The Arkansas banner., 1850-04-30
WHERE IS TIE REMEDY.

reflected deeply upon the subject. We commend it's perusal to our readers;
 wAsHINsros crrY. D. c. April 9, 1857.
 Dear L.--If may indulge an opinion as to the future, e is that this administration is and will con tiuue to be q Honsafay It seems to have no re on Its power is felt in tho timd conservatism of a few faithful friends in Congress. who have bat little else te do than look out for the future integ ritE of . party which every one must sec hes no future. Whatever may be the result of our great contest, it will, In my opinion, to great extent cause disruption of parties and their reorganza- ton upon . new foundation of s sectional eharae- ter It twill be so inevitably. Causes are in oPe. ration which tend to that complexion. It is now being discovered, by that bold process of thinking which this disruption has brought forth that there is in the future very little about what the South will differ. may say, be permitted to differ What ever differences might be the result of the old party organizations, if allowed to remain, am certain that in the event We pas. this convalsIOn in safety feelings have been aroused, animOsies engendered, and forces set in active operation, which will to a great extent band together the whole North, in most of the political questions of the day, which will to the same extent league the South in sm- lat bond. The most formidable aspect of the great contest between the slave and free Statfs, is that about re territorial rights of the SonthV Let this be settled and enough still remains, of food for this anti slavery agitation, to create sectional feelings The war will be eternal. It cannot be expected that such great moral anti, athies with correspond inS political systems can work in perfect harmony. Heretofore it has been the case, but in future we must recoect that beyond the territorial question, the other points of difference have been much vii dened. and that although deep sore may be healed, new wounds will be inflicted, and old ones opened, which will keep up sectional organization Much disaparobation prevails as to the real source of the prese nt order of things. Somo ascribe them to the ordinary workings of the diseased state of party, others to the exatiOn of Texas and California; They bo;h and all others fall short of the true OFi- gin Of the maa6y. It Is organic defect in our Po' litcal system now grown into permanent and ehro- nie form of action. Whatever harmony between these antiquities may have marked our history in the past has resulted from the deep wisdom of the
 
 ted system of policy which accommodated itself to great faii in cut Social Constitution. It sePe- rated hostile elements into different spheres of ton, and thus prevented perpetual collision be- tween them. Such policy would n the present case, while it acknowledges principle vital to our future safety, goes raesf of any scheme to pacii- cate the discord which now reigns. IL approaches
 ,1 f Corf Ina and curity for the future" Such compromise would remove forever, one fruitful cause of agitation. As to the plan of universal pacifcation of all pen- ding questions, it is hopeless to expect it. When survey all our grounds of complaint against the North, we must see that many of them however we'll founded, inevitable, and such as il is folly to suppose any legislative enactment effectualIy reach. or this character is the disregard in many States political and legaIized, of the constitutional obligation restore fugitive slaves whatever slrin gent regulations may be made by law, it must de- pend for it's efficiency upon the good faith of the people, amongst whom il is to be executed What ever injustice and irritaia" '-'~.' -~-i-- C.
 cause. and il is fruitful of both, they mostly un- avodable They existed during the old confederacy and produced the provision in our constitution which found no place in the old articles of confederation If it was eyer expected that this provision would prevent all cause of injury and irritation, our fore. fathers were wide of the mark Founded on an original difference of moral consultations between different sections the evils from it must naturally
 increase, and their existence does not dsappoint or surprise me. They therefore causes of dder- ence which must always exist. Next are the de- monsirations in favor of an assault upon the ins- tuition of slavery in the District of Columbia and other pubic places which the Constitution and the cessiOn of the States have placed under the excu- sive legislation of Congress- for great national pur poses. The power to abolish slavery in such pla- ces may be embraced in the scope of the power, broadly and unsuspectngy conferred, in general terms which no one ever thought was to be prost- tued to the purpose of affecting the reserved inter ests of the States to whose grants Congress was indebted for all her control over them.
 l, has been claimed, too, that the slavetrade be- ! tween the States has been embraced within the power to regulate commerce. However. these things may be, they are mere matters of opinion, which .cannot, in their adjustment, enter into any permanst scheme of permanent paciG cation, 
 with any hope that they will be respected. For any act of Congress invading the plain intent of these provisions, our remedy is plain. Not by dis solving tho Union, but by resisting such aggres- siOns may thus be sought to be enforced in the 1 limits of the States. Such within our own control, and for that very we need not fear them. There are some rights of character so plain that violation of them ofends the sense of every one. These ought not to be either ques, toned or discussed The southern States owe it to themselves to take that position in reference to all such injuries. Wemust, in future, rely much upon ourselves and less upon the fOrbearance of the ma jority. It is time that by some great demonstra. ton not to be either mistaken or disregarded, we should lay down certain ultimatums, and cease to argue about what is outside of or beyond them.
 When il is thus ascertaned that there is point be- yond which we cease to argue and resort to diplo- | macy, sometimes most potent in the hands of the I f. d.