The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-17


but cannot command a confidence in Interchange
of opinion, and their coming TO our relief now
1 blush for the ngnoranee OF any one who hopes
or expects aid from any OF the governments o
Europe. Is il not known that every civilized
nation on the earth (and we must speak of things
as they are) are opposed to Involuntary slavery
and will any one believe that any of the nations
of Europe will forego the advantages of com
merce with all the other States, or that all or any
one Of them would involve themselves in "A wal
with the United States on the score of mere
sympathy.
Are we TO remain passive, and sulier ourselves
to be plundered, nsulted, and degraded! Would
ii not be more honorable and becoming in US to
perish in an attempt to rlgnt ourselves! This
is passion, not treason. There is work enough
for us all, tending to the desired ends-We dit.
fer among onrselves-let us heal that breach
first, not by heaping on each other the most of
fensve and odous epithets known TO our Ian
guage, but by forbeamnce and Cancellation and
would willingly cOnsecrate the remainder OF
my life to this " work of love-" hoping and
trusting that il may not be in vain. We are all
on the same line of march and if the eo-opera
tionists are slow of foot, and cannot keep pace
with the secessionists, they must wait until the
rear comes up, ard then move on in solid pha-
linx, as they were wont year ago.
This is not all. 1t has been already shown
that the aid and cooperation Of tie other slave
States is Indispensable to a successful opposi
ton to the government. Let us send messengers
to their doors, to tell them Of ther common dan
gers, and to sound the alarm In their ears, until
they shall awake from their slumbers. Ii all
this shall fail, who can doubt that the infatuated
and corrupt majority in Congress will at no dis
tant day, strike blow that will sound through
out the land, so loud as to awake the dead, il
that were possible them at least, we may de
pend on their aid and co cooperation
In determining or our course towards the
general government, we ought to consider rather
| what is becoming and due to ourselves, than
what IL dus 10 IT, The Constitution of the U.
States was the result Of mutual concessions of
the several parties, to it, and it will not be for.
gotten that for more than half century we at
least were contented and happy under its opera,
ton. Certainly no portion Of the globe was
more prosperous Oar soil gave forth its fruits
in abundance streams of wealth poured in
upon us through thousand channels, and some
OF US well rsmemb.r with what horror we heard
for the first time, and that within the last twenty
years, the declaration of disciple Of the Rev
olationary Jacobin Club Of Paris. that it was
q time we should begin to calculate the value of
the Union" 1t may be, and our own experience
would seem to demonstrate, and the wisdom OF
maD is incapable of framing constitution and
government that would equalize and harmonize
the varied and conflicting in ercsts that are found,
and necessarily muat exist, in an almost limit
| less Xtent Of territory such as ours. That
which may be most desirable and beneficial TO
one portion, may be runous and oppressive to
another. Nothing but the strong arm of power
| can. under these circumstances, keep them to-
gether, and it is not impossible that in the end
all may realize that it would be mere beneficial
for all concerned TO separate in such manner
as to unite only those sections which have n
common interest, and thus avoid the perpetual
brois ard bIoodshed that must and will result
from binding these heterogeneous and hostile
materials in a common bond.
| | would propose therefore, that il Southern
convention should fail, as it probably will, the
State convention. which is to meet in January,
should send delegates TO all the slave States to
endeaVor TO arouse them to a sense of our COM
men danger, and the necessity of acting prompt
! y, decidedly, and In concert, and prevail on
them, if we can TO unite with Us, at least in the
| approaching Congress, not rs supIicants, but as
an injured people demanding their rights charge
her v it'll having violated in the grossest manner,
in respect to us, the most sacred and solemn
guarantees of the Constitution, and demand a
portion of the territory which has been acquired
at the common expense Gf our blood and trea
sure upon the principle Of the compromise, By
which we consented that slave Y might be ex-
cuded North Of the degree SO 80 North latitude,
and avow our unalterable determination to sep
arate from the non-slavehoiding States forever.
1t may be, and ! am prepared to expect, that
this will avail nothing with Congress, and tha'
our messengers will be spurned with contempt
by an unprincped majority, or our memorial, if
it should assume that form, tie trodden under
foot or kicked out of the halls-so be it, But
it will force Congress to decide on the right of
secession, and have a COZ fdent hope that when
the other slaveholding States shall see that the
majority have resolved to chain us TO their car
and drag us after them in triumph they will
join us heart and hand in the holy cause of
equal rights, privileges md immunitics
When have been silently recalling to mind,
and mu>ing ever the wrongs and indiguities we
have suffered at the hands Of the government
have felt a thrill of shame and indignation
coursiug, like spark of electricity, through
every nerve in my body, and vainly thought, for
the instant, that this arm enfeebled as it is with
age, could strike a giants blow to avenge them.
Others have, no doubt, felt the same influences
and he practiced orator well knows how TO call
forth the shout Of defiance, and the battle.cry,
although the danger not at hand, or the enc
my in hearing. hay, Lefore remarked that
the subject We are considering is of the gravest
import, and have brought 70 it the best judg
ment have been able to form sfyer the malur
est consideration, and am brought to the con.
clusion, that any attempt by South Carolina
unalded, TO resist the government under present
circumstances, will fail and that it will retard
to an indefinite period, the attainment Of what
we desire, in aeantiug the other States from
US, by moving in this matter against their opin-
ions and wishes, and without waiting for their
aid and cooperation. However Notifying and
husliIiating may be the view which have pre-
scented Of our own feelings, we know it is true
and we must look the facts in the face, as they
are, and not suffer our fancies to discolor them
so as TO make them what we would desire.
FOREIGN POsTAGE.-lt appears that our post
nge arrangement with France and other countries
of continental Europe, are not of the most
agreeable and satisfactory character. by the