The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-28

The Columbia (Ga.) Sentinel thus plainly

Georgia.
The Columbia (Ga.) Sentinsl thus plainly
puts to the people OF that State
The lssuE.--As was to have been anticipated,
The storm which has just passed over our State,
has been succeeded by calm. 1t is the calm
OF preparation, and not OF peace; cessation,
not AN end of the controversy. The recent cleo
ti0n determines only question OF time. The
elements OF that contest are yet all alive and
they are destined yet to outlive the Government.
There Is fued between the North and the
south which may be smothered, but never over
come. They are at issue upon principles as dear
and AS lasting as life itself Reason us we may,
or humbng as we choose, there is no denying
the TACT, that the Institutions Of the South are
the catse OF this sectional controversy, and
never, until those Institutions are destroyed, or
there IL an end to the opposition of the North
10 their existence, can there be any lasting and
genuine settlement between the parties. We
may purchase, rs we have done in this instance,
temporary exemption from wrong, by course
OF compromise and concession but we Ind as
well think OF extirpaiing malady by attac >ing
its symptoms, as to hope for a final adjustment.
OF our difficulties, by providing for each emcr-
gency as it arises. The evil is, Northern inter
ference with Southern insttutions--an interfer-
ence that is legalized by, and grows out OF, our
political connections with our enemies. We
never hope to silence tho agitation of these
vexed questions no long AZ our union with the
North furnishes fanatics there with pretext for
intcrmeddIing with our affairs and we never
nope TO see the South secure, so long ms that
ntermeddiing continues. England is as much
averse to slavery rs the North, and yet England
never dares to concern herself with the subject
al IN l.x.n 4
50. The Northern people feel that slavery is a
sin which, in some measure, defiIes their skirts
by reason oftheir political connection with those
who tolerate it. They therefore feel, many of
them honestly, that to the extent of their ability
to abolish or restrain the evil, it is their duty to
abolish or restrain it,
The plain question which addresses itself to
the common sense of every Southern man, is
this: What hope have we that public opinion at
the North will ever undergo change on this
subject in our favor? Have we any reason for
believing that the North will ever become more
rtconciled to slavery? Does any honest man
OF common intelligence in the South entertain
the remotest idea that our brethren will ever be-
come more tolerant OF our institutions! Win
they ever cease their war upon them! Well,
let US go one step farther. Are Southern men
prepared to submit always to this ag tation
Are we silently to acquiesce in the unwarr A.
bic intcrtercnces! Tell us not that YOU are pre-
pared for resistance when the Government shall
begin 10 take sides in its legislation against YOU
We care not whether the government ever does
| more than it has done already,-your Wilmot
Provsos and all kindred measures ale but the
occasional outburstings of smothered flame,
which burns Just as fercely and Just as danger
| ously whether it ever finds expression in tn ,se
! Forms or not. The roots of anti-slavery are
-triking deep and spreading wide, whether the
tree ever bears fruit in the shape of legislative
intericts or not. The people of the North.
| ard the legislatures of the North, can ruin us,
| though Congress should never open its lips in
| sympathy with their unhallowed encroachments
! Nor are We to suppose that the Government
only legisates against us in those measures
which have abolition stamped upon them. By
n iniquitous system Of discrimination against
us in its revenue laws, and by a fraudulent par
TALLY in distributing its benefits and blessings
the South may be rs certainly oppressed as by
avowed anti slavery legislation. The malice OF
those who are sworn to destroy us. ia as ingeni
GUS as it is ceaseless. Mr.. Clay, who has, per
| hips. done more injury to the cause of the Sout
than all the Abolitonsts that ever lived, and
who, when the attractions Of the man, and the
! e'ih NO VI huii'i, Cc,tSc 10 SWAY
the opinions Of men, will receive more hearty
execration than any man of his age Mr. Clay
has already intimated in the Senate that the
country demands another compromise. The
| North is at prescott content with its laurels in
the territorial contest its thirst for land is sat
isfied, but it must have gold The tariff must
be revised, and adjusted little more nicely
with reference TO the tastes of the Northern
manufacturers The tariff once raised we r 81,
enter again upon splendid system Of internal
| (Nor'hern) improvements, for the purpose Of
disposing Of the surplus revenue. Thus. and
in al endless variety of ways, the nth may be
wronged-wronged, too, most dangerously, be.
cause the blow is inflicted in the dark
Let no Southern man be deceived: momen-
tary quiet has husbed the voice of agitation, but
there is no peace. There GIN be none so long
rs shareholders and Abolitionists live under q
common government The wo lids wide enough
for us and them let them go to the right. and
we to the left, for we may no longer dwell to-
gether as brethren