The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1851-06-07

souihcrn NAN, - DWlIoss o.
s.nr. done. ard the wrongs contemplated
49,, rrpc,rated against his sfsle, and who
w.:,..iy disposed 10 maintain her rights, our
49,, rcsisiom In relation to the ensuing c'sc.
80, Congress il n source Of :Aircre Dis
uce s ~ In no period of cur past history
~. condition been so rrcearions as that m
- The southern states are At present placed,
sA va and fanatich section Of the talon
Asi..l accomplished decisive and disastrous
~ aver the rights Of the remaining por-
w., II The states, s''d 'Ae prospect OF 'ne H.
I'M =, irJsc from the past, Is destructive of
isn' p" and Independence. To one
-" ,syn an ol,scryant reader OF the events
w. ',. Id, NV years, II must be perfectly ap-
", ,h,t the measures of the late Cons res.
w. .,,hi,ct Of slavery and the territories are
80 go, i, drama whose first scene opened
," t,,l and whose close is TO effect the 40.
,''', ~ slavery in the southern states, and
ch' .,., the destruction Of their independence
VI" ,.r The crusade agnins, African
'na and the rights Of the slaycho!ding
s's' which was begun TO be- preached years
say ha. been continually progressing, and
"" s;.rallv achieving nj every step. The las,
eon". ..n., important achievement which la,
gnu '.onrh, in tbs cause, is the late acts Of
ec'a "r,,n,.e" Nv these were the southern
80 Aen,rd their equal right in the vast ard
's IL, territories which were won from Mex
oFh H., ,hese was part OF southern slave
,1 ,r'gg state taken lay durcss and thrown into
"o H., of Notwithstanding territory; ard, as
- ~" acts .crc moi fastening sufficiently the
.,,,J of abolition asccndeucy and southern
l,nnf,lI. direct aud raipable blow was dealt
lv ooe of these very nets, at the Institution Ci
'Yi.y~,v in The states themselves, aud the power
s...aed 10 interfere in AMI control their in
.s,csl ard domestic relations. Such strides in
.x,ofy, SO extensive, NO eaectua', and so mo-
i r.u.ly done, had never before been had
|. The abolition cause. Nor were 'hey taken
s.sa,t much hesitation and distrust. The
~ men Of the abolition party, those who are
,lnnrht 70 bc the moderate men Of the north
'su .,aics, bu, who are only the Jutifc men
,ase who arc styled til Union men, but wao
Ill care FIR the Union because, in il, they
Iii uo,sess the asccndcney IN powcrr and viii
l,sc from Il greater and wider iniorcs, than
aid he had in their separate sections, these
mn we're seriously alarmed at the general
vii, Of daermined oppoa Ion which manifest
sdii,clf in the southern Mates IN the years of
- and 1850, 10 any further aggrcssions on
~ mart Of the non. slayehodng states of the
iInian, They saw that their policy was UNDER
.,oo.l. that the southern states conprvhcGdcd
,be course Of oycn.s; that they perceived their
dancer. and were determined to resist IT, And
they saw that either their party, would, caEsc-
suen,Iy be compelled to stay iis band, or else
,Ae southern states would dissolve the tnni,d-
erzey. In this state of affairs they hcsIiated
what 10 do !; and one of them was heard TO say
IN III, hall Of Congress, when an unilmcly and
,sl;, rect movement was made hy one of the
hes,ca aud hcadone members Of the party.