South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-10-03

lation over slavery. No other con-
struction can be placed upon their COIN
cident language. Now we for one,
totally deny that it is competent by a.
mendment, TO overthrow fundamen'
tai principle of the Federal Constitu-
ton, That would be revolution, not
modification. The slave holding States
when they enter the confederacy, are
strong and important enough to get
lhree.fths Of their slaves represented
and their slave properly guaranteed.
10 process Of time, they become greatly
outnumbered, and changes 10 the Con.
s,itution may be effected by the new
parties who have continually become
component parts Of the Union, although
the slave holding States be unanimous
ly opposed to them. Shall these new
parties be permitted to subvert the o.
riginal principles Of the compac, :
Without a guarantee for their slave
property, would the Southern States
ever have entered the Union All
will concede not. That the nonslave
holding States should avail themselves
Of an accession IS an overpowering ac-
cession Of strength, TO subveft the prin-
ciples which entered into the original
formation of the Constitution, and
withent which, the Union had never
been formed at all, would be con-
tempt of good faith and an express
dissolution Of the compact The secu-
rity Of Republican Liberty, was in
like manner, an original principle Of
the Constitution Of union. Can that
principle be done away by amendment
Is it competent to two thirds to bring
in monarchy by amendment : Surely
not-and the argument tho less slri.
king, is not less strong, in every other
case of az original fundamental prin-
ciple.
We therefore in behalf Of the slave
holding States, repudiale the notion,
that the Federal Constitution can or
may be amended ia such manner as to
confer on Congress the right Of legisla-
ton on slavery and We call upon the
friends Of Mr.. Van Buren, to know, il
his assertion of the idea in his letter TO
Gwin, There seems to be no end to
those Gwins, or the letters that they
get from the high functionaries,) was
an oversight, or if he seriously main
ltains it. There can be no more dan
gerous, more inadmissible proposition,
and We call on the South TO observe to
what consequences it leads, and to nail
it at once to the COUNTER Rich. Wing.
Geergia-Abohfionism Fan
Burenism.
A Northern citizen travelling 10
Georgia, Iaments with justice, the con-
dition to which the Aboiitionists have
reduced the country. They have, he
says, nearly broken up all travelling
between the North and South. 1t is
extremely dangerous for a Northern
man, unless he is known by some one
here, or comes recommended by some
well known character TO pass through
the country without suspicion Of being
an agent Of the Abolition Societies.
He is liable to great annoyance, and
what is worse, to great personal injury.
He may be facersted with stripes,
thrown into dungeon or perhaps suf-
fer death from an excitement inaamed
almost to madness, by the Infamous
attempts OF certain set OF assassins to
produce instruction among the slaves
Of the Southern states. They know
not who are their friends or enemies,
and therefore they suspect all as en-.
emies who cannot give the assurance
and proof of fair character and honest
Intentions. 1t cuts up alltravelling by
those who are SO unfortunate AZ to
move 10 the humble walks oflife.-lb.
The following letter shows the con.
sequence Of the EN- ancipation measures
in the West Indies. Every body
knows that the St. Domingo Emanci-
patton was the determination OF their
government.-Globe.
Extract from letter from highly re-
spectacle source dated Kingston. ia
maica, August Esd.
. "Owiog TO the impolitic measures OF
the British Government in relation to
the colonies, they are so completely
ruined that if the king and parliament
were desirious Of more unrestrained
intercourse between them and the U.
nited States, and for that purpose re-
doced the heavy charges on our pro.
duce, &c. it is now too late, as the ne.
groes from every appearance) will 10
a short time be the only inhabitants