The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-14

machinery, to fix their saddles and with bit and
brdie-reias TO ride booted and spurred, as usual
The extraordinary resolutions OF the late lesisla.
ture show the principle and the policy agreed
upon First, to render the Soutl, unconditlon-
ally and secondly, 10 win the Presidency 40
they best may, Both cliques agreed on this,
though they never yet could agree on anything
else Both preferred TO yield up the rights,
honor, and interests of the South, rather than
TO furnish their antagonists with u word to alarm
the people they designed to betray. State rights
We're liable to be mistaken for disunonsm and
those patriots thought il wiser to put principles
IN danger than plumber.
But, notwithstanding these developments
the fungus outbnths of contemplate partzan.
shlp,--the people are, in the main, honest ana
patriotic. They will not consent to surrender
their inaIienable rights, or sacrifice their honor
and interests without struggle. Could the
question be now fairly brought before them,
doubt whether solitary member who voted for
the resolutions of the last session would ever
again be returned to dishonor the State.
Putting aside, however these considerations,
it seems to me that you have but one question
to determine. Are you prepared to surrender
your rights to yield up your political equalIty,
and to put in peril your peace, your property,
and your lives, for the mere purpose OF securing
place and plumber for few corrupt and ambl-
tious individuals! If So speak openly,-prac-
tice no disguise,--sleter not under the poor
pretext Of securing future cooperation. Pro-
crastination is destruction They who advise
you to this course deceive you, deceive them
selves aud Others. There is no hope from this
line Of policy. The rights which you claim be-
long to yourselves exclusively. You need no
co operation in order to assert them. Ii they
do not belong to you exclusively, they do not
belong to you at all When the devouring ele
ment has seized on your own dwellings, will
you hesitate to extinguish it, because your neigh
bors, in their CONSERVATION, are incapable of
lending You helping hand? ] tell you, if you
wait for the co operation of other States, bound
down by the tramWels party, you will wait in
vain.
| Your liberties will be rretricyably lost, and
with them all that is sacred in our once free in
situations. Strike one decisive blow, raise the
banner and give out the trumpet call, and the
friends of constitutional liberty will rush for
ward and rally by our side Let your motto be,
Equality in the Union, or Liberty out of it,"
Less you cannot demand, and be free. Now is
| the time to secure to yourselves and your pos
terity that nappreciable blessing, won by the
blood, and bequeathed to you by the patriotism
of your brave ancestors. Falter now, and all
is lost and lost forever. Stripped of your equal
rights deprived of your just portion of the public
property, surrounded by abolition States, wired
out of your own blood and treasure, assaulted
on all sides, nsulted by your oppressors, and
basely betrayed, sold out in the political market
10y your own representatives you will become,
| You must become.--the most degraded and
oppressed people that ever existed on the globe.
| see that Gen. Hamilton OOH how fallen
Vii,
| your great and good statesman, was opposed to
separate State action If this be so, it is un-
known to his most intimate and confidential
| friends. More than this,--it is utterly opposed
to his well known principles and the whole
tenor Of his life. Did he teach ever that it was
the true policy of South Carolina, TO pass quiet
| " under the yoke of an arbitrary government
| Does anything, ever done or ssid by him, autho-
rize such conclusion There must be some
mistake. Gen. Hamilton has surely confunded
| differences with facts, and substituted the former
in place of the latter There is now before me
a well considered opinion of Mr.. Calhoun, bear
ring on the whole subject, which submit to
YOU in his own words. After showing that each
State has an unquestionable right to secede
| from the Union, he proceeds to examine the
causes which must lead to this result, and says
"Ihey consist chiefly of two the one arising
from the great extent of the country; the other,
| from its division into separate States having
| local institutions and interests. The former,
under the operation Of the numerical majority,
has necessarily given to the two great parties,
in their contests for the honors and emounents
Of the government, geographical character toi
reasons which have been fully stated. This con-
test must finally settle down in struggle on
the part of the stronger section to obtain the
permanentcontrol, and on the part of the weaker,
to preserve its independence and equality as
members of the Union. The contest will thus
become one between the States occupying the
different sections; that is between organized
bodies on both sides each in the event of Sc
paration, having the means of avoiding the con-
fusion and anarchy to which the parts would be
subject without such organization. This would
contribute much to increase the power Of resist
ance on the part of the weaker section against
the stronger in possession of the government
With these great advantages and resources, il is
hardly possible that the parties occupying the
weaker section, would consent, under any cir
cumstance, quietly TO sink down from indepen-
don't and equal sovereignties, into dependent
and colonial condition; and still less under cir
cumstances that would revoutionize them in
ternally, and put their very existence people,
Mt stake. Never was there an issue be wecn in
dependent states tnab involved greater cllHlulty
to The conquered, than isinvolved 10 that between
the States which compose this Union The
condition of the weaker, should it sink from a
state of independence and equality TO one Of
| dependence and subsection, would be more cal
amitous than ever before befel civilized people.
It is vain to think that with such consequences
before them, they will not resist, especially when
resistance may save them, and cannot render their
condition worse &c
Now, is this the language Of a man who would
advise submission, for any purpose whatever
The very calamity which he apprehended, and
on which bis views are based, has occurred.
The Southern States have been stripped of all
participation in the common territory--the
equilibrium of the system has been permanently
destroyed--all power is centred in the hands Of
one section and more and worse than this, the
soil Of a sovereign State has been dismembered
at the point Of the bayonet, and sold out to raise
the means of rewarding the basest treason ever
committed against any people. The Texas
bride was designed for this purpose, and for
this purpose only. And shall we still be told