The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1850-06-07
the effect on the industry and welfare OF the
North would be equally fatal.

the effect on the industry and welfare OF the
North would be equally fatal.
1t took only about fifteen years OF aggression,
on the part OF Great Britain, and remonstrance
en- the part of the thirteen colonies, TO bring
about a warlike collision between the tao. IL
was less than twenty-five years OF complaints,
unjust laws, and mutua. elimination and re-
elimination ard war, which sutfced to produce
separation between America and Great Bril-
tain. 1t will be soon twenty-five years since
the anti.slayefy aggressions of the North have
been Systematically directed against the rights
of the South and the guarantees OF the consl-
tuition.
It is time that the people of all classes at the
North should be made to look calmly 10 the uhi-
mate and inevitable result of the arti-slauery er-
element. The alienation between the two Sec
tions IS increasing, and has increased TO an
alarming extent 1t is folly and madness to
close our eyes to the tendency of snch growing
alienation If dissolution Of the Union be de-
sired by the North, then measures should be
adopted in time which will insure peaceful
dissolution, and admit OF the continuance OF
peaceful relations But if, as we know, three
fourihs Of the people at the North are disposed
to do Justice to the South-to discountenance
the treasonable Vaccinations Of the free soil agI
tation-for Gods sake let them take steps to
put down at once and forever, the miscreants
whose incendisry designs threaten the safety OF
the Union, the happiness of the people, and the
prosperity of the States. The madmen are
brandshing the firehrands which, it not extln-
guished, must envelop their own habitatlons
with the flames to which they would conslgn
those of their neighbors. The Union cannot
last, If this perpetual war is waged on the South.
We must make up our minds to let the South
deal with her negroes, as we have done with
ours. We must not only respect the letter OF
the compromises of the constitution, but then
spirit also We must not attempt TO Interpolate
In the constitutional restrictions and powers
which are not 10 be found there. We must mol
calculate, by sectional majority, to enforce the
assertion of doubtful powers. II we canot agree
on abstinence from this eternal irritating inter
meddling with the subject OF slavery IN the sis
ter States, then the sooner we anticipate tht
consequences of it, the better. The sooner W.
provide for those fatal consequences, the bette
it will be for us hereafter. We ought not TO sui
fer ourselves to be borne onward by an irreslsti
bic fanatic torrent, TO civil war, dissolution, an'
ruin. Ifthe antislavery agitation cannot be ar
rested, then violent rupture ol the Union, an
an utter prosuation Of northern industry, com
merce, and prosperity, is inevitable. five max
up our minds that the anti.slavery agitation
must proceeG-that it cannot be quelled--iha
no moral, religious, social, political. or constitu
tional barrier can resist it-then, as sagaciou:
prudent people, the sooner we devise measure
Tor mitigating the effects of that awful catastrc
phe which must ensue; the better it will be fc
US and for our children. Then the sooner W
take steps for peaceable separation, securln
to us the benefit we now derive from slave labo
the more tolerable will be our condition whe
that separation takes place.