The Arkansas banner., 1850-04-30

ders of thess WhO dare not refuse to follow wihoa tagging behind tho spirit of tAs sgs, can thus sub due the sbstract oPiehIons and moral sentiments of northern constituencies, into their policy ana schemes That there Is large and respectable portion of northern population sverse to this mad crusade against our domestic peace and safety, is true; bat h is also amentably true, ,ha, IL is tho conservative, and passive. and unrspresented. els. ments of society there, which thus speaks and fees bat few of them ever get into power, and still smaller number remain long. Gen. Cass risked his political existence, even by temperate and uaan- swerable argument against the power of Congress to exclude slavery in the territories sud only saved himself by proving that the object was already ef feeted by force of Mexican law. Mr. Webster could take no higher ground, and placed his oppo. stion tS the '.Wilnot" on the shifting and shifted ground that in this instance it was unnecessary
 Whatever shades oi opinion among northern states men may give us more or less hope. there is one complexion which tsey all wear. and one inevitable result 10 which they all tend:-the exclusion of sla- very from our common territories and its confine- ments within its present limits. It is easy to see where this policy ends. It requires but little know
 ledge of the laws of progress and perpeiuatiOn to see whither this mus lead. The terrible drama oi St. Domingo is to be acted again. Twill not trouble you with recial step by step, of he events which must follow each other to this conclusion. They are few, and the blind can see them.
 Now, when revolution on the ancient policy oi our government Is nenaced. tending SO inevitahly with the csr,sRty of destiny, to one result, V, to stand by and eool'y argue whether ihese propo sitions are constitutional INV hich Is the higher al
 legiance that to ourselves or to the law Ibid an, constitution surrender the right of self pressr vation1 Our plain understanding Is, tha, the obec of all good government is to protect and not de stroy. If were to attempt, in line to portra, the broad aspect of things here and state he actua question, 1t is this: Whether are to be ruined b, one form or anothsr7 Whether the Proviso is [, be enacted in the formula of l7S7, or in the Ian guage of Guriro, in 1899, the question has thu changed into form, and suppose there is some thing in it. We are familiar with that chapter il history in which it is related how ANDRE begge, that he might be shot instead of being hanged an, l umph over the Proviso in order to be subdued bl the Mexican law. The result of all this is, that apart from the question of extension of slavery, ou causes of complaint either unavoidable or suci as depend upon ourselves, to remove, or provid against; the evils. of which we may become tn victims, can thus, to a great extent be obviated the present centrifugal tendencies of the northern
 and southern sections of the Union, must be arres ted by 10 species of patchwork. Compromise upon the basis of party organization and lenity fal short of the nature of the malady. They cicatriz
 but fail to cure the wound. There is more than
 point of honor or party integrity concerned Vote and resolutions unmeaning nothings, are impOten to arrest great and vital disease in the body polite Something akin to a reorganization, accOmmOda ted to the moral forces and laws of progress of tn country. can remedy the evils of the present orde of things, not by eradicating them, but by arre' 1 ting their operation aud Giverting them into a ue' l channel.