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is assumed, that its object Is disunioh, anu
consequently treason to the government OF
the United States. The whigpress, OF this
State, are very busy in This patriotic en-
lrloyment. Meeting after meeting can take
Iriace in the free States, at which the IN
ion is openly denounced, a wing Ex-Presl,
fdent can write, and his friends can publish
that the bargain between frsedo" and
slavery is vicious, and it excltes but iit'ie
remark. The Nashville Convention have
mo design to assail the Union, but to pre-
serve it as il has been and as it is. The
North have made great prngress in uniting
lin certain sectional measures; it is time the
iSouthtr IN people should understand each
tother, and unite in demanding their rights:
They have indeed spoken Of disunion, and
why should ;they not? When the North
lpours out denunciations against the iustitu-
lions OF the South, and the people who sus-
tain them as robbers, as a slaveocracy; when
a portion OF the North d%enounce the Union,
and propose to abolish it, why should moi
the South speak ofa possible event, to be
forced upon her. II may be said, that only
Ia small portion Of the North have thus de-
nounced the Union, We are aware ofthat
but we also remember that the whole Tree
soil party hold and preach the very doc.
%ltrines which must lead to the same result,
If consistently carried out. These fanatics
as they are called, are the only consisten
men to be found in the whole phalanx o.
free-soilers. If domestic slavery is the evil
the crime, the atrocity, which the free-soi
organs hold it to be, nolhonest christian ma
can, in the end, stop short Of the most ultr'
a~bolitionism.
We remember too, that some years ego
when the anti-slavery agitation started, i
was secuted by all parties North. II hat
been far better If less unjustiiahle mean
had been employed to suppress it, so grea
was the general abhorance Of It in the fret
States. We see what the result has since
been. Perseverance on the one side, ant
a lust of Office, on the other, have enabled
this little band of fanatics to revolutionis'
the whole North in their political and sec
%tional action. One proposition has follow
ed another offensive to the South, ant
gained strength. What the result will b,
it is easy to ~foresee.
First. There are to be no slave States.
Second. Slavery is to abolished, not b,
the people concerned in il, but by a sec
%tional majority, in the District Of Columbia
about our forts and arsenals, &c.
Third. The slave trade between th'
States is to be prohibited, not by the State
5 concerned, but by the free States in Con
lgress.
Fourth. Slavery is to be abolished in tn
States, With oriwithoutian alteration Of tn
federal constitution.
Such is the progress Of the present cur
Trent ofsentiment and action Of the fedora
authorities. The result to the Souther,
e country is plainly to be seen. The State
y now so prosperous will in the end be re
: Iduced to negro colonies-poor, miserable
land degraded. The interest Of the negro
+ 1.-THE pretended object of the abolitionist
North, and they have a theory that the ne
gro is like the white men, capable Of sci
government. They are reckless distruc
~tives, ready TO tear down the institutions {
9 the South, before they know what they ca
: build mp in their stead; and nothing but tn
desolation and misery of the experiment
will open the eyes'of the ,innovaters in
e business that does not concern them.