The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-26
From The Louisiana Courier.

Il The NEGRO EXcITEMENT.-The Abolition
fanatics, having been beaten out of the halls OF
Congress, thus failing in their efforts to destroy
the Union through its legislation, have gone
home to stir up rebellion among their particular
friends and alies-the negroes. Our exchange
papers, says the Baltimore Argus, from the free
States, are filled with accounts of the meetings
of negroes, mostly runaway slaves from the
South, who are encouraged in their insolent and
rebcllious course by men with white skins, but
whose hearts are backer than the skin of the
veriest congo. Men high in Office, and men as
piring to seats in the national councils, are
found mingling in these foul assemblagcs, and
openly encouraging opposition to the laws OF
the land. If such is a fair exhibit of public SEN
timent in these free Statcs-if a majority Of the
people justify these traitorous and insolent meet
ings, the South may as well prepare at once for
that event which must inevitably come upon
them. We are no disunionists. From first to
last of this controversy, we have stood by the
Union. We have battled for it with all oul
souls, looking to 1t rs the great palladium of ouI
safety. We believe now that faithful adher.
ence upon the part of all the States to the great
principles of justice which are embodied in our
national Constitution, would preserve the Union
and carry it to height of power and splendol
uuhno"H III any lolhici aye. W. ucuc'c eut'
frank and hearty support Of the guarantees Of
the Constitution would bind this Union together
in bonds of fraternal strength, which would
make us more irresistible in our future course
than the famed Grecian phalanx or the victori.
GUS cohorts of ancient Rome.
But, if this fell spirit Of abolition is tolerated
by our people-if the negroes in our midst are
encouraged in rebellion against the laws of the
land, and are told that public opinion in the free
States will enable them to set at defiance the
enactment Of Congress. Ifthis state of things
shall be made manifest, it requires no prophet
foretell the disruption of this mighty empire, and
it's involvement in scenes of strife and bloodshed
at the bare thought of which the heart is filled
with sorrow and shame. Is the nominal freedom
of few slaves Of sufficient consequence in the
Judgment of fanaticism to destroy for it the
peace and perpetuity of the Union, and make this
beautiful hand the battle ground Of sectional
strife? If it were of any use, we would appeal
to these misguided men, and urge them to pause
in their mad career. But we have no hopes
from them Our only hope is that they may be
overruled by the patriotic masses whose intelli
gence and love of country would show them the
fatal consequences which must flow from these
proceedings, unless rebuked in time. If the
runaway negroes and their friends are permitted
openly and unrebuked thus to insult the law.
makers of the nation, this glorious Union, now
the proud beacon light to the tyrant-ridden
world, will speedily be overthrown, and the
memory of its past existence only add deeper
pang to the disappointed lovers Of national
freedom throughout the universe.