The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-06-10
The lOrlA and the SOnth.

Two Important conventions are about TO
assemble in this country, the avowed object
OF which is to dissolve the Union OF this
great aud powerful coniedemcy. We refer
to the States Rights Convention in Char
lesion, South Carolina, which commences
to-day, and the Abolition Convention in
Syracuse, New York, which will begin on
the 9Th inst Strange Rs it may seem,
these conventions, although they originated
in principles dramatically opposed TO each
other nnite in one common oblcct--the
disruption OF the American Republic, The
deliberations OF both will be OF the greatest
weight and Importance, and cannot fail, we
I think TO widen the breach which now eY-
lists between the North aud the South.
1t cannot be supposed for moment that
the majority of the people OF South Carolina
are not IN earnest in what they are doing.
/ lie who thinks differently decelves himself
They have counted the consequences in
every point of view, aud have arrived at
the deliberate conclusion to secede from the
Union, on the ground not onIy'that it is
their interest TO DO SO, but shat honor dc
mands 1t, in Consequence of the North ha
wing violated the Constitution and the
terms aud conditions on which the contede-
racy was formed. In speech recently de-
( yered by one of the most prominent rden
OF South CaroIiua-thei lion. Il. b. Rhett--
the speaker Went into Gle sc calculations re-
sPocuug the value OF the Union, in dollars
aaj cents, and pictured the benefits winch
would dow from secession. lie urged the
leOpp, Wllh ali the eloquence o: which he
Is master, TO secede from the Union AT once;
and attempted to prove that, 10y forming
treaties with foreign powers who would be
glad 10 be connected with that State on ac-
cohnt of her commerce, their wealth and
prosperity would be enhanced. We sup
pose he alluded to England There is no
doubt that that nation would very willingly
cuter into such treaty with South Caro-
lima, or any other Southern State, and
would favor secession and dissolution, for
the purpose OF forming such connection.
There is, then, agitation for the dlssolu-
ton of the Union going on at both the North
and the South. The press of each are fam
nIng the flame, In the North, the Evening
Post, the Tribune, the Courier and Enqui-
rer, the Albany Evening Journal, the Bos-
ton Atlas, and other journals, are preparing
the public mind for the repeal of the tug-
tive slave law of the last session of Con-
gress. The Union may be said 10 hang
upon that measure and the repeal of that
measure, or its agitation, will be the be-
ginning of the repeal of the Union. The
fact is, the whole subject of slavery has
sunk SO deeply in the public mind that
nothing but a foreign war could divert the
thoughts of the people from it. 1t is the
great question of the day, North and South.
Agitation is continued at the North altho'
it is injurious to our commerce and pccuni-
airy interests. The Southern trade of Bos-
ton has been diminished to an ex.ent of
probably one-tenth and now that Mr..
Sumner has been elected to represent Mas
sachusetts i'll the Senate at Washington, we
would not be surprised to see another dimi-
mutton of twenty-five per cent before ano-
ther year shall have elapsed. The Price
Current of that city, sets down the present
average depreciation at twenty-five per
cent Oh all factory stocks. IT tins should
continue, the consequence will be, that real
: manufacturing stock at lowell will fall
further in price, and the shipping of Boston
, New Bedford, and other towns, viii suffer
in proportion. BY dissolution of the
Union, all these interests would be utterly
prostrated and the very means of northern
and eastern prosperity woyId be transferred
to England, our great and only rival OF any
, magnitude, III the world. From the tone o
public opinion in certain portions oil the
I Southern States, the infection of such
,. punishment on the North would meet with
, approbatlon It would be considered a
lust and well merlted retrbntlon for our IN
reference with wha; ought not TO concerI
+. hs, aud over which we cannot exercise an!
. constitutional control. II the North vii
Q continue invading the soictty OF the south
). ern Hearth and stealing from the Soutl
r. their property, the South could retaliate b!
+ destroying the trade and commerce Of tn
[. North, by giving both to Great Britain Se
4 cesslon would effect this, aiA the maa,tc
!. in wjlich Mr.. Ractt recently spoke, Rlttcr
,, as To S1pp0Se that 0CcrtureS hare dLredd.
been mute by some secret agent Of Gred
~ Britain, to farm a treaty wih any leacLtn,
4 State, and that hat fiIct has a great dca
"a to do lcith tie increment NOR in 0l1crdtio
i in South CayoLinn 1t is demonstrate
\. that, if the American Union were to COZ
,s tinue in force, and this confederacy to COZ
70 tiinue intact, the commercial supremacy
le England would be destroyed in the ne'
~ twenty-five years. With a gigantic nj
{. tional debt pressing on the energies OF 1t
"a people, and costly and exttayagant go
~ ernrnent to support, they could not, IN II
e. nature of things, compete with the Unite
nr States. as now organized. We have
70 ready had evidence OF this. With the repe
% Of the navigation laws, We sec portion
the carving trade, " blch for centuries hs
been monopolized by Great Britain, pa
into the hands Of American merchant
This is only the beginning OF the decIlne dec;
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