The southern press., 1851-10-15

arc 6uOmltteQ 10. ne reSutuuOn OF iugiuSes
was the most trivial of all the rights of the
South involved in the controversy, and hence
was reserved in the capitalization to make show
of treaty. 1t would have been better for the
South to have retained her share of California,
or to have preserved the territory of Texas. 1t
would have been even better to have prevented
the abolition of slavery in the District.-For the
right Of recovering fugitives, although Of
little practical consequence or pecuniary value
to the South, Is nevertheless the most odious to
Northern fanaticism Of all the constitutional
provisions concerning slavery. The clause was
inserted in that instrument, when all the States,
but one, were slaveholding. But when in the
course Of sixty years slavery was abolished, or
excluded from fourteen of the States, and that
ON account of q general belief that it is wrong,
it resulted that the people of these States could
not execute Fugitive slave law within their
own borders, without violating their convictions
of right II became inevitable, the refore, either
that the compact must be amended so as to ex-
onerate them from that clause, or they must Sc.
cede from the Union, or they must violate the
Constitution. They have determined TO resist
the law and accordingly We have witnessed,
since the compromise was adopted, more gen.
eral open, frequent and violent resistance to the
law, than this country ever witnessed before
We have seen men in every condition Of life, in
the pulpit the press, in court, and on the stump,
proclaiming the duty Of resistance to law, and
yet claiming and enjoying the benefits of the
compact which expressly provides for it. Such
n conjunction Of fanatcism and fraud has seldom
been witnessed.
Bet the extent 10 which the sentiment has
gone. 10 by no means realized. In Pennsylva-
MIA the election viii h closed last evening, turned
principally on the maintenance and observance
of this Law. 1t was the principal topic Of dis
cussion. Heretofore the Abolition party has
been small one in that State. Now, through
this law, and particularly the recent outrage al
Christiana, the sentiment Of Abolition will be
developed in one VI the great parties in the
State party dependent on the Aboltionists
for success, and thus made their allies, defenders
and friends. Whatever may be the result Of
the vote, Pennsylvania Is to-day ten times as
much Of an Abolition State ss ever before. The
same thing is going on in New York, and the
result III be the same for there also, an out.
rage has occurred, in Syracuse, even more auda-
cious than at Christiana--and in both cases these
events will increase rather than diminish the
strength Of the party that identifies itself with
tie sentiment that prompted them.
n a.. l. II
promise consummsted, when the banner Of Abo.
lition was p,blicly unfahed In Kentucky by
CAssrus NJ. CLAY, and 10 the establishment oi
the STATE, he received between three and foul
thousand votes for goyenor-enough 10 deter
mine the balance Of power in that State between
the two great parties. as In Ohio, New York
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and other States
Nay. more than all that: the Wings Of vir-
GINA have nominated Mr. SUMMERS for Cover
nor, and he was one Of the most zealous and In.
temperate advocates Of emancipation there, about
twenty years az HIS speeches are nov re-
Published. and ugh he has probably recsnt.
cd or quslif ed me sentiments he then held, he
will er,enuate, and to acme degree svow and
defend them. And so will many Of bis party
We predict thst the pending canvass in Virginia
will terminate 10 the develoPement Of more alb
olitonism than ever has been known there be.
fore.
Such 10 the condition Of the South.-Aboli.
ton invading her Northern ard Western borders
and submission triumphant In her midst, and over
all her ss.Ies ep. ose-snd this too whsr
at the North the last vestiges Of respect for he,
rights, or faith in her power are crumbling into
the mighty torrent Of invectiys and reproact
that rises against her higher and higher.