Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-12-07


There is indeed too much TO believe tina
this they made occupy the situation OF spe
in camp and TO disseminate through the entire body
slave population the poison OF INSTRUMENTATION, prepares
in the great laboratory Of Northern fanaticism.
In every community where the institution OF slavery IN
erwoven with its social system the public tranquility ant
safety demsnd the liberation Of only two classeswhlte neI
and colored slaves The existence of third class, with
many of the valuable rights OF the former, on eve
with the latter epugnance 10 labor and possessing all the
mental traits Of character unchecked by the restraints
plantation discipline the coored freeman lives degraded and
unpied being, foe to public progress and unconcerned
all that relates the welfare OF bis feowcreaiures Hsto
~ aests that in every sere war; attempt insured
on ia our country this unfortunate have been the chic
insgators. The dark and bloody scenes In 81
Domingo would have occurred even II the famous decree
the National Assembly Of France Of the 10th May 1884,
had never become q law. 1"
In South Carolina free negroes mulattoes, and mezzoe.
possess all the rights property and protection to which the
white inhabitants entitled They may purchase hold
and transmit descent real estate 10 despite OF these and
other inesimabe rights, which they undsurbedy enjoy,
there few Of the 200 in our limits who own property
beyond very limited amount
In view Of their early removal from the State, recon-
mend that the collectors be instructed to ascertain the
number Of free negroes muaoes and mezzoes IN the Sc
vera districts and parishes and how many OF eaen VINO own
real estate or property and that they report to The Lee
gislature at its next session.
The last meeting of the Congress Of the United States
he most evenu and disturbing that has been held since the
establishment Of the Federal Government After many years
Of understandable legislation by that body, crisis has at
length arisen in federal relations affecting deeply and
essentially the rights and interests Of one-ha the Union
Whether the endangered States should longer hold equality
Of rank with their copartners and their citizens be prohibited
from enjoying all the advantages and privileges constitution
ally guaranteed to both virtually the momentous and
10 rs hnmatng issues, which the legislative branch OF the
central authority engaged considering for about nine
,f the ten months in which il in session. The Com
PROMISE ultimately adopted, consider another triumph
he South by the fell spirit Of aboitionism.
The aggressive of Federal rulers, and the
States and people Of the North had at earlier period
sumed alarming aspect that by invitation, Of Mississippi
the savehodng States nine of their number assembled at
Nashville in May last for consultation concerning the means
Of saving the Union by preserving nvioate the principles
and guarantees of the constitution Over the deliberations Of
that august council composed largely Of the talent and pa
osm of the land, the spirit of harmony presided In de-
handing the protection of rights eopardzed by the unater
nal acts of their countrymen, they appealed to their
justice and the endearmens OF family association the
plain Of the bond that united them, the ennobng and
proud recoectons of the past and the glorious ancpaons
the future The result has shown that the authorities and
people whom they addressed in feeling and sentiment alien
u.s. their political allies and that the North have resolved
possessing the unlimited and permanent control Of our civil
institutions.
To operate on the fears of the minority section, and
pose supposed hopelessness its condition. the President
had voluntarily promulgated in advance bis fixed determ
nation settle by the sword disputed question between the
In following the ngorous precedent established by Of
MS predecessors the principle maintained that State
;sance Congressional edic would by him be classed
among the uneectng acts Of mob, the more deliberate
opposition Of band of organized individuals admitted law
ful authority. .. a..
foreign my purpose to speak deliberately OF matters
that have Of late been painfully brought your notice.
California created State by Congress. admitted into
the Condeacy against all precedent and in violation Of the
laws and constitution Of the country. 1t premedated
insult and injury to the slavehodng States and wanton
assault upon their honor In the act aboshing the slave
trade in the District of Columbia, the right Of furnishing the
owner by manumng his slave prominent among its pro-
visions BY this bold and successful attempt to engraft
abotionism the principles of political system, power
has been assumed which by expansion yet cohe the
federal community in the habiments OF mourning These
and other wlfu perversons Of high trust have virtually
abogaed the powers necessary the safety Of the sovereignty
of the States The whole authority of the Federal Govern
men granted and usuped which is concentrated in the
will Of absolute and interested majority Is hereafter to be
welded for the exclusive benefit Of the Northern stronger
interest To its ambition and cupdty, fifteen members OF the
constitutional compact, by whose wealth the Government
supported and confederates enriched to be compelled
ANONYMOUSLY to minister In word the Congress of the
United States longer to be the executor of the will OF
sovereign States but Of party banded together by the two
fold incentive Of sectional aggrandzemen and public plumber
If the fundamental objects Of ederatve system have
been desgnedy perverted there remedy in the ordinary
checks power. The ballot box is Intellectual and the
powess its appeals to oppessor deaf enreaty
anu ddm0nllOns Oh humanity
In Federal Council it is certain that the voice of the
minority will never again be needed
BY slow cautious, but regular process, the rights Of the
people and the sovereignty Of the Southern States will be
aed until their total exnguishmen is effected. By multi
the number Of free States, resisting all attempts to
large the Of the savehoding community, and dscrm
mating between the rights Of Northern and Southern persons
and property another decade will have passed before the
General Government will enforce edcts greater in their
sus human liberty and the progress of enghten
men than emanaed from the worst forms Of desposm
Before that period arrives, the existence of South Carolina,
Merged in the limits Of contiguous provinces, the truthful
memorial Of her history will lie scattered her hills and val
eys On the printed page the tale Of her origin and progress
may be found but the real and Of her political
extinction will never there be read . !.
The North and South differ fundamentally in institutions,
and from the framework Of their social organization they
need different laws While strong government, with all
the appliances of extensive patronage is necessary to the
former, mild and equal system of legal restraints is
quired by the latter The restriction foreign
the policy the one free trade that Of the other The North
from necessity commercial and manufacturing people, the
South an agricultural community. While the former seeks
enlargement of the powers Of the Federal Government
order enable il profit by the wealth of the producing
States the latter mpeed by the principle Of sepreservato
strives conne the agent within weldened and
theoretically equal but from influences perhaps incapable Of
conrolmenb they practically anagonsic; in the Other
capital superior labor and the relation between them is
moral The character and interests Of each the
harmonious action of both in all their operations. These
discordant materials in federal structure mainly
exclusively eerab 10 the positions respectively assigned the
parties by Such the adverse tendency Of that posi-
ton in relation Of them,he larger section-hat il
seems to be imperative duty its part promote, under
the preence of the general welfare the Of
purely sectional in their application.
This obsna,ey Pocivity is in reality in strict
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