The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-23

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} imagine, for them to accoEp lish any good. W.
give them - infinitely mere Southern than the
staple Of the articles we find in the Union pa.
pers of the South
"Our lot has been cast in pleasant places
but we have fallen upon evil times. At the
North, a fanaticism the widest and most inde-
fensible that ever swayed the passions Of men,
is at work to strike down all that is valuable
upon earth Of human liberty in the vain and
delusve expectation Of reconstruction upon Its
ruins some Utopian system OF beatic bliss, and
OF the equality of the white and black races
OF men. At the South the watch fires of the
revolution have been rekindIed in the perpara-
ton for the defence of their homes and fire.
sides Grooming under the pressure Of appre-
hended wrongs, and writing under the lash of
constant and reiterated insults, the men Of the
South are preparing for war, in the hope of re-
dressing their wrongs, and avenging their in
suits by an appeal to the sword. Every north
wind goes southwark freghted with libels and
insults, and every Southern breeze bears on its
wings nOtea of defiance and revenge Thus
two great principles, never before in the history
OF our race reconcled or appeased but by blood,
stand In hostile array to each other. Yet there
are those who say there is no danger of con-
hict-no danger of the safety of the Union.
With the thuuders of secession roaring along
the Southern coaet, and the pillows of iasurrec-
ton breaking On the Northern shores-sure
presages Of 4 storan-they tell us there in no
danger to the ship Of State-that the sky is
clear, and the Is smooth. But, fellow
citizens, be not lulled into fatal security by
these syren voices. Take heed-be warned by
the roaring thunder and the forked lightning
that this may be the calm which precedes the
tOrnado--a smooth and deceitful surface on the
edge ofa cataract.
Fellow-citizens, 1 dislike much to speak of
| the dissolution of the Union. loathe the term
But it may come despite Of all our efforts to
avert it. Therefore it may be proper for me to
say word or two in anticipation of such re-
suit, and for the purpose of turning the atten-
ton of my fellow citizens to the course which
New Jersey should take under such crcumstan-
ces. Forone, if such calamity should occur,
hope that New Jersey, following the dictates of
duty, as well interest, will unite for better or
for worse, with those who are willing to abide
by and respect the compacts of the Constitution.
You NAV depend upon it that no reliance is to
be placed upon the faith Of those who refuse to
acknowledge the obligation of the common COM
pact of the present Union. II dissolution of
the Union is inevitable, then would prefer that
the lines of separation should be drawn along
the Hudson and the lakes, rather than the Po-
tomac and the Ohio have no doubt that in
such an event the Northwestern States would
unite with New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the
South. The South is their common customer
there is their market. The republic 30 con-
stituted would have no natural repugnance to
the spread of civilization and reformed religion
over that portion of the continent which seems
now to be but imperfectly subjected to their in
huence.
"'The position which would practically limit
the republic at the South, assumed by a preat
Northern statesman, for whom have the most
profound regard, and whose virtues and patriot
ism are better known to no one than myself,
cannot approve. That position is assumed under
the plausible idea of limiting the area of slavery
The assumption that would not permit the ad-
mission of State into the Union without
restriction of slavery, is an aggression on the
South which finds no warrant in the Constitu-
ton. We have as much right to say that the
population of State shall be all Professionals or
all Catholics, as to prescribe the kind of labor to
be employed by its people. We have as mnch
right to force slavery pom State as to interdict
it. If the South shall obtain majority in Con-
gress, they would have as much right to in
troduce slavery into the free States as the North
have to force the Wilmot Proviso upon new
States. There is no such power in the Con- !
stitution. That incompatible production of
human wisdom nowhere gives authority to |
Congress to prescribe to an emigrant going to |
the public lands what kind of property he shall
take with him, or what kind of property he shall
not take with him The attempts to exercise
any such authority can only be made in virtue
of latitudinarian construction of the Constiiu-
ton, which would invest the general govern
ment with unlimited powers. The paramount
duty of the small States consists in restraining
the general government within its delegated
limits. Because, soon as the national govern
ment refuses TO recognise the obligations Of the
Constitution, the small States will only hold
their sovereignties by the suHerance of their
neghbors"
NARROW ESCAPE AT NAGARA.-Thomas A.
Logan, an estmabe young lawyer of Cincin-
natl, son Of the comedian, had narrow escape
for his life few days ago at Niagara Falls A