The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1851-03-26
The wolf ana the lamb.

of his fables, has illustrated with great force
and paihos tho fraudulent secmings with
which Injustice seeks often to invest its
truo designs and to justify itself in the per.
petration OF oven its most cruel yllainies
The Wolf meditated the destruction
oi tho innocent, gentle, Lamb, but even Ilo
desired to give the deed he purposed tho ap.
Pearance OF the punishment which Justice
lntiIcts on crime rather than ofihat of cruel
and unprovoked murder. He brought ac /.
cusatIons which were too absurd to be sc.
rlously refuted; but the poor Lamb, in the
VAN hope Of saving his life by disproving
the charges, replied to them as they were
made and showed that he who stood lower
on the stream could not have defled tho
water which flowed to him from the Wolf !:
but though tho argument may havedclayed
his relentless foe, it only maddencd bis
thirst Tor blood and redoubled the fury with
which he tore TO pieces his dcfonceless
victim.
Many applications have been made of
this illustration Of dcpravity, but there is
now going on the grandest, the completcst
enactment Of tho scene: nations, not indi.
v'duals merely, are performing the parts,
and our own country is tho stage Of action.
In events which traspired years ago, and
which have continued to occur ever since,
it might have been seen, and it has been
seen and predicted too, tha, the Northern
section Of our Union, differing in tho very
groundwork and frame of its social institu-
tons from the South, cherished no fratern-
al feelings, but looked upon us with envy
and hatred and longed to destroy us. It
has steadily gone forward towards this ob.
ject. yet always cndcavoring to conceal its
feelings and d. signs.
| This much has been already accomplish.
cd the days Of Southern prosperity, even
OF Southern existence, are numbered
Slavery has been limited aud is now to
work itself off; few years more, and il
will. not be. But these few years are loo
long TO wait for. The South, struck down
IN It's last great battle, the struggle against
The Compromise, ridiled with wounds and
bleeding from e:cry pore, is not to bo le,
alone to wrcstle with Death for few hours
more OF life. Our enemies fear the possi.
b'l'y Of our recovery while there is still
any thing o. life IN US, and they therefore
arc seeking for some good reason to dis.
patch us. The last blow is impending and
what is the prctext for il! That the
South, 10 gel the Compromise measures
passed, promised Tariff to the North
and that having bought what we wan,ed
ICE hare rithheM the pr ce. The New. .Yorl
Tribune. the chief Ant-Slavery organ
whose assertions with regard to the move
ments OF that party arc therefore to be con
sidcred authoritative quotes the following
! emitting it "An Apt illustrations"
Tho Norfolk (Massachuse,rs,) Democra
repeats an illustration OF Gir. Culver, q
Washington county, in his address az tn,
fremont Temple Of the bargain in Con
gross at the last session-that ia, il th
South could have the Compromise meas
ures carried through. the North was to hav
a Tariff. He said there was boy in hi
ncighhorhood, who after h,ving oaten a ful
meal, had spaniel dog that was very hun
cry. lie took cracker, and, holding It up
told the dog il he wanted it, to stand up
| The dog stood up "Now," said tn,
boy; ''sit down" The dog sat down.
"Now roll over" The do; rolled over
"Now speak" The dog spoke. Thel
turning round, the boy pat the cracker il
his pocket, savng,-"I shall want that 4
make him do it again" So with tho Tar
itf. After carrying all the obnoxiou
measures, the South turns coolly around
! kills the bill and says, ave shall wan
that to make them roll in the mud again.
What could have been invented NOR
grossly. moro absurdiy, untrue than this
and whnt maligni,y could bo blacker thai
that which conld use such a fa!seboo,l as
prctcxt for what that party intends to do
TheSouth knew from the first that the Com
promise would be no adjustment Of the diff
Guilty, that the North would not abide by il
Though poison it was too slow; the Mort
complained that it was too favorable 10 slave
ry; and could scarcely be persuaded, by th
combined influence Of Mr.. Clay and NJ,
WEBSTER, to remain for while conten
with it. But they are already tired Of mac
t"n and are longing to strike at us again
they only want pretcxt for breaking u,
the Adjustment. And this is perhaps tn,
one which they Will make use Of Tn.
South, struggling against the Compromise
certainly never offered to pay for its adop
ton; but what was agreed to by those
niscaling themselves Representatives O
the South, who entered into TINT corrup
compact-how far they, in consideration o.
spoils and place, may have committed them
selves to Tarih:-we cannot toll: time
will we think make some disclosures vet
MIR. BENTON from the first alledged that the
Tariff was passenger in the Omnibus
We have melancholy fate before ns.-
The truce will not be of long DURATION
Some false or absurd charge will be in.
vented to justify the renewal of hostilities
the South will be as unsuccessful in argu.