The southern press., 1851-05-21

rescue. The morning Of the execution an i'm
mense crowd had assembled, who cried loudly
for mercy to the culprit. The mayor exhorted
them to submit to the law but finding them
determined on rescue, he by desperate vic
tory overcame parental feeling, and, finding that
his eff ,rts to accomplish the ends Of justice in
the usual place and by the usual hands were
| fruitless, he became executoner himself, and
1 from the window of his own house launched
his unfortunate son into eternity.
/ His house still exists in Lombard street, Gal
way, known by the name of"Deaduan's Lane"
and over the front doorway are to be seen a
skull and crossbones executed in black marble,
with the motto, "Remember Deathe vaniti OF
va'li and all is but vaniti."
SHALL. WE SEcEpE l-"Sha we secede ~
| Why should we not secede? If the Union has
failed to answer the purposes for which 1t was
craated-if it has been so perverted as 10 operate
as a curse instead of blessing upon the South
ern section-if it only serves to aggrandze the
North at the expense Of the Southland if there
is nothing upon which to base a hope that the
former contemplates any change in her policy f
aggression, which all acknowledge she has been
pursuing, we ask why-why the South should
not secede!
Is she not able to repeal the assaults of her
enemies Then she is already ensaved. Is she
afraid to make the attempt! Then the legitimate
inference to be drawn, is still less credlabe to
her boosted chivalry. Or, is it, that although we
confess we have been wronged, yet that we do
not consider the wrongs we have hitherto suf-
fered, sufficiently aggravated to justify secession
and that, therefore, we woud.rather "bear those
ills we have, than fly to others that we know
not off"
We fear that this is too true, and that "theres
the respect that makes calamity of so long lie"
\ and that is the conscience that makes towards
of US al"
"And thus the native hue ofresolution
Is sicked DER with the pale cast of thought;
And enterprises of great pth and moment
With this regard their current turn away,
And lose the name of action"
II But such motives and such reasoning will not
bear examination, and if we suffer ourselves to
be Influenced by them, the fate of the hostile
Danes may be ours, and we and our enemies
both fall by the sword at last
We have been wronged, say our submission
friends, but still not to that degree that would
warrent us in breaking up this "glorions Union
-''the last refuge for the down-trodden" &c.
Let Us investigate this a little.
In the first place, to submit to one wrong, is
holding out direct encouragement, and offer
ing powerful temptation to our enemies to
infiict second and a more aggravated one.
How clearly this truth is demonstrated in the
history of this country If the South had not so
fooishly listened to the fatal counsels of the
"compromisers" in 1920, but had manfully stood
up for her rightsall her rights to the millionth
part of an ota-who believes that the expert
ment Of ascertaining how many indignites could
be successfully heaped upon her with impunity
would ever be the second time entered upon
But it is not the first, nor the second, nor the
t nth, nor twentieth instance Of wrong perpe-
trated upon her by the North, Of which the
South is now complaining. The most palpabe
and barefaced acts of aggression have been COM
mitted upon her during the long series of twen-
ty or thirty years past.
In the second place, if the South submits
much longer to sucl confessedly unjust legisla-
ton as has marked the history of the federal
government during the last quarter of acentury,
she will become so weak and the North so
strong, as to put it out of her power TO resist
the shackless of her abolition oppressors--if she
would.
In the third place, if breaking up the Union
would be great calamity to the world, notwith.
standing the injustice of its legislation towards
the Southern section, whose fault would il be ?
Certainly the guilt would not rest upon the
shoulders Of the South. IL she finds herself
compelled TO go out of the Union, it will be for
the sole purpose Of seeking that justice which
she cannot obtain in the Union.
i in the fourth place, the issues should not turn
upon the question of how much loss the South
can possibly bear, AID how many acts of oppres-
sion she can possibly manage TO put up with
before absolute starvation and the chains of a
tyrant actually confront her in the face,-but, is
tba inf nf hnra nta Ia hor
at ALL and have wrongs really been committed
Weak as were the American colonies when the
revolution broke out, and powerful as wac Eng
land, they did not hesitate moment to vlndi-
cate and maintain their constitutional rights by
the sword. They never Submitted" from the
first Why should the Southern States submit
now, who are more oppressed than were the
mother colonies of l776!
IN the fifth place, it does not by any means
follow that the extinction Of liberty would be
the result of dissolution of the Union, or that
there would no longer be any asylum for the
oppressed of other lands quite the contrary,
the direct reverse of all this would be the eff
feet. The Union has already been once dis
solved, to its advantage, since the revolution,
why may It not be a second time Cotton and
corn would grow just as we'll out of the Union
as in it and the calls of Europe would be quite
as loud for the great Southern staples then as
now.
; In the sixth and last place, the statistics Of
our country show that the Union is now, and
has been for years past TO the South n positive
curse instepd of blessing, apd all the talk,
therefore about waiting for further aggressons
before resorting to such a measure, and the
calamity it would inhct upon the world, &c, &c.
E is based upon false premises and has conse.
, quently neither force nor relevancy.
The time to resist a palpabe encroachment
upon our rights, is at the moment it occurs to
wait for the REPETITION of the offence before we
can consent to viudicate our manhood, is assist.
ing TO forge our own chains Montgomery
) (Ala.) Atlas
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