The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-06-12
Editor & Proprietor.


fugitive slaves be better2 They may now be,
and now. are recovered, summarily, and GER
tainlys when they are found, In fifteen States.
The difficulty of retaining them in Georgia
or any other slaEehofding State, is no great
er than it is in the different districts of our
Own State. Each of these States afford TO US
all the facilities that are enjoyed by its own
citizens. They are appropriate and ample.
Our only complaint is that the non-slavehol-
ding States not only refuse aid US, bnt act
ually obstruct us IN our endeavors to reclaim
the property, when accident or crime places
it within their limits. They only violate the
stipulation Of the constitution on this subject
These States denot now, and will not ever
-deliyerup fugitive slaves. twill not be contrO-
verted that secession would place the State
seeding inssthe relation Of a foreign State
towards all the other States Of the Union
1t would be at once the REIMBURSEMENT Of
all the rights, as well as the duties, that now
exist between them. They would be to all
intcnts and purposes, as independent Of each
other as. are France and Great Britain. In
the absence of treaty on the subject, one for
eign State has no right to require another to
deliver up fugitive slaves, or fugitive felons-
The law ofnations does not enjoin it, and it
Iisinno instance done without the require
ments ola treaty. Why sit that of the TWEEN
five thousand fugitive slaves now in Canada
Ia country bordering on the United States
one has never been recovered by his own
er? Why is Canada place of refuge for
slaves who flee from their owners in the
the South |? 1t is because it is foreign
country, and the treaties between Great Brit
ain and the United States are silent on the
subject Would not, then secession be the
voluntary abandonment on oar part Of the
right to reclaim frgittUc SEqres ,citbp the
limits of all the Southern ,Stotcs Gad Of all
Iothcr countries 2 We could not even cross
the line of Georgia, Tennessee, or North Car
!, olina, in pursuit of them by virtue of any
right which we should acquire by seces-
sion.
/ We know, as do the enemy of that institu-
ton well understand, that the most absolute
I lY fatal policy that can be pursued in refer
I eIce to slavery is to confne it within pre-
! scribed limits. Thus localized and hemmed
e in, it must inevitably anguish and die. A
!, given area of country will afford lucrative
5 employment to much more numerous white
e than colored population, whetherit be slave
c or free population. Slaves are not fitted for
! many of the avocations of the white man.
h The slave population of South Carolina N
! creases more rapidly than the white race,
and at this time considerably exceeds it
81 What would be cur means of diffusing over
81 new and less populous countries our rapidly
e increasing slave population, If South Caro-
d Ina could make herself a foreign State Jy
It Secession ? Our slaves may now be carried
5 into any State of the Union which has not
10 made the introduction of them unlawful
Is They may be sold to the citizens Of such
IS States, or removed with their owners. The
I. vast and fertile land of Mississippi and Tex
A. as, offer tempting fields for the slave labor of
]. the old Southern States. Congress has no
4, power to interpose any prohibition or res
b traint.I4 But Congress has long since, under
"a the special provision of the Constitution,
i made the introduction of slaves from for
il eign country into a State of the Union a
h. highly penal offence The moment, there
r fore, that South Carolina shall secede from
At the Union-the other Southern States re-
Is manning in it-that moment it would be a
e high crime to carry a slave from this State
is to Georgia, or to any other State. Such
u State acould hare no pOlrer to authorize II,
it. such poloer being az Congress. The bound
* aries of our own State could never be passed
es by slave so long as it should be foreign
Cd State, We have already been excluded
MS from California, and Utah, and New Mexico
Il. by the unconstitutional, and unjust legisla-
be ton of Congress, and shall we now permit
tx our own infatuation to exclude us from the
Y rest of the world Heaven save US from
"a such insanity
IL If secession would not place US in a better
@ position for the recovery of fugitive slaves,
he or for spreading our slave population over
M other countries, but would interpose insur-
in mountable obstacles to both, would it invest
MT us with more effectual means of rcpressing
lie the fanaticism of the Northern States
eli am Incapable Of perceiring any such cfect
lie No, gentlemen, no; it will require the sour
we ces and energies of more than one of th'
NJ slaveholding States to quiet this wicked agl
ur tation, or to resist its fatal influence. The
of strongest government in christendon, France
re- and Sweden, and Great Britain, have beer
he made to yield up their beautiful islands il
on the West Indies to utter dcsolatiOn, 10 ~
mo- pease the fury of this demon. The Spanisl
ri. West India Islands and Brazil are now til
lis only civilized countries on earth, beside
nth GuCbc CtdleS, III hhlCA etdf6d9 IA
ag-lists, and the fourth of century will n,
he leayea vcstigeofit in either of them. An
uld me must be wise to escape their doom at b
ernt distant day. With these consequences *
1t fore us, would it be wise to resort to sece'
to sion, against the views and wishes of all hos
or States that are bound in a common destin
lsof with US
her I confess, with profound regret, that | ca
and perceive no reason to think that any Of on
.aY- sister States of the South regard the peril
or slavery as immediate and imminent as we d
site / cannot however, believe, that they are lc
the resolved to protect and preserve the domcst
Ioy institution of TIC South than ourselves. Bl
t IS whilst they underestimate the danger to
cen from the action Of Congress, they huge
YER magnify the difficulties and dangers of d
The union Yet they have made issues and co
suit ditions connected with il which We must tai
PR for granted they viii exact from tie Nert
pro- Their demand Willnot be conceded aud soe
era very soon, their final hope viii Re fat Dc
en- pair. Is God is the Judge of ny sineel
IS I lity. believe this Union and Slayety cam
that stand together. And, unless We greatly nj
utl intdfpret the emens, this appalling truth ca
lima not much longer be disguised 1t
In not been realized BY the North OF BY t
lous South
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