The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1850-07-05


bound together in confederacy and which was
once displayed in all their intercourse. Instead
Of respect and ympathy-denunciation and
hostility, on account Of your institution of slave
ry, have for years past characterized the COM
municatons addressed to you by the Northern
States. And what is your condition in the
Union? The non-slaveholding States stand com
bined, not only to wrest from you your common
property, but to place upon your front, the
brand of inferiority- You are not 10 extend, on
account of your Institutions but they are to in
crease and multiply, that the shame and sin of
slavery, may by their phianthropic agency, be
extinguished from amongst you. Bat the worst
feature of your condition is, that il is progress
Sice. As low and humiliating as it now may
De, 1t is destined, if not arrested,i TO "a lower
Deep" Every effect is a cause, and the spirit
OF fanaticism brooks no delay in the progress 1t
creates. If you were to yield every thing the
North now Tequres-abollsh slavery in the Dis
tr:ct of Colum5ia-submit to be legslated
pirates for conveying slaves from one State to
another-let trial by jury and the writ of HabedS
Corpus, wrest from you in the Northern States
every fugitive save-give up all your territories
to swell Northern arrogance and preGominance
would things stop there? These are all means
aiming at ore great end-the abolition of slave
ry in the States. Surrendering one of these
means you will but infame the power BY which
another will be exacted-and when all are con-
quered, will the evil be arrested? In fifty years
twenty new non.slaveholding States may be adj
ded to the Union, whilst some which are now
slaveholding, may become non-slaveholding
States. There then, will be no need as now,
openly to put aside the constitution to reach
their object If they will design to DO it, the
non-slaveholding States will then have the pow
er by two-thirds in Congress and three-tourths
Of The States, to amend the constitution, and
then have its express sanction to consummate
their policy. Your condition is progressive.
If from the past transactions we have narra-
ted, we learn our condition in the Union-they
teach us also that our past policy of non-actlon
and submission to aggression cannot bring us
peace and safety When the doors OF Congress
were thrown open to agitation on the subject OF
slavery, il the Southern States had moved with
energy to avert state Of things unconstitutinn-
al itself, and surely tending to bring the slave
holding and non-slavphoIding States into COLI
son-althongh late, it might not have been too
late to stop subsequent entertainments upon our
rights. But the Southern States were passive;
and their forbearance has had the effect of in.
spring Northern people with the belief, either
that We value union with them more than we
value the institution of slavery or that we dare
not move from a conscious inability TO protect
ourselves. You have ungenerously stood st
whilst YOUR supporters and the defenders of the
Constitution in the Northern States, in their eff
forts to protect you from the agitations of slave
ry in Congress, have been politically annhilated
or have turned your foes. You have tamely
acquesced-unti,, to hate and persecute the
South, has become high passport 10 honor and
power in the Union. You have unwisely stood
sill, whilst year after year the volume of anti
slavery policy and sympathy has swollen into
unanimity throughout all the non.slavehodinl
States, and the sections d the Union now face
each other in stern collision. You have waited
until the Constitution OF the United States is ir
danger of being abolished-or Of becoming wha
the majority in Congress think proper to make
it, That great principle on which our system
of free government rests-of SO dividing the
powers OF goGernment-that to common Gov
ernment, only those powers should be granted
which must affect all the people composing it
equally in their operation-whllst all power.
over all interests local or sectional, should bt
reserved to local or sectional governments-i
in danger of being uprootcd from their Consti
tuition. Local and sectional interests Absorb
the time and business Of Congress, and thus, {
sectional despotism, totally irresponsible to tht
people OF the South-constituted of the Repre-
sentatives in Congress from the non -savehold
ing S:ates-ignorant of our feelings, condition
and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at Washing gton.--Thest
are the fruits of your past fofbearauce and sub
mission.
If We look into the nature Of things, such re
suits will not seem TO be either new or strange
There is but one condition, in which one people
can be safe under the dominion of another people
and that is when their interests are entirely iden
teal Then, the dominant, cannot oppress tht
subject people, without depressing themselves
The identity Of interest between them, is the Sc
curlty for right government. But as this iden
| tity can scarcely ever exist between any twt
people, history bears hut one testimony AS The
fate of a subject people. They have alway
been compelled to minister to the prosperity ant
| agrandizement OF their masters. II this has al
WAYS been the case under the ordinary difference
sof interests and feelings which exist between
STATES, how much more certainly must the expe
rience Of history be realized, between the people
| of the Northern and Southern States. Here il
a difference of climate and productions through
out territory stretching along the whole bel
of the temperate zone, affecting the pursuits ant
characters of the people inhabiting it. But tht
great difference-the one great diference-tht
greatest which can exist among people, is tat
institution of slavery. This alone sets apart tht
Southern States as a peculiar people-witl
whom independence as to their internal policy
! is the condition of their existence. They mus
rule themselves, or perish. Every colony in tb,
world where African slavery existed, with on
exception has been DESTROYED; and if this ha
been the case under the old and effete govern
ments of Europe, will it not prevail under tn,
dominion Of the restless people of the Northerl
States? They do not practically recognize th
inferiorty Of the African to the Caucasian races
They do not realize, because the circumstance
Of their condition do not compel them to realize
the impossibility of an amagamation between
the races. Exempt from the institution of slave
ry, it is not surprising that their sympathie
should be against us, whilst the dogma on whcI
they profess to build their system OF Free gov
ernInent--the absolute rule Of the naGoriy-,leav
no barrier to their power in the affairs of th
General Government and leads them to It's con
solidaton. Religion too, false or real-fres thei
enthusiasm against an institution, which man
Of its professors believe TO be inconsistent wit
its principles and precepts. To expect forbear
ance from such people under such citcum
stances, towards the institution of slavery, ]
manifestly vain. lfthey have been false 10 th