and
infidels and outlaws, unworthy of association.
. All bonds of affection, all kindness of feeling, all Christian good-will
and peace, have been counted as nothing; all justice and right have
been denied; all law and equity have been trampled under foot by our
fellow-christians and our fellow-countrymen.
Inflammatory appeals, incendiary threats, moral suasion, and other
compulsory devices, have been used to bring the Southern mind IN suB-
JECTION to .Northern anti-slavery sentiments. Failing in these, scornful
tirades, merciless abuse, and insulting provocations have been resorted
to: all these have preyed upon the Southern heart and weaned its affec-
tions from its Northern brethren-all these have rankled in the South-
ern mind and produced distrust and suspicion in the place of confidence
and respect, and ALL THEsE are the foundations of the present terrible
commotion that is fast severing the political Union between the South
and the North ! From year to year these insults and wrongs have been
growing in number and increasing in strength, and with this increase
there has grown up in the North a monstrous and unhallowed spirit of
aggression, and recklessness, that has hesitated at no wrong, even the
most heinous; that has justified acts, even the most atrocious; and has
attempted to perpetrate crimes even the most revolting! Do the North-
ern people think their Southern brethren are "stocks and stones," and
can not feel these things? Do they think human nature can never be
pushed beyond the power of endurance? Verily, "they have sown to
the wind, and are now reaping the whirlwind." But these violations
were borne with patience, for a long time, by an insulted and aggrieved
people, because they had strong confidence in the justice and honesty
and ultimate repentance of their brethren of the North, and were,
therefore, willing to await the slow reaction of public sentiment in
favor of Law and Equity, in favor of good feeling and Christian fel-
lowship.
When, however, the Republican Convention met at Chicago, they
adopted, amid tumultuous cheers, a resolution, which was thrust upon
the Convention at the last moment BY THE ABOLITION SECTION, and
which was intended as the grand clap-trap climax to their Anti-Slavery
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Coleman, William L. An appeal to the people of the North., pamphlet, Date Unknown; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth498127/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Schreiner University.