Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-05-31


save fifteen hundred millions Of property, the most Proa-
BILE in the world and the Of countless blessings TO man
Kind, from becoming nuisance and curse ihey are
amply secured in the Constitution and that instrument would
have obtned the approval Of South Caroline and other
Souther States without such security But these spualions
and compacs have not been carried n good faith by the
Northern States but been violated and utterly dsregaded
We complain especially that slaves fleeing the nonslave-
holding States not delivered their owners their de-
mand that the property of fifteen States is excluded from
countries which belong all the States and that the subject
OF slavery itself made the topic Of vehement and mischiev-
GUS discussion in the Northern States and in Congress They
are welfounded complanacts that palpable viola
tons OF the Constitution, and would in my opinion any
them, justify the secession of the Southern States They
impair The security and the value Of property in slaves The
experience ofegh years hope apprehension have
brought to The conclusion that these complaints will
removed edessed any exercise Of the provd
ed by the Constitution How South Carolina reform
public opinion in Massachusetts Oho By what potent
instrument she dsenchan the public opinion of the North
break the spell which holds in absolute sway the intellect
Of the North Our appeals their justice have been
Needed and our cqntemned We cannot dis
sue the fact that the guaransof the Consuoni favor
of slavery mockeries They openly repudated BY
those who yielded them to the demand Of the Souhas the
of union with them individuals may submit wrong
without the loss Of character Of seepec but such sub
mission ny nations brings dshonor and degradation i'm
plies both weakness and pusanimy and invites aggression
as well incites contempt The Federal Government
not and would iii could cousan these Northern States
to the discharge Of their duty has neither functions
unctionares to reach the evil The great function Of Gov
ernment in modern times the protection of property Pro-
pey in slaves of all other property least endure ag
gressoD and most needs the Of Government Govern
ment that fails either from its weakness its will to protect
bis property from domestic well foreign foes does no.
deserve the obedience the respect of freeman Gov
ernment that not only fails protect but is actually hostile
to the property of fifteen States is despotism
and to overthrow is to pull down huge nuisance The
ultimate abolition Of slavery must be the result, unless the
avehodng States have the spirit to take their rights under
Of
Of savehoding Sates- need embrace all the savehod
ing States-s Gas soemIy beleve) the only that
promises security hope to the South hold that the
slaves OF South Carolina of infinitely greater value her
t'an this Union, or any Union. And when the enor-
nous evils Of which compan and which have specified
can be redessed BY the secession Of South Carolina aone
an without hesitation and instantly in favor Of it, whatever
other States may do, and whatever consequences follow
Let us then, complaints or any Of them would
be removed redessed by the secession Of South Carolina
aone the other savehodng States remaining the Union
Would the prospect OF recovering fugitive slaves be better
They may now be- and recovered, summarly and
certainly, when they found, in fifteen States The diff
Guilty OF recaimng them in Georga any other slavehod
ing State is greater than it is in the different districts Of
our own State Each of these States afford all the faci
tles that enjoyed by its citizens They appro
pirate and ample Our only complaint that the
holding States not only refuse aid U.S. but actually ostruct
Us IN our endeavors to reclaim property when accident
or crime places within their limits They only violate the
stipulation of the constitution this subject These States
do not now, and will not ever deliver up fugitive slaves It
will not be contoyered that secession would place the State
seeding in the relation of foreign State towards all The other
States OF the Union would be at the REIMBURSEMENT
OF all the rights well the duties, that exist be-
tween them. They would be- all ntents and purposes
independent Of each other France and Great Britain.
in the absence OF treaty the subject, foreign Stale
has no gh. TO require another to deliver up fugitive slaves
or fugitive feons The law Of nations does enoin it,
and is in instance done without the requirements Of
treaty. Why it that of the twenty five thousand fugitive
slaves now in Canadas country bordering the United
Satesone has been recovered by his owner Why
is Canada place of refuge for slaves who fee from their
owners in the South II is because it is foreign country,
and the treaties between Great Britain and the United
are silent the subject Would not them secession be the
gitice slaues Oitn the limits of athe Southern States
and Of all other countries? We could not even Cross the
line OF Georgia. Tennessee North Carolina in pursuit of
them, BY virtue Of any right which should acquire by
cesson
We know, do the enemies Of that institution well un-
dersand, that the absolutely fatal policy that can be
pursued in reference to slavery con6ne within pre-
scribed limits Thus Localized and hemmed n must inevi
aby anguIsh and die. given of country will afford
lucrative employment to much white than
colored population whether it be slave or free population
Slaves not fitted for many Of the avocaons Of the white
man. The slave population Of South Carolina
rapidly than the white race and at this time considerably ex
ceeds il What would be of difusing over new
and less popuous countries rapidly increasing slave popu
lation, South Carolina make hersefa foreign State 5y
secession? Our slaves may now be carried into any State Of
the Union which has made the introduction Of them un-
lawful They may be sold the citizens Of such States or
removed with their The and fertile lands of
Mississippi and Texas offer tempting fields for the slave labor
OF the old Southern States Congress has power inter-
pose any prohibition restraint But Congress has long
since, under the special provision Of the constitution made
the introduction Of slaves from foreign country into State
OF the Union highly penal offence The moment there
FORE South Carolina shall secede from the Unionhe other
Southern States remaining in itthat moment il would be
high crime to carry slave from this State Georgia. or TO
any ether State Such State scoud hare po,cer aho
our own State could be passed by slave long
should be foreign State We have already been excluded
from California, snd Utah, and New Mexico by
stiutiona and unjust legislation of Congress and shall
now permit our own nauaon 10 exclude from the Of
the world Heaven us from such insanity!
secession would not place in better position for the
recovery of fugitive slaves for spreading slave popula
ton over other countries but would nspose nsurmoun,abe
obstacles to both, would invest with eectua means
OF repressng the fanaicsm of the Northern States lam
incapable e perceiong any such effect. No, gentlemen,
one Of the saveholdng States quiet this wicked agitation
to resist its fatal influence. The strongest Governments
in christendom, France and Sweden and Great Bran,
have been made yield their beautiful islands in the West
Indies to utter desoaon appease the fury Of this demon
The Spanish West Inda islands and Bszi the ony
civilized countries earth, besde these Southern States
which slavery exists and the fourth Of century will not
leave vesge Of 10 either Of Them And be wise
to escape their doom at ds'snt day. With these
quences before us wonl1 be wise secession
against the views and wishes Of all those States are bound
in common destiny with us
confess with profound regret that can perceive no
reason to think that OF sister States of the South
gard the peril to slavery immediate and imminent as we
cannot however believe that thew are resolyd