The southern press., 1851-08-08

keeping them us slaves would be by selling them
10 the interior planting States; and how would
they be circumstauscd with 10. Is, or 10000
negroes amongst them, Imported from abolition
Statese Hncl stock would bs u curse " the
land, for with the knowledge they had gained,
they would ruin the rest Of the slaves, and, very
prob bly,, give rise TO most dreadful conse-
quences. He would not have, IN his quarters,
q negro brought from the North on any account
whatever. Thus the fugitive slave law was u
policy only for those slave States bordering
upon the free States, and so, Instead of being
anxious TO get the Abolitionists TO give up the
tugitiyes, the people Of Mississippi might afford
10 turn over few more slaves to their philan-
thropic Northern friends. who would, doubtless,
continue to frighten the poo- creatures onward
TO Canada. II would be much more creditsble
10 the North, to endeaver to improve the condi-
ton OF the negroes already amongst them, than
| to interfere with matters that were none of their
concern, by agitating the question Of slavery,
and disturbing Soathern institutions The border
States, instead Of supporting the Southern in
terests, abandoned the issue on the territorial
questions, and the result to the planting States
of having their slavepopulation confined, might
be make by the simple calculation Of school
boy In Mississippi, when the slaves resc in
numbers point beyond interest or usefulness,
there was no place to send them But the border
States might yet be taught lesson, and be led
to join with the interests Of other Southern
States by making them keep their own slave
population. If the border States were to con-
tinue to sell out their slaves, in few years
hence, they might enancipate the small number
remaining amongst them, and then 60 over to
the free States, as others kad done before. Un.
fho inf Stato aoA To, thor
negroes, they would have but little cooperation
with the border States in the maintenance OF
their proper position; and unless they acted
promptly, they might find that future issues
would have to be made between the minority
the planting section; and the great majorty -
the rest of the State combined.
Never, on any previous occasion, had there
been 80 many anti slavery conventions as during
| the present year; never had there been 80 many
demonstrations OF an abolition character. AL
most n all parts of the North abolition was ad-
vocated; never before had its advocates assumed
80 determined position; and never had there
been so many abolition members in the United
States Senate Everywhere abolition was
gaining ground The grand scheme of the
! Wilmot Proviso resulted from abolition, and
though the bill was not passed, the compromise
gave that whi.h the proviso sought. And now
another step was taken which proposed an entire
change in the Constitution, viz: to make
very sectional, and freedom the principle of the
United States. 1t was proposed to make ex-
tin the very doctrines that were incorporated
with the Constitution; to change the form Of
the government: and to introduce measures
that should tend to the extinct'on of slavery,
and en- rely ruin Southern interests. Yet in
the face Of all this, it was asserted that slavery
in the States would not be interfered with. Had
they not seen the press of the North avow its
hostility to slavery? Had they not seen slavery
restricted! Had they no. seen the present tone
Of the Northern press, by which it was asserted
that slavery shou'. be destroyed? Had they
not seen with what determined force the Abo-
Iition;sts were marching upon them for tn II
destruction, and to sap them of their most cher
ished rights! And would they close their eyes
to future designs upon them, wrapping them
selves in temporary security, to transmit to their
children heritage clogged and divested of its
value! Would they quietly submit to contir
ued wrongs, and leave their children to rec over
by revolution alone those rights and privileges,
that freedom and equality to which the original
, Constitution entitled them, but which their pa
) rents might unworthiIy surrender!
1t was but recently that foreign Abolition
ist came to the United States TO denounce the
abuse, and to brard them with opprobrious cpl
thets: he came not merely to be listened to-
but to be paid for lectnring, in order that he
might retrive his broken fortune. Such an an
nouncement had been publicly made in relation
: to George Thompson, whose abolition and in
, cendiary speeches they had all heard of. The
North paid foreigner TO vilify the South and
perhaps that was another evidence of the t" re-
I turning sense of justice" spoken of! There
I was time when such things would not have
been tolerated. The warnings of that great
and good man, that able statesman and senator
who when he last went to the Senate with his
r bending form, was so feeble and weak as to be
compelled to have his speech read for him, had
: been dsregarded. Fanaticismo had held its
sway and was still making it's strides onward
! perhaps to produce the most disastrous conclu-
sions.
} Against all the proofs to the contrary, with
, the fanaticsm of the North before them, they
J found in Mississippi those who were grossly
concealing or evadng the real state of affairs
} not hesitating to fllsfy and gloss over most
prominent features, and endeavoring to change
, the true issue by the cry of =" Uuion and Disu-
J ion" He looked to the South and said, the
South only could preserve the Union. The
J Union could only be preserved by timely resist
ance to oppression by a proper administration
of the laws Of the Constitution. If they ac-
quiesced in aggression, aggressions would con-
tnue, and might go on till rebellion, or revolu.
ton ensued-and the country be precipitated
into all the horrors Of civil war. lie believed if
the South WAS united and manfully asserted her
rights, the North would give way and meet the
South, and the rights under the Constitution
would still be preserved But if they were dis
united, because they were quarrelhng and war
ing among themselves, then aggressions would
go on more rapidly. But whatever the ultimate
result might be under any circumstances, he
would still stand by the cause of the South, and
IL in the last hour they should have to war for
their freedom and to maintain the existence of
Southern rights and equality, he would still be
with them in so sacred cause but before one
blow was struck, he would say to them we
stand on common ground, for common issue,
we have feelings Of the same holy nature | am
with you till life shall exist--but remember this
painful result might have been prevented your
wrong policy have led to this--had it not been
fArf fhA fnjI l.,. Il.