The organizer., 1850-06-29


And what is yonr condition with re.
spect to your sister Statesi Where i:
that respect and comfy, which Idue
from all nations toward each other) is
more especially due from States bound
together in a confederacy, and which
was once displayed in all their inter.
course. Instead of respect and sym.
pathy-denunciation and hostili-
ty, on account of your institution OF
slavery, have for years past charac-
terlzed the communications address
ed to you by the Northern States. -
And what is your condition in the union?
The non.slaveholding States stand
combined, not only to wrest from you
your common properly. bat TO place
uponyour front the brand ofinferiority.
You are not 10 extend, on account Of
your institutions, bot they are TO in.
crease and multiply. that the shame
and sin of slavery, may by their philan-
thrOpic agency, be extinguIshed from
among you. But the worst feature OF
your condition is, that it is. pr0gres,
SiUe. As low and humIiating as it
now may BE-, it is destined. fnot ar
rested, to "a lower deep" Every ef-
feet is cause; and the spirit of fanat-
Cism brooks no delay in the progress
it creates. Ifyou were to yield eve-
ry thing the North now requires
abolish slavery in the district of Co.
lumbia-submit to be legislated pi-
rates for conveying slaves from one
State TO another-Iet trial by jury and
the writ of Habras Corpus, wrest from
you in the Northern States every
fugitive slave-give up all your ter
ritories to swell Northern arrogance
and predominance-wo would things stop
there? These are all means aiming
at one great end-the abolition OF
slavery in the States. Surrendering
one Of these means you will but in.
fhme the power by which another
will be exaCtPd and when all are
conquered will the evil be arresiedl
In fifty years, twenty new non.slave-
holding States may be added to the
Union, whilst some which are now
sIaveholding, may become non slave
holding States. There then, will be
no need as now, openly TO put aside
the constitution to reach their object.
If they will deign TO do 1t. the non
slaveholding States will then have
the power by two thirds in Con
gress and ihree.lourths oil the States,
to amend the constitution, and then
have its express sanction to con-
summate their policy. Your cOndi-
tiOn is progressive.
II from the past transactions we
have narrated, we learn our condition
in the Union-they teach Us also that
our past policy of nOn.action and sub
mission to aggression cannot bring US
peace and safety. When the doors
Of Congress were thrown open TO
agitation on the subject Of slavery, il
the Southern States had moved with
energy 10 avert a state of things un>
constitutional itself, and surely tend.
ing to bring the slaveholding and non
slavehOldlng States into collision-al-
though late, il might not have been too
late 10 stop subsequent encroachments
upon our rights. But the Southern
States were passive: and their for-
bearance has had the effrct OF in
spring the Northern people with the
belief, either that we value a union
with them more than we value the
institution Of slavery or that we dare
not move from a conscious inability TO
protect ourselves. You have ungen-
erousIy stood still. whilst your suppOr>
ters and the defenders OF the COnsti>
tuition in the Northern States, in
their efforts to protect you from the
agiraiions Of slavery in Congress,
have been politically Annihilated or
have turned your foes. You have
tamely acquiesced-until, TO hate and
persecute the South, has become a
high passport to honor and power in
the Union. You have unwisely
stood still, whilst year after year the
volume Of anti.slAvery policy and /
sympathy has swollen into unanimity /
all the non-slavehOlding /
States, and the sections Of the Union
now face each other in Stern coils
ion. You have waited, until the
Of the United States is
in danger Of heing sbulished-or Of
becoming what The majority in Con-
gress think proper 70 make Il. Thai
gteat principle on Which our system
Of fres government resis--of 30 d.
viding the powers Of Government
thaito common Government, only