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address or Mr. w. Johnson 10 the cit,xsn. Of
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address or Mr.. Robert w. Joha.on tho clsl1sn. Of
Arkansas.
WAsHIseroS January 40, 1850.
Matters OF the gravest import will be under constant
consideration during the present session OF Congress
There are few southern men in this Congress who viii
mol subscribe to Il when assert that the union OF the
northern and southern States, under common govern
ment, for period beyond the present Congress- is mat
ter that may be seriously questioned
Legislatures and conventions have met in many OF the
southern States and have declared that they will regard
the enactment of the Wmot Pfoviso as violation OF
The consuton. alike degrading TO the southern people
and destructive OF their rights and property. Without
descending to particulars The action OF every regularly
constituted assembly oi southern people has been con-
ceiyed in this spirit and has resulted IN the declaration
that the South canpot and will not submit
The legislatures OF number OF the southern States
have passed resolutions approving the call of Southern
Convention, 70 sit at Nashyein June next have pro-
vded for the appointment OF delegates to that convention
BY Legislative executives, or popular action and il is
foot to appropriate means to defray their expenses
II seems expected Of that convention, whenever it
shall assemble, that our true condition shall be realized
that the impending destruction OF the political equality OF
the South, the future subugaion Of henerests to hos
tile power. and the ultimate prostraon Of her people,
shall be made manifest il tre and that such action, in
view OF all facts, shall be recommended as shall be
most proper for the South
Mississppi. Alabama. Georgia, South Carolina, and
Virginia, have already united in the call OF Southern
Convention. North Carolina exhibits the strongest sym
pihy. Maryland has declared that il have dssolu
luton her standard shall be raised with ihs South Ken
spirit Florida is extreme; and our own State has
peatedy declared her position with the South upon the
ssses saIo and her State Her 1 pride
and spirit her devotion to southern rights will dare
question. My confidence is equally strong in the ZEAL
mness, and devotion OF Tennessee, Missouri, louisiana
Thus we are uned and will present 10 the world one
united brotherhood, and will column under
banner on whose folds shall be inscribed d-EaUALiTY
TIoN WITHIN on WITHOUT THE UNION.
now write to express the hope that whenever meet
ing OF the southern States in convention shall occur
Arkansas win not be unrepresented and that her repre-
sentation may be selected from the wisest and abest
Of her sons without respect to any ordinary prejudice
orna from which. bv her constiiu,on. ,hs south is ex
cuded and the disposition OF all other OF the national ter
rory from which it is bsdly and imperousy declared
the South aud her institutions shall be expelled.
These are stern issues, when we consider that the
present position Of California is shameless fraud upon
The South, fraud IN inception and IN execution, and II
carried out VIII oe fraud h IN % ION
her admission principles OF intervention and yet
who (the whole othem, almost would have scornfully
Iepulsed this application for admission had Callionla N
enee the subject shall vote against her admission
as shall believe the perpetuty Of the Union involved
and as loyal citizen Of the Union shall embrace every
measure believing as do that with her admission, un
less all other OF these questions be first satisfactorily set
lied, the Union OugQl anu VIII dissolve.
These issues involve the whole Of the slave States to
the extent Of their political equality. That political
equality is everything; without it. in ten years, slave
holder will become object for the finger OF shame in
the NORTH and contempt Il adherence, throughout the
world. Even now most pous ministers regiously
rejected by their northern brethren from the northern
we shall be utterly overpowered and people prosra
ted, should yield to the present frightful demands
How we submit TO Union thus to be perverted
We know that the constitution recognised and guaran
tied the rights OF people hold and enjoy their slave
property we know that the Union never would have
been formed by foefahers without these provisions
and we are fully aware both OF our rights and our ability
to defend them.
In all national elections we are at the mercy Of the
North: in the House OF Representatives all political
equality gone the political balance in the Senate has
al ength-at as-faded out II there are those who do
not yet feel fear OF the future, beseech them most
earnestly to pause and eectlo closely the events
of the last fifteen years and IL they shall then feel
doubt as TO their personal safety the security OF their
rights and property, and OF thai OF their immediate
descendanis-iher children--I shall feel susprise
ton Thsy sys sass complete ysuo n hs aSS
Piles and action OF the North towards II fifteen years
have put us 10 the wall. what will thirty do
snIs
with exceptions barely enough to establish the rule they
are all sueh BY the principles oi free-so Indeed, we
have more aoolluon prints now published and yaonzsd
found in the entire North.
The North itself with the exception Of few con-
gressl0nal DISTRICTS standing out exceptions monuments
Of justice and hmness) is rhoiy against us- Every
solitary Journal every candidate, from constable TO
senator, publicly proclams opposition to slavery in the
abstract publicly opposes the increase OF slave States
and their people all cry, Amen What II mean but
the Wimot Proviso ifhaf s South shall NOT settle upon
any part of the nsp Territories, though IL be common
property, acquired by common toll, expense, and suf-
iering.
Fifteen years ago there was hardly one in the House
Of Representatives from the North who would not recog
Mise and defend the rights Of The South, and the happy
D..f fkUro ta N
does condemn institutions, the abstract as they
say, and not twenty who will not denounce MS by their
speeches, and prescribe by their votes, although we
are provided for and protected BY the very constitution
which gives them seats They violate the constitution,
and then demand that shall not only conform 10 H.,
bat submit 10 their acts M
Twelve years ago. feeling in their constitutional
SUCH that when attempt made to discuss slavery,
the entire southern delegation Indignantly one
man, and pledged themselves TO quit the halls OF the
House. But nor, southern members sit tamely under
degrading debate suffer Il in silence and pocket, with
out reply, the most insulting ephessuch "ousrbcar
ing dapeocaey'-"tords Of The iash"-"dsdiers IN hu-
man flesh and hood" Il ID omne genus The extent 10
lowing extract which make from an editorial in the
New York Herald, (and say that have heard very
nearly it, equal degradation 10 the South, addressed
from the lips Of members OF the House Of Represent
atyes,) TO wit: fst@ ~
AT this very time anti slavery convention has been
sitting Syracuse city In this State in order 70 organ
their elements and consolidate their party throughout
upon this very question beoretbe people Of the North The
agiators this convention now holding IN Syracuse
boldly declare that The fis 10 psaeh dfssrton on
ne h'gsst moral erd reigioss gossds that me consu.