The southern press., 1850-09-04

TO be called disunionists by those whose lmme-
date interest or whose wellknown ianatlcism
has always suggested this mode OF assault; ana
to such assaults, and their consequences, we
were Indifferent But when the whip OF Poi!tl
cal power and of party organization; the desire
of receiving rewards from those who have the
numerical authority to distribute them the
fascnations which cluster around great national
parties, and perhaps others and by NJ means
hipher motives, all combine to induce southern
man to lie as low and stay as long us the most
imperous master could demand, have feelings
of surprise and regret mingled with others
which decline to name.
Sir. have spoken freely and sharply, because
not only |, but Southern gentlemen with whom
concur upon the exciting questions which have
occupied our attention almost exclusively, have
been designated as utras slandered as disunion-
lists, and denounced rs traitors. Men in places
both high and low politicians representing all
the eradations in the animal creation, from the
lion to the monkey and the cat; organs of all
sorts, from the slow, stately, solemn, music
making instrument, both dull and deep-toned,
through all the varieties, down to the tuneless,
cracked convenience on which melody is manu-
featured by the job; those who could make
speeches, and those who, in default OF that
quality, could pay those who can write letters,-
all aid in forming public sentiment to parallze,
and discredit Southern men, whose offence has
been faithfulness to the constituency who sent
them here. 1t is proper that such should be
freely and faithfully dealt with for although
few believe them here, they work mischief where
they are not well known. 1t is the settled
policy of the Free-soil Anti,savery party, in all
its shades and variations of opinion, to unite in
dscrediting every statesman of the South who
affirms any principle Of the Constitution pro-
tectng the domestic institutions of the South.
In this they are promptly seconded by their
allies, dupes, and dependents at the South VINO
with exceeding alacrity unite to PROSTATE such
statesmen, by calling them disunio lists and dis.
organizers. 1t would amuse, sir, did 1t not call
up sensations of very different character, to
observe their devices to conciliate favor ut the
expense of those whose interests demand a diff
ferent line of action There is no lack Of de-
nunciation by Southern men in high places
against those of their own section who maintain
the rights of their people. Such men see trea-
son and dsunion in every Southern convention,
and every resolution of the assembled people
which advises resistance to oppression; whose
Indignation vents itself upon those who are con-
tending for their homes, their fresdes, and their
property but who have never discovered the
propriety of censuring those whose whole his
tory has been one of meddling and aggression !;
whose Abolition conventions and Free-soil asso-
ciations organizations for the abduction Of
slaves, openly formed and unrebuked by law,
legislative resolutions of disunon purposes, and
votes in this House which have agitatcd this
country in all its length and breadth, destroying
confidence and alternating sections. Such things
as these are not proper subjects Of animadver-
sion with those who are foremost in the effort
to hurl down men who ask for nothing but the
guarantees Of the Constitution. And, sir, the
most humiliatng conviction of the whole is this :
that these prompt assaants of all of US, who
are determined not to yield our honor or our
political equality, are compelled to acknowledge
that no plan proposed does justice to the South,
and that we must and ought to take what is Of
fered because it is the best we shall get.
have, whilst hunting with my pointer, found
it necessary to scouryc him for driving up the
game unseasonably, or some other disobedience
of orders When the chastiscment was over he
was so thankful that did not kill him, that his
protracted caresses about my feet rendered it ne
cessary that should kick him away and make
him hunt. There is in the advice given to take
this Northern inhiction for fear Of n worse, so
much of the instinct of the whipped pointer, that
can have no sympathy with those who give it.,
or those who are inclined to take it. yield to
no man in my attachment to the Union us the
Constitution has created it. adopt the clear,
patriotic, and admirably expressed resolution of
the Democratic Convention of North Carolina,
who recently nominated candidate for Cover
nor and whose nomination has been so signclly
indorsed by the people. Without approving of
all the resolutions, | make especial reference to
the third, as expressive of my feelings, and to
which cordially adhere. THAT the union of
these States rs formed by our forefathers, is
dearer to us than everything else beside our Vi
tai interests and our honor; that we will cherish
and stand by it, so long as it realizes in its ope-
rations the design of those who founded it as
equals; but that while we yield to none in our
attachment to it, we are still determined, happen
what may, to resist all palpable violations of the
Constitution, and all attempts to WELD this Gov
ernment by mere sectional majority, to the in.
Jury and degradation of the Southern people,"
In this noble declaration fully concur, and the
people of my good old State have, from Cape
Hatteras to the Pilot Mountain, from the north
ern to the southern boundary, shouted one long,
loud, and hearty amen To the Constitution
plate, to the Union as means for insuring tran
guilty, repose, equal rights, and human liberty,
| am devoted by sacred and revolutionary reco-
lections of ancestors and kindred, by every hope
which had its origin in the expectation of just
and equal administration of our rights, and by
the anticipatons of future which would be
doub,y glorious, should these sacred principles
prevail But to that Union as an end to enslavc,
plunder, degrade, and dishonor; to the power
derived from its name, to infict the tyranny Of
despotc majority irrespective of the Constitu-
ton, to all Legislative or palpable violations of
the Constitution and to all attempts to WELD
this Government by mere sectional majority to
the degradation and injury of the South, my
heart responds that resistance isa duty, come
what may. rejoice, sir, that North Carolina
has made like response at the ballot-box.
have not, sir, been ignorant of the attempt
to disparage us by calling public attention to the
fact that those falsely called ultra Southern men
and Abolitionists voted together in opposition
to the plan of the Committee of Thirteen in the
Senate Much denunciation was uttered on
that account, and poor attempt to make poiti-
cal capital by that device. 1t is true that South
ern statesmen opposed the progress of the bill
of the Committee of Thirteen, and that some
No.tbar, Fraa Soilars and Aholitionists did the