The Arkansas banner., 1849-03-13

mity in tine catalogue cf crimes, is tue taass u Is the will of God" t turned out not to bo inc will ef God at al for they were driven back tn discomiis and dssgncc. Such, prophecy, will be the period 10 this crusade should the fanatics Of tho north force upon us the alternative. ii will turn ont again that they had misakeu the wili of God There ls ..ls marked difference, however between tho two : We do net read that they attempted to break down the nataFal distinctions which just end proper, and which God intended should regulate society ! bat icse crusaders look Co the degFadation ef d1e master below the slave. The mark wch God with his own haDd stamped ipdelibly Cain k to t,e washed out and fhe decree: s servant of ser- servants shalt thou be. tlsnu and Thy scea. for ever" is to be reversed. How impioas not only warning on he rights of their brethren and fellow citizcGs but on God himself In his dccrces. A fs- naiicism go blind and olduraic, il is feared will never again bo influenced by the counscls of wis dom and the dictates of reason, fer they have sI- ready been fully tried. The question, then, is- What K best to l.e done That which should have felt great confidence in, at tho proper tmc, in ef fectiaV cure, may now scarce prove palliative. 90 inreterate has grown the disease. A noble poet has said:
 "Therc is a tide iu tho affairs of men,
 Taaen at the flood, leads on to fortune;
 Omitted. all the voyage oi taeir life
 Is bound in sl,aIIows and iH miserios."
 The flood. in this case, may have passed yet there is hope that if the legislatures of the slave States would show undivided front; let our brethren of the north understand that we know our rights, and how to maintain them; that, while we appreciate the value of the Union above all price, and are ready to hazard everything for its perpetnty, yet we look upon dishonor worse than disnnion; and, 10 deny us equal rights in the firm of coDfed- eration, would be to dishonor the slave States Say to them that look on the confederation of these States ns we would on the partners in firm, where the interests and rights were all equal one of the partrcs violating the articles of confederation, of it. self absoives tlc otherso that the responsibility of the disuDion is on the head of tho party violating the compact. In conformity with ttese principles, let the legislatures instruct their eengresvmSn That whenever these principles violated by any az gressve act, on the part of Congress, they must rise and leave their seats. |, is hoped that when our brethren of the north shall see the respectful yet HfLl, pOStlioH takeu " Iic koutl--aud tbaI II disunion must come, it's responsibilities their own heads-it may incline them to better counsels, For the sake of liberty. and the last, best hope of man. hope it may think it much to be regretted that the legislature did not adopt the resolutions in troduced by Mr. Flournoy on this subject; they were certainly inst and proper, and embraced the true southern ground. Had the legislature done so ArknDsas would have had the enyiable distinction of leading in matter that every southern State will be compelled, in selfdefense, to adopt. on the next meeting of their legislatures. Virginia has since done the very thing contemplated by the Flournoy resolutions. 4 FRIEND TO THE SOUTH.