The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-08-25


penditure of nerrly half a million day
to turn Mexican mongrels into American
voters; but have defeated the Harbor bill
which appropriates moderate sum for
the interests of Northern and Western ag-
rIculture and commerce. They have
passed the Sub-Treasury Bill 10 break
down Northern credit, and perhaps re-
new the scenes of '36 when the South,
by disgraceful bankruptcy robbed the
north of the monies generously credited
to her, and staggered, bowie-knife in
hand, in the independence of triumphant
and affluent fraud. But the erowning
triumph of the South is the British Bill.
Her boasted preference Of Great Britain
over the North,as vauntingly avowed by
her favorite McDuffie, has been gratifed.
1t is true that the domestic market which
protects her staples from depreciation has
been broken up; it is true also that she
must, when capital at the North sinks,
she will be overturned and sucked in by
the agitation of the financial waves; but
no matter so the wall of the North brings
music to her malignant spirit. Now all
this is pleasant game enough 10 the
South, while it is safe. But has she
counted the cost! The North is
cold as her granite, but as firm, and when
once heated by intolerable wrongs, uses
upon the wrong doer no harlequin's lath.
Heretofore the South has slept upon
the sturdy arm Of the North. She has
lived, not merely upon upon Northern for
bearance, but Northern protection. The
truth may call the color to the Southron's
cheek; were that protection removed, his
cheek would be of another hue. Penn
sylvania has been between the North and
South, as the Andes between the Pacific
and Atlantic. Witness the constant and
fierce efforts Of Philadelphia to suppress
by the strong hand, in violation of law and
constitution, the uprising of popular sem
timent against slavery. Witness the
burnings and the killings, the memory Of
which yet hangs darkly over our CITY,
And this was done, not because our peo-
pie loved slavery, but loved their brethren
of the South-gentle brethen do they ap-
prove themselves The South exclaims
that the Constitution protects them; but
Constitutions were, and are violated to
protect them. And what is the requital
of the South. 1t comes in the shape of
the British bill, and falls upon people
prosperous and happy, like an eclipse
upon midday.
The people of the North are not the
billiards, the clot-like and abiect things
which these bralnless braggarts of the
South deem them. Pennsylvania has
been the steadiest friend OF the South:
Pennsylvania is most mercilessly her
victim. Her two hundred thousand have
stood between the agitators of the North,
and the shareholders. Gratefully has
their devotion been acknowledged Let
the South not do US the wrong to suppose
that all this can be known and felt by
Pennsylvania without change of senti-
ment and action. We have been your
friends; look to yourselves hereafter.-
Pennsylvania has from this time no SYM
pathy to spare for those who have re-
Quilted friendship and affection, with un-
provoked and crushing wrong.
With undertaking fidelity and honorable
effort, the Wing party of the South has
wlihstood this war upon Northern inter-
eSts. Its statesmen have legislated with
enlarged views and for the general good,
while our opponents have recElessly sun
dered every link of amity which should
bind the nation together. But for the
firm stand which Southern Wings have
taken on the broad platform Of the con-
stitution, the Tolerance of the North
would long since have been exhausted.
We would not leave our position in
doubt. Pennsylvania Will not, however
provoked, commit or sanction violation
of the Constution. All that the South
has-even TO the titles forged in Pan
demonium and written in blood, by which
she holds the image OF god in bondage
shall be protected: bnt beyond that barrier,
we take up the guantlet flung in our faces
and know no word but war. Nay, we
go farther. The Constitution has been
boldly violated once, indisputably violated
by the acquisition of Texas; and her SEN
ators enslave and ruin Pennsylvania, one
of the thirteen, with no more constitution
al right than had the government from
whose tyranny-less desolating than that
now inhicted-we burst in '76. If that
experiment be again tried, in relation to
Mexico; if the North is to be, as is esti.
mated, subjugated to slave holding mi
nority, for all time, and that too, by the
unconstitutional admission of foreign
people. alien TO our language, habits an(
feelings-there is no contract left between
the North and the South. 1t cannot be
permitted. The truth may as well be ut
tered first as last, it will not be endured
We repeat that the politicians of the
South have done a deep and seriou:
wrong to the people of that section in ihi: