Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-20 00:00:00

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3olitie,fil. schemes and 'movements appea
bo. 1860. If t-mthern -demand! for
3rotection of the institution: of Slavery shall-be 'mad_
d it will be made—and if' this prottttiOn shall
1, as it will be refused by • the anti-

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slavery

Northern majority of the Haase" then we
before the close of the session Of Congress
the, openinrof the last- chapter of the great Affierican
Union. Rely upon it, that if the Southern States cannot

be protected against abolition traitors and cut;throats
within the-tintOn, they will' abardbn—theTnion-petice
or war; and, iu view of this last altern,ative, the prepa-
rations for war will not be neglected by this projected'
Southern-Congressional Convention. Yontern men may
say that thislilthei 'old Southern cry of " Wolf, wolf ;"
but they will find, perhaps when it is too late, that the
wolf ie really at the door. •

THE SLAVERY CRISIS

The slavery question is literally absorbing the
attention of all 'claaieS, and discussions upon or in
connection with it a.ppearAto be taking precedence
'of every 'other topic. In -a leader on this all-
' engrossing gubject, the' Need York 'Herald says :
We are standing upon the threshold of the most
'momentous events in the history of the Civilised, world.
For good'or evil, for a renewal of the bends of,peace
and harmony between. the. North and the South, Or a
Violent'iupture,' we are" entering upon a new order of
:things. The late desperate and blotxly abolition in-
vasion of Virginia, its extensive ramifications, the wide-
', ead sympathy betrayed throughout the Nbrth for
thatilvretched .traitor, cut-throat and horse thief, Old.
Brown;. and all the elements of thiahlack republican
w'sx of subjugation against the South have brought our
political affairs to a crisis. 'lt must be met; The
ileeding minds of the South are inOving.tO meet it.
k (Our Washington despatches Tevealothe existence of a
dike of feeling among the Southern representative men
whohave gathered inWashipgton for the annual opening
of Congress, that is little dreamed of by the merchants,
manufacturers, and other industrial producers in the
North, and the danger which it discovers is the more
imminent frbm the fact that it is riot the 'movement of
" the fire-eating Section of. Southern politicians, but the
calm, silent, and deliberate preparation of the Conserva-'
tiV6-Men of the' SOtith, inview of the necessity of pre-
paring for self-protection and aelf-preservation.
:The preliminary: struggle will be made upon -the
organisation of the House. This the Southern -mem-
bers foresee will be' lost to the' Democrats,` which ia'the
only party that. now occupies a Conseriative..natiOnal
ground. In view of—such a result, the Southern'
representatiVe Men' propose to brinig:lorward, as a'
test question, a ;measure for! the protection of the
institution of- slavery: in the States where it now'
exists from the aggressive war which the abolitionised
'WWl:die:an party of the North has declared against it,
and a continuance o ,auc raids as that of John Brown
• r. ..
by Northern; fanaticlivihOse policyis to rule or ruin the
Union. Such a measuremar pass the Senate, but it
cannot possibly; palsy the House of Representatiteswhiai
is about to 'meet; and, knolving this the Southern
members are prepareclltn secede in a bodyfrom Congress,
and, congregating at Richmond or some other Southern
city, to' take measures to prepare the South for a per-
manent secession from the Union and the establishment
of a tariff or a rirai..inteimuse
as a protection against
Northern fanaticisitirwßoil6ig this mill- conic nego-
-44i04 with the commerttd Powers of Eurbpe, and the
itailtar`Organisation of the SOothein CimfederacY.
. GOVERNOR WIsE'S AtEsliAok.
RICHMOND~tb riot, VA., D„. 5.
'lie legislature of Virginia organised to-day.
Governor Wise's messap reviews the Harpers
Ferry affair at great length. It speaks of: the
spirit of ,fanaticism and one idea of the aholiti 9n_
iSts whichhas seemed to 'madden v&O.le masses of
one entire section of the country; which enters
into 'their religion, education,, polities, prayers,
courts of justice and legislatures ; which has
trained up three generations moral and social
habits of haired to the masters of African slaves
in the..Priited States, but turns not upop slavery
,elsewhere; which 'would have sent a rescue to

assassins, robbers, murderers, and traitors, Whom
it has sent to felon's graves. Unless the numerical
majority shall cease to violate the confederate
*faith, and cease to disturb our peace,
.to deitroy
our lives and property, and to deprive us of all
the:protection and redress under the perverted
forms and distorted workings of the Union, we
must take up arms. The issue is too essential to
be compromised any more. We cannot stand
such insults and outrages as these of Harper's
Ferry, withmit suffering worse than death as
citizens, and without suffering in dishonour the
death of a State. It is not to be denied that we
have many sound and sincere friends in the now

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