The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-16

Sccrru CAROLYN, AND SrAvERY-Souh Carolina,
o; rather part of tka admirable State in all other
things, is certainly an extraordinary, and we might
say funny State She is determined to keephersclf
etenally i'm hot water, whether she has cause or
not. and TO proclaim to all the world that she is
the noisiest State in the confederacy. She will
insist that the North is combined in u determine
ton to assault her peculiar institutions; and ever
and anon she calls upon her Southern neighbors to
be up and dong-to combine in opposition to the
North, as to prevent any further encroachments,
&c. AT a meeting held at Beaufort, recently, the
following resolution was passed with great una
nniy:-
the Legislature of South Carolina should at its next
session. adopt such will tend to unto the
slaveholdng States in the assumption of position that
Will enable them as one and ndivisible, promptly
and efficiently to repel any farther encroachments
upon our peculiar institution whether in the District
ofColumbia the slavehodng States, in the territory
Of the United States south Of the Missouri compromise
limo extended to the Pacific Ocean"
We do not wish to quarrel with any part of the
people of South Carolina; but we cannot refrain from
saying that they are as much ultra in their notion son
the side of the question, as the fanatics of the
North are on the other. Now, what reason have
they for working themselves up into a towering
passion so frequently they do! Do they not
know that the Wilmot proviso question nothing
but moonshine from its inception to the present
time ? Can they not see that il was adopted for
the time being, by Mr. Van Buren, and his friends,
for the express and only purpose of defeating Gen
Cass, the democratic nominee for the Presidency,
at the late election; and that having accomplished
the end desired, it will die a natural death
But even were this not the case, it is clear and
evident that any attempt made by the utras of the
South to extend the institution of slavery to the
newly acquired territories, would be abortive and
absurd. The character of the thousands who have
emgrated thther in the pursuit of gold, and that of
the thousands who on their way to the same
destination, is such to preclude even the posi-
blty Of slavery being introduced there. They will
settle the question themselves, and in their own
way and they are the only proper arbiters in the
premises. When this is so well known, what good
follow the agitation of the subject in South Ca
rolina, any other Southern State! There is no
disposition in any part of the North to encroach
upon slavery, as it is guarannedby the constitution,
in any of the old States. There are, we confess,
in the North, few fanatics who announce their
willingness to destroy the constitution, and the
Union too, if by so doing they could extermnate
slavery but their numbers are few, and their in
of theNorthern States, and their fanatica outpour-
ings excite nothing but the contempt and ridicule
of the rest of the community. 1fthe extra-ultras of
South Carolina are determined to maintain a
warfare with this Glass; and thereby give them more
importance than they are entitled to, so be it but
they must not, in speaking of them, use the term
the North, for they comprise but very small and
insignificant faction. The North properly speak
ing, is as much determined TO uphold the constitu-
ton and abide by its guarantees and compromises
as the most ultra Shareholder could desire, and will
combine with the South in putting down any at
tempt, should it ever be made, by Northern fanatics
| to destroy that glorious instrument.
| Our friends in South Carolina, or that part who
are always uohappy, should be not only more tempe
rate but more discriminating in their denuncia-
| tons of the North They should turn their atten-
ten to the practical question of Cuban annexation,
instead of abstract provisoes When the free
States and Canada are ready to unite, where will
they be on that questiod i?