The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-13
From The Goidsborough On. CO. Patriot.

| SLAVERY EXCITsMENT.-The main question
| ut issue among the people Of the slave-holdine
States of the "Union"i is Submission" or sse.
cession." BY some it is urged that the South
has suffered no 'crong at the hands of the North
to Justify the latter course; or at least that the
Wrong is, by no means commensurate with the
remedy. This class styling themselves .friends
of the Union Union party"-aNational par
ty' &c. &c, claim for themselves the peculiar
prerogative Of deciding for the South what is
r1ght and what is acrong, in this her day of trial
and affection. All who happen to Mink-we
will not say beliepe--that the South ought to
make bold, open and vigorous resistance to
any further aggression by the North, on her
rights and her institutions, are, by these same
Unionists--God save the mark !-denominated
disorganisers, nuHiGers and hypocrites-a set of
mere Baby onians, whose abortive efforts will
terminate in confusion, and shame and dsap-
polntment. In these views, we deeply regret
that the Wing press proper, of North Carolina,
should so unanimously agree. q.
There is another and by far the most numer-
Gus class in the South, who, in view of the many
acts OF petty tyranny and fraud to which the
South has, years after years, patiently submitted,
have come to the conclusion that, resistance is a
a crime. To this latter
class, come veal or woe, adversely or prosperity,
success or defeat, we unite our temporal destiny
Our reasons for doing so, We will endeavor to
embody in n few words.
A short period of time, not more than fifteen
years-has elapsed since the North made her
first open avowal of her determination to over
throw the institution of SLAVERY at the South
Anteocdent to the year 1885, all their labors, to
effect this object, had been confined to their So
cieties and Churches, Colleges and Schools 1t
had remained for that year (ls35) to witness
abolitionlsm, then bloated and sickly spectre
now (S50) Il hdeous and terrific monster-in-
troduced to the halls of Congress. At former
period, so repulsive were his looks, so odious
his form, so unjust and exorbtant his demands.
that the Senate Of the United States adopted a
rule, by whieh they virtually excluded him from
the Hall Of that body. in other words, they
virtually refused to receive abolition petitions:
and we may say that the House of Represen.
tatives did the same thing: for although such
petitions were received, they were neither to be
considered, printed or refsTsd
The Abolitionlsts, repused by Congress in
1885, did not in the least relax their Efforts
They retired only to collect their hosts, that
they might make more vigorous and united at
tack. Unfortunately for the whole country, and
especially so for the South, they have been but
too successful. They by no means concealed |
their designs, and our only wonder Is, that the !
South could have so long refused to open her
eyes to consequences which even then might |
have been easily conjectured The North |
steadily swelling her numbers by the annual ac-
cesson to her population of thousands of emf
grants, was still more embodened in her wan |
ton outrages upon Southern rights: whilst the
loss of representation TO the South for two
thirds OF her slaves, curtailed the number of her
Representatives in Congress, and aided in no
small degree to add to her present calam.ties and
impending ruin,
For the last fifteen years, the armies of the
Abolitionists have been ginning strength, and
the forces Of the South have become proper
tionnlly weaker. The known, acknowledged,
and avowed purpose Of the North is, to abolish