The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-08-05

sOuthetly direction
am only stating what | consider the
tac, which governs the progress Of the An
J glo-SaXon race | viii not altemrt to inn.
peach or defend what | believe 10 be ,Ge
inevitable destiny of my country and my
race. Bot l am under no obligation TO
shut my eyes on the vista through which
1t reveals itself. | am satisfied with the
limits, the grandeur, the capabilities of nv
country. | justify no wars ofaggression-
no lnordlnate aud lawless desire for exten.
sion of territoy--no infraction oftreatv sti.
pulatlons--no violation of the laws OF ma
lions or the rights of men to aggrandize the
republic. With her present boundaries
and the certain growth and development of
her resources, | feel assured that my coun.
try, ii she remains united in all her integral
parts, will, within fifty years, acquire more
wealth and power than any sovereign po-
tentate or domination which now swavs. or
ever before sWayed any portion of the des-
hny OF mankind. Nevertheless, | am un-
willing to say to my countrymen that You
shall 60 no further East or West, or North
or South. | am unwilling that the Anglo
American race shall perpetuaIly recoil from
any given boundary and that any portion
OF this continent not now in their possess
ion shall forever be impenetrabe to their
civilization, enterprise and industry. ANY
such exercise of authority would be as in
ettectual as that of the Danish Monarch
over the Atlantic tides. Faithfully let us
perform all our duty stipuations with our
| neighbors, punish marauders and awless
adventurers, who within our borders mar
shaI forces in hostile array against friend
Iy power But let us not attempt to pre-
vent the peaceabe progress of our country
men over a continent which Providence
seems to have designed FOR their occupa-
ton and civilization.
The position which would practically Ii.
init the Republic at the South assumed by
a great Northern statement, for whom |
have the most profound regard, and whose
virtues and patriotism are better known to
no one than myself | cannot approve
That position is assumed under the plausi-
bic idea of limiting the area of slavery. The
assumption that would not permit the ad-
mlsslon of a State into the Union, without
a restriction on slavery is an aggression on
the South which finds no warrant in the
Constitution. We have as much right to
say that the population OF State shall be
all Protestants or all Catholics, as to pres
cribe the kind QfLabor to be employed by
its people. We have as much right to
force slavery upon State, as interdict it.
Ii the South shall obtain majority in Con-
gress, they would have as much right to in
troduce slavery into the free States as the
North have to force the Wlmot proviso
upon new States. There is no such pow
er in the Constitution. That lncompara
bic production of human wisdom no where
gives authority to Congress TO prescribe to
an emigrant gong to the public lands
what kind of property he shall take with
him, The attempts to exercise any such
authority can only be made i'll virtue of
latitudinarian construction of the Constitt-
ton, which would invest the general gov
erumcnt with unlimited powers. The pa
ramolnt duty of the small States consists
in restraining :hc general government With
in its delegate> limits. Because as soon as
the National Government refuse to leco@.
nlze the obligation of the Constitution, tie
small States will only hold their sovereign.
ties by the sulierence of their neighbors.
For these reasons and others and others,
deny that the Government or Congress,
| or the North, have any right TO say that
State asking to be admitted into the Union
shall be refused admission, unless She dis
cards from her borders, portion of the
property of fifteen sister States. / have no
fears of the increase OF the slave States
over the free Statcs-no matter what their
latitude or multiplication may be. | have
heretofore Indicated what | believe to be
the destiny Of the African race Whether
| am righG in these'views or not, or wheth-
er the evils Of slavery are such as the aboli-
tionists represent them to be, no considera-
tions connected with those evils-nor any
growing out of the balance Of power, will
warrant violation of the compacts of the
Constitution is neutral on the subject of
slavery. To make it aggressive or defen-
sve, is to violate it. The Union can only
be preserved by strict adherence to the
Constitution. II that be violated, the
bonds of the Union are broken, and the ag-
grieved parties will seek redress and com
pensalion without regard to its obiga-
lions"
BED-BUc LAw-IMPoRTANT DEcIsyoN.-lt