The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-24

the deplorable necessity of cxpelling him from
our domestic firesides in selfdefeDce. ask my
readers-whether in the North or the South
nho are now the common and habitual disturbers
of the peace of society! who 1t is that daily
gather together in tumutuous crowds IN all
parts of the North, denouncing the laws, BRAN
dishing the bowie knife and revolver, and threat
enng death to every officer and every citizen
who approaches them for the purpose OF exc
cutting the laws! Who is it, that we see in the
South daily numbering their masters, and steal
ing their horses, for the purpose of escaping the
consequences of their crime! Who is it, that
we see clustering about in the North, on all &C.
casions of "excitement"-as it is mincengly
called-threatening ballying, and disappearing,
while setting dangerous and pernicious exam.
pie of violence, followed by IMMUNITY, to white
men Look at Philadelphia, New York, Bos-
ton-look everywhere and you will see the ne
gro staggering away, with his bowie knife and
revolver, prcked on by some inspired philanthro-
| pists, intoxicating the principles Of the "higher
law" and teaching him that he has carte
blanche to violate every other. Thus is he pre-
pared for every species of violence, by being
taught that ho is both legally and morally exon
Grated from all allegiance to the powers of the
State or the prerogatves of the laws; and thus
is the North gradually preparing for the recep-
ton of some millions Of pilgrims from the South,
assassins, acknowledging no fealty to law or
Gospel
Hitherto these predestined victims of philan-
thropy have not been sufficiently numerous to
become objects of apprehension, except to those
who look forward to future consequences. But
they are daily increasing by the seductions and
kidnnppings of Aboitionists forming large
masses in our towns and cities, aud their effron-
terry increases with their numbers. They are
already too strong for the civil power, and the
period is probably not far distant when that dam
gerous and fatal instrument, military force,
will become the ordinary guardian of internal
tranquility and order, as it is i'll England and all
parts of Europe. AS yet, We rather contemplate
these insolent demonstrations of the blacks with
pity, as the result of their Ignorance of the du-
ties of citizens but the time is coming when
this feeling will give place to indignation, and
al owance no longer be made for the excuses
Of those who have had time to learn better
There is little reason to doubt, that in this way
bitter and neverdying feud will be matured
between the two races and that in very few
years we shall see even philanthropy herself
yielding to that same experience which has
taught the State Of Indiana free Slate-the
necessity of excluding all free colored emigrants,
and impelled the Mayor of Washington to revive
a severe ordinance against them. These meas
ures Of selfdefence will become necessary in
the North as the number of free blacks in
creases. Let us briefly glance at the conse.
quences which would result from the success of
the scheme Of universal emancipation, not only
to the South but the North.
There are between three and four millions of
slaves in the States of the South and South
west. Suppose them all emancipated, either
"instantly," as demanded by the Abolitionists,
or by gradual process. The inevitable conse-
quence must be, that they would become expa-
trlated, either voluntarily or by compulsion, as
is the case with manumitted slaves in all the
Southern States. If inclined to remain, they
could not and would not be permitted; and
nothing is more certain than that their voluntary
or involuntary emancipation would be accom-
panied by sentence of Punishment, with which
they must either peaceaby comply, or resist by
force. If the latter, civil, or rather servile
war, accompanied by all its horrors, would re-
suit; if the former, their only place of refuge
would be the North, where they would congre-
gate by millions, and form a distinct race, for
ever separated from the whites by the indeible
distinction Of color, which, while it placed an in
surmountabe obstacle to union with one race,
would serve as palpable bond of union to the
| other
Equality in social and political rights, would
not content them, though sanctioned by the
laws for they would still remain inferior in moral
and intellectual qualities. The law of nature
would remain perpetual bar to equality, insur
mountable by all the devices Of legislation, and
all the precepts of philanthropy. Thus placed.
like Tantalus, in close view Of "a qualification
forever beyond their reach, every approach to it
would only increase their ardor for possessions
and render them more disconnected and danger
Gus. They would be as the free blacks of the
North have now beoome-~enemies to the laws,
dsatiected to the State, and imbued with deep
rooted hereditary hatred of that race, whose
natural superiority they ascribe to usurpation
and tyranny. Taught rs they have been, by the
dogmas OF the AboIitionsts, that laws and con,
situations which in any way interfere with per-
feet equality with the race of the white men, are
violations of the law Of God ard the rights of
nature, they are prepared to bid defiance to all
human ordinances, and to adopt that "higher
law Of resistance by the bowie knife and re-
volver, whenever they choose to consider them.
selves aggreved Atthis moment, comparatively
small as are their numbers they are everywhere
seen opposing the laws, and placing the civil
authorities at Defiance