[occamrzr06]

Athens, Tennessee December 7, 1855.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

That is a wonderful, but startling editorial. Note that it is from the N.Y. Herald. You can see how radical abolitionists were considered even in the north. And the writing! Just the first paragraph has the Latin we are assumed to understand and then, "a slide from the general embankment of antislavery . . ." I had to think about that one.

A steady diet of such contributions alleviates my fear that this series lacks variety.

[BroJoeK]

The NY Herald was obviously a Democrat party organ, which here chastises President Pierce for not being Democrat enough, and giving too much sympathy for what it calls "enemies of the Union".

By "enemies of the Union" the Herald means, of course, insanely radical abolitionist Republicans.
In the Herald's view, they should be given no recognition, sympathy or support whatever.
They are the people, so the Herald believes, who will destroy the Union.

And to this very day, that's just how Democrats continue to speak -- they take their own very worst sins (in this case, the threat of disunion), and accuse Republicans of somehow advocating it.

It's like Obama, Pelosi & Reed accusing Republicans of "shutting down the government", when the decision to do so is 100% their own!