Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1839-03-05

petual bondage by tie other; but CHS /
win say, that those whom he has created
difeIens. and has declared. BY their physi-
cal structure end color, ought to be kept
asunder. should not q g brought together
By any process Whatever Of unnatural
anaigan1alon.
But Is th dangers. Of the civil contest
which have supposed could Be avoided.
sepatatlon 81 anal aIi0n IS the only peace.
full alternative, If itwers possible 10 eiIec.
tuata the project Of abolition. The abo-
lilionisla oppose at colonization. and iisif-
resistiblY follows, whatever they may pro-
test or declare, that they are ii favor Of
amalgam0tion. And who are TO bring
about this amalgamalion3 Ihave heard Of
none of these Observation-Disclosures furnishing
IN their own faIniI 'esscr persons examples
Of intermnrriage. Whois to begin il !?
Is il their purpose not only 10 create q
Pinching competition between black labor
and white labor, but do they intend also ia
coltaminate the industrious and laborious
classes of society at the North by re.
voting admixture of the black element I
Il IS frequently asked, what is to be!
come Of the African race among us
| Are they forever to remain in bondage I
That question was asked more than hall
a century ago. It has been answered by
fifty years Of prosperity but little chequer.
ed from this cause. Il vii be repeated
| fifty or a hundred years hence. The true
answer is, that the same Providence who
has hitherto guided and governed US, and
/ averted all serious evils from the existing
relation between the two races, will guide
and govern our posterity. Sufficient to
the day is the evil thereof. We have
hitherto, with that blessing, taken care oil
Yourselves. Posterity viii find the means
Eof its own preservation and prosperity.
| Il is only in the most direful event which
can befal this People that this great in.
terest, and all other of our greatest inter.
tests would be put in jeopardy, Although
in particular districts the black population
is gaining upon the, white, It only consti.
tutes one-fifh of the whole population OF
the United States. And, taking the ag.
gregates of the two races, the European is
constantly, though slowly, gaining upon
the African portion. This fact is demon.
strated by the periodical returns of our
population. Let US cease, then, to in.
dulge in gloomy forebodings about the i'm.
penetrable future. But, if we may at.
tempt TO lift the veil, and contemplate
what lies beyond it, /, too, have ventured
on speculative theory, with which will
not now trouble you, but which has been
published to the world. According to that,
IN the progress of time, some one hundred
and fifty or two hundred years hence, but
few vestiges Of the black race will remain
among our posterity.
Mr.. President, at the period Of the for.
nation Of our Constitution, and after.
wards, our patriotic ancestors apprehend.
ed danger to the Union from two causes.
One was, the Allegheny Mountains, divi.
ding the waters which flow into the At.
iantlc Ocean from those which found their
outlet in the Gulf Of Mexico. They
seemed to present a natural separation.
That danger has vanished. before the no.
bic achievements of the spirit of internal
improvement, and the immortal genius Of
Fulton. And now, nowhere is foun1 a
moro loyal attachment to the Union than
among those very people, who, it. was aP-
pretended, would be the very hFst TO
burst its ties.
he other cause, domestic slavery,
happily the sole remaining cause which is
likely to disturb our harmony, continues
to exist. It was this which created the
greatest obstacle and the most anxious so.
licilude IN the deliberations of the Con.
vention that adopted the general Consti-
tuition. And it is this subject that has ev.
er been regarded with the deepest anxiety
by all who are sincerely DESTROYS of the
permaneney of our Union. The Father
Of his Country, in his last affecting and
solemn appeal to his fellow.citizens, dep
recated, as most calamitous event, the
geographical divisions which It might pro-
duce. The Convention wisely left to the
several States the power over the lnstitu-
ton of slavery, as a power not necessary
to the plan of union which it devised, and
as one with which the General Govern
ment could not be invested without plant
ing the seeds of certain destruction.
There letit remain undisturbed by any
unhallowed hand.
Sir, am not in the habit of speaking
lightly Of thepossibility Of dissclving this
happy Union. The Senate knows that /
have Deprecated illusions, Onondinary oc-
casions, to that direful event. The coun.
try will testify that, if there be any thing
i'm the history of my public career worthy
Of recollection, it is the truth and sinceri-
~ Of my ardent devotion to its lasting
preservation. ButWe should be false in
our allegiance TO il IF we did not discrim-
mate between the imaginary and the real
dangers by whiehit may be assailed. a.
BOLTON should no longer be regarded as
an imaginary danger. The abolitionists.
let me suppose, succeed liz their present
aim Of uniting the, inhabitants of the free
States as one man, against the inhabitants
Of the slave States. Union on theone side
win beget union on the other. And this
process Of reciprocal consolidation viii
be attended with all the violent prejadices,
embittered passions, and implaeable ami
mosities which ever degraded or defofmed
human nature. A virtual dissolution Of
the Union will have taken place. whilst the
forms Of existence remains The most
valuable element Of union, mutual kind.
ness, the feelings Of sympathy, the FRI.
ternal bonds, which now happily unite US,