The southern press., 1851-08-06

the bloody tragedy, at which humanity shudders.
Terrible thought, rendered still more terrible by
It's possibility, epen Us probability.
Think not, cir, that you can forever battle tllc
demands Of truth and Justice. Your insolence
and tyranny in the Senate shall not conceal
from betrayed people the enormity of your
political crimes, nor hide from them your own
treason, by the habitual boldness with which
/ you charge treason upon Others. Unscrupulous
in charging faction upon others, as a cloak TO
cover yonr own designs in plotting the aboli-
ton Of slavery, you have placed yourself at the
head of powerful sectional faction, whose
ayowed object is to overthrow and reconstruct
society, by the sanguinary orgies of revolution,
insurrection and servile war.-Upon what pre-
tence can you hope to escape the sentence which
you have so richlyearned, Of fmoral outlawry, as
a public enemy?
! The impunity which has been accorded to
| your political offences, is owing to the fact
that you are an American citizen, and live among
people more disposed to bear than to avenge
the wrongs inflicted upon the State, by their
public agents. Your audacity will effect a
change in the political morality of the times,
and the hour is approaching when conspirators
against the public liberty will find it difficult 10
escape the punishment due to the enormity Of
their political offences. Had you been Roman
citizen, the fate of Caius Graccus or Tarquin
would have been yours. Had you been a
French citizen in 1898, you would have rival
led Fouquier Tnvie in all, save your devotion
| to your m****ess. The c0ncieryere would have
been filled with the victims Of your accusations,
and your doctrines of the indiuisibilify Of he re-
public would have insured yous immortal cele-
brity in history rs member of the revolutionary
tribunal and colleague of Robespierre.
The people OF the South sir, may hank you
for reducing them to the necessity Of fixing the
seal of rebrobation upon your public acts and
public character, in saving the country from the
disasters which you have sought to bring upon
| it, They are at last aware that, every ready to
make one compromise by violating the public
faith, which you plghted to the observance OF
another, at the moment when framing the terms
in which the South is to be pundered of its
sovereignty and property, under the color Of
law, you premeditate the violation of the com.
pact you invite. Your compromises are but the
means to which you resort to despoil the South
for the benefit Of the North, and your rapacity
is limited only by your power to perpetrate it.
And when all the elements of fraud and rapne
which you summon to your aid fail to accom-
plish your designs, you violate your oath to sup
port the Constitution by a sanguinary appeal to
the sword 1t is Fortunate sir, that your de-
structive career is drawing to close. Your
country will breathe freer when the incubus OF
your principles is removed from its breast, and
your example will teach the statesmen who
come after you to shun the vices by which you
have inflicted incurable wounds upon the State
If the people of the South be wise, your history
will be lesson of grave import. They will
learn to appreciate the danger to the Constitu.
ton and the public tranquility, of fostering in
their midst statesman who is the avowed
enemy of their institutions, and unscrupulous
as to the means of its overthrow A
! statesman unequalled in his deceptive arts
of concealing from the public view his real de-
! signs, and who, under the pretended cloak of pa.
trotism, has by turns violated every principle OIL
the Constitution, and who, by his efforts to re.
strict and to abolish slavery, has brought to the
verge of dissolution ''Union," which he pro-
fesses to love, as the pious devotee loves the
shrine of his patron saint, and who, by his un.
surpassed powers ofpublc mischief, has endang
cred the public liberty. You have, through
your whole public life, been the propagandist Of
a governmental policy, and system of compro-
misses and measures which, if consummated, as
many of them already are, will, with the certainty
of prophecy, effect a total charge Of our form Of
government, destroy republican freedom. and
involve the country in servie war. Aud yet yor
have, for long series of years, been leade
and head of powerful party at the South, who
with blind fatuity not easily explained, have
concealed from themselves and the country YOU
hatred of their institutions. and the arts, oper
and covert, by which you have sought to effec
their overthrow. They have thus sharpened the
sword, and given force and direction to the blow
by which you have cloven down the Constitu
ton ofyour country. Fatal delusion misguided
confidence The people you have betrayed can
not much longer remain insensible to the ruiz
you have wrought.
i The time is approaching when the struggle
for the accomplishment of your abolition schemes
will be transferred from the North to the South
| --frcm the halls of Congress and the scenes oi
i Northern mobs, TO our own hearthstones. You
will have the satisfaction 10 know, sir, that you
have opened the gates of the citadel, and invited
i the enemies of our peace 10 enter and shed oui
blood. Treason stalks abroad in our midst and
the final catastrophe approaches with quick
ened pace, and you may vet live to hear the
1 whitening curses Of mn outraged people coupled
with your name. Remarkable man! the type
Of n class of statesmen which belong 10 more
vicious and corrupt age, and for the honor OF
our race, and the repose and happiness Of the
world, good men hoped had become extinct in
the ruin and fall of past States and Empires. BY
what mystic art have ,ou so long succeeded in
retaining the confidence of people whose de-
struction you have meditated? Men Of the
South, awake from your delusion, and cease to
cherish in your bosoms the traitors, and their
accomplices, who are lighting the torches to con-
sumo your dwellings. Let our intestine divisions
be buried upon the altar Of patriotic duty. Unite
in common cause, to avert n common fate,
which the hired millions Of lawess power have
prepared for us, and while we may save our
country from destruction. BRUTUS.
Union.
The Augusta (Ga.) Republic and Constitu-