The southern press., 1851-05-14

loo sodious u IL also III elect utcreeu tihJ the
negro race shall increase in our midst continu-
ally, until our wives and children cannot lay
their heads upon their pillows for repose, with.
out armed guards at our doors TO ensure their
safety. This monstrouss scheme OF tyranny,
spoliation and impos ur6 does not stop here.
The PHYSICAL condition of the second and third
line Of States into which the African race has
extended, will enable the greater number Of
these States to avoid the doom provided for the
Atlantic and gulf States, by selling their slaves
10 the last named States, and then going over TO
the empire OF the North, and joining our enc
mics, as they are now doing. This is one rea-
son why these border States do not now unite
with the Atlantic and gulf States for a redress
OF wrongs They SEES before them the means
OF esca,le from the doom prepared for US, and
leaving us to our fate, they go over to the side
OF power, and viii, in the end, espouse the cause
OF our enemies, and join the crusade against US.
There is yet another feature in the destruc-
tive policy of the government of the North not
less revol ing to common honesty, and abhor-
ent to every principle of justice, than those al
ready enumerated. Although the national death
of the south is decreed; although the South is
plIndered other share in he public domain, and
excluded from all participation in its benefits,
and although that exclusion must be accompan-
led by the terrible results have described, yet
we are held to the most rigid and strict account
in the payment of tao IS. The South is the great
tax-paying province of the empire; The I9dies OF
the West-tie crown lands, valued in proper
ton to the amount of revenue we pay to the
crown; and although we are excluded from all
the benefits Of the public domain, yet a0e can pay
tares We have still left to us the proud priv
ege OF paying into the public treasury, millions
OF money annually, wrung from the hard earn
ngs OF q people who are doomed to destruc-
ton, by the government which exacts it, to be
spent in the support of an army and navy, fost-
cred for our subjugation, and in building up the
North and the remote provinces on tile Pacific,
whose mongrel population have insoently pre-
sumed to sit in Judgment and to pronounce SEN
tence Of Accommodation upon us; and which
sentence, upon appeal, has been confirmed by
the supreme Northern abolition parliament.
The revenue to be collected on imports in the
Pacific ports, will not for the next half century,
be sufficient to pay 1.-THE Of the expense Of
building up the Pacific States, and to quarter
the army and navy which must be stationed
there, to prevent the reign of that anar Thy which
must otherwise. prevail among the barbarian
tribes which have congregated there. Three
millions of dollars have been expended there
for quartermasters' stores alone, for the army
and navy, in the last twelve months The South
pays nearly three-fourhs of this. Millions more
must be raised annually, by taxation upon i'm
ports on the Atlintic, to be expended on the
Pacific border. The commerce of Oregon and
California must be carried on with the East !:
and lines of government steamships, under n
pretext Gf a pretext be wanting where profit
gacy and public robbery are esteemed public yir-
tues,) Of carrying the mails, will be built ut no
distant date---and this mai4ly, too, at tire ex-
pense Of the South--to ply over the bosom of
the Pacific, to foster the commerce of these fos-
ter children of abolition brood, and to create
muniicent government bounties for Northern
men and Northern enterprise. We are Just
now verging upon the most stupendous scheme
Of taxation known among the nations of the
earth. The career of other NJ tons exhibits in.
stances of exhorbtant taxation to support ar
mics and to raise the material of war. The
taxation upon which rergi seeks, by
a system of. government plumber unequaIled in
its imposture, to transfer the property of one
Union to another section, and to distribute it
among the people of the favored section in the
form of government bounties.
Give me the right to labor" said Proudhon,
in the French chamber of deputies, " and will
take care of the property" Give to the North
ern parliament the unlimited pc er of taxation.
as il now has under the Constitution. by the
strang, fatality of its trainers, and il is an easy
task, TO transfer the property of the South to
the North--a system of spoliation which has
been steadily in progress ever since the Union
was formed. According to the plainest principle
of justice and common sense, the South, being
deprived Of all participation in the benefits of the
public domain, should be exempted from the
payment Of all taxes to be eyI ended there. But
this immunity is not only denied, but the wants
fthe new Pacific States demand increased levies
of taxes upon the South, that their prosperity
may be guaranteed and fostered. Can despot.
ism be more despotic, injustice more unjust,
tyranny more remorseess than this Can any
doom be more terrible, more relentless, than that
to which the South is thus consigned II the
South submits to these mantle d acts of tyranny
and oppression, can her degradation be deeper,
her iufamy blacker, or her ruin more DISASTROUS
and complete To be thus sentenced to a living
death to feel slow decay sinking deeper and
deeper into the public heart, and the death-worm
with its stealthy march, feeding upon the vitals
of the State ere life be extinct, is refinement
of cruelty and tyranny unknown among the ma
tons. Were an attempt made, like that upon
Poland or Hungary, to devastate and lay waste
our country with fire and sword, we should have
battles shock, and If borne down BY the weight
of numbers, we could fall gloriously, with I'M
furnished honor under the folds Of fig whose
es"utcheon never yet paled in front Of an enemy
But to quail cravenly to the oppressor, and
quietly fold our arms 10 receive the chains OF
bondage, without manly struggle to avert our
fate, TO vndicate our national equality and honor.
and preserve our liberty, will cover us with
mountain Of deserved infamy, disgrace and ruin.
Such, then, is the condition to which we are
reduced Our sovereignty and independence
derided and denied, Our equality destroyed, our
Constitution overthrown, our national extension
prohibited, every principle Of national faith and
justice violated, our national subiugation and
death decreed, and the sword Of the Union held
over US, IL we dare 10 assert our rights. And
this is called Liberty" Equality" ~Freedom
apd INDEPENDENCE "Glorious Union"
This great issue which is now pending be.
tween North and South may be resolved into
single postulate Of political philosophy. The
Union which our fathers formed involves the
proposition, that different tribes and nations Of
men who are progressing in different and incom-
nafihla form hf riviliza mar h, "A