The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1851-05-07

and renionstranccs having failed to check
| tho onward march Of fanatcsm, our only
safety now seems to be in State action
in support of which we pledge our lives, our
fortunes and our sacred honor"
A favori,c thrust at the denouncers Of
the Compromise is that they and the Aboli-
tionists arc occupying the same ground of
| opposition TO the adjustment, and lookin.
forward to tho same end. dissolution Of
tho Union; and thus tho odium of alliance
and sympathy with Abolition is sought to
be cast upon them, while the Compromi-
scrs claim that they alone are maintaining
Sou, hcrn rights. The truth is that no,
one in thousand of the Abolilionis,s but
would lament over the dissolution Of the
Union as the destruction Of their foEdest
the aid OF the Union, ,ha, they can expect
to abolish slavery; and more than this, not
ono in a thousand Of them but would have
preferred the Compromise legislation Of
Congress 10 no legislation at all on those
subjects; though not going far enough, i,
was OH the whole an advance. The oppo-
si,ion to the Compromise made ny Free
soi:ers and aboitionists was really that they
might, with consistency and show Of rca-
son, after having secured what 3as a'lvan.
:ersr'.a-.-1tiscinir ir, iJinsn r,eaniisas ','z
, lor the reversal and repeal OF f5Swtralev cr
might be considered favorable 70 slavery:
and they arc now mastering their forces fo'
a repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law. The
Abo!itiunists have more power in the North
than the Southern people generally n.e
aware Of. Their sentiments arc almost
universal there. Scarcely ten mon can be
found there who 10 not think slavery an
outrage ON humanity and who are not in
favor OF such legislation as will put an end
to it. The great difference among them is
as TO the haste anl drectness OF that lcgis-
latlon. The Abolitionists, proper, are rash
and count upon unlimited submission by
the South the rest are more or less ,itnm
and fear to lash the South 10 madness ::
they would proceed cautiously and impcr-
ccptibly and they often turn indignantly
upon the Abo'it'onists for their undi sg,Iis-
cdncss OF action. The principles OF Aboli.
ton undcric tic whole Northern feelings
and opinions and the whole South sees and
fears It /; but the Conprom;scrs incessant.
~ assert that the people Of the North are
right and will show themselves loyal to the
laws and opposed to any further agitation
on this subject and, for the purpose OF
convincing us Of tho truth of these asscr.
tions, they would shut out all testimony
that would prove the contrary. When a
crowd Of free rcgrocs, in Boston, rescued n
fugitive from the officers of the law, the
President and Mr.. WEBSTER said that they
were satisfied that the people of Boston
were nverse 10 any such outrage when
the outrage could not have been successful.
ly committed il tho people Of Boston had
been opposed TO it.
II is Il constant effort on t!ia part OF
CoInpromscrs to tlclude the South as TO the
reason, that none of the slave. holding
States would have accepted the Compro.
mise but as all ending Of all agitation on
the subject, and resistance would be gen
cral If The true feelings aud intentions of
the Northern people were known. We do
not won Ter therefore at the following cbul
iilion of i'll humor on the part OF the Rich.
mond Whig:
The Southern Rights Association, O!
llinds county, Mississippi, has been con
vcted oi subscribing for several Of the vilest
abolition sheets published in the country.
tor the purpose OF circulating them among
the people. The object, Of course, was tu
hcightcn the eXasperation fc. towards the
North. Such conduct deserves universal
cXecration.
Now it is no doubt unfortunate that, to
make certain tho punishment Of rogucs, we
have sometimes, for want of other tcstimo.
ny, to induce some of thoir number TO be.
como States evidence. But, when the
purposes of Justice demand this, can it be
dishonorablc! Bat why should it be dis
graceful, execrable, to take paper which
is circulated openly in tho North, and which
its publisher must of his own accord send,
knowing whittier II is bound, we cannot
see. In such conduct certainly there is
not the turpitudc of espionage it is only
Doing to the fountain TO ascertain the true
naiuro Of the waters. The truth is that