The Arkansas banner., 1850-05-21
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NORTHERN DEsPOTssM.
 IL Is, really amusing to ohssrve the psrtinscity wish which the greater part of the northern la Congress insist upen their position They remind ns very foruibly of the oas juror. who came into eeurt and reported that the juFy could not agree because thers were eleven obstinate men upon Ii, In one bresth they aebrsid the South in the most violent terms with being ia favor of dsanion and of attempting to dictate to ths,n what they shall and what they shall not do; h the Bext they smPhsii- eaIy declare that their pet aatI-slssery msassnss sssH pvevaI, let tAs consequences bs pAaf tAey ay. In their ImpOseut rage they call the sou.hern people traitors and disunionists, because they fsd among as determination to resist their unjast6ed aud unnatural assaats upon our liberties, and ai the same time they declare that they will have their own way, right or wrong, though the whole fabric of the Union should crumble in ruins around them. This is beautiful consistency Admirable patriotism! We say to our northern brethren that If they believe thers exists here any adier- to the issue Of this agitating slavery ques- ton, they arS most egregOusly deceived if they believe the people of the southern States will qui- siy aud tamey submit the threatened expressions and see their vested rights us individuals Of oae great republic thus. by ihs wanton will of nu- mericaI majority. wres,ed from them by men scho hsDe Jor years been banded tOgether only for this avowe6 object, they will in the end find themselves most wofulIy mistaken. They may be deceived by their allies who have erept ia among us, and have endeavofed surrspitiousIy to fasify aud n,srepre- sent tho feelings and position Of the South. but an' less they take warning and. while there s yet disposition rife among the people. manifest will ling readiness 10 settle all these questions by fair aud honorable compromise. they may discover their eri or too late. The people of the South have been and are now ardently and devotedly attached to nion and it's institutions; upon repeated oc- casions this attachment has been manifested; hith- erto whenever sectional questions have arisen, in order to preserve peace and unity, the South has, without single exception, gallanty and generously yielded what she had an unquesiioned right to re-
 lain, until at last she has been utterly drived to the wa utter prostration and annihilation of the equal rights guarantIed to her by the constitution. are staring her in the face, If she should yield again to the impoftuuties and bullying threats of the North without some permanent security for the future The proposed measures of the North are essentially despo,ic. It is the despotism of a majority. "To all other despotisms there is check; imperfect in deed and liable gross abuse, but still sufficient tO preserve society from the last extreme of misery. A time when the evils of submission are ob- viOusy greater than those of resistance; when fear itself begets a sort of courage; when convusive burst Of popular rage and despair tyrants not to presume too far on the patience of mankind" !" The South has already manifested great patience and is ready again and again to make any sacrifice consistent with her safety, in order to preserve the harmony and secure the perpetuity of the Union. but this harmony aud perpetuity is altogether use- less if 1t brings not with 1t protection 1t is this only that she contends for. protection under and by the constitution is all that she demands, and SO far from these demands if presented by the united action of the southern States in convention Oth erw;se, bearing upon their face single breath of treason or disoyalty to the constitution, they arc in reality. like every other act of the SOuth based upon the principles which the government itself is founded, and conceived in the same spirit which has ever made the men of the South foremost in peace and in in resisting aggressions upon their
 liberties in fighting the battles of their country On the other hand, this attempt the part of the North, wantonly to break down the barriers of the constitution in order to carry out measures of mere abstract and theoretical philanthropy, is the sheer despotism of power, which, blinded and infuriated by opposition, regards neither ties of country of kindred, of honor ofprO6t but sweeps resistessly on, crushing beneath its iron heel constitutions and civic rights, things sacred aud prOfane in mass of destruction.