The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-30

your dctlon ana ueclSlOn. Nat -, tuc Cuioi
being thus dissolved, where will you go
VIII you fall into line--sBoulder your mus
ket, and fight side by side with the Aboli'
tionists of the North for the purpose Of whip
ping your Southern brethren into ablect sub
mission to the insults, outrages, and wrongs
which it is not necessary here further to cha
racterize and portray. No, fellow citizens
never would TennesseeaIs thus degrade
themselves, and dishonor the graves Of thei1
fathers. What, then, would you do p
Would you unite your destinies with the
North, in order that they might continue
their aggressions on your Would it be
either your interest or policy to do so;
Where, may inquire, are your markets fol
all your surplus products? Where do you
send your pork, horses, mules, grain, &c j
To the North or to the South Tell me
when Tennessee has sold one dollars worth
Of her surplus to free Slater answer
Never! On the contrary, some Of the free
States compete with you in your own mar
ket, and that of the other Southern States.
If you attached yourselves to the North,
thereby becoming aliens to the Southern
Republic, in sending your surplus to that
section, you would be required by their rev.
enue laws to pay duty or tax on them, if,
indeed, they would permit you to trade with
them at all. Again-what would become
of the Mississippi river, and your right to
navigate it. / need not, and will not, pro-
secute this inquiry further. 1t is too absurd
to suppose that you would, in such result,
hesitate single moment. You would, OF
course, go with the South, and, if fighting
was to be done, you would be found where
your fathers were found, in the war of the
revolution-on the side Of the oppressed,
battling for equality, honor, liberty, and right,
and there you would find the whole South.
The agricultural interests of the South
have been taxed and oppressed long enough
by congressional legislation, for the unequal
and unjust purpose Of enriching the manu-
facturer of the North it is therefore high
time, that we should foster and encourage
our own citizens, in their agricultural and
manufacturing pursuits over those who have
deprived US of our equality and rights, by
imposing duty or tax on all the fabrics and
productions grown or manufactured in the
on-slaveholding States, and thus we would
accomplish several important objects. This
policy il it should prevail in all the Southern
States, which from present indications !
think it will, would give to the Southwestern
States the exclusive market in the Southern
States for their flour, pork, grain, horses,
mules, &C., &C., to the exclusion OF the nom
States, and it would inevitably
enhance the value OF those articles consider
ably and at the same time, it would give en-
to our people 10 engage 10
manufacturing as it would cut of in great
degree Northern competition in the South
elm sections Of the [ MON, or at least it would
give them the advantage in the market to
the extent of the tax. This is not all the bene-
fits Of this system of policy. The revenue
thus raised would go very far to relieve the
people from the onerous taxation now i'm
posed on them and lastly, it would teach the
yanky, that we knew our rights and were
resolved to maintain them; and his purse be-
ing nearest his heart, it would bring him to
a sense Of Justice. There is no section or
State whose interest and prosperity would
be more promoted by this measure than
those of Tennessee. BY means of the rail-
roads now being constructed, cheap and
quick conveyance will be affo ded the peo-
pie for the transportation Of all their surplus
produce into all the Southern States. Will
Tennessee, in view Of all these advantages,
cooperate with the Southern States in this
benign, just, and necessary policy, or will
she continue to advocate policy, the effect
Of which is to enrich the North at the ex-
pense and depression Of the South. If this
policy would not preserve the constitutional
Union given US by our fathers, know Of
nothing that would, for that Union | am
warm, Jealous, and devoted advocate, but if
that sacred instrument is to be trampled un-
der foot and the Union of equals among the
States and their citizens which it creates,
Frustrated, | care not whether it shall have
been supernduced by fanatical feeling or
from lust of political power sought and ac-
qured by usurpation, and plain and palpa-
BILE violation of the Constitution. The end
and the motive are the sa ne, the nefarious
purpose Of degrading, depressing and ruin
ing the South. The Union which meets my
sanction and support is that Union which
gives to the people of every section that
equality, liberty, freedom and justice achiev-
ed by the blood of our common ancestors in
the war of the revolution and by them secur-
ed to their descendants, in and by theConsti-
tuition of the United States; this is the Union
to which | owe allegiance and to no other.
1t was to secure to you these blessings that
| so strenuously contended at the last ses.
sion Of Congress and for nothing more.
did not ask or demand any exclusive privi-
ledge for you, only demanded your equal
rights to enjoy the acquired territories and
which were so invidously and unjustly de-
MED you.
In view of all these aggressions, and in
view of the system of policy which it is clear
and manifest the North has marked out for
their future course, and, as but one course,
in my judgment, can put an end to the cease
less agitation and aggression, and that is
union and concert of action on the part of
the South, | most earnestly advise you to
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