Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-07-24

The condition of being an actual slave
holder constitutes distinction which we do
we'll to consider. We stand alone, except
that God is with us. In various degrees,
this our relationship separates US from all
other men. If we listen to the siren song
of our most nearly allied friends, we'll mean
ing though they are, when they say, "no
rash measures, no hasty, violent proceed
'ngs," and all that sort of language, right
though their prosiions in terms, are yet
profoundly wrong in their application to
the occasion ON which they are intro
duced, we shall every hour loose strength
10 resist aggression. While our relation
ship is SO peculiar that j. constitutes even
our friends unsafe advisers, if we look
to ourselves, we at once see in what our
great strengh lielh. There exists not on
this earth an equal number of men, so firm
y allied as we. we speak the same thing,
and there are no divisions among US. We
are perfectly joined together in the same
mind and in the same Judgment 1st Cor
nthans, lst chap. 10Th vs..
We not only find ourselves in state of
obedience to what ST. Paul here enjoins,
but we find this one other preeminen, grace
of the spirit of christianity within us, rea-
diness to die in a.tes.ation Of our religious
faith
We are in number, some say two, some
say three millions. Vastly greater at the
lowest estimate, than God ever consented
TO employ when He was about to make bare
his arm to vindcale himself, in the eyes of
the nations. We are. moreover, (reemen
in such sense as could not be predicated
OF any race of christian shareholders who
preceded US. Our predecessors have been
the slaves of kings and polen,a,es. God
has raised US up, and made US free. sWe
are with him,-are called, and chosen and
faithful We eowe no allegiance in the mat
ter of slaveholding, and will acknowledge
none, but to "lhe throne Of God, and Him
that siteth thereon.'
Sir, the North will not fight US to pre-
vent US from holding slaves on the terrific
ries belonging to the United States, any
where that we please. say they will not
fight US. Is this. evident? Yes, to a de-
mons'ralion. In the first place they say
they will not. But as you say we can re-
ly only upon their ''ac.s," s'we have been
too often deceived to rely on promises or
most likely to be the course Of their "ac.s,"
in an attempt to raise an army to go against
US. Suppose them to call for volunteers
The Quakers are the Oldest, most respect
able, and consistent anti-slavery sect among
us-have not, TO my knowledge, furnished
more than their average quota 10 the ranks
of fana'icism. They should, in all courte-
sy be first invited TO form the line of battle.
Alas, their faithhappens to be Of tina. peculiar
kind which lis without works. meet for the
occasion-"dead." The "Garrisonians,'
"Conscence Whigs," all, all, have adopted
non-resis!ance as part of their religious
creed.
A trial Of faith more precious than gold,
to the future quiet of this country, will thus
be had. The common sense Of the North
will no, fight, just because Of that one rea-
ing, because they have nothing to fight for.
They will see that cheaper way of setting
themselves right before the South, and be-
fore the world, will be TO sacrifice the fana-
tics, whom they already abhor, paradoxical
as i, seems. This they will Go. This
Jonah swill be cast into the sea. Then will
the sea be calm unto them.'
Sir, it has occurred within a few years
past, that line, defining our possessions
from those Of Great Britain, has been drawn
from the Atlantic across the continent of
North America in the breadth thereof, to
the Pacific Ocean. The South stood by the
North, and backed her utmost pretensions.
YOURSELF sir, with the blood and bearing of
a statesman, and with zeal for the honor
Of your whole country, which consumed
you, stood for the northern limi. of Oregon
as now defined; while you we'll knew
that the possession of the same must redown
to the empire of the North, as overbalanc-
ing the South when in the high post
which you filed, had you been capable Of
being mere sectional man, a mere South.
ern man, you might have connived at The
pre.ensons of Great Britain, and have got
rid Of large portion of that terrtory.-
You knew yonr country, your whole
country, and nothing else, on tina, occasion.
When the balance in the Senate Chamber
was about to turn irrevocaby to Northern
preponderance, you rose and asked ''are we
no. to be protected ," A silence sulen as
death, was the eloquent response 10 your
interrogatory.
The North now tell you, that by their
numerical power they will pass law, which
will exclude us from settling slaves on the
territories contiguous 10, and even South Of
some Of the slaveholding States. The South
stands, still asking, are we not to be pro-
tec.ed According to the truth in this mat
ter, which my philosophy discloses: the
bone and muscle, the sinews and stamina of
the North, answer in a tone of seven thun-
ders, "Put your own shoulder to The wheel,
and then call on Hercules.'' Sir, the slave
holding States, in unison of action ought 10