Liberty advocate., 1840-03-12


The operation oIthe affair would be thus. III
they we're received and laid on the table and
not read, then the Glamour would be made that
The petitions OF offreemen were laid on the table,
scorntully unread. On this more indignation
would be expressed. Suppose concessions
were granted to the Abolitionists, and their Pc
tltlons were received and red by the clerk of
the house, the members from the South would
be compelled to listen to tissue of funmitigated
falsehoods, charging them TO their faces, with
cruelty and inhumanity TO their slaves and de-.
mandng immediate emancipation Let us 20
further, and suppose the petitions are received
and red, and the members from the south listen
calmly to all the libels they contain.-then a
demand would be made to refer them 10 com
mittee, then demand for report, and finally
a demand for law Of emancipation, violating
the Constitution, and depriving the South Of
Twelve Hundred Millions Of their property
This is the course, paripassu, which the Aboli.
tionists would take.
We apprehend, and painfully give it as our
lopinlon, that the South is the doomed section Of
our Union they must, surrender or resist, and
either is ruin to them.
While fanaticism is confined only 10 fanatics,
whether radicalism, abolition, anti-masonry,
or any other species OF monomaha, there is no
danger; but when corrupt politicians come to
the aid ofthese factions to effect personal OBJ
jects, no matter at what sacrifice, they take
any shape to accomplish their object The old
POLITICAL enemies Of the South, who have been
beaten down, year after year, by the democra.
cy of the country, have finally got their ship on
this tack of Abolition, and are determined 70
run down the South in the final struggle. The
people of the North are sound on this question,
and are in favor of sustaining the compact
guaranteed by The Constitution; but the polt-
clans are not, and they are most active and
perseverng in carrying their points We
have never considered Mr.. Van Buren, an ab.
olitionist, and yet nearly all his supporters in
the Assembly voted with the Wings for the
adoption Of these abolition resolutions, masked
as they are, under q veneration for the sacred
right Of petition. What, then, is TO be done }
The Governor orthis State denies the right Of
| Virginia to claim the surrender Of "fugtives
from justice" charged with kidnapping slaves,
on the ground that this State does not punish
such crimes-although the Constitution makes
their surrender imperative: similar difficulty
has taken place between Georgia and blaine !;
and now we have the powerful upIifted arm of
the aboitlonists sustained BY the Empire State.
These are serious measures, which as seriously
threaten the prosperity, tranquility and poll
tlca rights Of the South; and VIC are convin.
ced that unless the people Of the North put
down abolition, separation Of the Union must
finally lake place. The South must secede, :,
for the protection of their homes and hrcsides,
IiherdomeStlc peace and personal security.
The course which would seem the most adyi.
sable tur the Southto pursue forthwith, is 70
form closer union with the West-the slave
States as well as the free States-for mutual
personal and POLITICAL protection, and to throw
the Presidency south or west of the Potomac,
as forming secure executive protection a
galnsI the rapid march of ianaticism. This
union, firmly made by State or general conven-
ton, would include Louisiana, Illinois. Missouri
Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana,
Arkansas, Georgia, South Carolina, North
Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware
A perfect union OF these States with such of the
North as are unwilling to break the national
compact, would throw the Presidency at the
next election in the Western States, and sub.
Isequently in the South-thus forming an in
surmounlable barrier against the encroach
ments faboition, and leaving the slave States
in the full and secure enjoyment ofthose rights
secured by the constitution. Mr.. Van Buren,
it lstrue, is pledged not to sign bill abolish
ing slavery in the District OF Columbia; but
Mr.. Van Buren's friends, after such bill has
passed, will easily control him in this matter.
They nearly all have voted for the resolutions
Of Mr.. King, and therefore there is no ioresee-
ing what may be their course in another emer-
gency. Gen Harrison, though living in free
State, is Virginian by birth, and voted il
Congress against the Missouri RESTRICTIONS
He is openly and avowedly for sustaining the
compact and compromise Of the constitutions a
democrat Of the old school; and is, in every
!, way, sound, safe, and conservative politician
--on whom the South and West, the North
and East, can and should unite, in the ap-
preaching struggle, to ensure tranquility for
the present, and security for the future
There are great doubts, under the present
prospect, Of being able to keep this government
united, unless through change Of men and
measures