True American. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1835-18??, 1837-03-11

ny VI thirty centuries.
The people Of the South should now pause, and
seriously enquire where they politically are. There
is dark and ominous commoton in the under
currents of society. Its dtegs and filth, which
longer lie at the botiem, but rise buoyun, to the
surface, show the qucksands and rocks to be near;
and the National Bark, which, under such crcum-
stances, both skill and honesty might be unequal
to the task ofsavng, is steered by neither.
The compatibility of the continuance Of The Uni
on, with the constitutional rights of the slave
holding states, now appears in a most ssquestion-
able shape" The northern states are renouncing
that patriotic spirit of compromise which serves TO
make up the Constitution of the United States;
and without which, it could never have been dopt-
ed, and are fast embracing doctrines originating
with the agrarian rabbc Of New York, and their
foreign associates. What are the true m erits of
.abolitionisn, the advocates of which, in the nom
slavc-hoding states, rather hcenced than toler
ated! The most favorable aspec, it can possibly
present, is simply this reasonable & dabolical oh.
ject:-a combination Of indird,als one state Of The
Union, for The abolition ofthe consit,ttional lau, and
institutions Of another state Of The Onion. Thai,
such miscrean,s exist in all governments, all his
tory will show; but that they should be upheld by
the sovereign power of s,ate,-ihat it should OK
pertinent on their fitness rule is reserved for the
more modern history of the United States, and
usl ors in the decline of the constitution AS well
and as constitutionally might the state of New
York, give succer 10, and protect orsign enemy,
de tined for the conquest Of Louisiana as to shield
BY her laws an organized bandit, whose sworn
pu: pose is the subverson of the laws and inst,u.
tons Of Louisiana. The constitution perfectly
war; ants the parallel The non-sIave-holding
saea see Ii; but meet it with the most flimsy So
phistry. They profess strongly to reprobate the
combination; hut "The liberty Of the Press! The
liberty 81 speech! The b'ssed liberty Of speech and o.
The press"' is their sSy, though the constitution
guaranteed the tressunobls use Of these liberties
With this plea the incendiaries have nothing to
fear before tie judicial tribunals 1t is the sope,
'esanse'' to their wishes in prostrang the liberties
of the country.
But this is not ALL There is at the North a very
general disposition to apologize for the abolition.
ISIS. We hear of their being HONEST, pHrLAN-
rHRoflc, though misguided and .Elnatical society,
,eto deeply sympaHise ,eiM the African race, AMI
tcho ,rould an an,elorate their condition: nd the n
something about MISGUIDED PHILANTHROPY! All
this, too in despite of the evidence of their senses
They know that the boii,ionists care not whit
for the whole African race. They k now that the
Jack Cade agrarians-of the North, and the slaves
of the South, have about the same attachment to
the government and laws. They ought to know,
that The only sympathy the former have for
the latter arises trem fellow feeling in common
purpose from numerical power in plundering the
land-in murderous and sang uinary nsurreclion
That such, in short, the tea der ties Of rHILAy
THRopy which bind the aboliti- mist to the slave
Such apologies, therefore, can pass in The slave.
holding ftases, for nothing but hypocritical cant
and the apoiogists themselves, who are an over
whelming minority in the -slavc-h. lding states
can be regarded in no other light than sanction
mg this crusade against the constitution.
In what manner are the sluve-hodng states I,
meet this aggression! 1t is time they were de.
liberating and deciding. Tito preserve the Union
they must yield TO a lawless rabble, THAT is i
worth. CtI 6onst