The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-09

il In effect provided that our white popslation
shalt increase no more, and that the national
death OF the south Atlantic and gulf States may
be sealed. II il slso in effect decreed that the
negro race shall increase Ia our midst c0ntinu-
ally, until our wives and children cannot lay
their heads upon their pillows for repose, with
out armed guards at our DOORS TO ensure their
safety This monstr0us scheme OF tyranny,
spoation and mposiu re does not stop here
The physical condition Of the second and third
line Of States into which the African race has
extended, will enable the greater number OF
these States to avoid the doom provided for the
Atlantic and gulf States, by selling their slaves
to the last named States and then going over to
the empire of the North, and joining our enc
mics, AZ they are now doing. This il one rea-
son why these border States do not now unite
with the Atlantic and gulf States for a redress
of wrongs They 500 before them the means
Of escape from the doom prepared for US, and
leaving us to our fate, they go over to the side
of power, aud will, in the end, espouse the cause
Of our enemies, and join the crusade against U.S.
There il yet another feature in the destruc-
tive policy of the government OF the North, not
less revolving to common honesty, and abhor-
ent to every principle of justice, than those al
ready enumerated Although the national death
of the South is decreed; although the South il
plundered other share in he public doniain, and
excluded from all participation u its benefits,
and although that exclusion must be accompan-
led by the terrible results have described, vet
we are held to the most rigid and strict account
in the payment of tdrss. Tue South is the great
tax paving province of the empire; the Indies of
the West--the crown lands, valued in proper
ton to the amount of revenue we pay to the
crown; and although we are excluded from all
the benefits Of the public domain, yet zoe can pan
tares We have still left to us the proud priv-
Iege of paying into tie public treasury, millions
of money annually, wrung from the hard earn
ings of people who are doomed to destruc-
ton, by the government which exacts it, to be
spent in the support of an army and navy, fost
cred for our subjugation, and in building up the
North and the remote provinces on the Pacific,
whose mongrel population have insoently pre-
sumed to sit in judgment, and to pronounce SEN
'tence of accommodation upon us; and which
sentence, upon appeal, has been confirmed by
the supreme Northern abolition parliament.
The revenue to be collected on imports in the
Pacific ports, will not, for the next half century,
be sufficient to pay 1.-THE of the expense Of
building mp the Pacific States, and to quarter
the army and navy which must be stationed
there, to prevent the reign Of that anar hy which
must Otherwise prevail among the barbarian
tribes which have congregated there. Three
millions of dollars have been expended there
for quartermasters' stores alone, for the arny
and navy, in the last twelve months The South
pays nearly three-fourths Of this. Millions more
u,s be raised annually, by taxation upon i'm
ports on the Atlantic, to be expended on the
Pacific border. The commerce of Oregon and
California must be carried on with the East ;
nd Of nj of
pretext Gf a pretext be wanting where profit
gacy and public robbery are esteemed public yir-
tues,) of carrying the mails, will BE- built at no
distant date-and this mainly, too, at the ex-
pense OF the South--to ply over the bosom of
the Pacific, to foster the commerce of these fos-
ter children of abolition brood, and to create
muni6cent government bounties for Northern
men and Northern enterprise We are lust
now verging upon the most stupendous scheme
of taxation known among the nations of the
earth. The career of other notions exhibits in
stances of exhorbtant taxation to support ar
mics and to raise the material of war The
taxation upon which we are verging seeks, by
system Of government plumber unequalIed in
its imposture, to transfer the property of one
Union to another section, and to distribute il
among the people of the favored section in the
form of government bounties.
"Give me the right TO labor" said Proudhon.
in the French chamber of deputies, " and will
take care of the property" Give to the North
ern parliament the unlimited pc yer of taxation.
as it now has under the Constitution. by the
strange fatality of its trainers, and it ia an easy
task, to transfer the property of the South to
the North-a system of spoliation which has
been steadily in progress ever since the Union
was formed According to the plainest principle
of justice and common sense, the South, being
deprived of all participation in the benefits of the
public domain, should be exempted from the
payment Of all taxes to be expended there Bat
this immunity is not only denied, but the wants
OF the new Pacific States demand increased evies
of taxes upon the South, that their prosperity
may be guaranteed and fostered. Can despot.
ism be more despotic. injustice more unjust,
tyranny more remorseess than this Can any
doom be more terrible, more relentless, than that
to which the South is thus consigned! If the
South submits to these manifod acts of tyranny
and oppression, can her degradation be deeper.
her infamy backer, or her ruin more DISASTROUS
and complete To be thus sentenced to living
death; to feel slow decay sinking deeper and
deeper into the public heart, and the desth-worm
with its stealthy march, feeding upon the vitals
of the State ere life be extinct, is a refinement
VI Ciueill anu tyfahuy UNKNOWN among The ma
tons. Were an attempt made, like that upon
Poland or Hungary, to devastate aud Law waste
our country with fire and sword, we should have
the proud privilege of meeting the invader in
battles shock, and if borne down by the weight
of numbers, we could fall gloriouslv with un-
furnished honor, under the folds of flag whose
esrutcheon never yet paled in front of an enemy
But to quail cravenly to the oppressor, and
quietly fold our arms to receive the chains of
bondage, without manly struggle to avert our
fate, to vindicate our national equality and honor
and preserve our liberty, will cover us with
mountain Of deserved infamy, disgrace and ruin
Such, then, is the condition to which we are
reduced. Our sovereignty and independence
derded and denied, Our equality DESTROYED, our
Constitution overthrown, our national extension
prohibited, every principle of national faith and
Justice violated, our national subjugation and
death decreed, and the sword of the Union held
over us, If we dare to assert our rights And
this is called "Lberty," Equality" "Freedom
and Independence" "Glorious Union"
This great issue which is now pending be.
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