Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30


erosion from tIle MOTH sss i3lsf Il there moi
still agitation tsersi L eos lie Prsss at work /
10 not fanatic orasess scuasixe slavery Has
not AbollionsIn manifested Its powrr in the Eicc-
tions What means the triumph Ivy the corrupt
combination of Free-Sciers and Loco Fccos. Of
chusetts2 What means the language Of extcTmi-
nation in the Resolutions Of the New York Dem
oeratic Convention just adjourned but as peace
Offering to Abolition What means the no less
detestable pandsring to the power Of Seward by
the Wing COMMITTEES and Conventions Of the same
State. mt recognise tie right % 'peodify Or rpta
tie Fagstire Stare Lar-a Law passed in obedience
to q solemn injunction Of the Constitution What
the endorsement Of their action by the recent Con-
yention Of Wings in Massachusetts, And what
tion iac;ionl shall ask you to publish an Arti-
Gle, from leading Journals at the foot OF this
communication, which exposes these base alliances
in New York DO not all these things and more
than can now refer to, point 70 NE repeal Of he
Fagifire Siote Lau as their ultimate result how
ever little inclined; possibly, people in the North
may be generally, to agitate t--aaa to HE denial
Of my oticr rsmeaiR measure /? Is il not wise, at
least, in the South TO prepare for such attacks J
And kor? BY denanciation of its own citizens
The effect of elimination and vituperation will be,
even upon such q subject as this, to drive us to o
false love Of the Union, on the one hand which
may not oppose itself to any outrage Of abolition
or 10 false love of the South on the other, that
would precipitate it to Secession, Our dssensions
invite attack, while our union would intimidate
it.
What is the present cause Of dissenson ? When
the enemy is in the fieid--when the ramparts of
Southern rights are threatened to be scaled by
the cohorts of Northern Fanatieism-sma in
numbers, though they may be, but terrible in
their power to sway the soldier Of Party and
against whose influence Patriotism cannot prevail
1.-The Southern citizen is disputing with his broth
er the power of one of its members to abandon the
Confederacy When danger impcnds it is vio-
ently debated among us whether State, that has
not withdrawn, shall be permitted to withdraw
from what and to what from the Union to the
South where it belongsl The intelligence of the
country does not apprehend that South Caroline
will secede, unless other States Hkewise secedc-of
which there is not at present remote contingent
cy. If she should, however, who really imagines
that the blood of her citizens, however unoues-
toned the power to use force will be shed by the
weapons of the National Armyl The question of
power, in my judgement, in the case of South Car
DINA, is ill-tmed and because if 1t
should arise by the act of her secession. it would
most probably be disposed of, by abstaining from
its exercise on the controlling consideration of ex-
pedency.
This is the subject, that is leading us off l,
again, appeal to Union-loying and Union. preser-
wing men--to So,ahvn-lootng men--to drop this
angry and worse than proftless disputation, and
stand to the policy, without which there is no
safety for our rights--the policy, which holds
dear the Sentiment, that sooull fiji every Southern
heart of "Union for the sake of the SouTH as well
as "of the UaSoan HARMONY.
ave append the article referred to from the
Journal Of Commerce in relation to the two New
York Conventions
''From the aspect which these bodies pre-
cent it would seem that the politics of this
State are reduced to the condition ola mere
scramble for power The men in the State
Of known virtue, of patriotism and Of marked
ability, have been in the descent Of party
thrown out of its machinery, and they stand
aloof from its abuses. The two sets of states
men CD who occupy the field, have their Aori-
zon bounded by the localities which they in
habit. aud from want of forecast. do little more
than foster the sectional prcjudicos to which
they owe their elevation. A Convention of
the present day, instead of being the assem-
blcd wisdom of a moiety Of this great State,
is chiefly an assemblage of those who, at the
primary meetings. are most skillful at the
low arts which secure the support Of interes-
ted and turbulent voters and its actiou falls
necessary far short Of what the public wants
demand.
The two conventions which have Just held
their meetings at Syracuse, are nearer to
equality in all respects than is usual with such
bodies Both have limited they objects to
the possession Of power IN the great meas.
urc in whi,h thecouutry is deeply Interested
both are silent: or, ifnvt silent, beth speak
a language which the opposing faction IN each
party eonst:uc favorably to their peculiar POI
sition. TO this unmanly feeling DO We owe
the encouragement aud the growth within our
limits. of anti-rentism, and the less dishonest
but far more dangerous scheme of abolition
ism. New evils will Inevitably and constant
ly flow from its manifestation, until that large
class CT substantial men who have deep stake
in all the great fundamental principles conncc-
ted with our Government. shall undertake to
speak and act in the politics of the country,
aud make Convention what it ought to be.
IA body to support in plain terms what is
right and to denouncc, so as not to be mis-
understood, what is wrong. The eyes Of the
peopied were turned with much interest to-
wards the two Conventions.
The great measure of the Compromise, in
Guiding the Fugitive Slave Law, had been SO
widely discussed had been made the turning
point in so many and in such important con-
tests, and was so necessary to the peace of
the country, that it was hoped that it would
be set at rest in this State by the decisive
supnnrf nf fha tmn Convantiapc TLo., Loro