The southern press., 1851-08-02

jecte,l by virtaeus Ssnsfe !; and sgain BY the
glove of dsfiaues, hurled BY the apostle Of nuI.
liticaton, 1t the avowed policy Of the British
empire peaecfuiIy to promote the extinction Of
slavery throughout the world. Young men Of
Boston: buruish your armor, prepare for the
conflict, and | say to you in the language OF
Galgacus to the ancient Britons. Think of
your forefathers think of your posterity!"
This is no common language from common
man. do not choose to quote from your COM
mon fanatics or your ordinary men, but quote
from those who nre high in intellect-hgh in
popular favor-higI in power. And say to
you in reply. Young Men Of Carolina! The
contest may "draw together for the deadly CON
flict of arms"-Buruish your armor--prepare
for the conhct-and IL that terrible day does
come, do your duty--5trike for your country
and her altars-Think of your foretatbers !
Think of your posterity
After the British government and our North
ern brethren were defeated in their schemes
against us to be effected through Texas they
fell back to circumscribe us by the WiImot Pro-
viso. After tie acquisition of those vast terri
tories from Mexico--it was suddenly laid down
that there was no need for the Wilmot Proviso
to exclude US, for we were already excluded by
the Mexican law And in addition to this it was
gravely laid down as American law, that any
band Of adventurers that might seize upon those
territories, under the natural and unalienabIe
rights of man, could assume to themselves SOW
ereign power. and then erect any government
they might think proper, so they called ta State.
and extend their jurisdiction to any boundasies
they might declare, no matter how extensive or
where the lines might run. Until this, WI had
supposed that the States united through their
fIo faJ L. 4
alone the power to take incipient steps in the
organization of territories in the public domain.
But, under this new doctrine, together with the
as to the force Of Mexican law, we
were to be excluded from all privileges as citi-
zens ofslave-holding States in the rich territories
acquired, and that was sufficient to make those,
who now assumes to be our masters, adopt it.
They have asserted the power to circumscribe
have enclosed us in great penitent-
ary wall, and our doom is inevitable.
In the progress of few years, and, by one
quarter of million of foreign emigrants year,
they will, under their system, have new States
sufficient to make any law Or if the letter Of
the Constitution should happen to stand in the
way, they will have ample power to make a di
rect amendment. Fifty years is but very short
time in national existence and fifty years will fix
us beyond the hope of patriotic and courage
ous struggle. No! now is the day, and now is
the hour.-Rise and rush to the (" Red sea-" and
il the God OF Hosts will not save us !; we may
yet again praise Him, who shall lead us safely
put of the power of our enemies. But it is
sad there is danger AMI difficulty in going alone
That separate State action will be full of disas,
ter and ruin Those who say 50, admit that it
8 ruin to stay. We have been denied equality
ns State-we have been spurned and con
semned. Instead of conciation and kindness,
,ur institutions have been derided and we have
,een held up for denuncation, in our morals and
ocial intercourse, before the christian and moral
world. Our country is one constant scene of
litter agitation and painful anxiety There is |
lot mother or father in our land that does
rot ask the question every night, what is to be.
ome of us Is this the fostering care of kind |
government! This itself is odious
granny and intolerable degradation. What
hongh there be difficulty and danger in the |
State acting alone! 1t cannot be worse than to |
tnnd and bear it. Better to move like freemen
'oldly for the independence and RI hts Of the |
country, for if w>should even perish, we will |
all with our honor saved and a name unstained |
or the admiration of posterity. But if we stand |
till, we shall perish like mice nnder an ex |
lausted receiver--with no consideration save
he pity of the world.
Mr.. Chairman has any man thought seriously |
IT the terrible effects Of abolition when brought |
O our homesand to our fire-sides? Three millions |
# black slaves, turned lose upon the co immunity, |
would present such scene as the world has |
'ever conceived. They would come directly |
nto competition with the white mechanics--ar-
izans, and common laborers of the whole coun-
ry. They would work for little or nothing
Of oc IL.
would become Of the free artizans, enterprisino
nechan cs, and industrious aborers of our
ountry? Brought down TO degraded compe-
ition with three millions of slaves made free
low, they are regulated, and labor in an entirely
ifferent field. Who then could live here Now,
he white man feels freedom to be his privilege
nd rank-t separates him from the cast below
i'm. He will hen have the black man put up
3 his equal, and they will sink together into
ommon but degraded level. The wealthy man.
he is mean enough and base enough to desert
he country, may be able to save something and
o SO, but the poor man whose fate is fixed from
ecessty in the doom and destiny Of the coun.
~, IL here and here forever-there is no escape.
let no man hug TO himself the fatal delusion
nat he is too poor to feel the whitening blight
I that dreadful curse, if it should ever come
here is none so high and none so low, but he
MI shiver under the bowling of that dreadful
last There will be no peasant cottage, that
angs upon our hills, however humble. but will
III before that midnight storm. There will be
o sign upon the door posts or lintels of any
hosen and elect, by which the destroying angel
'ay know to pass by.
Gentlemenl m any suppose because slavery
as been extIngushed in other countries without
CONFUSION, that it cen be done here. But the
rcumstances are totally different In the Ro-
AN republic, the slaves were Of the same color
I'd of the same race. Many Of them were
armed and refined. They were taught those
ngs that were supposed to be effeminate by
elr warlike masters. They merely changed as
e government and laws and society changed,
ID were gradually and finally lost in amaIgama-
on, the races all being the same. So in England.
nd although the followers Of WILLIAM the Con-
ieror looked for ages in contempt upon the !
,xons, yet their color and PHYSICAL attributes
ere the same.-True. when one Of their kings I
last, intermarried with Saxon, it produced I
'ock to the conquerng race, yet it was the be- {
nning Of that ANA gamation, which finally inter- {
ingled the two until the distinctions were ,
at and forgotten, and slavery gradually fell 7,
ifhOut n nd