The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1836-01-15

'0'se supervising power over our legis
'u'ioh' ana 10 insult US with claim of So
! po'ioiity III The very offer to discharge III
=. ue.y winch our relations authorize us 10 re
quire. As our right is indisputable, 10 reou
iale exiusNely, according to our own no
ions, the interior relations of our own neo
ple,t The duty of preventing every attemnt !,
: disturb what We have established. resnl.
from the simple fact, that we have establish
. cd II. And the propriety and improprlet,
IN The view of others of such regulations a
, we have pleased to make, can never ei,he
enhance or lessen the duty of such pre-
; yention.
we DO foil justice to the general senti.
ment and feelings of our fellow citizens in
other States, and are fully aware that tbe
attempts 10 In1nre US are made by small
minority, composed, probably, Of many mis-.
guloed and some wicked men; and that
'hese attempts meet with no favor, but on
NE other band with marked dlsapprobation
from The large majority of the colomuni.
'ies N winch they are made. Still i: mnst
be recoIected that from the nature of the
means employed, the danger to us is the
same, whether these means are mt into M.
t'Viiy by a contemplate minority, or are
sanctioned ard adopted BY the whole body
OF inc people. An lncendiarv pamphlet
performs lis Office Of mischief as etfectuallv
when issued under the patronage Of twenty.
as OF twenty thousand persons. It's efica.
cy depends upon IT'S circulation, the weight
OF authority which supports it.
While, therefore, we are Justly sensible
oil the sympathy for us, and the indignation
against those who seek 10 disturb our peace. |
expressed by large aud intelligent assem-.
blieS OF our northern and eastern brethren
we cannot but know that these expressions
DO III no way diminish our Danger. While
me abolllionlsts are allowed to pursue their
course with no other check than the dIsap.
probation Of their fellow citizens, that dis.
appreciation will little affect them. and bring
no support or consolation under the evils
'hhl are likely to befal us. We ask no,
Tor we feel not, from the institu.
IONS we possess, that we suffer injury. We
ask protection, ct to maintain our authori.
~ by force of arms for to that we know
ourselves entirely adequate, but we ask pro-
lection IRON the necessity Of resortInr TO
sueh force for that purpose. We ask not
assistance to put down insurreetonary
movements among our slaves, for should ,
such occur, we are fully able to put them :
Town ourselves. But we ask, tina, our ,
waves and ourselves NAV be relieved from
External interference. Left TO themselves =,
We believe our slaves to Iabour in class as n
tue dangerous 10 society as any in the
world. But we do ask, and think we have ,
right to demand that others shall not q
each them evil, Of which they think not 7
themselves; that they should not be stimu. {
ated by the base and violent Of other lands,
deeds OF bIoodshed, of which the evils TO
s VIII be temporafy--to the slaves them.
elves dreadful and lasting; that we NAV
OF be compelled, by a Fictitious necessity,
adopt measures of rigor, which such ne. r,
essIiy only could justify. By some it seems u
have been supposed, that the practices r
the abollhonIsts cannot be put down BY -
's'siatIon, consistently with the constitu. n
ohs OF the States in which they live. If -.
lis were true, it wuold furnish no answer y
our Just complaint and afford no excuse =
those States for permitting such practi. ~
rs to continue. The duty, the perform. 49,
nee OF which we invoke, is binding upon -,
lose States, and they have no right TO dis. 49,
bic themselves from IFS performance by an 81
rganc law, more than TO refuse its per.
FINANCE by an ordinary act of legislation.
he obligation being perfect, cannot be dis.
,iVed by any arrangement of the parrf on
nom The obligation tests. If, therefore, SUI;
~ such difficulty did in reality exist, we
ould have riehtto ask, that the organic St.
W which produced it, should be so altered
to remove IT, But does any such diff. to
lily exist? The one supposed is this ne,
hat as the aboItIonIsts seek to accomplish ca,
cir object by the issue of innammatory of
bhcatIons, law to arrest their progress
'uId be violation of the liberty of the Gus
ess. This difficulty has its origin in VIII
al mlsconcepton of what is meant by the Ge
erty OF ;he press; which means not the tim
ut TO publish without responsibility, bu, ken
publish without previous permission. If \
meant the former, the liberty of the press poi,
Md be the greatest curse which could be Dor
Ilcted on a nation. Where every man I
rlsh' 10 publish without such respon. bus
llity, the press is licenious. If the lat. for
right exist, it is the only instance known to
our laws, of a right TO act without an ac. the
INABILITY for the action. Every man I
d fisht 10 carry arms tor his own de. Cor