The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-06-25

the North to bclieve-that he is on seal
OF inieIiority as voter. Thus, by turns
in the garb Of pbilanthropy religion, demo
crazy, whiggery-anything, everything
this mlschievous spirit plays the recruiting
officer, to obtain an army Of followers 10
the purpose Of acquiring porer. We hay,
seen i bargaining for place, and awaiting
itself Of the close balance Of parties in The
Legislature, corruptly trading for poltica
position. Now seaate moralist, again I;
religious fanatic, or political demagogue,
| IT IS attempting to outrun the established
order Of things, and to overleap every
barrier which the Constitution intcrposes 10
its progress
/ This is the spirit which is busy in this
land, in every department OF labor, politics,
and religion, preparing sentiment, and try
ING, through governmental instrnmeuta.ity,
to find vent Tor that sentiment in action,
even at the cost of the best political COM
bnation Of the earth. Its t cad is that Of
the Vandal. When its usurpations shall be
complete, its triumph will be celebrated
upon the ruins Of the Constitution. The
hardy breeds Of the Forth Of Europe, who
overran Italy, wrecked all Of art and civili-
zation then existing. Vandal cupidity and
barbarian ambition were never satisfied,
until they stood upon the ruins OF Govern
ment, and trod under foot all public law aud
private right.
! repeat, that ! place every reliance in
the sincerity Of many gentlemen from the
free States, who think there is no danger
from the operations of this Abolition feeling;
but ! ask those gentlemen TO point to the
man OF 1885, who dared to oppose the
agitatons of that time, now left to serve
the country The voice Of the past guides
me to fancy the realizations of the future.
These gentlemen are not the generals who
marshal tile forces, nor the tacticians who
choose the positions Of the Abolitonists-it
FULLY occupies their time to keep their own
persons out OF the fire Of the batteries. This
Abolition spirit, sir, is living, active, mis-
chievous element. When we behold the
fruits Of its past exertions, and the evidence
OF ITS present intentions, let us beware Of
non-dcfion. The voice Of patriotism bids
US, by every duty we owe to the Constitu-
ton, the country, and the world, to act now,
before it is too late, and so to act as to avoid
the possibility Of any future issue between
us-so to act as to settle this distractng
controversy about slavery, at once, deiini-
lively, and forever
The position to which we are invited, and
which we arc assured to-day will prove
safe through the future, will only smother
the flame for an instant, to break forth
hereafter with increased heat and inten-
sity. Adopt it, md my belief is the ex-
element will increase The ;nti-slavery
fever will guide the spirit Of your elections
through future years. 1t will do more. In
the true spirit Of that fanaticsm which pre-
tends to look above earthly compacts, it has
solennly sworn to observe, to Divine com
mand for guidance, it will spurn the protec-
ton afforded 10 property by law, and will
wallow in all the excuses Of the viIest agra
rlanlsm. | have the most abiding reluctance
to see this scheme of nOn-actiOn prevail.
honestly believe that one of the effects TO flow
from it, will be permanent sectional divis-
ion among our people, do not mean dis
solution Of the Union, but an alienation OF
feeling and of friendship-and as another
consequence, the elevation to public honors
Of the most rabid, the most offensive, and the
most ultra and inscriptions of those public
men who now wyship openly at the affairs Of
Abolitionism ana Agrarianism. have no ex-
aggerated apprehension of the designs of this
school Of politicians. We have heard during
this discussion, ircm some of the leading
spirits OF that party, now members of this
House, the views they entertain-the policy
they pursue-lhe motives which actuate
them to its adoption. Let Us recur to them
Tor moment
Speaking Of Northern feeling, one of these
Mr.. Horace MANN remarks:
"But release us from our obligations, tear off
from the bond with your own hands the signatures
which bind our consciences and repress our feel
ings, destroy those compensaions which the world
and postcrity would derive from the Union, and
well may you trcmble for the result.
Thousands will start up at the North, who will
think It as much duty and an honor to assist the
slaves IN any contest with their masters as TO
sist Greeks, or Poles, or Hungarians in resisting
Perhaps dissolution of this Union is the
means foreordaned by God for the extension Of
slavery; and did not foresee its doom, before any
very long period shall have elapsed, without the
unspeakable horrors of civil and servile war,
cannot say to what conclusions the above consid-
eratons would lead my own mind" ="
Twill mot multiply authority from this source.
1t will suffice that this speaker denominates
the shareholders as man-stcaler--the slave
as "stolen goods" and closes with the dec
laration, "Better disunion--better civil and
| servile war-better anything that God in bis
providence shall send, than an extension Of
human slavery"
Another Of these men Mr.. THAppEus
Stevens says:
Shareholders form an untitled aristocracy, with
numerous dependents. .. THERE'S no sound
connecting link between the arstocrat and tn,
slave. True, there is class of human beings be
| tween them; but they are the most worthless anu
miserable Of mankind. . The poor white
laborer is the scorn of the slave himself.
The white people who work with their hands, ar
| ranked with the other laborers--the slaves The,