Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-07-13

otberl is more especially due from States bound together
conedeacy, ard which displayed IN all their IN
tercourse Instead of respect and sympathy denunc alton
and hostility Of your institution OF slavery have
years past characterized communications addressed 10
you by The Northern States. And what your condl Ion IN
the Union The non-slavehodng States stand combined
not only from you your common properly but 10
place upon your front the brand of inferior You are not
10 extend of your Institutions but they are to
increase and multiply, that the shame and SIN OF slavery
may, by their phianhopc agency, be extngushed from
amongst YOU But the feature of your condition IL
that it is progressive As low and humiatng il now
may be- is destined, if arrested, TO 81 lower deep
Every effect cause and The spirit OF tana'icism brooks
delay in the progress il creates II you were TO yield
every thing the North requres-abolsh slavery in the
District of Columbia, submit to be egisaed pirates for con-
yeyng slaves from State another let tria! by jury and
the writ Of habeas corpus from you in the Northern
States every fugitive slave give up oil your territories to
swell Northern aog things stop
there These all aiming at great end-the
abolition of slavery in the States. Surrender OF these
MEANS and you will but name the power by which another
will be exaced-and when all conquered, will the evil be
arrested In fifty years tweny new non slaveholdns States
may be added 10 the Union, whilst which are now
slaveholdhg may become saveholdng States. There
then will be need, openly put aside the const
tuition reach their object II they will degn 10 do il the
veholng States will then have the power by two
thirds in Congress and three ourhs OF the States to amend
the constitution and then have express sanction
summate their policy Your condition is progressive
II, from the past transactions have narrated learn
condition in the Union, they teach also that past
policy of action and submission aggression cannot
bring us peace and safety When tie doors of Congress
thrown open agitation the subject of slavery, if
the Southern States had moved with energy to avert state
of things unconstitutional ITSELF and surely tending to bring
the savehoding and -slavehodng States into COLLISION
Though late, might have been too late t. stop subse
quen encroachmens upon rights. But the Southern
States passive and their orbearance has had the effect
of inspiring the Northern people with the belief either that
value union with them than value the insttu
Of or not q
inability protect ourselves You have ungenerousy stood
still whilst your supporters and the defenders OF the constm
ton in the Northern States, in their efforts to protect you
from the agtaons of slavery Congress- have been pl
cay annhated have turned your foes gu have ampy
acquesced until to hate and prosecute the South has become
high passport to honor and power in the Union You have
unwisey stood still whilst year after year the volume of
slavery policy and sympathy has swollen into unanmity
throughout all the nonavehong States aud the sections
of the Union now face each other in stern collision. You
have waited until the constitution of the United States
danger of being aboshed of becoming what tho majority
Congress think proper make it, That great principle
which system of free government rests of dividing
the powers of Government that to common Government
only those powers should be granted which affect oil
people omposng equally in their operation willis all
powers all interests local sectional should be
ed to local sectional governments, is in danger of being
upooed from their constitution. Loc, and sectional int
absorb the time and business Of Congress, ard thus
sectional deposm, totally irresponsible to the people of the
Sauhconsued of the representatives in congress from
ton, and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at Washington These are the
fruits of your past forbeaIance and subm sson
If look into the nature of things, such results will
to be either strange There is but cond
ton which people be safe under the dominion of
another people ard that is when their interests entirely
Identical. Then the dominant cannot Cypress the subject
people, without depressing themselves: The identity of in
teres between them is the security for right government
But this Identity freely exist between any
people, history bears but testimony The fate of sub
people They have always been compelled minister
the prosperity and aggraadzement Of heir masters If
this always been The under the ordinary difference
interests and feelings which exist between States. how
much certainly must the experience Of history he rea
zed between the people of the Northern and Southern States
Here difference of climate and productions throughout
territory stretching along the whole belt Of the temperate
zone affecting the pursuits and characters of the people
habitng it. But the great diff rence-the great differ
ence-he greatest which exist among people, is the
institution OF slavery This alone apart the Southern
States peculiar people-with whom iade pendence
their internal policy the condition OF their existence. They
must rule themselves, perish. Every colony in the world
where African slavery existed with exception has been
destroyed; and if this has been the under the old and
ee Governments of Europe, will prevail under The do
mnion of the restless people of the Northern States They
do not practically recognise the ineroty of the African
the Caucasian They do reaz, because the CIR
# their condition do compel them realize
the mpossihty of amalgamaon between he Ex-
empt from the institution of slavery, it surprising
their sympathes should be against us whilst the dogma
which they profess build their system ofee government
tie absolute rule ofMe moorityIeaves barrier to their
power in the affairs Of the General Government and leads them
to its consolidation. Religion oo-false rreal-fres their
enthusiasm against an institution which many OF its protes
believe to be inconsistent with its principles ard precepts
To expect fobeaance from such peoIe Under such cir
cumstance towards the institution Of slavery rnanfesy
vain If they have been false the compact made with Us
in the constitution. and have allowed passion and prejudice
master reason they have Only exemped that fray and
aby of cur nature which has produced the necessity Of
all governments, and which, if unchecked produces
wrong The institution of slavery having entered The
popular mind of the avehoding States, action and
CONTROL the is inevitable If unrestrained by U.s. thew
will go on until African slavery will be swept from the
broad and fertile South The OF things therefore, in
dependent of experience, teaches Us that there can be no
si'e'y in submission
To submit evils however great whilst they endura
BILE, the disposition OF every people-especiay of an ag
cultural people, living apart and having association in their
pursuits. But the respons by of preserving govern
men rests with all lis MEMBERS whatever may BE- their pur
suits and not alone with those who have the power the
will to destroy il. minority, by submission may as much
be,ray the constitution majority by aggression The
constitution does not protect majority, for they have all the
powers OF the government in their hands aud protect
themselves The limitations Of constitution designed
protect the mino!iy-hcse who have power against
those who have it, Hence. the great motive duty self
protection peculiar minority, independent Of TIA, faith
to the constitution which they in common with tie
)rity They protect themselves and protect TIC cons
luton and, if they fail in this double duty, thy
least cupabe those who, cssing upon their rights
overthrow the constitution. And the public opinion the
world is in conformity with these views The opprssor IS
hated but the INCREASINGLY oppressed despsd More
spect the yrant than the slave who submits his
The Southern States, therefore, although minori,v
exempt from the responsibility OF preserving the uon
and in preserving ii TO protect themselves.
In what shall they preserve the constitution and pro-
tect thems Ives,
AS general rule il undoubtedly true that wbep in