Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1845-05-07
THE Boston Atlas gives great promi-

Wm. Jay and w. j. Bowditch, on >th'
subject of the s. Duties Of the NorttI."-
Judge J. defines what these duties are
aud also the wherefore; their main fea
lure is the dissolution Of The Union. Bow
ditch is the gentleman who refused to the
South an apparatus Of his invention fol
strengthening The respiratory organs, be-
cause he would have nothing 10 do with
shareholders! Judge J.. is the son Of John
Jay, first Chief Justice of the U. S. Su:
preme Court, and friend and adviser o.
Washington. We regret TO say he is a
Fanatic and DisunionisI. -.
The causes which, in his opinion, re-
quire the North to place itself inopposi-
ton TO The South and the Union, is the an
nexa,ion Of Texas and the police regula-
lions of South Carolina andeLouisiana,
subjecting free negroes from. The North to
imprisonment in certain cases. The ".Du-
tie, of the North" Mr.. Jay thus sums up:
al. To regard the Constitutional pro-
visions relative 10 fugitive slaves as utterly
revoked and abolished.
"2. To punish every individual, what
ever may be his Office or condition.. who
may have auy agency whatever in the ap-
prehension Or surrender Of alugitive.
"3. To punish every persou who with
in our territory may exercise, by deed,
mortgage, or otherwise any authority over
slave property: .s.-,...,,. -,
"A. Whenever any Of our colored cili-,
| zens are imprisoned. at the South on ;ac-
coun, Of their complexion, TO seize All ade-
quate number Of the citizens Of the State
committing the outrage, who may be
found on our soil, and hold them as hosta-
ges for the liberation and full compensation
of said colored citizens.
''5. To petition Congress and the Stale
Legislatures 10 take measures for all ami.
cable dissolution Of the Union.".
Such mad and fanatcal suggestions, we
are sure, will, find no favor among The great
body of the Northern people. They. are
100 faithful in their devotions to our Union
10 countenance such destructive counsels.
Apart from their regard for the Union,
they have too much good sense, TOO clear
an appreciation Of the common benefits
the North and South derive from the Union.
TO join any such a crusade asains, its
peace aud existence.
We trust that in the language Of the
Times and Compiler, from which we
have taken The above, "such mad and
fanatical suggestions will find no favor
among The great body Of the Northern
people. Surely the larger portion Of that
people must be 100 intelligent, too patriot
ic to entertain such views for one moment !;
and we are surprised and mortified that
men having any pretentions to sense and
Justice can be found in this confederacy,
willing 10 hazard every immunity they en-
joy under The Union, and all the future
blessings to their posterity which the pa
triot may anticipate from its preservation,
By the publication of sue sentiments as
are here attributed 10 Messrs. Jay and
Bowditch, alike indicative Of total ab-
sence of national pride and common pru-
dence.
We publish this from no unkind feeling
| for the North, but from sense that it is
only sheer justice 10 the people of the
South. that they should he informed of
the existence and doings Of these evil spir-
its who are abroad, anxious to sever the
bonds of peace by which we are united, to
deprive US of the enjoyment Of those priv
iIeges with which we. came into the con.
federacy, and to blot out from our remen,-
brance those daysin which we,were made
one people, aud those deeds which won
for US The appellation of a great people,
We do, however, complain that our
friends a, The North, if they are truly and
sincerely not against as, should lend their
countenance and support 10 leading Poitl-
cal journals, who like the Boston Atlas,
open their columns for the reception Of all
the angry, acrimonious and in}bh,ered
productions of light-brained enthusiasts
and political capitalists, against men who
love their country loo devotedly to do it
harm, and who respect themselves too
highly to dream Of treason.
Itseelns. indeed, that so far as the ques-
tion of Slavery is concerned, the strong
party lines which heretofore existed al the
North, are 10 considerable extent forgot
ten, or they are effaced by what they con-
eeive to be- consideration of much higher
magnitude. Wings and Democrats too.
to certain extent, unite in denouncing
the South, ard are almost ready to en-.
dorse the speech Of Mr.. Maeauley in the
House of Commons, in which we are
called "sfave. breeders" for another mar
ket, and denounced in more violent terms
than those who are engaged iD the African
Slave Trade. And cow, when slaunch
Wings and staunch Democrats at the
North, who have so long and aercely bat
tied in opposition. on political subjects, are
rushing into each others embrace, willing
to forget old jars and dscords and disagree
ments, and ready 10 unite in a terrible and
ex,erminaling crusade upon the peculiar
institutions of the South; substituting
Slavery for Democracy aud Slavery again
for Whigsery, tearing down the banners
in defence-o OF which, in former days, they
did such maulul service, and, in their
stead, tiingins to the breeze which waits
blessings iudiscriminately to free and
happy people, the black flag of Slavery
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