Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-10-22

arried without the bounds Of reason IN lheh
,iid dreams Of political fanaticisa. lP Greece
ad have hung and beheaded some oil her poiIli
nj ,snirants who were working turmoil and
wi discord for the sake Of clf-aggrandisement,
sasicad Of banishiSg such men us Lycurgus anu
,cmosthcncs, aud poisoning Socrates they
light have hoped for better late Tor me re-
ub!ic. The fate of that country should De SUI
icient warning 10 all persons, who are calied 10
participate in the public councils and de!ioerar
ions Of the United States. The highest aim OF
very statesman should be TO attain for himself
he repu,ation Of yirtuous patriot, and for his
COUNTRY government of equality, magnanlmity
md forbearancc, the former can be acquired on
v by a course of prudence, frmness, and unwa-
TerinC integrity, the latter by reason, bencVo-
cree, and equitable legislation. Every vrtuous
statesman is very careful to touch no subject II
possible, that is likely to awaken sectional Jeal-
)usies These are the hydra headed monsters OF
which they should have the greatest fears Tor IL
nee awakened by the loud thunder oiln justice,
n the peals Of ingratiiude, scarcely ever recon
Without leaving the effects of their yenomous
tangs upon those who aroused them from lHelr
,umbers. But politicians OF less character ana
capacity, are generally the persons who handle
UGH subjects with less care and dehcacy, Know
my that without being the prepagators OF some
main in comparative obscurity. and will never
be known beyond the mere limits Of personal in
trirue. Among the latter class Of politicians,
We NAV Justly include the aboltionists of the
North, whose only aim has ever been political
power and self ACKNOWLEDGEMENT at the expense OF
he concord and harmony Of the Union.
| cannot, for the life of me, conceive even the
shallow of Justice or honor in the course pursued
nv the North In their passed acts OF aggres
sion and violation of public faith, they have set
at naught every principle of justice and honor
And let me ask, in all simplicity, what's lett 10
console the blighted hope of the SoutM where
thew have seen snatched from their grasp, all
power Of legis alton, and passed from their own
hand. into the hands Of those, who have Tor
years, been using every endeayor to dispoi them
of the property and possessions, guaranteed 10
them by the constitution; when they have seen
appropriated TO the purposes Of ireeso!lism by
northern majority, in the face Of justice d the
remonstrances Of the South, all the territory
acquired by the blood and treasure Of the South
by the late war and treaty with Mexico. When
they have seen their property decoyed andstolen
from their midst, and CARED beyond the jurlsdic-
tional limits Of the Southern States by those
mad fanatics, and then set at liberty and the de-
iance of the owner, with full privilege to taunt
and abuse him if he should attempt the recovery
of his property, the very property, the wright to
which they have sworn 10 MAINTAIN and defend
What let me ask, is TO be anticipated from
set ofmen like those, if they once have the con-
troll Of the legislative power, who have stolen
our property and murdered and imprisoned our
citizens in the attempt to recover it? They
have now by the late act Of injustice, perpetra-
ted BY the present Congress, sufficient territory
with which to erect number of free states, in
less than ten years time, adequate TO the alter
ing of the constitution. This fact IS now reduced
TO a mathematical certainty And a wrller III
the Southern Press, justly and very appropriate
ly observes, that the course of kentucky, Mis-
souri,, Mary land, and North Carolina have be-
come so waverng and uncertain, and So luke
warm in their own cause ard the cause Of tn
South from the course pursued 10y their leading
representative, the one hall OF whom can At any
ne by tue promise OF foreign mission or this
vice presidency at the hands of the North, who
will be now in the ascerdeHcy, be bought over
TO their interest at pleasure thus adding at least
two Southern States, TO the sixteen fEee s1a e.
which will only require an addition Of six more
new states to give them two thirds majority
which will by the provisions OF the constitution
itself, give them the permission TO alter that in
strument so as 10 prohibit or abolish slavery
People Of the South, what say you to this state
ment? Is there anything like wild theory or
delusIye calculation in it? Where is the terri
tory now out of which you can erect sufficient
number Of slave states (or where is your Con-
gress to admit them,) with which TO hold in
check the Nor,h so much as to prevent her from
having two thirds majority'
And where is there rational person who
could be so much infatuated or deluded as to
suppose for moment, alter calm review Of
the injuries the south has already sustained al
-c.lo .bo ,hot
authority so soon as she found herself possessed
oft fully concur with that writer, who says
il is futile to hope that the crisis can be showed
off into posterity. | verify believe, that unless
firm, united, and decisive stand be now taken
bv the South against the aggressiol Of the
North, the fate Of slavery will be forever fixed
in less than sixteen years. Can this take place
without disrnion and blood shed? ] answer 1t
canrot. Twill now appeal to the patriots end the
m unanimous portion Of the citizens Of the
Moth, to the virtue and patriotism, their hon
or and magnanmity to their love of friendship
and brotherly union, TO answer in spirit of
calmness and reflection, in eandor and verify,
whether we have not a just cause Of complaint
against them? Nhethtr their entertainments
and aggressions upon southern rights have not
been too intolcrabe any longer to be endured,
and whether an enumeration of the injuries we
,
something like the following, would not be true
and iustfabe, and whether the blood Of our cit
liens and the loss of our property do not cry
aloud for retribution. We would come TO the
enumeration by saying that you have suffered
that faith tofall TO theground, which you plghted
before God and man, to the support Of the const-
tuition, that you have tramplcd under foot that
instrument which secures to our national
freedom, our federal union, and the protection
and defence Of our lives, liberty, and property !;
by repeated insult and injury, you have done all
that one people could do to another to ALLEVIATE
those good feelings Of sympathy and friendship
which have for years bound US together in the
most harmonious concord and union, and TO
sever the links of that mighty chain ofour union
which binds and holds us up as one great and
mighty nation, to the respect and admiration of
the civilized world. That you have organized
associations, for the express purpose of concert
inp Mans for stealing the servant from his mas