Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1849-12-06

open for iuure adjustment Let it be settled as to
every foot of territory belonging to the United Sta es
or which may hereafter be hers by compact as solemn
and inyiolable as the Constitution ITSELF Any thing
short of this is certain ruin to the South-t is annihi
laon.
Ifa conflict must come, let itcome now We are strong
in reality-stronger still in comparison with those
whose hands already raised against u.s. A few
moro years of aequesence and supineness will bring
about necessity of an absolute submission to every
wrong which oppression or contempt might heap upon
our country.
Submission to the proposed action af Congress is vir-
ual surrender ofthe entire South to the African
If slavery is to be confined tos present limits with
sirdle of free States surrounding US from the Atlantic to
Gulf of Me xicoa very few years in nations history will
be sufficient TO drive the white man beyond its limits The
sturdy laborer the stay and support of sycrY community
woald leave the country swarming with negroes for
residence in another Land The master too would pre-
entity follow, finding il impossible to renan This view
Is no matter ofconlecurc merely simple rule of arh
metic wi fix the fact aud the time of its consummaton
taking basis of the eacuationtho census of the last
thirty years Such the fruits which the northern
naticis viewed in its most favorable aspect pro-
dnse to the South The consequences the North will be
little less disastrous The great American staples must
becut short-the foreign commerce sustained by them
will disappear from the seaports of entcrprisng
neighbors-ther manufactures, should they be conn-
ued, must find market abroad in unprotected eompeti-
ton with the labor of Europe The thrift and prosperity
which now pre-emncnty characterize the working
classes of New England and the North would vanish a.
way and the mechanic and aborer would discover when
too late that whilst striking the manaees of LEGAL slave
ry the hands of he African he had riyete nop t
necks of his children the bondage necessity which
earthly power could ever again remove.
Engands experiment with her West India colonies has
proved failure this is admitted by all 1t has not ele
waited the character of the negro man. has conrbu
ted his happiness Bnt the fatal consequences which
certainly to result England from that supendols
folly, will in the round of years take from that colossal
the supremacy of the seas 1t has struck deadly blow
her colonial trade and this one Of the chief elp-
ments of her maritime superiority. Shall examples Of
this sort teach nohngl Is blind flnatcsm to over
whem all things in its conrse2
This, | solemny believe is the most favorabs view
which BIO taken ofhe subject if Congress persists in
its present course ofaggrcssion towards us.
But the widest visionary would hardly expect to see
these results brought peaceaby about Humanity itself
must shuler at the bare contemplation of the slaughter
most certainly to follow prosecution of these inipuous
schemes We cannot leave homes the ashes Wash
ugton, Henry and Jefferson may not be desccratcd by
the tread ofthe Africans foot The of he South
will not remain passive the sword will not rest in the
scabbald, whilst tanitacsn is erecting at our hearth
stones altar upon which the victims of sacrifice are to
be our daughters and our wives
The almost unanimous sentiment Of the slaveholinr
country upon this becis the result of political az
iation seeking for party ascendancy 1t is the sponta-
neous outburst of whole people, upon the conviction
that their dearest rights mcnaeed Party rreuiees
and animOsities buried every tenet of faith and
shade of political opinion agree perfectly and the novel
spectacle spresentel Of eight millions Of people aetuaei
by and obedient toa single discrimination arising
man to stay the hand Of usmpaton and wrong
Let us trust that our brethren at the North will I'M
derstand, before it is too late that n feeling of
setperseryation, and not Of silly bravaao aetuaes
Let us hope still that our common suf
ferinSs and common riumphs the memories Of the
past and the bright hopes of the future which we of
fer to all mankind, may stay the madness which is pre-
epitating us into "a ruin from which no human pow cr
can ever grant US even the hope of rescue.
JOIN b. FLOYD.
DEcEEBER g.