The organizer., 1850-06-29

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served to local or sectional govern
menis-is in danger ofbeing uprooted
from their Constitutions. Local and
sectional interests absorb the time and
business Of Congress and thus. a
sectional despotism, totally irrespon>
slble to the people of the South
constituted of the Representatives in
Congress from the nOn.slavehOldine
States-ignorant of our feelings.
condition and institutions ns--reigns at
Washington. These are the fruits OF
yonr past forbearance and submis-
sion.
Ii we look into the nature Of things
such results will not seem to be either
new or strange. There is but one
condition, in which one people can br
safe under the dominion of another
people; and that is when their inter>
ests are entirely identical. Then
the dominant cannot oPPress the sub
ject people. without depressing them
selves. The identity of interest
between them is security for right
government. But as this identity can
scarcely ever exist between any two
people, history bears but one
testimony as to the fate of a subject
people. They have always been
compelled to administer to the pros.
perity and aggrandizement of their
masters. il this has always heen iho
case, under the ordinary difference Of
interests and feelings which exists
between States, how much more
certainly must the experience of
history BIZ realized between the
people Of the Northern and Southern
States. Here is difference of
climate and productions throughout
a territory stretching along the whole
belt Of the temperate zone, affecting
the pursuits and characters of the
people inhabiting it. But the great
difference--the one great difference
the greatest which can exist among
people, is the Institution of-slASeFy.
rhis alone sets apart the Southern
States as peculiar people-with
whom independence as 10 their
internal policy, is the condition Of
their existence. They must rule
themselves, or perish. Every colony
in the world where African slavery
existed. with one exception. has been
destroyed, and if this has been the
case under the old and efete govern
ments of Europe, will it not prevail
under the dominion Of the Northern
Slaiesl They do not practically
recognize the inferiority Of the
African to the Caucasian races. They
do Hot realize, because the circum-
stances of their condition do not
compel them tn realize, the impOs-
sbility of an amalgamation between
the races. Exempt from the insli.
tuition Of slavery, IL is not surprising
that their sympathies should be
against us, whilst the dogma on
which they profess to build their
system Of Free goverment--the dbSO-
lute rule Of the mGjOrity-leaves no
barriers 10 their power in the affairs
Of the general Government, and leads
them to its consolidation. Religion,
too, false or real. fires their enthusiasm
against an institution, which many |
Of its professors believe TO be incon>
sistent with its principles and pre-
crpts. To expect furbearance from
4 people, under such circumstances
towards the institution of slavery, is
manifesiy vain. If they have been
false 10 the compact made with as in
the constitution, and have allowed |
passion and prejudice to master
reason, they have only exempli6ed
that frailty and fallibilIy Of our
nature, which has produced the
necessity of all governments, and
which, if unchecked, ever produces
wrong. The Institution Of slavery
having once entered the popular mind
Of the non-slavehOIding States. for
action and control, ihs rest is inev-
liable. II unr' strained BY us they
will 20 on, until African slavery will
b. swept from the broad and fertile
South. The nature Of things, there
fore, independent Of experience,
teaches us that there can be no safety
in submission.
To submit 10 evils. however great,
whilst they are endurable, is The dis
position OF every people, especially Of
an agricultural people, living apart
and having no association in their
purtuits Bot the responsibility Of
preserving . free governments rests
with all les Numbers. whatever may
be their pursuits and uot alone with