The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-31
For the Southern Press.
Who's the Traitor? Speak! Strike
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proneness as well as the danger, fcasting stone
by those who live in glass houses. Look at Mr.
\ Clay in the Senate After thirty years of hostil
demonstrations against his own native South
in every contest waged between North and South
behold him denouncing the accomplished Barn
well Rhett TO the country TRAIToR AN
for what! For unfolding and insisting upon tina
very Missouri Compromise with which Mr. Cha,
himself clipped and belted the South s fair domains
IRAIroRs who rejected and opposed it! And ther
| is Mr.. Richie patting him on the back and ap
plaudng him to the echo, after denouncing him fo
those same thirty years, for his deserton Of South
ern rights, and hostility to Southern interests! Blu
does Mr.. Richie hold up Barnwell Rhett as
TRAIroR' Verify does he And for WHAT Fol
sustaining that SOVEREIGN RIGHT OF SECESSION
which Virginia proclaimed to her sister States
upon her entrance into the Union in her famous
declaration in Convention, on the Goth Of June
1888, that the powers granted under the Constitu-
ton by the people, ''MAr BE REsUMED BY THEM
WHATSOEVER THE SAME SHALL BE PERVERTED TO
THEIR INJURY oPPREssIoN," doctrine more
over, which Messrs. Jackson and Madison, with
Mr.. Richie to help them, have sustained for their
iives-time! Is Mr.. Ritchie,s memory SO bleared
IN mere OBLIVION, that ne forgets the memorable
declaration OF James Madison, IN the Federal
Convention, which has, to this day, remained un-
answered because unanswerable, that
III we consider the Federal Union as naiagous
to the fundamental compact by which individuals
compose our society, which must IN It's theoretic
origin at least, have been the unanimous act Of its
component members still 1t cannot be said that
no dissolution OF the compact can be effected with
out unanimous consent. abreast Of tundamen-
tai principles Of the compact by part Of the society,
'ood certainty a6soire the other parts from, their ob
cations to 1t
And what more Fundamental principle OF the
compact can be pointed to than these the equal
Wy or me States, and the restitution Of agatre saues
These are termed Fundamental, because, without
them, as every body knows, the constitution and
the Union could never have been formed, and con-
sequently, when either of these are violated, the
cAsus rEDERIs has happened, the breath has been
made which James Madison declares roltd GER
iainy absotre the parties interested from their obiiga
lions 10 1t. 1g ra
Take one of these Can any sane man doubt. but
that it is the dty Of Congress, whenever il has the
porer to secure that equality to all the States. in
whatever there be Of Federal property acquired by
or ne, tanning To the States IEaifed2 And ran nnv
sane man doubt the po,rer of Congress to he
South an eo,,al share Of the Territories Of Cofor
MIA, Utah, and New Mexico, through either the
form of unrestricted migrations. or of eeoeranhi-
cal partitions, And can anv sane man douht
what Messrs. Webster. Claw. and Cass have so
reneatedlv and empbaticallv told the .Aoy,b III,
Mr.. Clay s bill strips the South thoroughly and
always, of every acre Of the acquisitions, and
dooms it irretreviably to the hostile and aggres-
sive dominion Of Free-Soilism' And through
whose agency viii the South s equality in these
territories have been denied to herr Through
that Of Congress undoubtedly! Through the OBJ
structons it finds there, -or puts therefor keeps
there, Having all power to remove them.-b,,t
with all purpose to retain them there! Then the
South s equality is gone. Eli Ay, Of verify!
Then she is bereft of her rights-shorn Of her
sovereignty-and insulted in her restitution Ha!
Says't thou soi Then where in all her borders
shall be found the craven s,lbn,issonist-who dare
strike her when She down, and upbraid her with
her fate' Let the aggressions 60 on-admit Cali
fornia as she is-rob the South Of her fugitive
slayes-and no man now living is so old, that he
may not see the traitors brand and the traitors
doom aft xed to that Southerner who shall twt
her with treason for claiming her last great remedy
against oppression. The RIGHT OF SECESSION,
coming down to her in guarantee, as it does from
the reverend mother Of States-and haIowed and
blessed to her from the grave as it is in the santed
voices of her eminent dead!
Command moi men of the soutb--nor b,en If
rbe North secession with nt1fco,;on T;cb, and
da,kness are NOT deener nor v;v;der IN con,r,st
Than thew The ono t,,,es o,,;at leave IF The
ITpion for breaches of Tho f,pda mental condition.
on which it rests The other cleayes to the Union
and claims all of it's bene6ts hut removes tho bar,
thens it opposes and contests In South Carolina, =
case. the whole South shared in her grievances.
and svmpathzed in her struggle. but the vast ma
ioritv dissenting from her remedy. held hack from,
the contest. Had she chosen secession for her
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