The Arkansas banner., 1849-04-03


 distinctly before the public mad Of ihe Soaih the relationship which the two paFtie4 at the North | have borne to ihis subject. They might be Huiti- piled iO the satisfaction of tts most incrcduIous | mind, additional force could thereby he given te the argument But if these facts which ara tn 1 harmonious unison with the whole record oG Gen. 1 gfess this subject. do not carry home conviction to the mind of Soathein man. such one would not believe though should rise from the dead.
 If we may rely with any certainty upOn the re- ports of the public prss of the proceedau of State legislatures. the representations of indssiduai quaIniaDces who supposed to be fsuiiIiar with tl,e matter, we may gather con6rmsscFy evidence Of the same fsct from that quarter We are vet to learn the name or hear of the existcnce af tps first
 whig who has ever voted In any Of the legislatures of the free States ngalus resoiaieas in favor of the pFneiples'ef the Wiimct prOvisa. Tue saIne isiFpe or rheir Yahaic pres lnJeed fn sie rankx of the Northern whig party thcre has hccS and now is an unvarying uniformity of sentiment ei this subject, which cofnPels every candid and truth-ioviag man 10 admit that tho South will look ia vain In tI,e ranks of that party for siagis friend upon whose arm she may lean in the hour af her trials and troubles. They have feF years been courting and carcssing the abctionists and in their public have manifested subservieuce to abolition dcta- lion, and utilization with abolition sentiment, which has in no small degree contributed to in crease the excitement and magnify the importance Of this most wicked aud reckless warfare upon Southern rights. These solemn truths have bee n from lime to time presented to the consideration of the Southern people; and they have been urged to cut loose from political association which was sowing broadcast through tie land the seeds of their ruin and destruction. As individual who had par
 cipated in presenting these Iacts to the people we had been actuated by the sincerest desire to save our country from the rnnous consequences which we believed must inevitably follow from u union of the South with Northern whigs-We were cwHdid and honest in the declarations which made to l~ -R ak-S ~lr. of such an aIliance. Our opinions have undergone no change. We yet believe that the only true and reliable friends of the South at the North arc be found In the democratic party, and that the protrc
 ton of our rights 90 far the Is depend upon the legislation of Congress, is only to be pro- noted by uniting tn still closer bonds with those who have given these evidences of the sincerity of their friendship, and the honesty of their pur- poses, and at the same time severing all coHnection with those whose course has been characterized with unchsnging proofs of hostility and opposition. Entertaining these views, shoad have been false 10 our past professions-faise 10 our present con- vetious-false to the dictates of policy false to the requirements Of justice false to the impulses of gratitude. if we had given sanction to paper purporiing 10 give faithful narrative of the aboi- ton question, and which omitted wholly to consider this. the most imposing and important feature of the subject. The sacrifices which the Northern democracy have made ia their efforts sustain the constitutional rights of the south against the com hned influence of the Northern whgs and abOi- iionists, have not yet entirely passed from memories. Some of the instances within our personal knowledge. We have seen them strcken down in the Etruggie-we have hearcd around us the shouts of rejocing over their defeat from the very men in dceaee of whose rights their last blow tn the contest was strickeh--we have seen their seats in the halls of Congress vacated one by ome
 to be filled with the miserable paDderers to abolition excitement, who are recognized and hailed as good nnI i'm nf we have seen the craven hearted democrat, who, as he hambly bowed his neck to receive the abo- lition yoke, spurned with indignation from the embraces of his former political associates, only to be the more cordially welcomed Into the ranks of Northern whigs. and by them elevated from the House to the Senate of the United States. Until these things shall have been oblitsrated from oar memories, we never affix our signatures to any paper protesting to be faithful history of the qaes
 ton which does not deign to bestow upon them even passing notice.
 Some may be disposed to reply to these consid- eratons, that the number of onr reliable friends among the northern democ rats is daily diminishing They may refer to the fact that the recent votes which have been taken in Congress on the subject, we have been enabled to obtain the CO., operation of comparatively a small number. and in this result find justification for refusal to cognize the obligations imposed upon us by their past services If the grateful remembrance of past kindness and friendship does not suggest sutieien answer to such objections, we might perhaps with
 more effect reach the judgments with the cousid- erations of policy. The southern whigs have, by their unfortunate alliance with their northern as- socates, done more to estrange only friends at the North than all other causes combiped and if t0 their ungrateful and nngenerous reproaehes of the sincerity of northern democrats, we to render acquiescenee by silence on such occasion as this, may reasonably look to the period as
 not far distant when the South will he called upoa to mourn the departure from the halis of onr national legislature of her last northern friend. The southern address also purports 10 give the of the increase of the abolition excitement Ut the North, but wholly fails account for the re- markable fact that during the present session of Congress of the most alarming votes have been given which be found on the records of our
 national legislation; whilst it directs the attcDtion of the southern people to the fact that the Boye-
 meuts of the agtators at the present session have
 been directed, with peculiar interest, 10 the subject of slavery in the District vf Columh:s, il attenpts
 no explanation of ihe causes which have led to this | remarkable and threatening demonstration. The
 narrative to bo complete and trutdul, saould not
 have omitted important u consideration, if there existed any that could with propriety have
 been assigned. It may be the author again af,- prehensyc of woundDg the feelings of sensitive southern whies, but we cannot see ID this any sui feent paliiaton for this omission. We all tnast know and feel that the unfortunate vote east al the late presidential election by majority of tlo south
 people, for Willard fillmore for the vice pres- deney, has had inco1st4eFs5e agency in pEo=- ducing this state oi things. Fillmore stotd pledged before the country in favor of immediate Easl,tion by Congress for the abolition of slavery in the Dis triet ot tolumbia" By his siirBee ho refused any modification ot this other equally oous opinions, which h, had pronulgcd nore tha2 ten years ago, ia the efforts common with his pirtyl of driw- ing into his support the abofitlon influence of his district. W ith these most infamous aboiioa sea ftinons hsncing upon his lips. he was tranP Phsatlv elevated, hy the votes oi tie Sout to the second oiee iu the repnblic. This vote, thus by the SoHIh in esil hour has been eoustracd by .heS,
 northern fanatics into willingness her part io submit to tse practical operalion ol the principles so boldly avowed by her favorte candidate, aud they have been emholceed by .hs result to reacs, with redonbe,i 2ad, ihs warfare upon our rights g.uer,lly; aud particularly have their efforts been directed 10 the District of Columbia. account Of