The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-09-12

or the south Is il necessary for you TO follow in
the wake of either Mr.. Gerrit Smith, OF New York,
or Of Robert Barnweil Smith, (now Rhett) OF South
Carolina? Ihese the leaders OF the two great
wings of the disunion army! What honest reflect
ing Georgian rally under the standard OF
either? The thinking nen-the sober minded plant
ers--of eorgia, we hope, will be guilty of no such
madness.
Suppose the Union dissolved will we gain?
Will California, as Mr.. Rhett says, "fal, like
willing bride, into the arms of the Southi' Never!
She will at once join Oregon and Utah, and estab-
lish new republic or empire upon the Pacific.
The moment the Union is dissolved, all hope of ever
establishing slavery the Pacific will be gone for
ever. California would be compelled either to ad-
here to the North or 10 organize Independent
government In either event the hopes of the South
could never be realized. She could not wage war
upon California because it would require her entire
to take of her affars upon this side
OF the mountains.
southern confederacy could not exist unless II
possessed the mouth of the Mississippi. Louisiana
prospers mainly upon the trade of the valley States
She would not sacrifice that trade for The proposed
confedcracy; nor would the valley States submit to
any restrictions upon the free navigation of the
Mississippi The confederacy would. therefore,
have enemies at the West and Southwest, well
at the North; and wars-inevitable, endless
wars-woud be the consequence. Whence would
the resources be drawn to sustain these wars! The
proposed government, be it remembered, must be
based upon the South Carolina platform. IL must
be a free trade government. There would be no
considerable revenue derived from customs, and
direct taxation would follow q matter of course.
Are planters prepared for ths' AT present
they do not even feel the burdens Of the Govern
ment. The consumers pay the greater proportion
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assumed by the rich and those who feel able to bear
it. Not so in case Of dissolution of the Union,
and the establishment of southern confederacy.
But this is not all, half. In Of disunion,
the encroachments of the Abolitonists would be in
creased. Then they would be restrained by
constitutional barriers Then the few friends
have at the North would become our deadly enc
mics The efforts to nveigle of our negroes would
be increased to such degree that that species Of
property would depreciate to less than half its pres
ent palue. Conflicts and quasi border war, would
be waged eternally upon Maryland, Virginia, and
Kentucky, until their people would be forced to
send their negroes South Georgia, Alabama, and
Mississippi would become the purchasers, and
would, therefore, absolutely pay the border States TO
emancipate their negroes and turn against them! In
stead of benctitting Themselves and perpetuating
slavery by dssolving the Union, the people of the
ed; and in twenty five years we would have to Sc
ccde again, in order to get rid of the free border
States The predictions of the Abolitionists would
thus be realized, and the dissolution of the Union
would end in the destruction Of slavery!
God forbid that the people of Georgia should ever
realize the truth of such prediction. God forbid
that the honest, thinking men of the State should
ever try so fearful an experiment as disunion, or
even temporary secession. They had much better
continue to live under the 'stars and stripes"
They now prosperous. The fields TEEN with
abundance. The laborer is rewarded for his toll.
We are prosperous and fulhanded. The heart
| pants for nothing which it cannot realize. We are
rich in resources, rich in character, rich in COM
forts. Even the very species of property which we
frcting about is higher than it has ever been
known to be in past years. Shall we despisc all
these advantages Shall We dash the cup of bless
ing from our lips, and plunge madly into the dark
abyss of disunion2 Shall we, by striving to carry
negroes to California, run the almost certain rick
of losing them at homer Men may mince matters
as they please, but them that the first
blow which is struck will reduce the value of slave
property at least 30 per cent. Are the holders of
this species of property prepared to make such a
sacrifice this, Are they prepared to the value
of negro reduced to from three TO four hundred
dollars, and perhaps to even a much lower figure?
If not, they must set their faces against the Nash
Vile convention, and disunien in every guise.
The time has when every must rally
| to standard Or the other. In few days Gov
ernor Towns will issue his proclamation for State
convention. His friends at the late mass meeting
distinctly made the issue. II is-UsIos or Dis
uSIos. They are for dissoving the Union in case
California is admitted. They cannot achieve their
purpose unless the friends of the Union allow the
matter to go by default. Il becomes them, there
fore to organize at once, and prepare for the con-
| fict The wiscst and the beet men should be Sc
! lectcd as candidates for the convention. They
should be chosen as TO represent every important
interest in the State and particularly that interest
most Immediately involved. Young men, inexpe-
rienced men, and aspiring politicians, should give
way to older heads. The convention should be
composed Of the choicest men of the State, without
any reference to old party lines
Has the blood Of the Revolution ran out, that
pot house politicians and political popinjays may
be allowed TO preach treason to the Union! We
tell the substantial, thinking of Georgia, that
tho Government is in danger! Willy politicians,
from other States have inslled the poison Of dis
union into the minds Of some Of our people and
unprincipled demagogues at home developing
and extending the evil by cunning pervcrsions Of
truth and by violent appeals to the baser passions
of their nature. Associations have been formed
for the purpose Of nourishing tho treason which
Matched in Nashyille--and 1t will require all the
virtue all the energy and all the patriotism Of the
wise and good men of Georgia TO check the pro-
gress Of things, and the country FROM the hor
rors Of civil war. We appeal TO them to wake up,
and buckle on their armor for the conflict. We
appeal to them, by all tho recollectons Of the past
and by all their hopes for the futurewe appeal to
them, as lovers Of our present system Of govern
ment, and friends to the progressive spirit Of the
! age, TO rise up, in their might, and rebuke the
spirit of treason and strife which seems to have
seized upon portion Of the people.
SHooTINo ARRAY At FRANKroRT.-W learn
that quite serious ARRAY occurred on Tuesday last
at Frankfort, between Captain Jno. w. Russell
late Senator from that district, and Mr.. w. W
Stapp, editor Of the Woman. The difficulty wac
occasoncd by an impertnent allusion 10 Captain
Russell, which appeared in the columns 81 tho Yco
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