The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-10-06

and occurring your peace ara safety. You must act
act decisively Surely the policy OF doing nothing
its vanity You have talked aud threats ned
until you jesp<ed u IL not one aooution'st
alone who thinks that YOU cannot De kicked OUT OF
She Union and that therefore all experiment, by the
free States your rights aud Institutions, can be
made with inpuuity. This - the common sentiment
ofthe North They believe that you cannot aud dare
net protect yourselves Mr. Rathbun, FROM the State
cf New York, said on the floor of Coz gress " You
Threatened to resist the repeal Of the tariff OF 1888
vet ven submitted You declared that you would not
foe the repeal OF the 2lst rule yet you submitted
There is no danger TO the Union. You will submit
and submit TO anything shall do, This was the
substance Of his language and II is the Language ana
opinion Of the great mass Of the Northern people
What you want is not power-that you have In lar
greater proportion than your ancestry ~neI ,uey
faced end vanqushed Great Britain in the revolution
but what you want pst;.ssS that anv one
assure OF abolition, II enforced would im meda.ely
be equivalent TO dissolution OF the nIon that
measure would require no resistance from you TO
defeat IT, You need not ak, much less deal in
threats The fact would be all powerful aud all
tufRcient for your protection. No agitation need
he with Won ooDcerring your institutions The tact
tbst IL EXITS at all in the South under the consttu
to- Of the United States is proof conclusive OF your
Nm beeility and proof also that the constitution has
failed in sordipg to you that domestic tranquility"
which on it's face 1t was established to secure you
remain inactive and allow things to take their
much longer you will be compelled to choose between
the alternatives of dissolution Of the Union your
own salvation. They are not now Incompatible; and
10 both has been the great object Of my efforts
the twenty years of my public life. My friend, who
sits the platform knows that, IN 1873,
declared 70 the people of Coeton district at dinner
given to their then Representative In Congress- that
the general government must be driven back to its
Dee itmate limitations in the constitution. That IL
yielded the taxing power the next stride would be
ainst slave Institutions and that was for fight
ing the tariff the battle which must otherwise be
fought on slavery SOD the same thing in 1874 after
witnessing in Congress ny antcipatons but too truly
realized Now you have this great question OF slavery
upon you; and my counsel is, as Of yore-meet the
Que stion and forever Have no more talk in
Conerets by your Representatives but bring your
power TO bear directly the queston-not through a
Southern convention. which you cannot get (and
which, If you get only breed confusion and weak
in the South but by the States-the parties to
the sttutions compact and its legitimate guard
by the theory OF the constitution itself Let the
Ssnfkern States instruct their Senator'S and request tire
Represenspes 10 ieGre their seats in Congress
SsatIy and return home should Abolition in any of its
FERNS prevail in the legislation " Congress-pksther in
territories, the district Of Coua ba betDeen the
States Let the South take this postion-let but five
States in the South take this positop-let but two
States Virginia and South Carolina take this position
AID maintain it, and the South Is safe II driven to
action by the gressions Of the North in Congress- all
other steps which the honor and interests Of the South
shall demand will be easily assumed. But If the South
still sleeps inactive submissive to aggressionsif
other state will maintain her dignity aud her rights
uDder the constitution on this great question let
South Carolina unsided aud alone meet the contest
She force State in the Union to take sides,
for or against her She compel the alternative
tA0t me rights Of the South be respected, the Onion
De dssoiped. This in my humble opinion is the only
course by which the Union be preserved or be
worth preserving and let the result be what it may,
W II at least have the consolation of having made
brave long. strong EFFORT, to ourselves from
foul, ignomoious, and dishonorable ruin.