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Extract from the Address to the People
of Alabama,
By THE SOUTHERN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION Con-
vEsr1oN, HELD AT MONTGOMERY, FEBRUA-
RY 10, 1851.
Fellow-citizens The Abolitionists re-
commend to you to submit! The federalists
say it is your duty! The North desires you
to interpose no obstacle to the success OF its
designs In what consists the difference be-
tween such advice from some of your own
brethren? Simply in this-the advice of the
first is dictated by q selfish desire to be un-
molested in their operations against you
that of the latter is dictated from 4 selfish
desire on the part of the leaders to preserve
unimpaired that old party organization which
. tends to elevate them to power and place in
this government, and on the part of the mass
es who follow them by that feeling of timi-
dity and love of ease, which in ages past, has
permitted many tyrant to rule millions Of
his fellow men. Tories we found in the days
of the revolution to denounce our fathers as
sagitators," and to preach up "acquiescence'
in the action of the parent government, and
to portray the horrors of war to the excited
imaginations of the weak. Men are found
now to do the same thing.
"Acquiescence'' is the policy which the
wisest Free-soiler may well advocate. A
mastery inactivity" now, will accomplish all
his aims. Time, acting as the friend of their
schemes, will ripen their measures into pro-
per fruition. Free-soil State after free. soil
State will come into our Union. The free
soil majority now in the Senate will increase
with each accession. The free-soil majority
in the House will continue to enlarge its gi-
gantic proportions. The Executive will be
but the reflex of dominant free-soil power
in the government, while the South, with no
hope Of corresponding territorial expansion,
will be struggling with the very plethora of
slavery, and our public men seduccd from the
thorny, self-denying path of duty, will be
found struggling for place in the affections
time shall have ruthlessly produced these ef-
fects, and the sunny South has become the
Ireland of the Union, the. spiritiof aacqui-
escence" may complacently claim them. to be
s4sa the fruits Of herpolieey-e. policy but oeca-
NETT whom the sufFerings of our land may
induceto attempt itsrescue, and whose blood
will quench the feeble FIRE Of patriotism,
which his eloquence may serge to kindle in
the bosoms Of his abject, -" acquiescing"
countrymen.
We have said that there is no intermediate
step between submission, under the gilded
garb of acquiescence," and secession. We
know that many good patriot has counsel
Led resistance" by encouraging Southern
manufactures, and taxing Northern produce,
But, we say it in all Difference, such men take
counsel of their fears. From such class,
k1never yet has sprung Washington, Han-
ktcock ora Patrick Henry. Such u p6ifey BIS
3based upon the supposition that tltsC Consti-
tuition of the United States has proved q
Failure in the hands of this government-tbat
its administration is no protection to the
South. The assumption is true and if true,
it follows that the government is administer
ed by our enemies, knowing no chart but that
of their discretion and their tears The
policy indicated is an address to their selfish
ness and fears! And are our people prepared
to live longer under a government which has
thrown aside the chart Of the Constitution.
and thus leave their liberties to the mercy Of
a Northern majority, having no safeguards
but their fears If so, how long will it be
before appreciating our abjectness, they will
cease to fear, and in despising, shall trample
fhasr Fact Sb,n Il
tivate relations of amity with men whose past
history is replete with wrongs done us, and
who only abstain from further aggression,
not out of respect, but from fear Of us! Is
that the government which We are invited to
sustain and support?
But if it is not true that the Constitution
is a failure, and that its administration is no
protection to US, then all such schemes of
annoying the North are petty and unworthy
of the South. If we remain in the Union, it
is our duty to cultivate relations of amitv
with all the States of the Union. If their
conduct is such that this cannot be, then the
great objects for which that Union was FORM
ed are no longer met by its continuance.
Again: as far as the policy under conside-
ration is designed to cultivate State pride and
St~itS iSooutSSo, ~ - lOG I'LL lpOr6SSlVe
policy, but one that it is the duty Of every
good citizen to pursue, without reference to
any wrongs done us by the North.
No, fellow-citizens If the North, having
the power, refuses longer to abide by the con-
tract contained in the Constitution, let us not
continue a Union where safety depends on
the power to annoy, but like our gallant an
cestors, like Washington and his brave COM
peers, let us seek new safe guards for our
liberties. Let US refer to that noble chart,
the immortal evidence of their thoughts and
plans of resistance under similar difficulties
the chart that can never fail to advise us
in language and sentiments of glory, and of
honor, and of wisdom. Referring to that
sentiment of acquiescence, which toryism
also preached up in those days, they said -
"Prudence indeed dictates that governments
long established should not be changed for
light and transcicnt causes; and accordingly
oil experience hath shown that mankind are
more disposed to suffer while evils are suffer-
able, than to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are accustomed. But
when long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuring invariably the same object, cvinces
design 10 reduce them under absolute dcs-
potism, it is their right, it is their duty to
throw off such government and to provide
new Saft.-ulards for their futura safatv %