Arkansas democratic banner., 1851-11-18
LITTLE. ROCK. TUESDAY MORNING,

and cast, since tho adjournment of Congress, and shall be most happy 10 hna any impression dispei led in tSe future. At first tbe movements of the mass were independent Of leadership, and gave a noble esrnestness to indicate lhcir good faith and to mlntan inc institutions and harmony oE the Uaon; but and say it with reluctance, the bori- zoa not long permitted 10 remain Iattering. The abolitienists beat again ther bafbatic gong the love of representative assemblages regular or casual, was again tauntiag and vindiciive; paltry and personal ambition renewed tte agitation by which alone it's hopes are fed; Vermont, Nsssacist setts, Ohio, New York, and even Pennsyisana, exhibited in succession sad proof thai their fespec- tive portions of the great whig parry were nnwil liHg "a forego the customary ralIyng ou,cry against the south They aifected no; to know, 10 disbe- lieve IS fanciful, to despise f real, the dangers of their course, the bold bully Of ahti-savery de fled Q his face the eloquent apostle of Union, and defed him with impunity. Tae newspaper edito- rials, with exceptions few and far between merged m the common currsBt al last tt has become quite manifest has t not and why tepFess our conyic tions ? that the expectation fondly induiged. oG tranquilizing the country by the legislative meas
 
 rugitiyes is the pretext for proIacted and perse- vering war upon tue guarantees of the Conssitu- ton, and If we are 10 raise the siege to which that instrument is still subjected can we do better than reinforce it from the arsenal, and with orders of the people7 Iaesire nothing so much as the safe Y of the Uniou-place it beyond the striking dis rance of cunning ss well as mad fanaiieism-to this, if you can, without resofting to the final remedy; but, if you cannot, then give to the Con sttution an express, positive, prohi5i.oty amend ment, which shall Gorerer end Inc entangIenieuts and pretexts of interpretation.
 But what, you may ask, If this doabtful and diliatory course should prove aboTtiye Much time and opportunity will have beea airorded.- Congress, the Executive and the people will have perceived that the resources of the constitution for the defence of State rights were patiently exhausted and may become sensible that single furthersiep of invasion, will, like ihe last feather on tbe Cancels back, break down the coniederacy. At all events the responsibility of pertinacously per verting, afler reiterated warning, the fuctions of the Union, will, even more strongly than now, rest with those who dare gravely to claim to dom ineer over the condition and conseences of others. Instead of forbeanng renons;rance, Of reasoning, and oi appeals to the bagwark of the fundamental compact, the quick instinct of self preservation will alone be Jeff. E,en at this crisis, when dis- union. partial or temporary, shall seem the alter native on which to shun consolidation, shall not cease to hope that faction may yet be stunned into sobriety, and that the confronting preSenceof lb- er;y and usurpation may, in this western world of oufS, terriiy the latter into retreat.
 do not think that ] mis sjudge my couatryrnen in saying that the party in the wrong must ultimately yield but it is well to remember that in order to retain the position of right, extreme foFbearance is necessary, and that perhaps gross oppression may for season be most honorably borne In contests of speculative politics a salutary something can always be anticipated from the soothing and truth disclosing influence of time. To fling Inc gaunt- le, while yet the civil controversy is undecided; to mutiny from and quit garrison within which you may really have more friends than foes is chiysIy Of the kud painted by Ceryanies. Napoleon, the restivc and iHtractable, owned and inculca;ed, as to all projects. the wisdom of waiting 'still the pear is ripe," and not im;ate the saysse who cut down the tree 10 rdach the fruit. Southern men whose faith wsyers in the meaning and purpose of the Constitution, IS to State equality and non. intervention are naturally made tesy and choleric by their misgiyiagS; but 1t IS the province of conscious justice and perfect conviction to be patieat and to abide the inevitable triumph of truth Nor ought it to be forgotten, that. however, con. yenent ard admissible in ordinary parlance the language is, thero are under the constitution no such separate realities as southern rikhs;" that an outrage upon reserved sovereignty on any sub lect IS just as much an infringement of my right n Pennsyiyania as of yours in Texas, and that large proportion of the people on ihs side Of Mason end Dixon's line have been taught by experience and reflection to know that ther dangers in peace or in war have their sources in the north. eiti- zen who truly estimates and loves the Union, who is capable of eomprehending that to the domestic tranquility aad enduring freedom of the American people, h is political necessity, feels as sensi- lively blow inflicted upon one great interest or region as upon another, upon Inc fisheries. the navigation Of the Mississippi, the liberty of the seas. the freedom Of the press, or the local soyer eighty over soil and slavery, The right to fish is no more aortherR than southern; ths right which was in moleniary jeopardy al Ghen,, of exGfasise use of the waters of the Mississippi, is 10 ms4s wesiera tEan eastern, and the rsai n3i to be iai1 pressed by British naval aadacity was cherished alike in the fields of Kentucky snd on the Atlantic coast and So tell you that the right of each State to De accounted equal of every other State, and to secure fl she pissses. to her inhabitants .he enioymeu, of as ample and nasestfeted scope fos the exercise of tbe.r nnnas and means ss can bed secured elsewhere, is not sectional. moi soaih- ern, bal common unlea or constitutional r,ght Such ! aan xufe was the design ol all those who as master ogkme, built on tbs basis of the con federation. the United States, such I believe to widely popular forms of consultation accepted the structure and entered upon as occupancy. and