The southern press., 1851-08-05
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Think not, sif, that you can forever balile the
demands Of truth snd Justice Your iasolence
and tyranny in the Senate shall not conceal
from betsAYed people the enormity Of your
political crimes, nor hide from them your own
treason, by the hablua boIdness with which
you charge treason upon others. Unscrupuous
in charging faction upon others, as u cloak to
cover your own designs in plotting the aboIi-
tion OF slavery, you have placed yourself ut the
head OF a powerful sectional faction, whose
avowed object Is TO overthrow and reconstruct
society, by the sanguinary orgies OF revolution,
insurrection and servile war.-Upon what pre-
tence can you hope TO escape the sentence which
you have so richly earned, Of moral outawry, as
public enemy?
The impunity which has been accorded to
your political offences, is owing to the fact
that you are an American citizen, and live among
people more disposed to bear than to ayenge
the wrongs inflicted upon the State, by their
public agents. Your audacity will effect a
change in the political morality of the times,
and the hour is approaching when conspirators
against the public liberty will find it difficult 10
escape the punishment due to the enornity of
their political offences Had you been a Roman
citizen, the fate of Caius Graccus or Tarquin
would have been yours. Had you been n
French citizen in 1893, you would have rival
led Fouquier Tinve in all, save your devotion
| to your m****ess. The c0ncieryere would have
been filled with the victims of your accusations,
and your doctrines of the indipisbility of the re-
public would have insured your immortal cele-
brity in history as member of the revolutionary
tribunal and colleague of Robespierre.
The people of the South, sir, may hank you
for reducing them to the necessity of fixing the
seal Of rebrobation upon your public acts and
public character, in saving the country from the
disasters which you have sought to bring upon
it. They are at last aware that every ready to
make one compromise by violating the public
faith, which you plighted to the observance Of
another, at the moment when framing the terms
in which the South is to be plundered of its
sovereignty and property, under the color of
| law, you premeditate the violation of the COM
pact you invite. Your compromises are but the
means to which you resort to despoil the South
for the benefit of the North, and your rapacity
| is limited only by your power to perpetrate it.
And when all the elements Of fraud and rapine
which you summon to your aid fail to accom-
plish your designs, you violate your oath to sup
port the Constitution bya sanguinary appeal to
the sword 1t is fortunate, sir that your de-
structive career ia drawing to close Your
country will breathe freer when the incubus of
your principles is removed from its breast, and
your example will teach the statesmen who
come after you to shun the vices by which you
have inflicted incurable wounds upon the State.
If the people of the South be wise, your history
will be lesson of grave import. They will
learn to appreciate the danger to the Constitu-
ton and the public tranquility, of fostering in
their midst statesman who is the avowed
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az to the means of its overthrow.
A statesman unequalled in his deceptive arts
of concealing from the public view his real de-
signs, and who, under the pretended cloak of pa
triOtsm, has by turns violated every principle of
the Constitution, and who by his efforts to re-
strict and to abolish slavery, has brought to the
verge of dissolution "Unon,' which he pro
fesses to love, as the pious devotee loves the
shrine Of his patron saint, and who, by his un-
surpassed powers ofpublic mischief has endang-
cred the public liberty. You have, through
your whole public life, been the propagandist OF
governmental policy, and system of compro-
misses and measures which, if consummated, as
many of them already are, will. with the certainty
of prophecy, effect total change of our form OF
government, destroy republican freedom. and
involve the country in servile war. And yet you
have, for a long series IF years, been lender
and head off powerful party at the South, who
with blind fatuity not easily explained, have
concealed from themselves and the country your
hatred of their institutions, and the arts open
and covert, by which you have sought to effect
their overthrow. They have thus sharpened the
sword, and given force and direction to the bl ,w
by which you have cloven down the Constitu-
ton ofyour country. Fatal deusion misguided
confidence! The people you have betrayed cam
not much longer remain insensble to the ruin
you have wrought
The time is approaching when the struggle
for the accomplishment ofyour abolition schemes
will be transferred from the North to the South
from the halls of Congress and the scenes of
| Northern mobs, to our own,hearthstones You
will have the satisfaction to know, sir that You
have opened the gates of the citadel, and invited
| the enemies OF our peace TO enter and shed our
blood. Treason stalks abroad in our midst, and
the final catastrophe approaches with quick
ened pace, and you may yet live TO hear the
whitening curses of an outraged people coupled
with your name. Remarkable man the type
of class of statesmen which belong to more
vicious and corrupt age, and for the honor of
our race, and the repose and happiness of the
world, good men hoped had become extinct in
the ruin and fall of past States and Empires By
what mystic art have You 80 long succeeded in
retaining the confidence OF people whose de-
struction you have meditated! Men of the
South, awake from your delusion, and cease to
cherish in your bosoms the traitors, and their
accompices, who are lighting the torches to con-
sumo your dwellings. Let our intestine divisions
be buried upon the altar of patriotic duty. Unite
in common cause, to avert n common fate,
which the hired millions of lawless power have
prepared for u.s. and while we may save our
country from destruction. BRUTUS.
STATE ELECTION ON MoNpAY-Yesterda
State elections were to be held in the following
States, viz =
Kentucky, Indiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Mis-
souri,, Illinois, and Iowa. In Kentucky the
Wing candidates for governor and lieut.. Cover
nor were Archibald Dixon and John B. Thomp-
son and the Democratic candidates, Lazarus
w Dnxva1l and II ahprf VN,ckliH., ;,