The North-Carolina standard., 1850-06-29

tutlon TO reach their object they viii degn TO DO
the non-saveholdng States will then have the power
two thirds Congress and three fourths the States
to amend the Constitution, and then have it's
sanction to consummate their policy. Your condition
progressive. ( * = 4 u
II from the past transactions have narrated, we
learn condition in the Union. they teach also
that our past policy of nonacon and submission to
gresson cannot bring US peace and safety When the
doors Of Congress thrown open 20 agitation the
subject Of slavery. if the Southern States had NOV ed
with energy to avert state Of things unconstitutional
ITSELF and surely tending to bring the slavehodng and
nonsiaveholdlng States into collision. although late,
might not have been to0lae to subsequent
mens upon our rights. But the Southern States were
passive and their forbearance has had the effect OF in
spring 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 move from
conscious inability TO protect ourselves You have un-
generously stood still whilst your supporters and the de-
tenders Of the Constitution in the Northern States, in
their efforts to protect from the agtaons of slavery
IN Congress, have been politically annhated, or have
turned your foes You have timely acquesced until to
hate and pesecute the South, has become high pass
port to homo: and power in the Union. You have un-
wisely stood still whilst year after year the volume of
anslavery policy and sympathy has swollen into unan
unity throughout all the ehoding States, and
the sections of the Union now face each other in stern
collision. You have waited until the Constitution Of the
United States is in danger of being virtually abolished
or of becoming what the majority in Congress think
proper TO make it, That great principle on which our
system Of free rests of dividing the pow
of Government that only those powers should be gran
aueCt people
in their operation whilst all powers all interests.
local sectional should be reserved to local sectional
Government, in danger of being upooted from their
Constitution Local and sectional Interests absorb the
time and business of Congress- and thus sectional des
potism totally irresponsible to the people Of the Souh
constituted of the Representatives in Congress from the
Sates ignorant Of our feelings, condl-
tion and institutions, regns a: Washington These
the fruits of your past orbearAnce and submission.
we look into the nature of things, such results will
not seem to be either strange There but one
condition, in which people be safe under the
dominion of another people, and that is when their inter-
ess entirely indentical Then the dominant cannot
Cypress the subject people without expressing them
selves. The indemnity of interest between them s the
security for right government But this ndenty
scarcely exist between any two people, history
bears but testimony to the fate Of subject people,
They have always been compelled TO minister to The
prosperity and aggrandzement Of their masters II this
has always been the under the ordinary difference
Of and feelings which exist between States how
much more certainly must the experience Of history be
realized between the people Of the Northern and South
ern States Here difference Of climate and produc
ons throughout territory stretching along the whole
belt OF the temperate zone affecting the pursuits and
characters of the people inhabing it. But the great
dierence-the great diference-he greatest which
can exist among people is the institution of slavery
This alone sets apart the Southern States as peculiar
people-wih whom independence to their internal
policy is the condion of their existence. They must
rule themselves or perish Every colony in the world
where African slavery existed with one exception has
been destroyed If this has been the case under the
old and eete Governments of Europe will it pre-
vail under the dominion of the restless people of the
Northern States /? They do not practically recognize
the ne,iority OF the African to the Caucasian
They do not realise, because the circumstances of their
condition DO not compel them to realise the impossible
ty of an amagamation between the races Exempt from
the institution OF slavery, it is not surprising that their
sympathes should be against whilst the dogma
which they profess to build their system of free govern
ment-the absolute rule of the msorty-leaves bar
rier their power in the affairs Of the General Govern
ment and leads them to its consolidation. Religion oo
fhoron
which many Of its professors believe to be inconsistent
with its principles and preceps To expect orbearance
from such people, under such circumstances. towards
the institution Of slavery, is manifestly van they
have been false to the compact made with US in the Con-
stituton and have allowed passion and prejudice to
ter reason, they have only exempf ed that ralty and
allblity of our has produced the necessity
Of all governments and which, if unchecked pro-
duces wrong The institution of slavery having once
entered the popular of the slaveholdng Staes
for action and CONTROL the res, is inevitable If
strained by US, they go on until African slavery will
be swept fiom the broad and fertile South The nature
things therefore, Independent Of experience, teaches
US that there can be no safety in submission.
To submit to evils howsy great, whilst they
durable, is tine disposition of every peope-especially
Of an agricultural people living apart, and having no
association in their pursuits But the responsibility of
preserving free government rests with all its members
whatever may be their pursuits and not alone with those
who have the power the will to destroy it. minor
ty, by submission much betray the Constitution
majority by aggression The Constitution does not
protect majority, for they have all the powers Of the
in their hands and can protect themselves
The Limitations of Constitution are designed to protect
The minory-those who have no power, against those
who have it. Hence, the great motive and duty of self
protection is peculiar to Minority independent of that
iaith to the Constitution which they owe in common
with the majority. They must project themselves and
protect the Constitution and they fail in this double
duty, they at least culpable those who in
gression upon their rights overthrow the Constitution
nd the public opinion of the world in conformity
with these views The opPressor IS haed-but the unre
sisnsly oppressed despsed More respect follows the
tyrant than the slave who submits to his power. The
Southern States, therefore, although minority, not
exempt from the responsibility Of preserving the Con-
stitution and in preserving it, to protect themselves
In what way shall they preserve the Constitution and
protect themselves? ..- 60 e.. -
As a general rule it IS undoubtedly true that when
in Government like Constitution is violated by
majority, who alone violate 1t matters of legs
laon 1t cannot be restored to its integrity through the
ordinary means Of Government for these means, being
under the control of the majority not available to
the minority 1t is for this reason that frequent eee
tions Of rulers take place in system Of free gov
ernment in order that the people by their direct inter-
vention may change the majority. But this resource
cannot avail Us in the violations Of the Constitution,
which now press and harrass the South. BY changing
their representatives. how the people of the South
affect the majority in Congress and restore the Const
tuition? Their Representatives rae and have done
all that do, to preserve the Constitution from
the aggressions of the majority Removing them, and
putting other Representatives in Congress- could have
no effect in restoring the Constitution. 1t has been
broken by the representatives of the people North
States who sustain them IN their violations Of the
Constitution tits clear that tn in the South
poweFless for it's protection. And the same causes
which induced the violations of the Constitution by the
Northern majorty prevents its restoration TO its ntegr
ty Throughout the Northern States there has been no
indcation Of any changs n their policy Onthe coz
tnry the majority sgainst the South is greater the
present Congress than in the last following the usual
Of every successive election foi past Nor
have in the action Of the Sties with few az
of ia