The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-08-01
From Tie LyucAbsy Rtps0Iieun.
The OuoGtiOn Of The Dav

| From the Lyttch6uyg Reputhcun-
The Question of tho Day.
II cannot be denied that the spirit of disaffec-
ton, on the part of our Northern brethren, to-
wards the true principles of our Constitution, is
4 fast forming itself into sentiment, if it has not
already done SO, which will either force the South
ern States out of the Union, Cor at least such OF
| them are not willing to be mere dependencies
on the North,) or compel them to resist within it,
| until the last vestge of independence is extinct,
or ourrights under the Constitution acknowledged.
| This is apparent from multitude of facts. They
| speak Ia tones trumpet-tongued and startling.
Who, for instance, can read the vile illusions Of
the Infamous Seward, and nearly every Northern
man, not to speak of State legislatures and nu-
merous meetings in the Northern States, and not
perceive that DiSUNION, at the North, is almost.
If not entirely, a "fxed fact in the minds OF
their leading men and politicians! This treason
to the Union has been concentrating for thirty
years, and the only reason why it has been de-
layed so long, Is, the want of numerical power,
or rather, of chance to indulge it. California
offers the temptation, and the treasure is too
sweet not to be tasted. Hostility TO African
slavery, because it elevates the condition of the
white man of the South far beyond what " free
labor" does for him North, is the true secret Of
this war upon the South--this affected love of
liberty to the African. 1t originates in mean,
narrow-minded envy of superior merit. The
down-trodden labor of Europe, and the almost
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this TO a fraction. Seeing the superior happiness
OF Southern labor, put beyond their reach from
the action OF the Government, by the relation Of
master and slave, and fearing that their own
boosted institutions 'may turn to plague their in
ventors,'' they seek to DESTROY the African race
by severing its relation with the white man, that
the ichite men South may be reduced to the same
| vassalage with those who are nominally free at
the North, in order that, by so doing, Northern
labor may never be tempted to wrest from North
ern capital, the subsistence and comfort inherited
! by the Southern slave. This, it must be add
mitted, is quite cute in Northern confederates,
and must be looked upon as an effort at seL,pre-
servatiOn.
! But, what ought to be done in the present state
Of the slavery question: This is the question.
How long will the South permit herself to be
black-balled by the North' She has magma
charfa for her justification in ten times more than
she asks. The spirit OF aggression and disunion,
on the part of the North, is such that she is not
1 willing that the South shall associate with her,
without acknowledging the negro as an equal in
all respects, with the white man. This is the
question for the South to decide and she must
look II IN the face when she admits California as
a State without an adjustment Of the whole ques-
ton by the old Missouri line. What say you to
thisi men Of the South! Without it, gentlemen may
cry "Union, Union, but there is no Union IT'S
disunion, and nothing less Who would not pre-
Ter death to an equality with the negro' Wesay
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the rich, with his hundred negroes, and to you,
. white aborers of the North, will you allow your
representatives and fanatics to put you on level
| with the Southern curly head, or the Northern
free negro' Will you have 100000 of negroes
poured In upon you to underworld you and eat
out your substances The white race can never
mlnge with the black safely, except in state Of
absolute Slavery on their part. There is no law
divine to condemn, and no human should. Fana-
ticsm would have it otherwise and itself become
! the victim.
The line of compromise now before the Senate
is not the bill the South should take. Had there
never been, unhappily for the South, compro-
mise BEFORE on this subject, she might now, with
pride and dignity, stand on pinnacle from which
| her "frown" would, indeed, ssterrify the glance
It's magnificence attracted" But, our equality
with the North, surrended in the Missouri Com
promise-again surrendered in the Texas Com
promises now wholly denied us, and our rights
scoffed at by the North. What are we to do in
this emergency? The sire bell at night" vibrates
in the ear--the clashing of arms is already heard
in the distance. Is there no remedy for existing
dificulties' An easy one-the already cheated
| South calls upon the North and entreats her to
desst from her unhallowed purposes, by making
36o 80 the dividing line between slavery as the
South has it and Stree labor" as it exists in the
North. But, this poor boon is refused her. The
North is so determined on dissolution, that it will
recognize no sense OF justice, no moral law. The
South, then, must rely upon herself. She has
made no compromise. Let her never make one,
then, on the subject Of slavery, unless it be bill
to abolish 1t throughout the United States, on
principles of justice and indemnity. She can find
safety nowhere if she does--she is gone-runed
irretrevably and forever.
| The South should never surrender her present
| vantage ground, without making terms to secure
slavery and make it the subject Of her own action
| in all time; or to abolish it such terms the
collected wisdom may determine, by making it a
great national question, instead of sectional one.
Run the line through California by $50 30, ad-
hitting slavery South (sincc the Constitution has
been outraged by legislating all about IT'D and
excluding it North. Set all, South Of that line,
apart for the extension of negro labor, and all
| North for that of white labor. The North should
remember that the institutions of the South are as
dear to her citizens as Northern institutions can
] be to Northern people-the States equal and
have equal rights in the common property Of all
odeny this equality and to exclude the South is
severance Of the Union by the North, and let the
people look well to it in every part of this broad
| land. The North must not dissolve the Union
and say the South did it. Southern men should
open their eyes to this trick Of the North and
show to the world that the Union had receded
from them, not they from the Union. Could our
brave and hardy ancestors-those who peried
every thing to resist penny on pound of tea
| now rise from their graves, and hear their sons
debating, whether they would take up arms in
defence OF O,OOO,OOO OF property, they would
sink back into the earth, overwhelmed with dis
gust and modification at the degeneracy of their
| sons.
No one can tell how this question is to end.
| The Compromise of Thirteen, however, cannot
pass the Senate. If it should, it will be defeated
in the House, and then let every Southern man
not traitor to his home-strike for justice, for
liberty, for independence. The Missouri Com
promise will then be in their reach by united and
| vigorous action. Let that be the sine que non,
and the North will never dissolve the Union, New
| Mexico has killed California and the Texas ques-
| ton will soon assume form which will please
| all parties at the South. The North will do JUS
| tice when the Union ceases to misead her, and
this Union will be one and inseparable, now and
| forever" ~
| From the .7rkansas hteligencer, July g.
| AN INDIAN WAR BREwING ON OUR FRONTIER.
! On the 18th ult., a party Of Cherokees and
Creeks, numbering about eighty warriors, armed
| and enninned for the OCCASION. marched nnan