The southern press., 1850-09-04

any State or Territory 10 resist the laws OF the
! United States or prevent their execution, as
cannot be overcome by the Judicial authority, or
the powers given to the marshals by those acts !;
that then the President my call on the army,
4 navy, and militia to enforce the laws and secure
their execution. Now, in many of the non-slave-
| holding States of the Union, such combinations
do exist. The Governors and Legislatures give
evidence Of their existence in the statute book
1t is made highly penal for courts, officers, or
citizens to aid the marshal in the capture and
I delivery of fugitive slaves, i'll open violation OF
| the Constitution-the fundamental law OF the
land. Gerrit Smith, of New York, President OF
the negro-stealing society, published his mani
festo, boasting of acombination to steal, protect
and remove the property of shareholders. 4
Mobs interfere to rescue slaves who are taken.
No prudent man is willing to risk his life for the
recovery of his property in many OF the States;
and notorious as these facts are, widely known
| and loudly complained of, the President has felt
| no, conscientious impulses to urge lin to break
up such combinations. But when the plan is to
buy slave territory to make free soil--to dis
member Southern State and despoil her Of her
doniain-when the banner Of abolition Is to be
pushed fOrward-the necessity becomes pressing,
| and with sword welded by himself, and ten
| millions of dollars raised from the taxation of
! people now pressed with a public debt, he
| threatens, and asks Congress to bribe Texas
| TO come down to the PasO, and with the Pa
cifc occupied by California, the Gordon of free
States around the slave States will be complete.
Am ], then, in error, when say this is an Abo-
lition Government think not, sir; or all the
territorial policy looks to the abolition of slavery.
| use the term abolition in reference to ultimate
consequences. call every Free-soier, every
advocate Of anti.slavery measures or restrictions
g.
to repeal the Mexican laws, if he believes them
efficient to exclude the South, an Aboltionist
pro tanto. There are various stages of the spe-
cies; the caterpillar is chrysalis before he be-
comes a butterfly the tadpole will certainly
become frog-he may present nondescript
appearance in his intermediate state, but he will
shed every appendage inconsistent with his ulti-
mate condition, and come out a frog confessed
The mildest anti-slavery man would vote for the
proviso if he did not think the Mexican laws
sufficient for his purpose, and all at last unite to
prevent the STAKEHOLDER from equal participation
of the public domain. To extingush slavery,
either by direct abolition or restricted surface
either by immediate destruction or ultimate star
vation, is the avowed object; and to it all de-
grees of .anti-slayery doctrines assuredly lead.
| Abolition and free-soilism, sir, have become
very powerful in this Government. The distribu-
ton Of ffty-eight millions of dollars year, and
| the emolurnents of Office, rapidly creating
tional politicians in the South. The sword and
the ermine are concentrated in the President--he
will soon seize the purse, and dispense with the
formalities of an election for his successor. He
will, in short time, have nothing to buy, be-
cause, sir, you will have nothing to sell. National
Democratic or national Whig parties may bring
about such state Of things, but they can never
remedy the evil We see it already in the ambi-
ton Of politicians to have national reputation.
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that we should understand the meaning which has
been attached to them by circumstances. Speeches,
letters, and editorials, are filed with such terms
as these: Southern Hotspurs, nullifers, uras,
dsunioniss per Sc, and traitors, on the one hand;
and moderate men, patriots, and national poIiti-
clans on the other. In connexon with the great
issue now occupying the public mind, Southern
Hotspur indicates that asserts the equality of
the Southern. members ofthis Confederacy null
lifer, one who is so simple as to suppose that
palpable violation of the Constitution, in any law,
ought to take away its effect; an ultra, one who
is satisfied with part of the territory for the oc
cupation of his constituents, who will acquiesce in
the Missouri Compromise line; disunionist per
Sc, one who does not promptly yield to any and
every measure Of adjustment, without reference
to the rights and the honor Of his section, and he
a traitor who dares to commit the sin of violated
majesty, in supposing that plunder, insult, OPP
preston, and degradation, IN the name or the
Union, ought to be met and resisted, " come what
may" Should any member from the South dare
to claim all of her rights, (Which few have the
| boldness to do,) there is no term in the vocabu-
larry Of reprobation which describes his offence
it is, sir, ga deed without a name"
| On the other hand, a moderate man sees the
salvation of the country in the organization of ma
tional parties and presidential conventions, and
| patriot yields to the demands of injustice for the
Unions sake. He can weep tears Of bitterness
over the evils which threaten its integrity-looks
with dolatrous reverence to 1t as the great end of
liberty, not as the means of securing lt-bows at
the altar Of the Federal Observation-Disclosures
all who think that they owe allegiance to the SOW
eregn State in which they reside, whose citizens
! they represent, and whose protecting arm shields
their families and their fresides-owes higher
and paramount allegiance here; and no matter
what comes, although the Constitution be violated
and his rights withheld, he will kiss the rod
which smites him, and bow to the tyranny which
| treads him to the earth.
The people, sir, are the great lexcographers-
they will revise this edition Of newly defined
terms, and it is probable they may not fully ap-
prove it. propose TO give more detailed account
of national politicians, and the process by which
they formed-those who enjoy the glory and
are redolent ith the odor of national reputation.
Northern men being in majority, acquire it
easily. They can bargain for it with expectants
of patronage, and calculate with some certainty,
but the Southern politician has more difficult
task to perform. After much study, | think
| tell you, sr-it is interesting to understand all
those processes, which are such important ele
mens in the current Of events which surround us.
Southern politician, to be national, must stand
South and lean North; must censure any of his
friends who are urgent for the hts Of their con-
stuents, and apologize for anti-slavery allies;
must praise the Union statedy and vociferously,
make its gories the staple of his speeches and con-
versation, attribute all the excesses Of the Aboi-
tionists to the ultraism of Southern men; acquire
the reputation of moderate man by never de-
manding the rights Of those who have entrusted
them to his care; advise compromises and sub
mission because it is the best that can be had; al
ways be in the of the just demands Of the
South, and say he is for them, but they cannot De
had.
Ifa Southern member Of Congress claims bare
Justice for his section, rebuke him and tell him
our Northern friends cannot vote for that meas
ure, although due to us, because it will destroy
them at home. Speak much of utras and dis
unionsts per Sc, and call all who are not outright
submissionists, impracticables and Southern abb