State journal & flag., 1846-11-20
1anrnol & Glaq,
TUSCALOOSA. NOV. 30, Ie46.
M If our citizens intend netition


Tuscaloosa-it is time something was
being done. There are four of our
congressional districts interested in this
route, and we are sure that Messrs
Payne, Cottrell, Chapman, and the
member from the 9TH district, will ex-
ert themselves in its behalf, if it is the
desire of their constituents The route
would pass through Cherokee, St. Clair,
and Jefferson, to Tuscaloosa. A public
meeting should be held at an early day,
and committee appointed to prepare
a petition for general circulation.
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The evidences of hostility to slavery at
The North. and East, on the part of grow
ing faction Of political aboIitoniss, is so
glazing as to force on the South, the posi-,
tive necessity Of defendingit its own interests,
by discussion or whatever other means may
be deemed necessary. The example of
Jno. p. Hale, who traitorously deserted his
party friends, and threw himself into the
arms of the wings and abotionists of New
i1ampshire-who have rewarded his infamy
by eeciing him 10 the United States Senate
has been followed by BrnkerhoG, Of
Ohio, who, having lost cast, at the late ses-
sion of congress, by his disgracelul opposi-
ton 10 the administration and its measures.
because he was refused the office of Pay
master in the army-has published an adj
dress, in which he takes ground against the
extension of slave, territory South west, and
claims as an heirloom, to be handed down
to his posterty, the restrictive proposition.
relative to the extension of slavery, submit.
ted by Mr.. Wilmot. at the last congress,
amenda,ory 10 the bill appropriating So 000-
600 to be placed at the disposal of The
President. Mr.. Brnkcrhoif, hereafter, will
be found cooperating with such men as
Jno. p. Haie-and like Hale, has severed
all fellowship with his lale democratic friends
by his new connection. Like Hale too, he
will, no doal receivelhe reward of his reas.
on :: but fortunately The career Of such men is
always If short duration. OF far more
importance, as indicating the current of poll
lllcaI opposition TO slavery,are the evidences
of hostility presented in the recent Ohio
elections; the proceedings of The Massa-
chusetts Whig convention; and tho result of
the New York elections. The moral tf
feet of the action of such men as Hale, and
Brnkerhoh, is almost destroyed by their
treason and desertion. No man who hao
noticed their course, unless he be one of
the faction TO be benefited by it, can res
pect them, or ever award to them The merit
Of honcs'y of purpors. Not so, however,
with the action of parties in Ohio, Massa-
chuset:s, and New York. In the State
first Named a governor has been elected,
who is the avowcd advocate Of The abolition
Of all laws, which make any distinction on
account of color. He was the candidate of
the wings and ahoionists, and beat his
democratic opponent, Col. Tod. nearly
1000 votes. In Massachusetts, The wings
and The great body of the abolitionists will.
necessarily, commingc, as the action Of the
former in convention, conforms in all lis
essential parts to the creed held by the lat.
Ter party. The address, issued by authority
of the convention. openly declares thai " on
all questions touching human ,treedom,' the
abolition party agrees, lin the MAN," with
the wing party. In the late election in
New York, abolitionism, as well as anti-
rentism, nativeism, and all the other 'ismS,"
were united 10 defeat Mr.. Wright, who it
was allcdged " had given no evidence that
he would uphold the right of all sc,ihom dis
tinction Of color" These are porentous
signs Of the future action of the combined
forces, TO be arrayed against the democracy
of the Union. In the next congress they
will unite upon all questions touching slav-
cry, and will seek by every means to Grip
pie it by restrictions which the South can.
not, either in honor, or justice to herself
submit TO. In connection with The Mexican
war, the subject of slavery in California will
be brought forward, and on this issue the
South will be arrWed against the abolition
ists of the North
The subject Of slavery, like the private con
Germs of mans household, should be trea.
ted by strangers as matter of purely domes
tic concern; and ifthe pragmatical interior.
ence of zralots can, by the aid of legislation,
open the constitution so far as 10 trench on
the rights Of the South, even though it be
but the breadth OF hair-we hold it TO be
the duty Of every Southern man to meet
such Interference, as he would meet the bos-
tile demonstrations ola public enemy. The
guarantees OF the constitution on the slave
question are sacred, and cannot be violated,
and submitted TO, without bringing ultima e