The Arkansas banner., 1849-03-13
[Corr,srondeaee of the Ranner.l
Address of the southern Delegates.


 Deer Reardea:--l have just been reading, with feelings of and satsfacton the able address of the southern delegates in Congress to thrr con. stituents: with sorrow, tnk that the body polite should he diseased to make such an exposition necessary with satitaciion, to that those to whom the ship of Siatc is confded, like skillful physician, with firm and steady hand, had probed the bottom, and laid bare every ramica,ion of the disease. as the safest, and perhaps the only means of effsctng acuFe They, like men, have fearlessly and nohly como sP 10 the work, and discharged their duty. For so doing they entitled to, and. no douht, will always have, the lasting gratitude of every friend of our beloved Union. Our represea- tatives then, having done tbeIr duty. we are left without the least shadow of excuse for our supine ness We can no longer Hull ourselves into fatal repose, with the beief that tberc no danger Tho man who can yet delude himself with the idea that there is no danger to domestic institutions and consequently 10 the Union, could do SO oven amid the tramPess elaagor and the cannon's roar. There Is deiuson half fatal, and so little to be pitied, that which lnils us into naetion when everything s at hazard.
 The question, theu, is-Is there uo. something that we, the people, do to avert the evils threat ening beloved Unlon--whlch, our representa- lives tell us, Is porteniioas that the principles of right snd justice backed they are by that charter of our liberties, the CONSTITUTION embodiment of wisdom, perfect to almost justify the con- cluson that il was the product Of Almighty wis dom]-is as entirely unavaing to the protection of our rights as would be the feebest cobweb to the protection of our persons amid the most tremendous storm' Why rest we, then, in base, inelorous idieness, while our dcerest rights are invaded by this northern horde of fanatics bent on our destruc- ton: Not only are our rights of property attacke but far, far worse stiltthey openly deny to us the rights of equality, and this moment atem pt- ing 10 degrade us in the District of Columbia, to the level of the slave in the right of suffrage This is but an outpost successful. the attack will then be direct on the citadel. Now. appeal to every freeman, who can no longer be blind to his rights and his interests, whether he means to be dead 10 those rights and iaterestsl Can he consent first 10 be robbed of his slaves, and then 10 be reduced to level with those slaves7 Can he agree that in ex- ercising that right dearest 10 every freeman-the righ, of sutfrage-hs shall be placed upon level with the negro' If there could be wretch fou nd in slave State dead to every feeling of respect due to his kndred to submit to such humiliation. would ask, could he go another step and make inc sable gentlemen his boon companiens--.he parlor associates of his wife and daughters, elbowing them to church and insulting them with offers of mar risges Who can think of sneh an outrage on so- cety without his blood boiling ia his veins, and his teeth cleacliing wiiha firm resolve to die, rather than thus submit. And yet the northern fsAa,Ie in his crusade upon our rights, looks 10 these ends The war of the Crnsades, under Urbau and Peter the Hermit, combining h is prosecution the great est armament that ever moved 10 the bidding of any chisiisin, has justly been characterized as the great ess movement of human folly that has as 70, dis gfseed humanity; and ye, that had some redeem Ing seataEes, compared to this crusade. They both alike originated in fanatieisn and, not allcwlay God to ae the exponent of his own will, they made ihe cry; It is the will of God." IL is the will oI 1ods iojostify every eaorraiiy. Stili, these de- iuase fanatics went for ssspianliag ,l.veres cent "iIh iiie cross than for rapIne, robbery and maraef; and when tley had committed every cner.