The daily crescent., 1850-06-26


Lst any intelligent and candid man take up the
A,Elress Of the Nashville Convention, read it
through with care and deliberation, and then ask
himself, What object have they in view who have
published it to the country There is no meaning
in it il it do not mean that fhe Southern States
should, for their own safety take immediate steps
to cut themselves loose Ifom the COnfederacy.
This is not. in so many words, declared to be the
object but no one can attensiyey read the Ad-
dress and come 20 the conclusion that it means any
thing else. .The whole aagument-andt the Address
is but ono elaborate argument-tends to this point
The south is represented to be in a hopeless
miaorty in a condition of degradation in state OF
colonial dependence to the North--their represen-
tatves in Congress reviled insuted, and suffering
every contumely and reproach that arbitrary power
and malice can heap upon them. The aggressions
Of the North are represented as becoming greater
and greater year after year, with the sole view to
the overthrow of the institution of slavery in the
Southern States; that the Northern States have
the power that they know they have it that they
have exerted it, exerting it, and intend here
after unremittngly to exert it, until their object is
attained; that the South, from past experience,
can entertain no hopes of future orbearance the
part of the North and that for the former longer
submit to the aggressions of the latter would be
suicidal. The South is therefore exhorted to sub
init no longer when by submission come degrada-
ton and total destruction Of our rights under the
Constitution. We ARE told there is but one remedy
1t is not stated what that but we are told that
It IS not By legislation, not By ordinary means,
not By popular elections under the Government
as at present constituted = This resource (say
the conventionsts) cannot avail us in violations of
the Constitution which now press and harrass the
South" Even the ballot-box they assert, is pow
erless for its protection. Then, we ask if the bal
| lot-box-the only means guaranteed by the Con-
sttution for efIecting changes in the Government
cannot apply the remedy, and Tie remedy must he
applied is it not clear that the only alternative is
revolution, or, in another word, disunion
The Compromise bill before Congress is de-
nctpced as wholly inadequate to the protection Of
and in fact as grossly insulting to, the South.
The reception by Congress Of California into the
Union with her present Constitution will be re-
garded by these conventionists, they say, as but
another instance of the exercise of arbitrary power
by the North as outrage upon the rights of the
South, which will arouse spirit Of indignation
which nothing mitigate, and a adeternai7eatio7t
to haze redress achieh nothing can 6q62e" We
left to infer ia 1eat manner this redress is to
be had. Every feature of the Compromise plan is
denounced as odious, in terms equally strong, as
hostile TO the rights of the South, and should be
spurned by it. Even the Missouri Compromise
the line of $50 30'-receives lukewarm favor from
these conventionists, who say of it only that they
might accept" it but not as measure co-exten-
sive with the rights of the South.
Throughout the entire Address not single word
is used which indicates spirit of Cancellation or
compromise but the whole argument is so framed
and every paragra 3h, sentence and word employed
in it, to point to only one remedy for the evils
by which the South is oppressed, and that remedy
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