Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-04-23

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fore, not to be represented in the Common
Councils. We, of the South, admitted the
fact, but drew an opposite conclusion from it,
upon the ground that taxation and representa-
ton should be proportioned to each other
The matter was compromised, and from that
day to this You have been racking your inven-
ton to get nd of the compromise Your Hart
ford Convention drew up series of resolu-
tlons, which you adopted and RENTED to the
Sisters, as proposed amendments to the Con-
stltution, among which was one to exclude
slave representation. For the honor of the
country, not d member of the confederacy,
who was not at the connecting of these reso-
lutlons, adopted single one of them. What
you could not accomplish by direct means,
you resolved to accomplish by indirect and
less honorable means. They are plainly visi.
Bile, and are as follows The first is, TO leave
the obnoxious clause untouched, but to stife
it by stretching other clauses over it. The
second is, to crowd the master and slave within
such narrow compass that they cannot both
live in 1t. The third (Which is subservient to
this,) is, to receive no new member into the
Union, but upon the condition of her repudia-
ting slavery. The fourth (Which is OF like
character,) Is, to stop all egress of slaves from
self and your confederates to receive them
when emancipated by their masters; and hence
your opposition to the Colonization Society.
These are startling designs, Sister, to be con-
celved against those who spent their blood and
treasure IN defence of the liberty which YOU
enjoy; but shall not furnish you with pre-
text tor them by "blustering'' over them, as
confess with shame, my children are too
much in the habit of doing And here will
disclose family secret, which may be of ser
vice to you, not long hence, and which some
OF the members of some of the churches in
your neighborhood may be able to avouch. Il
is this So long as we buster, you have not
much to fear; but when you see our children
looking calmly, with compressed lip and red.
dened cheek, at your encroachments, be assn.
red there are perilous times at hand for all Of
US. And when once they gather for the flight
let them go-yOu never can conciiate them
afterwards. We are idolaters of the Union
and will bear much before We give it up; bu
only convince us that it is a golden calf which
the profane grow rich by mutilating, and tn,
devout grow lean by worshipping, and we
will crush it to atoms, and grind it to powder
with as little remorse as did Moses, the cal
of old.
In pursuance of the plan Just suggested
you opposed the admission of Missouri int
the Union, except upon the condition of he
renouncing slavery. Here was an unblushins
| infraction of the compromise you made wheI
the Constitution was framed, and direct vic
lation of the spirit of that instrument, in al
its provisions. A storm, of course, was rails
ed, which was settled as usual by compro
mise. So long have you been in the habit O
breaking compromises, and SO utterly inditfer
ent to them have you become, that you canno
! now wait for suitable opportunity to breal
them; and you are at this moment engaged il
breaking this last, by anticipation. In tn
last war, you withheld your troops from tn
service of the country, and afterwards deman
ded pay from the government to the amount O
more than million of money, for their servi
ces in marching and counter marching abou
IN your own territory. In this war, you la,
hold of the purse-strings of the nation, an
VOW you will never let go until you get
pledge from the whole family that If we ar
not driven or starved out of Mexico, and 4
we should make treaty with her, and If b.
the terms of that treaty she should stipulate Il
pay the expenses of the war, and her old debt
and If she should pay it in land, and If tina
lous enough to be admitted into the Union, an,
-objuring slavery--it shall not be receives
into the Union.
This makes your conduct in the first wa
resplendently virtuous; but that any othe
Sister in the Union, without the case-harden
ing through which you have gone, should, a
a single leap, reach the platform on which yo,
stand, and ever raise her head afterwards. is
to me, inexpressibly amazing. In looking
down to the far-off position which you occu
py, feel that you are entitled to some credi
for your ingenuity and enterprise in getting
there; but as to your companions, they seen
to me to have taken your character, only t
add to it new blemish-namely, rashness
The determination which you have formed t
allow no more slave territory to come into tn
Union, apart from the principle involved in il
IS, of all movements of abolitionism, to me tn
most inoffensive. Itseems to have thrown tn
Southern States into panic, and to have re
ccncled many of their children to a most dis
graceful retreat from the war in which we ar
engaged "Suppose,' cry they, "we shout
take all Mexico, don't you see plainly that
never can be admitted INTO the Union as slav
territory ?" What is the plain and obviou
answer to all this? Why let it stay out Q
the Union, by abolition votes, and let it renal
common property as long as they choose so t
vote. The controversy will be between tn
applicant and the abolitonist, and we Wi
stand on the side of the former. She will re
nounce slavery or she will not If she re
nounce slavery, there will be no difficulty j
the matter; if she will not renounce SLAYER
she remains a territory, to which all will hay
free access. As % thhe propriety or impropr
ETY. of the war itself, have nothing to say
but to push its conquests just to the limit
which the abolitionlsts prescribe, and thel
stop, without treaty, without peace, withot
lect-because, forsooth, if We advance IA
ther we may conquer territory, which ma
give rise to unpleasant difficulties-s to SUI
renaer in advance more than we could lose b
the threatened contest-to anticipate breac
of faith by removing at our expense the il
ducement to it, and to throw the honor of tn
nation and the army into the bargain. If W
do not conquer Mexico, will her territory eve
become part of the Union?
Your abolition petitions, and your mission
to Charleston and Orleans to stir up lawsuit
1 about your black citizens, are part and pare
of the plans already exposed
While you have been rushing on in yol
mad career, you have been unsparing in you
abuse of me and my neighbering Sisters.
cannot call to mind that you ever breathe
one kind sentiment, uttered one kind wor
turned one kind look towards u.s. To Virgin
ia, your elder Sister, and your great benefat
tor, you have been sgnally abusive and VII
dictive, because, to the sin of slavery, she IA
ad led the still greater sin In YOUR estimation