The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1851-07-19

Davis, Mason, SesjdOn, $Angman, 1ho'nP'
son, Brown, Holloway. Ashe, ilarralson,
and. with bot few exceptions, Of all those
who stood the brunt OF abolition contest IN
the last Congresa Shall men like these,
awi,hou, fear and without rep-oach." who
have constituted the only barrier TO our ad
.aneing encmies. be ostracised from the
communion OF Southern Rights merely be-
cause OF difference Of opinion as 10 what
is due TO the esigent circumstances in
which the South is placed ] trust not.
and believe not. In any event. having
passed wi,h them through the furnace OF
persecution. mud seen their virtue tried, my
fate politically, shall be liaied with thcifs
to the end.
Il is nay opinion that /. was The duty oi
the Southern States 10 haze promptly uni.
ted in demanding full recognition OF their
rights IN she territories. and IL necessary,
new guarantees for their security against
aggression. The spirit Of injustice, before
which we now bend would have qnailed
under the rcsolute gaze Of eight millions of
frcomen intent upon their rights; and TO-
day the honor of The South would have
been intact. But different event succeed
ed--and now. while no man can be insen.
-ible Of the apathy which prevails upon
this subject. even the most sanguinc friends
OF Southern rights mus, have already DIES.
paired Of any remedial action
Bu, perhaps you then ask me. II "ae.
quiesce IN the late adjustment Of this see.
tioual controversy! Saving aud excepting
the fugitive law. nay feeling, and my ludg.
ment alike condemn it. Every sentiment
of my heart rises up in rebellion against
It's di-honorpg principles. And could !
do 50, | would cxpunge the foul record Of
our shame, and wipe out the stigma it has
fixed upon our name. | would restore 10
the people Of Alabama the rights Of which
they have been unjusjly dy'rauded in Cali.
loiuia they should have entrance into
| tab and New Mexico, free form the hin
drance of Mexican law; they should be
entitled to every privilege, aud the same
measures of protection to their property,
in the District Of Columbia. to which the
citizens OF Massachusetts can now Law
clsim; would restore - the state of IeN.
rs that original jurisdiction. with which
from fear or temptation, she has becn IN
durcd TO part--aud lp the pockets Of the
Souiheru States tie million. of money,
which have been used to complete the
circle OF lire which is contracting around
them Il is rAaied of an Indian CHIEF, vho
made the soil Of our State the theatre OF
proves, tia, after protractcd warfare
. l,
tie aud brought before his victor. Stand.
ing IN the presence of the man who had
become the arbiter Of his fate, be said
General Jackson, eau fight yod no hong.
cr You are supplied with provisions. with
ammunition, aud with countless warriors.
Oar corufells are al laid waste. our mu
nitions of war arc g laustcd; my youug
men have an fallen IN battle, and the fate
Of war has made me your prisoner. But
bad my VII been the measure of my means,
| would have fought You forever" IN the
spirit Of that warrior, who yielded only to
circumstances he could not control. bow
before the grcat wrong which has done Us.
For though our resources are not exhausted,
but iuexhaus,iilc though our Young men
have not "iillen in battle, but number sn
array, that might defy the world IL arms,
still, they are not nron the war. path
Some see 40 grievance in the disltnnchi,
ing acts OF the last tongress--Wh,lc 9th
efs are iucrcdalous of the dangers which
threaten US Some, who admit the inius.
iicc we have sustained. still from a strong
attachment to the Union OF the States,
think our condition yet tolerable in the
| mon AID trusting that from the NANTES
ta,ions OF public sentiment IN the South,
the North will be Induced IN tie future TO
respect the Consultation, they make their
action to depend on further aggrcssions
While others, having no hope IN any other
remedy Than secession. are for preparing
the public mind for that remedy, against
the period when endurance can no longer
he endured Here and there are To be
found those Of that school, who claim for
malori,les in Congress the virtue of infalli.
bIltv: the tame advocates Of non.resis,.
ance and passive obedience and these
insist that the rights OF American citizen.
ship have no higher standard Of admeas.
uremeut. than that which regulates the priv.
ileges of the Russian serf
In this diversity of opinion, it occurs to
me that nothing remains to the friends Of
the constitution, Of whatever party. but to
band themselves together, to resist the tide
of consolidation, which threatens to over.
run the South itself Shorn though they
are Of their rights and humbled by sense
of wrong, they are not without high incen.
tiyes to action, and noble field in which
to labor. 1t will be one OF their first duties
to strip Federalism OF the specinus garb
under which i, would seduce to its EN-.
braces the virtue ri the people. II il an
object not unworthy Of their exalted efforts.
to bring back the government. to its pristine
purity, and thus perpetuate the Union. by
saving the rights OF the States. Or, failing in
this, to revive and make universal the spread
Of those sacred principles, which are to
protectusin the severetr trials through which,
fear. we are destined to pass. TO subserve
purposes exalted MS these. myhighes, wish
is to mite the whole South, aud arouse i,
to n sense Of its danger. The Southern
Legislatures should, BY every constitutional