The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-16
From The Savannah Georgian.

n Unenviabe as the position of Georgia may
seem, we have no doubt but that the Convention
will exercise Its discriminating powers and come
to such wise conclusions as the Importance of the
case may require All experience goes to show
that the elements of disunisn are every year rip
ening more and more, and that some great poti-
cal volcano must ere long burst forth upon the
country Let the people of Georgia be prepared
for this issue, and let them calmly consider the
sinking condition Of that fraterna feeling which
once bound the union of these States in confede-
rate happiness. True it is the country no longer
moves in harmony with itself-section is arrayed
against section-the determinations and bitter
denuncations, waged in Congress by sectional
agitators, would impress the stranger with the
belief that the interests of foreign nations at
stake-and that a hostile struggle for power be-
tween che sectional parties was the grea0pbject
of their efforts. Can such state of things exist
much longer' Must the South quietly submit to
the graspng attitude of the North-arrayed in
determined aggression against the institutions
upon which the prosperity of the South depends.
Must the South quietly submit to the action Of
Congress which wrests from her every mere Of
new territory and to which she is as much enti-
tied as the North 81
We say then it is high time the South moved
forward 10 the rescue Of her own rights. The
country has assumed foreign hostility within
itself, and is now enacting sad tragedy of err
rors which surpasses Roman example. Gov
eminent which is unhappily divided within itself
where the people of one section are seeking to
poison and pervert the minds of another-holding
the lives and Liberties OF the Southern people in
contempt, and deemng it virtue to stimulate the
negro to raise the murderous knife against his
master, must soon bring its frail members to an
issue. We go beyond this unhappy discord and
say, there is stern manifestation Of the most vi
cious feelings carried to personal insults on
the most frvious subjects. This then is the true
position Of our Government, agitated by sectional
eumity-the one demanding her just rights, while
the other is seeking for predominant power. The
North has accumulated that power and now esti-
mates the amount Of her aggressons as she would
golden treasure. We ask again, must the South
submit to those territorial distributions which hold
their dark and threatening folds over her future
destnies'
Let the course of the Georgia convention be
governed by actions which display readiness
and preparation to meet the question with cool
deliberation. Let its acts be republican in prin-
ciple, standing firm and united, and trusting in
that Constitution, which, as far as the. control Of
our Government is concerned, scars above that
constitution which some Northern politicians seek
from heavenly sphere. Remember, that mu-
tual guardianship which once fostered the sources
of our federal happiness, has ceased to exist The
kindred blood of the Old Thirteen, which united
its inspirations and sacrificed itself preserve our
most sacred rights, is transformed into alien
ated rivalry. Look, then, to the direfu state of
the country's affairs, and choose the safest qua
rantee for the protection Of our State