The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-09-04

ton g Virginia and Maryland. both an to feel
ing and interest. in regard to prospective eman-
cipation!
Again:
'sThe mo re Intelligent portion of the people
of these FIVE States will never acquiescs in the
idea that negro slavery is to be entaled upon
them, and their pOsteriiy. ia perpetuity.''
But the idea Of the perpetualists, their CEN
trail thought, Is this very thing. They admit
no middle ground; they will hear Of N O COM
promise. The perpetuity of negro slavery is
their creed; their aim, and end. Nay. as for
that, they declare they will trust neither Wing
nor Democrat, and must have an organ which,
O this point, can "neither he bribed, cadjoled.
aattered, or frightened" They want an ''inde-
pendent" party in the South which will sever the
Union rather than submit 10 an extension Of ter
ritory without an extension Of slavcry-without,
in other words, making it perpetual. And an ef-
fort will be made to force the five States named
those States, according to Judge NICHOLAS,
that know no cline of demarkaton,' and mean
"never to assent to its being drawn,'' "that view
negro slavery as "a curse upon their own white
population"--on this platform.
This ns,c plan of distinguished Southern per-
petualists meets, however, with some opposition
at homo. Not that there is any difference Of
| opinion a. to creed, but that a minority hold
that the time has come when the Union should
be dissolved. This is the view Of the erfremisfs
among the ultras. They are for no discus
sion in or out of Congress. To show how they
talk and write, we quote an article from one Of
them which appeared in the Charleston Mercu-
ry, under the imposing hea. The Crisis-the
duty:
| Now is the day, and now is the hour: at this
stage Of our existence, the South is fully COM
petent TO maintain her separate and independent
existence, "peaceably if she can, foreibiv If she
| must" We have not vet become rlren and en-.
| danPered by those internal causes which con-
tnrance in this Unioa must ere long iaUOloe as
| in. Weakened and distracted by such inf1-
ences, We must become certain an easy prey
to our enemies, if we suffer ourselves to be cup
,irafed too long by the syren voice Of our better
but mistaken feelings.
II delayed too long, our efforts to separate
from this baneful Union may involve US in a
fearful and appalling struggle for our very exis-
fence. We have an yet been only assaulted or
| slightly injured in a few Of our less important
members; the body is vet free, entire and pon-
| eIfyl; and we only require to be convinced that
there is n nsc,ssty for &C ton, and that the tame
for such action has grrired, and 4 fear not but
that the South riN do her duty.
1t becomes now our duty to determine upon
some decisive course Of action in the approach
ing crisis Of this nation. Let argument and re-
monstraace be east 10 the winds Let the south
1 lam hahas hey nv "A Ia M, "A l.
ternativrs as must subject her 10 tn. imputaticn
| of a craven spirit.
| We have long enough east pearl before swine,
| who were verify disposed to turn and rend US.
| There is no magic in the word Cnion that free
and enlightened people cannot dissolve and defy.
| We have long enough cherished and supported
this once fair fabric, not only with the purse and
| sword Of our fathers, but with our own. Its
memory may long linger around our hearts: but
lear 20 is this MON, Freedom, and cur
| Rights are de0yeT STILL
The course Of action by the South, therefore,
| in the ensuing Congress, should be marked upon
| the pages of history, worthy of those who
\ have struggled and endured in that important
| council SO long, for their common country and
| This hallowed Union.
| But now let the struggle and the endurance
cease A manly and digniied torbeorancs from
| all further debate either IN or out Of CoRgress,
touching those subjects upon which the South
has ALREADY so repeatedly and fully declared her
opinions and her position. should be magnani-
mously obserred, and when the moment and the
occasion for action shall have come. a lest
act Of our patriotism and our fealty TO this n
| ion, let the South renounce the tees which have
| bound us to it, and, in the solemn and impress
| ,ive language Of the determined Tyrolese, pro-
claim, .'In the name of the Holy Trinity, we
| cut you all loose"
We had intended examining the circular
| But this must defer. We conclude, then with
the remark, that it is matter for congra:ulation
meet the question of slavery by argument, and
| that hereafter the conflict is TO be one of mind
! with mind, and heart with heart.