The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-20

usHmGS Suuossssuss6nuun
gave way, when the North stood firm. o
does it result from the. Soutn's cautiousnes'
OF inleriority in the arts and appliances o
successful resistance The North will tnc
the South's answer in the mastery address
n the Nashville Convention, by Southern
soldier of the highest order oil military genus
and powers of combination, General feiiX
Huston, of Louisiana upon the military ca
nacities and resources of the South, with the
demonstrations he brings from all history and
every age, of the mighty elements OF martial
strength inherent in the slavery institution,
from the military necessity Of having eight
iaborers at home to support each soldier IN
the fell, with the moral impossbility Of
serious nsurrection from the want of all con-
cert, the slaves ignorance of each other and
OF the arts and implements of war, &c. &c.
When the facts OF reasonlngs OF that power
full pamphlet, shall have found its way into
the North's hands (as it shortly willy the
North will stand my sponsor for the predic-
ton, that, whether the Union standsor falls,
no man now living will witness an attempt
from the North to coerce the South into
terms, by crossing her borders in marital
array, and Congressman will think twice be-
fore again menacing the South with the
coming Of those fiery regiments, which will
either never get there, or rever get away, as
may best beseem the regiments themselves.
The alternatives will be these: be theirs
the choice
No, no, Messieurs, all attributions of the
South's iorbearance to the state OF the South's
nerves, or the South's means, are wide, I'M
measurably wide of the mark. Had that
been all, the North would have had chance
of shivering a lance with her long ago
The same cause that restrained her hitherto,
restrains her noU, an overwhelming love Of
the Union, which if it shall last much longer
and bring her no redress, will bring her to
ruin and cover her with shame 1t is anus
ing, it is alarming, yet it is admirable, to
pause and ponder on love Of Union SO pro-
: found and reverential and abiding. Any
other people under the Sun, victimized and
arraigned as the South has been in the
Unions name, would have shivered it to
atoms from the might which slumbers in her
soldierly arm Had the North loved the
Union as the South does, she would never
have imperilled it, by degrading her with
trials, so wounding to her honor and so oner-
Gus to be borne with. Had the South shown
no sounder and deeper attachment to the
Union than the North has, that Union would
: long have been numbered with the " things
that were +" To all seeming, the North's
attachment to the Union, is neither deeper
nor holier than the thrift she derives from it,
and her wanton injuries and ceaseless revil-
ings Of her brethren, what are they but
proofs of 1t With the South, it is as SEN
timent and passion, and what are her
wrongs and her forbearance but the proofs
of it; Will the South bear longer with her
wrongs and with more from her oppressors !?
God of his forecast knows! She may; but
we bless Providence and trust, she may not !!
With States as with men, submission has its
bounds. 1t is best to respect them. 1t is
perilous to press them. When IMPRESSIONS
cup is full, it will hold no more !: 1t will bear
what it has, but single drop besides causes
an overflow and carries away with it and
spreads around ten thousand drops which un-
molested, would have turned to vapor and
have passed away, but that single drop does
all tae mischief, and compares with the las
ounce of the burthen, which broke the back
OF the camel! ~'
RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE.