Washington telegraph., 1850-12-25

escaping into another, shall be delivered
up on claim of the party to whom such
service or labor may be due, and no
sophistry or judicial logic can destroy the
profound conviction which she feels, that
this provision, pledge, and solemn promise
imposes on the States positive and affirna-
tive duties which every dictate Of honesty
and good faith requires them faithfully
and scrupulously to perform.
7. That she considers each non=slave-
holding State hound, by every considera-
ton of justice, honesty. and patriotism,
to render prompt and perfect obedience
to the law in question, and she regards it
as great public crime for any such
State either actively to oppose its entire
execution or passively to allow it to-
become dead letter.
8. That she and her citizens have. at
all times, placed full reliance in the wis.,
dom of the Congress of the United
States, and have therefore given way 10.
no excitemet. united in NO wild schemes
or plans of disunion, raised no flag of se-
cession or rebellion, but have waited pa
tiently to see the end, with entire COM
6dence in the sense of Justice and patri-
otis.n of the great massbof their breth''
rem of the North. and she hereby de-
clares that her confidence in Congress
has not been Disappointed and that she
is satisfied with the measures Of compro;i
mise and Cancellation adopted at its last
session, as in her judgment entirely wise,
necessary and patriotic. She and her
citizens will yield to them prompt and
cheerful obedience, and she returns to the
great and good men of all parties, who
united and aided in passing these wise
and salutary measures, her most profound
and grateful thanks.
g She declares that these enactments
ought to stand and remain unchanged,
Interchangeable. and sacred, through all
coming time, as perpetual laws of the
Republic, and he that would, i'll the
slightest degree, violate them, should be
held by all as a traitor to the Union
And she calmly and kindly, but firmly,
makes known to her sister States of the
North, that, whenever the fugitive slave
law is repealed, or emasculateG, or when
ever public opinion, or "hlgher law.
prevents It's execution, and it becomes a
dead limb on the tree of legislation, this
ought 10 be regarded, and she will regard
it as formal declaration, on the part OF
her northern sisters, that they no longer
desire to be. and no longer mean to be
governed by the Constitution; that they
no longer mean 10 comply with their con-
stitutional obligations, or perform their
constitutional duties; and that they nc,
longer wish any poIitica! association with
the slaveholdlng States, but prefer aud
are resolved on virtual dissolution of the
Union.
TO- That in that grave emergency,
horrible to her as is the aspect of seces-
sion, introducing as she is perfectly con-
vinced. long and desolatiLg civil war,
with all its attendant train of miseries
and horrors;-dissstrous to these States.
to the world. and to the cause Of human
freedom, as would be dissolution of the
bonds which interlock these sovereign:
ties;-miserable as would he thereafter
the condition. Of her people, and all the
people of this unfortunate Republic;-
dark and gloomy and irnpenetrabIe to all
vision but that of Omniscience as would
be the fearful future, still there would be
but one course open for her to pursue
with honor, but one path in which to
travel without humiliation, and in that
path she will march unfaltering forward.
no matter at what risks, or with what
to whatever may, in the
mercy of God, be her destiny.
II. That the people of Arkansas, in
this matter. have but one opinion, and
speak with a single voice. They make
to their Northern brethren this announce
ment. of their final resolution, with the
calmness of men who have boldly look
ed the dark future in the face, measured
the coming danger, and prepared to meet
it braveIy, though it overwhelm them in
one common ruin. They have spoken
with a sober, serious, earnest and lnileXi-
ble determination, and have no further
argument to make, no other remonstrance
to offer. But they still entertain entire
confidence in the wisdom OF Congress.
and have an abiding faith i'll the justice
of their northern brethren, their love for
the Union, and reverence for the Consti-
tuition. They hope for and trust in the
perpetuity of the Union, and the com
pletion by the American Republic. of her
magnificent destiny. They cling to their
Joint ownership in the sacred soil of Bun-
kerhi!l, of Saratoga, Of Trenton, and the
other battle6elds of the North, where
northern and southern blood ran IN brooks
together, aud in all the glorious memo-
ries, that cluster around those immortal
names. They desire forever and ever to
share with their Northern brethren. the
ownership of the holy ground OF York
town, and Kings Mountain, of Eutaw.
and New Orleans; and the still ncbIer
precincts of Mount Vernon; and they
trust and believe, that in peace aud IN
war the glorious flag of the Union will
continue as long as the everlasting gran