The southern press., 1850-08-17

which they are most justly and legally liable
And thinks your Excelency, that the wrong has
been redressed and the amount refunded Not to
shiling's value Thinks your Excellency that
the evil has been arrested and that the free States
desist Then aroynt thee Of the error, and take
cognizance Of the facts, for nothing seems clearer
but that these depredations extensively and ra-
pidly on the increase had averaged the South 5
average annual losses in fugitive slaves, for the
last ten years, at 1850, but have since received
reliable information that AN estimate of 1000 for the
year last past, would be that much nearer though
considerably short of the mark Well, sir, 1000
slaves rated at only $500 apiece, gives us an ag-
gregate of 81 900, 900 Lone million wholly lost
to the South in single year, without the consid-
Grafton Of one dot in value -Rayished spoils of
fsonious plumber, and Abolitionists the felons,
and their States their accessories II is the law
as well as the adage, which proclaims, that 'sThe
Receiver is as bad as the Theft"
What is to be done, Mr. President, to redress
these foul wrongs; and to arrest them' Is there
prospect hope, that the South s hour OF
retribution may yet Gomez Alas, sir! your Ex-
cellency well knows what the South has realized
for these 80 years; that with our noble Constitu-
ton on her side, there has been no help for her in
Congress-none in the past; and God help US,
for her, unless she is content to be made Jest Of
and taking nothing for the past, submits her pro-
perty rights in slaves to the mockeres and mercies
Of her Fyse-soiI jisrss, whose idiot faith it is, that
there can be no property in man ,naugre the
speaking chronicles of forty centuries of human
servitude to the contrary! In all this then, and
after thirty years of endurance and forbearance
and without a change but for the worst, the ques-
ton returns upon ms. What is to be done' Must
the South submit Ought she to submit Can
she submit, without being branded with bastard
ism, that would dishonor and defame the race she
sprung ffom' Every native who loves her
would exclaim, " MAY SHE Perish SOONER !'-
If, with Constitution vouchsafng her all she
has claims to and all asks for she can yethave no
justice, and no help in the Union, from the tyran-
nous majorites who administer the Constitution,
all prophecy is cheat, and all history an impos-
ture, if she does not seek that justice and that
help out of the Union Look to it, sir! I'm
icas these expressions are put an end to-unless
the Executive veto is brought down upon that
unconstitutional California bill, should it find it's
way unaltered to the White House,-you must
be blind to the portents which now darken the
Southern heavens, if you can hope to reach the
des Of January and escape the calamities of rup-
tured Federation! Ponder on it sir! The Ex-
ecutive right arm guided by wisdom may avert
the catastrophe, by arresting this measure and
bringing all sections of the country to pause!
Once employ that right arm in unsheathing the
sword of State and in the roar Of the first volley
of Federal musketry aimed at the citizens of SOW
ereign State, we shall hear the parting knell of
the Union and all will be lost The whole coun-
try will realize that the power to save or destroy
the Union is devolved on roU, and may God of
his goodness vouchsafe you, the wisdom and
the patriotism that shall save it,
RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE.
P.S.-In my next propose to demonstrate
that the Constitution is a Compact-that the sole
parties to it are the Stutes-and hence, that the
Union is tederaspe-and secession its munimenf