Democratic banner., 1849-07-09
The Address Of Southern Members OF
Congress to their Constituents.
concluded from last Ueek.)


Congress to their Constituents.
Concluded from last s0eek.)
It can then only be effected by this pros.
tration of the white race ; and that would
necessarily engender the bitterest feelings
of hostility between them and the North
But the reverse would be the case between
the blacks of the South and the people ofthe
North. Owing their emancipation to them,
they would regard them as friends guardi-
ans, and patrons, and centre, accordingly,
ell their sympathy in them. The people OF
the North would not fail to recipr ocate and
to favor theminstead of the whites. Under
the influence of such feelings, and impelled
by fanaticism and love of power, they would
not stop at emancipation. Another steI
would be tsken-to raise them to a politi.
cal and social equality with their former
masters, BY giving them the right of voting
and holding public Offices under the federal
government. We see the first step toward
It in the bill already alluded toto vest the
free blacks and slaves with the right to vote
ON the question of emancipation in this Dis
trict. But when once raised to an equality,
they would become the fast political asso.
ciates Of the North, acting and voting with
them on eli questions, and by this political
union between them, holding the white race
at the South 10 complete subsection. The
blacks, and the prodigate whites that might
unite with them, would become the princi.
pal recipients o federal Offices and patron
age, and would, in consequence, be raised
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cal and social scale. We would, in a word
change conditions with them-a degrade.
ton greater than has ever yet fallen to the lo'
of a free and enlightened people, and one
from which we could not escape, should e.
Emancipation take place, (which it csrtainl,
will il not prevented but by fleeing the
homes of ourselves and ancestors, and BY
abandoning u country TO our former
slaves, to become the permanent abode Of
disorder, anarchy, poverty, misery and
w~retchedness.
With such a prospect before us, the grav-
est aud most solemn question that ever
claimed the attention of a people is present.
ed for your consideration: What is to be
done to prevent it? tits a question for you
to decide. All we propose is, to give you
our opinion.
We, then, are of the opinion that the first
and indispensable step, without which no.
thing can be done, and with which every
thing may be, is to be united among your
selves, On this, the greatest and most vital
ofall questions that ever have, or probably
eve will be, submitted for your considera-
tion. The want Of union and concert in
reference to it has brought the South, the
Union, and our system of government to
their present perilous condition. Instead
Of placing it above all others, we have made
1t subordinate, not only to mere questions
Of policy, but to the preservation Of party
ties and ensuring o fparty success. Ashigh
a. we hold a due respect for them, we hold
them subordinate to this and other questions
involving your safety and happiness. Un-
til they are so held by the South, the North
will not believe that you are in earnest in
opposition to their encroachments, and they
will continue TO follow, one after another,
until the work Of emancipation is finished.
To convince them that you are, you must
prove by your acts that you hold all other
questions subordinate to il. II you become
united, end prove yourselves in sarnest, the
North win Be brought to . pause, and to a
calculates Of consequences; and that may
lead Ia, . change Of measures and the adop
ton Of Q course Of policy that may quietly
and ~psseesbly terminate this long conflict
between tve sections. If it should not,
nothing would remain for you but to stand
up immevably in defence ofrights, involving
your ea@-9ous property, prosperity, equal
In liberty. and ,safaty-