The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-25

OF isDor ~ the South, will In time be looked
upon a. q curse.
BY reason Of it, being confined to lis present
limits. indeed those limits shall be left undis-
turbed,] the supply of slave labor will become
70 great, and consequently become 90 cheap
that It will gradually drive out from among US
all free white labor of every description. From
being confined almost entirely, AZ at present, TO
agriculture, the slaves will necessarily become
mechanics and artizsns Of every class This
will inevitably enlighten them, and give them
power, and new and dangerous ideas. There
being no outlet for them, they will In time over
flow all the channels Of labor. The whole
country will become one vast African popula-
ton, land of the slave and his owner! And
then, how far distant will be the day, when the
black and loathsome tide, in vain seeking for an
outlet, will find it by An overflow Of the body
polite, drowning all distinctions between the
white and black man! All this has been well
understood by the leading minds of the anti
slavery power. They have uttered the predic-
ton on the floor of Congress. The late Post
master General, Mr.. Collamer, used this remark
=" the more it (slavery) is circumscribed, the
less will it be productive and the sooner will be
emancipation"
If, therefore, the government should pause in
its crusade against US, the silent but effectual
operation of that policy which has been effected.
the circumsbribing of slavery, will inevitably
work out emancipation. The Abolitionists have
reached that great point in their progress in
which time and the laws Of population have be-
come their fast and most efficient friends and
abettors! They may, from this time out, OBJ
serve most faithfully every provision in our Con-
stitution. and If they can keep the South in the
Union, to be controlled by the present laws,
they will accomplish their great aim, our po-
! litcal destruction and the emancipation of the
slaves. A mastery inactivity" on the part of
| the North, and "acquiescence" on the part Of
the South, combine to constitute the true policy
of the Abolitionist Strange that such policy
should find advocates in the South!
In view Of our condition, the question forces
itself upon us-"What policy does our interests
and our duty alike dictate shall be pursued by
u.s." In the opinion of the convention, the only
issue which can be made in answer to that ques-
ton is submission or secession.
The first is recommended to you under the
,, more honied term "acquiescence." 1t implies
that past aggressions afford no ground for resist
ance, and that your safety is not endangered by
submission.
} Fellow-citizens! The Abolitionists recon-
mends to you to submit! The federalist say il
is your duty The North desires you to inter
pose no obstacle to the success of its designs
In what consists the difference between such ad
vice from some of your own brethren? Simply
in this-the advice Of the first is dictated by q
selfish desire to be unmolested in their opera
tons against you--that of the latter is dictated
from selfish desire on the part of the leaders
to preserve unimpaired that old party organza-
ton which tends to elevate them to power and
place in this government and on the part of the
masses who follow them by that feeling of tim
idty and love of ease, which in ages past, has
permitted many tyrant to rule millions of his
fellow men. Tories we found in the days OF
, the revolution to denounce our fathers as "agi-
, tators," and to preach up "acquiescence" in the
, action of the parent government, and to portray
the horrors of war to the excited imagination,
of the weak Men are found now to do the same
thing
"Acquiescence" is the policy which the wises
!, Free-soiler may we'll advocate. A mastery
inactivity" now, will accomplish all his aims
Time, acting as the friend of their schemes, will
ripen their measures into a proper fruition.-
: Free-soil State after free-soil State will COM
J, into our Union. The free-soil majority now il
y the Senate will increase with each accession
The freesoil majority in the House will con
tinue to enlarN.%nl gigantic proportions. Thu
, Executive will be but the reflex Of a dominan
HCC-oVh Po"CA IA WIG 8OvOiuMVhsy WiiHc silt
South, with no hope of corresponding territorial
expansion, will be struggling with the very pleth
ora of slavery, and our public men seduced
, from the thorny, self-denying path of duty, vii
, be found struggling for place in the affections
of some Northern President. And when tim,
shall have ruthlessly produced these effects, ant
I the sunny South has become the Ireland of tn,
" Union, the spirit Of "acquiescence" may com
= pacently claim them to be the fruits Of he
\ poicy-a policy but occasionally and feeby dis
: turbed by some Emmett whom the sufferngs o
our land may induce to attempt its rescue an,
whose blood will quench the feeble fire of patri
: otism, which his eloquence may serve to kndl
= in the bosoms of his abject, acquiescing" coun
= trymen.
r. We have said that there is no intermediate
|, step between submission, under the gilded CARL
= of "acquiescence," and secession. We know
[ that many good patriot has counselled resist
ance" by encouraging Southern manufactor les
and taxing Northern produce. But, we say Il
in all Difference, such men take counsel of theiI
fears. From such class, never yet has sprung
Washington, Hancock or Patrick Henry
Such policy is based upon the superstition that
the Constitution of the United States has pro we'd
failure in the hands of this government--that
its administration is no protection to the South
The assumption is true; and if true, it follows
that the government is administered by our ene-
mics, knowing no chart but that Of their di ,cre-
ton and their fears! The policy indicated is an
address to their sel6shness and fears And are
our people prepared to live longer under gov
eminent which has thrown aside the chart Of the
Constitution, and thus leave their liberties to the
mercy Of a Northern majority, having no safe
i guards but their Fears If 70, how long will Il
be before approaching our abjectness, they will
cease to fear, and in despising, shall trample us
beneath their feet Shall we longer cultivate
relations Of amty with men whose past history
is replete with wrongs done us, and who only
abstain from further aggression, not out Of re-
spect, but from fear of us! Ii that the govern
ment which we are invited to sustain and sup
portl.
But if it is not true that the Constitution is a
failure and that its administration is no prothc-
ton to us, then all such schemes Of annoying
; the North are petty and unworthy of the South
IL we remain in the Union, it il our duty TO cul
tivate relations Of amity with all the States Of
the Union. If their conduct is such that this
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