The Madisonian. (Canton, Miss.) 1850-1855, 1850-10-03

rights of the States which alone stand
in The way ofthe giants stIIde Of fan
aticism. His FIRST minister. would he
called an abolitionist any where but
among fanatics. Judges Of courts end
ljuries being governed by higher law
are no longer TO depend upon when the
white man aud the negro are at issue,
Church and State are equally arrayed
against the South; and when the rights
its citizens are brought into question
they are no longer to be settled by
The laws If the land or the Constitution
'lof the country, bur by the conscience
ofhypocritical polllicitns,or the assump
tion Of dogma.
Yet we are told, that when the ho.
lily oil Of this inspired compromise is
poured op the Walers, all will oe calm
thar il Is not the redress, but the indie
tinn of wrongs that heals the irritation
ofthe mind and chat the Union will in
fallbly be preserved by a violalian Of
the great fundamental principles on
which il was ORIGINALLY founded
Under This strange delusion we are
: pres sing onward To the contamination
of measures equally hostile to the con-
slilutioual rights, the property, the re.
pose, aud the safety Of one half the
States Of this Confederation at the same
time that we have the assurance 10
come forward as the exclusive friends
ofthat Union Of which they are mem
bers say one half the States; for,
however a portion of the slave-holding
States influenced by political leaders,
and party distinctions, may hang fire
for the present, they will eventually be
forced into the southern conCederacy in
, self defence. They cannot, and will
, rot associate with those who are daily
assaling their rights and insulting their
r feelings and to remain neutral
: will be impossible without faring like
the bat in the fable. and being devoured
by both parties. The personal infiu
ence Of Mr.. Clay, in Kentucky, will
end with his life; that of Mr. Bell III
, Tennessee, Is already on the wane and
. the present position Of Missouri, is
too unnatural to last. Ii is not within
the p,0yince Of the father Of the Senate
3 who | wish would set better example
s to his children--or any other man, to
\ keep that State iu the ranks of aboli-
, tion and though he may fancy himself
[ Sampson, he will resemble him i'll
4 nothing but his fate His political in.
q huence is now limit ed to the power of
I doing mischief aud in all probability, lit
q tie will soon remain Of him bur the
1 wreck of the bed-ridden ambition and
!. superanuated vanity. If he remains
t much longer on the stage he will be
: hissed off by The audience.
+. The people of the North are most
V deplorably deceived, if they believe
il that the passage of The California ter>
o rltorial bills, and their Insignificant ap-
pendages of concession, will either, in
J.. the present or the future, tend to the
e restoration ofharmony, or the preser-
: valion of the Union, which cannot long
II exist except on the basis ofstate equal
Is ity On that it was originally found.
If ed; on that alone, can 1t be sustained
y and when the ark of the covenant is
n broken to pieces, the States, like the
!. tribes of Israel, will seperate, never
o TO unite again. i am sir,
}. A NORTHERN MAN AND a
ir FRIEND TO TUE UNION.