The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-23
From NE S. Cwoiinian and Telegraph.
S0und Sentiments.

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Sound Sentiments.
Commodore Stockton delivered AN Grafton on
the fourth, fcom which we make the following
extracts. Unfortunately for the North she has
too few sucp men, who are bold enough TO
stem the torrent Of rabid fanaticism, and indie.
| pendent enough to speak The truth. The only
drawback to he utterance of such sentiments
| is rs to point of time IL is now too late, we
imagine, for them to accomplish any good. We
| rive them as infinitely m re Southern than the
Staple OF the articles we find In the Union pa
pers Of the South:
aQdr lot has been cast in pleasant places,
| but we have fallen upon evil timeA At the
North. fanaticisln, the Widest and most inde-
feusibje that ever swayed the passions of men,
| il 1t work to strike down all that is valuable
ul,a9 earth of human liberty, in the vain and
deIusive expectation of reconstruction upon its
Wins some Utopian system of beatifc bliss, and
N he equality of the white and black races
a men. AT the South the watch fires of the
revolution have been rekindled in the perpara-
ton for the defence of their homes and fire.
siies. Groaning under the pressure of appre-
hended wrongs, and writing under the lash of
constant and reiterated insults, the men of the
South are preparing for war, in the hope of re-
dressing their wrongs, and avenging their in
sults by an appeal to the sword Every north
wind goes southwark fieighted with libels and
insults, and every Southern breeze bears on its
wings notes of defiance and revenge. Thus
two great principles, never before in the history
OF bur race reconciled or appeased but by blood,
stand in hostile array to each other. Yet there
| arc those who say there is no danger of con-
| fiict--no danger of the safety OF the Union
With the thunders of secession roaring along
4 a.. c,,J afs
| ton breaking on the Northern shores-sure
psesages Of i storm--they tell US there is no
danger 10 the ship of State-that the sky is
clear, ahl the sea is smooth. But, fellow
citizens be not luled into fatal security by
these syren voices. Take heed-be warned by
The roains thunder and the forked lightning
that this may be the calm which precedes the
\ .tornado--a smooth and deceitful surface on the
| edge Of cataract
i aFelbw-citzens, ! dislike much to speak of
the dissolution of the Union. loathe the term.
But i'll nav come despite of all our efforts to
avert II Therefore it may be proper for me to
say wrd or two in anticipation of such re-
suit, al for the purpose of turning the atten-
| ton ofny fellow-citizens to the course which
New JeBey should take under such crcumstan-
ces Fronc, if such calamity should occur,
/ hope thu New Jersey, following the dictates of
duty, asgell as interest, will unite, for better or
for WORT, with those who are willing to abide
bv and aspect the compacts of the Constitution.
You ma depend upon it that no reliance is to
be place. upon the faith Of those who refuse to
acknowledge the obligation of the common CON-
pact of tie present Union. II a dissolution of
the Unioiis inevitable, then would prefer that
the linesof separation should be drawn along
the Hudson and the lakes, rather than the Po-
/ 49, III 4 ~ IL. Al.k
such an went the Northwestern States would
unite wih New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the
| South The South is their common customer
there their market The republic so con-
| stituted would have no natural repugnance to
the spread Of civilization and reformed religion
over that portion of the continent which seems
now to be but imperfectly subjected to their in
fluence.
"The position which would practically limit
the republic pt the South, assumed by great
Northern statesman, for whom have the most
profound regard, and whose virtues and patriot
ism are better known to no one than myself,
cannot approve. That position is assumed under
the plausible idea of limiting the area of slavery
The assumption tint would not permit the ad-
mission of a State into the Union without
restriction of slavery, is an aggression on the
South which finds no warrant in the Constitu-
ton. We have as much right to say that the
population of State shall be ali Protestants or
all Catholics as to prescribe the kind of labor to
be employed by its people. We have ms much
right to force slavery pom State as to interdict
it. II the South shall obtain majority in Con-
gress, they would have as much right to in
troduce slavery into the free States as the North
have to force the Wmot Proviso upon new
States. There is no such power in the Con-
stitution. That incompatible production of
human wisdom nowhere gives authority to
Congress to prescribe to an emgrant going to
the public lands what kind of property he shall
take with him, or what kind of property he shall
not take with him. The attempts to exercise
any such authority. can only be made in virtue
of latitudinarian construction of the Constitu-
ton, which would invest the general govern
ment with unlimited powers. The paramount
duty Of the small States consists in restraining
the general government within its delegated
limits. Because, as soon as the national govern
ment refuses to recognise the obligations Of the
Constitution, the small States will only hold
their sovereignties by the sufferancc Of their
neighbors"