The southern press., 1851-10-18

of slavery, and We believe with you that the
time is not distant when it will be more clearly
manifested in overt acts In that event you m ay
depend on our cooperation. We may question
the propriety and wisdom of this determination,
but cannot commands confidence in heirchange
of opinion, and their coming to our relief now.
blush for the ngnorance of any one who hopes
or expects aid from any of the governments of
Europe. Is it not known that every civilized
nation on the earth (and we must speak OF things
as they are) are opposed to involuntary slavery,
and will any one believe that any of the nations
of Europe will forego the advantages Of COM
merce with all the other States, or that all or any
one of them would involve themselves in war
with the United States on the score Of mere
sympathy.
Are we to remain passive, and suffer ourselves
to be plundered, insulted, and degraded Would
it not be more honorable and becomingin us to
perish in an attempt to right ourselves? This
is passion, not treason. There is work enough
for US all, tending to the desired ends.-We diff
fer among ourselves-let us heal that breach
first, not by heaping on each other the most Of
fensive and odious epithets known to our Ian
guage, but by forbearance and Cancellation; and
would willingly consecrate the remainder Of
my life to this " work of love-" hoping and
trusting that it may not be in vain We are all
on the same line of march; and, if the co-opera.
tionists are slow of foot, and cannot keep pace
with the secessionists, they must wait until the
rear comes up, ard then move on in solid pha-
hnx, as they were wont year ago.
This is not all. 1t has been already shown
that the aid and cooperation of the other slave
States is indispensable to a successful opposi
ton to the government. Let us send messengers
to their doors, to tell them of Their common dam
gers, and to sound the alarm in their ears, until
they shall awake from their slumbers. II all
this shall fail, who can doubt that the infatuated
and corrupt majority in Congress will at no dis
taDt day, strike blow that will sound through
out the land, so loud as to awake the dead, If
that were possible; then, at least, we may de
pend on their aid and cooperation.
In determining on our course towards the
general government, we ought to consider rather
what is becoming and due to ourselves, than
what is due to it. The Constitution of the U.
States was the result Of mutual concessions of
the several parties, to it, and it will not be for
gotten that for more than half century we at
least were contented and happy under it's opera
ton. Certainly no portion of tho globe was
more prosperous Our soil gave forth its fruits
in abundance streams Of wealth poured in
upon US through thousand channels, and some
Of us well remember with what horror we heard
for the first time, and that within the last twenty
years, the declaration of q disciple of the Rev.
dictionary Jacobin Club of Paris, that it was
{" time we should begin to calculate the value Of
the Union" 1t may be, and our own experience
would seem to demonstrate, and the wisdom of
man is incapable Of framing constitution and
government that would equalize and harmonize
the varied and conflicting interests that are found
and necessarily must exist, in an almost limit
less extent Of territory snch as ours. That
which may be most desirable and beneficial to
one portion, may be ruinous and oppressive to
another Nothing but the strong arm of power
can, under these circumstances, keep them to.
gether, and it is not impossible that in the end
all may realize that It would be more beneficial
for all concerned to separate in such manner
as to unite only those sections which have a
common interest and thus avoid the perpetual
broils and boodshed that must and will result
from binding these heterogeneous and hostile
materials In a common bond.
/ would propose, therefore, that II Southern
convention should fail rs it probably will, the
State convention, which is to meet in January,
should send delegates to all the slave States to
endeavor to arouse them to a sense of our com.
mon danger, and the necessity Of acting prompt.
ly, decidedly, and in concert and prevail on
them If we can, TO unite with us, at least in the
approaching Congress, not as supicants, but as
an injured people demanding their tights, charge
her with having violated In the grossest manner,
in respect to us, the most sacred and solemn
guarantees Of the Constitution, and demand a
portion Of the territory which has been acquired,
ut the common expense Of our blood and trea-
sure upon the principle Of the compromise, BY
which we consented that slavery might be.ex-
cluded North of the degree SO 80 North latitude,
and avow orr unalterabe determination to sep
arate from the on-slaveholding States forever.
II NAV be, and am prepared TO expect that
this will avail nothing with Congress, and tha'
our messengers will be spurned with contempt
nv an unprncipled majority, or our memorial IL
Il should assume that form, te trodden under
foot, or kicked out Of the halls-so he IT, But
il will force Congress to decide on the right Of
secession, and have a confident hope that when
the other slaveholding States shall see that the
minority have resolved TO chain us 10 their car.
and drag us after them In triumph, they will
Join us heart and hand in the holy cause Of
equal rights. privileges md immunities.
When have been silently recalling 10 mind.
and musirg over the wrongs and indignities we
have suffered Mt the hands IF the government,
have felt q thrill Of shame and indgn ,tion
coursing, like q spark Of electricity, through
every nerve w my Oouyi anu Nalnly tnought, Ior
the instant that this arm, enfeebled as IL Is with
ape, could strike giants blow to avenqe them
Others have. no doubt, felt the same Influences ;
and the prscticed orator well knows how to call
forth the shout Of defiance, and the battlecry,
although the danger 10 not at hand, or the enc.
nv in hearing. ! have before remarked, that
the subject we are considering Is Of the gravest
import, and have brought to IL the best judg.
ment have been able 10 form after the matur-
est consideration, and am brought 10 the con.
clusion, that any attempt Nv South Carolina,
unaided, 10 resist the government, under present
circumstances, will fail and that II will retard
10 an indefinite period, the attainment Of what
we desire, in alieanting the other States from
Us, by moving in this matter against their opin.
ions and wishes, and without waiting for their
aid and cooperation. However Notifying and
insulating may be the view which | have pre-.
scented Of our own feelings, we know il is true,
and we must look the facts 10 the face, as they
are, and not suffer our fancies 10 discolor them,
so as TO make them what we would dxsire.
Ohio Election