The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-08-05

then its days will have been numbered, indeed
The South has ever been devotedly attached to
it, and is so now; she asks for nothing but SIM
pie lustice--her constitutional rights; and to
less than this, believe, she will not submit, let
consequences be what they may. If driven to
such position, the South is fully capable of
taking care of herself
In conclusion, sir, have word to say to
the gentleman from Ohio, Mr.. Roor,l one of
the great pillars of free soil abolition. He has
twice, since this Congress convened taken oc-
casion to declare, that in the event of dissolu-
ton of the Union, the North would have the
Mississippi river from its mouth to its source.
If he thinks they are capable of taking it. will
only say to him, Come and try IL. 1t will not
be the first time that this matter has been at
tempted His quondam Free-sOil friends on
the other side Of the Atlantic attempted it in
the war Of 1912. Ii he will examine the past
history of the country. he will read in the fate
of Packenham and his army at New Orleans,
what will be his fate, and that of his army,
when they undertake the same project. The
South. had her Jackson and his hosts, to meet
Packenham and his army. She has the same
materials now ready for any emergency that
may arise. ~ aas1
TO the gentleman from Massachusetts, mr.
MANN have also word to say. If he can be
regarded as a fair exponent of Northern feeling
and sentiment, then the dissolution of the Union
is as certain to take place, it is that the night
succeeds the day. What is his language on
this subject? Ga8 a 8
Sir, cannot contemplate this spectacle with
out thrill of horror. II the two sections of this
country ever marshal themselves against each
other, and their squadrons rush to the conflict,
it will be war carried on by such powers of
intellect, animated by such vehemence of pas
sion, and sustained by such an abundance of
resources, as the world has never before known.
Ten foreign wars it has been well said, are
as luxury compared with one civil war But
turn from the scene with shudder If, in
the retributiye providence of God, the volcano
Of civil war should ever burst upon us, it will be
amid thunderings above, and earthquakes below,
and darkness around; and when that darkness
is lifted up, we shall see this once glorious
Union--this oneness of Government, under
which we have been prospered and blessed, as
Heaven never prospered and blessed any other
in twain, from east to west, with
a gulf between us, wide and profound, save that
this gulf will be filled and heaped high with the
slaughtered bodies of our countrymen and
when we rewaken to consciousness, we shall
behold the garments and the hands Of the sur
vivors, red with fratricidal blood.
"And what is the object for which we are
willing to make this awful sacrifice? Is it to
redeem realm to freedom? No! but to SUBJ
jugate realm to slavery. Is it to defend tn,
rights Of man ! No! but to abolish the rights
of man! s XXI,
Mr. BOWDEN. Does not the gentleman
think that such picture as he has drawn, would
induce the North to yield portion of the new
territories to the institution of slavery?
Mr.. MANN. ! trust that no pictures and no
realities will ever induce US to extend slavery
beyond its present limits Beyond these limits,
No more slave territories, no more slave States
is the doctrine by which ], for one, shall live and
die. .
In conclusion, have only to add, that such
is my solemn and abiding conviction of the
character Of slavery, that, under full sense of
my responsibility to my country and my God, l
deliberately say, better disunion better civil or
a servile war-better anything that God in his
providence shall send-than an extension of the
boundaries of slavery" r..fs.@,
He first deprecates disunion, and elOquently
describes the awful consequences to which, in
his opinion, it would necessarily lead But, to
prevent this dreadful calamity, such rs never
befel any nation on earth, he is unwilling to
make any, the slightest, concession to the South.
Disunion,-a seryile war-any calamity, rather
than the extension of slavery to one foot of ter
ritory now free. Is this Northern sentiment
Northern feeling? If SO, let them cease their
hypocritical cant Of deuotion to and lore of the
Union. No sane man can believe such DECLARE
tons. These are the sentiments of no other
than n disunionist per Sc. Had such sentiments
entered the Convention of 1857, this Govern
ment would never have been formed. Had such
entered the National Legislatul in 1919, the
Union would then have been dissolved on Mis-
souri's application for admission. m
That man who will make no concession for
the preservation of the Union, who viii make no
sacrifices for the good of his common country,
would not do to rely on in the hour of danger.
Arnold-like, he would desert her flag, and go
over to the camp of the enemy. ay