The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-11-20

COL MBUS, MISgIS
the education Of their sons and daucht.
ers Tits indeed grateful spectacle towit-
ness throughout tie State, the increasing in
terest manifested on this interesting and inl-
portant subject In d free government like
ours, where allpoWef eninates from Che PEG
pie, we cannot too highly estimate the inn
lportance Of preserving throughout the land
pure hearts and enlightened minds. Those
who shall place Il within the power of every
son and daughter Of Georgia to receive the
benefit of plain and practical education,
will be justly regarded among the noblest1
benefactors of the State Let our united eff
j forts be directed under the blessing Of Proyi-
ldence to the contamination Of this great OBJ
ject the education Of the hearts and minds
.lof the people.
To our hands, gentlemen, for The time be-
ling has confding people committed these
i various and important interests of the State
Il We should cutter upon our euties with a con-
Seriousness of she responsibility ne have as
lsumed, and asdetcrmination 50 20 discharge
them, thatthere may exisfin the public mind
mo just cause to regret the trust that has been
proposed in us. Nor, gentlemen, is the pres
lent,a less interesting period, when consider
Z ed in reference to our federal relations Our
federal governments now passing throughan
lordeal, which may justly be regarded as the
Iseyorest test to which it has ever been sub
ljected. In.the issue is involved not only.our
Eown. peace and happiness, but the solution Of
that great problem, which has engaged SO
much of the time of the ablest and purest
men, who have ever lived; the capacity Of
man for self-govcrnment.
Il Attic commencement of the last Congress,
the country was convulsed with a bitter sec
i tional controversy, growing out of the insti-
tuition of slavery, as itexists in the southern
States. The ablest heads were appalled, with
the magnitude of the danger that threatened
the integrity of the republic; and the stout.
est hearts filtered under the weight of re-
sponsibility. 1t would he inappropriate tc
the occasion to review the history of that an
CRY and threatening controversy; nor would
unnecessarily refresh your memories with ma
my of its painful reflections; but there arr
lessons and admonitions to be drawn from it:
consideration, which cannot be too deeply
and forcibly impressed upon the public mint
of the country
This threatning issue was ultimately bro
to aclose in our national legislature, b,
the adoption of series of measures familiar
ily known to the country as the Compromise
That Compromise was based upon tWoimpor
tant principles The first recognised the grea
American doctrine of the right of every pee
plein the organizationof their State govern
ments, to determine for themselves whethe
or not they would have the institution G
slavery, as part of their social system;
principle dear to. every republican heart, an
one upon which rests the whole fabric of a
meIican institutions; thus repudiating tina
other doctrine so justly odious to the peopl
of the South; of the right and duty of Cor
gressto reject State apply ing for admissio
: into the Union, because her Constitution to
ar Grated the institution of slavery. The otht
cardinal principle of the Compromise recol
Y Misses the Constitutional obligation to delivt
u up our fugitive slaves when they may escaI
ne into the non-slaveholding States; duty e,
d-Epressly imposed by the letter of the Constit
ton and tie enforcement Of 1olsic1 Is esseati
to The permonence Of the republic. After Il
adoptionof this adj ustmentby Congress, q
be cumstances imposed upon the peopleo of Geo
no gia the important duty Of pronouncing Il
80 first authoritative judgment upon it.
81 10 our action, the eyes.of the whole cou
~ try were directed, and our fellow citizens G
e. drywhere looked to our movements with an
nj ious solicitude. 1t was under these circul
al stances that Georgiawas called upon to spea
I'll She spoke, and her voice breathed mingI
ct spirit Of ardent devotion tothe Union and
In patriotic warning to its Northern friends
ov- Looking to the past, and considering t
,;le rights and interests that had been inyoly
mo in the contest, the dangers and difficult
vaI which had surrounded the country, and t
md important principles upon which the fnali
the ton of the government was based, she solen
nra ly declared her determination tostand and
ata bide by the Compromise as a permanent a
~. final settlement of this dangerous and vi
zen issue. It's fnaHty and faithful enforcem,
81 in all its parts constituting essential {
T + ments to commend it tothe favor and supp
J of of herself and hersister States of the sou
IF Looking to the future, with reference to
E of menacesof threatened aggression which |
We been SO freely indnlged, by a portion Of
,fb. people of the North and regard
81. the adoption of those measures again
f,- which she raised her warning voice
NC the fourth resolution of her convention
tbo Einyidious blows aimed at her most vital
terest- she has calmly, but frml said to
maddened spiritof fanatcism, thus far 81
; y thou go, and no farther Her position
l1a- taken with calmness in ] $50 it has been
leI affirmed with deliberation in 1855 an
now renew the PLEDGE Of my hearty co-opt
the ton in maintaining itWith firmness and
one cision Georgia had thus placed herself.
ton on broad national and patriotic plato
ner- and invites her sister States of the CnioI
t:-s stand BY her in the preservation Of the
ter piest and freest government on earth
s Of these great principles Of right and Just
1orel Her policy and principles look to the pre-
and walton Of tie Union and the maintena
oun- of the Constitution as one and insepera
lgh- Ambition can seek no higher and nobler
lgn- jcct, than the Transmission to posterity
PA this inesdmable legacy UNION OF S
prs EREIGN STATES, CEafENTED By a Con
/. sle TUITION DISPENSING EQU AI.ITY AND JUST
sofk no ALLITs MEMBER "a Constitution co
IL Grated by the wisdom Of the great and {
9tlon mon OF revolutionary memory IN
OF whose Tag floats upon every breeze, IS
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