The Madisonian. (Canton, Miss.) 1850-1855, 1850-06-27

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would things stop therel These are
all means aiming at one great end
tie sbolition of slavery in the States
SurrendeFing one Of these means YOU
viii but inAame The bower by which
another will be exacted- andwhen all
are conquered, will the evil be arrested
In fifty years, twenty new non slave
holding States may be added to the
Union, whilst some which are now
slayehoIdlng, may become nonislave-
holding States. There then, win be
no need as now, openly to put aside
| theconstitution TO reach their Object
Ifthey will design to do it, the nou-
slaveholding States will then have the
power by two thirds in Congress- and
three fourlhs of the States to amend
the constitution; and then have its ex.
press sanction to consumate their poll
cy: Your condition is progressive.
Iffrom the past transaction we have
narrated, we learn our condition in the
Union they teach us also that our
past policy Of non action and submls-
sion to aggression cannot bring US
peace and safety, When the doors Of
Congress were thrown open to agita
tioa on the subject Of slavery, if the
southern States had moved with ener--
gy to avert state Of things uncolstitu.
tional itself and surely tending to
bring the slaveholdIng and non-sIave-
holding States into colllssion--although
late, it might not have been too late
to stop subsequent encroachmeuts upon
our rights. But the southern States
were passive, and their forbearance
has had effect Of inspiring the Northern
people with the belief, either that we
value union with them more than
we value the institution of slavery
or that we dare not mcve from a
conscious inability to protect our selves,
You have ungenerously stood still,
whilst our supporters and the defenders
.ofthe constitution in the northern States
in their efforts to protect you from the
agitaLions of slavery in Congress, have
BEEN politically anuihilated or have
turned your foes. You have tamely
acquiesced-until, to hate and perse-
cute the south has become high pass
port to honor and power in the Union,
You have unwisely stood still, whilst
year after year the volume ofanti-slave.
ry policy and sympathy has swollen in
to unanimity throughout all the non
slaveholding States, and the section
Of the Union now face each other in
stern collision. You have waited, uu-
til tho constitution of tho United States
is In danger of being abolished
or Of becoming what the majority in
Congress think proper to make it
That great principle on which our sys-
TEN Of free government rest-of so di-
vidlng the powers Of government
that to common government, only
those powers should be granted, which
mast affect all the people composing
it, equally in their operation-whilst
all powers over all interests local or
sectional, should be reserved to local or
sectional governnents-is in dagger Of
being uprooLed from their constitution.
Local and sectional interests absorb
the time and business of congress and
thus sectional despotism, totally irres-
ponsible to the people Of the south
constituted or the representatives mi
Congress from the non-slaveholding
States--ignorant of our feelings, con-
diiion and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at
Washington. . These are the fruits of
your past forbearance and submission.
If we look into the nature Of things
such results will not seem to be either
new or strange. There is bnt zone con-
dition, in which one people can be safe
under the dominion Of another people
and that is.when their interest are en-
tirely identical, Then, the dominant
cannot oppress the subjects people
without expressing themselves. The
idenity of interest between them, is the
security for right government. But as
this identity can starcely ever exist
between any two people, history bears
but one testimony as the fate of a sub
ect people. They have always been
to minister to the .prosperi-
" and agrahdizement of their masters.
If this has always been the case under
he ordinary difference cf interests and
feelings which exist between States,
now much more certainly must the ex~
oerince Of history be realized between
he people of the northern and south-
srn States. Here is q difference Of
climate and productions throughout
erritory stretching along the whole
'elt Of the temperate zone, affecting
he pursuits and characters Of the peo7
Die inhabiting it, But tbe great diff
erence--the one great diiference--the
greatest which can exist among q peo-
Die, is the institution Of slavery. This
alone sets apart the southern States as I