The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-11-14

Of the North to carry its provisions into full effect
Instead OF this, however the cry of repeal of the
Fugitive Slave bill rings in our cara from all quar-
ters and it is greatly to be feared that the mex
Congress will wipe it from the statute book
This law simply enables the people of the North
TO carry out an express provision of the Constitu-
ton, and to discharge duty to plainly en-
joined upon them by that instrument. Its repeal
therefore, will be legal notification of the fact
that they unwilling to abide by the Constitu-
ton, and leave us, in the opinion of this grand
jury, no other recourse short of separation! As
painful as must be the contemplation of such re-
sult-as appalling may be all the imagined or
real evils of disunon-still it ia apparent that sub
mission to clear infraction Of the Constitution
would involve a surrender of all our rights under
it, and that our first duty freemen, and the part
of safety, ia to meet the danger at the threshold.
| Seeing no other recourse, we therefore but
entreat Northern brethren to return to their
constitutional duty, and save the people of the
South from resort to alternative so much to
| be dreaded by both sections"
| The Sentinel contains some well-timed and
sensible remarks on the fusion of parties. 1t
| says that the time may be near at hand, in the
South, when political parties must yield to the
pressure of more important interests and this
| time will be when the conservative people and
| public men of the North shall have shown that
they cannot or will not rally to the preserva-
ton of the Constitution but it adds, with great
force, that this union of parties " is not thing
to be preached up abstractly- -much less ac-
complshed in the way and for ends of politi.
cal intrigue" But we will copy the Senti-
nePs suggestions on this subject in its own Ian
guage:
"There are, unless We mistake, good many on
| both sides who great danger in dissou-
ton of the Union, and are in favor of it a
edy against Northern agitation and threatened
aggressions, and they think it likely to place the
South in a better position, regarding COM
| merce, trade, manufactures, and business and
financial interests generally. There others
| who look upon dissolution as an experiment
fraught with the EXTREMIST danger to every in
terest, and no: likely to prove a remedy for
any thing. These men will propose and insist
upon remaining in the Union Just so long as il is
at all consistent with honor and safety, and if
they go out of it, will go sadly, with many fore
bodings, and simply because they certain it
does not comport with honor or safety to remain.
If the North, therefore, by timely and Efficient
action, shall afford Southern men, holding these
latter opinions, ground to stand upon, they will
stand upon it, and battle for the Union against
| 9 those who entertain the other view. II not, the
9 thing is up and there will not be Union man
or party in the South, much less Wing or Demo
| crat.
''Now, the abstract proposition to fuse parties in
the South, never appeared to us to have much phi
losophy practical sense in it; and iustrat
ing this view, have rarely failed to observe that
the very same newspaper sheet which sung pteans
in honor of the great idea of party fusion very sell
dom failed to contain articles begging its side
Of the house to stand firmly up to party lines.
Thus prints in this State which have been weekly
most eloquent on this subject, in the very same
numbers will beg their party to stand up to the
rack -vote in solid column, and elect Democratic
judges and Senators, and so on, (vide, Jackson
Vile Netcs of the 18th ult } which shows that all
their ideas of union consist in the other partys
going in body to them, for the promotion
Of their peculiar interests