The southern press., 1851-10-04

advocates of the compromise IN the free States
unite with them in opinion, and share their
feeling of opposition to what they denominate
"the extension of slavery" Content with their
recent triumph, they sing raans to the Union
and will, when this question shall again occur
be identified with the Freesoilers,-while we
having nothing more to yield, and no reasonable
expectation of any thing to gain, must submit
to legislative exclusion from territories here
after acquired, without the form of compromise
to soothe the wounded feelings. of freemen.
This result can only be avoided by perfect
union among ourselves
Ga the other hand, unresrsined violence, in
resistance to aggression, will produce divisions
among us. Yon need only look at the contest
which is raginr in the State with bitterness
which not content with the political osiracism
of its victim-wonld remorselessly tfample on
his reputation, and that too, between those
who have been heretofore familiar friends, and
whose interests are at this moment identical
To be convinced of this truth, If few men OF
excitable temperament and excited feelings.
had not in the fury of their indignation raised
the cry of disunion, startling the approximations
of others, and arousing the spirit of devotion to
our constitutional Union-whch il the master
political feeling of the Southern heart--we
should throughout this di tracting controversy,
have stood side by side, in united, temperate,
manly assertion Of our rights. Thus then,
while submission invites to the renewal Of ag-
erosion from without Incorporate vi lence,
and thrests Of disunion, produce divisions
among ourselves, having a similar tendency
These are the rocks which endanger our ship of
State--the Scylla and Charybdis, which it is
our duty to avoid. ~
This Is probably not the moment when these
counsels will receive the deliberate and impair.
| titled They will not be acceptable to ultraism
| in any quarter. Especially they will be de-
nounced as savouring of disunion, because, al
though yielding an unqualified acquiscence in
| the compromise, they do not pronounce it's eulo-
gy. / deplore the feeling which prompted the
suggestion, not from any merely personal con-
| alteration, for retain the power of placing my
self beyond the reach Of prescription, and will
cheerfully do so, rather than unite in perpe-
rating it, or fail to fulfil my duty to you,
which demands frank expression of opinion
in crisis like the present
But are these sentiments inconsistent with an
ardent devotion to the Union! Nav, do they
not spring from IL? Does any one ask whether
[ am Union man? Does he wish to learn
whether have ceased to love and revere the
memory of him who gave me birth-whose
youthful sword was feshed in the achievement
of those liberties, which union was established
| to secure? Does he mean to enquire whether
have forgotten the lessons of my childhood, as
they fell from his lips! Is it his purpose to
ask whether intend to close a life hitherto de-.
voted to the public service by infdelity to those
sacred principles which with whatever ability
God has given me, have labored to maintain
Bound, irrevocably bound-wedded as am to
the preservation Of the peace and harmony of
the Union, by every social and sacred tie-by
the obligations which owe to a patriotic and
generous people, who through evil and through
good report, have still sustained me-by an af
lection II may he, too ardent for that noble State,
which from infancy to age has been the scene
of my most cherished enjoyments- beneath
whose soil are the graves of my parents and
my children, where too must shortly rest,
and which Is at once the home and the hope of
those who survive. Does he mean to enquire
whether. reckless Of these ties-faithless to
these obligations nsensible tothese feelings
would raze the temple Of freedom, erected by
our fathers, and bring upon this favored land,
all horrors of civil, intestine, il may be servile
war; Let the unpretending story of life which,
from infancy to age, has been passed among
you, return the answer have none else to
give
But from various quarters, the question is
propounded TO me, VIII you act with the consti-
tutional Union party! and il shall be answered
frankly.
adhere TO the decision Of tho convention.
With these representatives Of the sovereignty
Of Georgia, have a lively recollection Of the
aggressive spirit Of representatives of the nom
slave. holding States" with which we have
long combaited," and feel with them, that the
sources Of thi. turbid stream lie beyond the
Halls Of Congressional they are to be found
in the midst Of their several constituencies -
agree with them. that the meeting Of the con-
vention afforded ft occasion . for the sover-
eign p 'ople Of Georgia, to commune with the
sovereign people of tho-e States" 10 demonstrate
calmly and frankly with them, and to recall
them 10 a sense Of their duty rs confederates'
And although find In the compromise meas.
ures, as they did, "matter for objection and
matter for approval" though like them, do
not wholly approve" them, yet like them, ]
will, aabide by IT," and will unite with any par
~, or portion Of my fellow. citizens, whose con.
dnct as a party, shall conform 10 a spirit thus
manifested by this patriotic body. Like them,
/ lNpeltu ~ thrUtst uttft 10 ptrptluhtt
the American Union" nm anxious 10 restore
that peace snd harmony on which its value
depends-and with them, am willing TO Z" let by.
cones be by-gones,' In the cherished hope that
abrighter hours will come" II these opinions
and these feelings make me q constitutional
Union man, here then Is the pledge Of my fealty.
But, II beyond this, I am required 10 say
what the convention have not sad-to affirm
v hat they have expressly contrndicted-if, in the
face Of the long continued manifestations Of an
aggressive spirit on the part Of the non.slsye.
holding States which the convention denounced
in the language Of calm, yet maLly remon.
STRANGE, il is exacied from me 10 say that Geor.
gia has sustained no wrong-iG, while they de-
clare, that there is IN the compromise such mat
ter for objection" that they cannot wholly APP
prove IT," | am required 10 say, not only that
there Is in il no matter for objection, and that
wholly approve il, but also, that it is fair, just,
ard equitable-a source of triumph and grstula-
ton TO the people Of Georgia--then I have to
say, non hdc IN federal cannot enter into
a.