Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1847-05-27

the South are, intellcltously, 1t is true, vet
thoroughly informed of every thing which
the North believe and think on this subject.
1t is in the very nature of predominancy
to pervade and mingle itself with that which
is not predominant. And while the morali-
ty the North mixes itself inseparably " it'll
the politics of the North, the manners and
politics of the South mix themselves with
the morality of the South.
While, at the South, in consequence of
the Constitutions affirming that the freedom
of speech and the freedom of the press shall
not be abridged, the mere naked right of the
North to speak and write what they please
on the subject Of slavery, is conceded, it is
denied tina, they have any right to speak and
write to us on that subject.
The Constitution runs thus: "The clti-
zens of each State shall be entitled to all
privileges and immunilies of citizens in the
several States" We understand that all the
benefits here conferred, must be exercised
within the territorial limits of the States of
which they are claimed.
For, instance, the citizen of Massachusetts
is, and of right can be, none the better for
any thing which this clause OF the Constr
tuition secures to him in Virginia, until he
enters Virginia in person. In Virginia he
may and will enjoy 'all privileges and i'm
munilies'' which Virginians themselves
there enjoy. The privilege of freely enter
ing the State, and of demeaning himself as
they demean themselves, of doing as they
do, is his, even to his so claiming and SO en-
Toying up to fixed period of time, when
he acquires, in addition to what he has al
ready enjoy ed, citizenship itself No diff
Guilty occurs here; for by the time the cleo
tive franchise is conferred, he becomes suffi-
GENTLY informed to exercise it in,elligently
and appropriately. All here works well in
practice. Men prove themselves adequate
Judges of " hat lies Immediately aroundth them,
but very inadequate to judge of what is
situated remotely from them. Republics
will succeed if sufficiently limited in terrific
rial extent Salvation comes to our Union,
if it comes at all, from observing and re-
speeding State limits.
Northern men claim that they are citizens
of the United States. If this be true, we
ale ruined. The best proof Of this is the
acts which they perform in exercise of this
high immunity. They do little else than
demonstrate their incompetency for exercis-
ing intelligenlly such a function. Therefore
this function exists, all is lost.
But we deny its existence, and pare down,
and limit, by the exact lines of State demar-
cation, all political and moral rights and
responsibilities. We deny that citizen of
one State has any political or moral rights
or obligations in another State, which he can
exercise or discharge out of that State. And
this solves the mystery, why the South takes
no notice of the moral efforts which are
made at the North about slavery. They
plead an absence of jurisdiction they stand
on their reserved rights; they take their
own matters into their own hands they
respect themselves. They reply not, be-
cause to reply would be admitting that the
productions of the n orth had some claim to
notice, which they deny. The profound
ignorance of the North, on the subject of
slavery, has no claim to enlightenment, in
answer to its impairment assumptions that
it knows more about our duties and respon-
sibilities than we do ourselves.
Was there ever such fallacy as when
the North, because their assaults upon the
South are unanswered, suppose that there
fore they are unanswerable and that we
are laboring under the conviction of the
truth and Justice of their doctrines The
question Of the becomigness of such adj
dresses, lies at the very vitals of the ques-
ton of the duration of our Union. A peo-
pie convinced that another people situated
dition entirely diverse from their own, know
more abouttheir concerns than they do them
selves
| Could the moral North but be informed
of tie state of the Southern mind on this
subject, | am convinced that the discussion
of saveay would nearly cease among de-
cent people at the North not indeed out
of any respect which they have for the peo-
pie of the South, but from respect which
they have for themselves, and for ascertain
ed and defined truth.
Gould the North understand what the
South think of their moral productions on
the subject of slavery, while they answer
them not, they would feel any thing bu,
hattered, and would perhaps be convinced
that the South had studied manners and po-
litics, and Christianity, and the subject Of
slavery in all its bearings, to better effec
than they had supposed, and would per.
ceive why it is really inexpedient to exer'
else their right to the freedom ofspeech and
of the press, for The particular benefit of the
South
1t is too true to be TESTED on, that this
whole modern discussion at the North abou
slavery, is unanswerable; or at all events
that the South cannot answer it. Coult
the South but once be induced to rotor
their moral arguments upon themselves
modest men at the North would not fee
disposed to teach the South more on thi