The southern press., 1851-06-26

common rights, single handed and alone until
we have some authoritative assurance that our
movement viii b. sustained by some of those
equally interesta4.M With ourselves 10 iLs u Ante
nance. And Eno doubt that patience will
bring that co-opTf1iion. But am told that
Georgia, Virginia, Florida, and most of The other
States, have acquiesced in the compromise ne
mAJorltles have acquieseed but there are larue
minorities In each of )se States who are un-
eompromisingly opp ID to the adjuslment--
They are gathering myth day ,and soon some
VI them will be in lac with us. Let us say to
them, we are ready for the contest at moments
warning-wIth such declaration, our friends
VIII never despair or cease to rally the South.
They will soon recover the ground they lost by
our indiscretion in making 80 prematureIy the
question OF separate State action, when signal
triumph will crown our united action.
What, sir, arc the signs of the times at the
North and the South AT the North the teu-
porary panic produced there, that dissolution
Of the Union would follow the continued agta-
ton of the slavery question has nearly passed
away, and We sec Vermont sanding sounder
Abotionist (Foote) to the Senate than Phelps,
who defended the Vermont resolutions, so OBJ
nox0us to all Southern men; Ohio sending a
worse Abolitionist, in the person of Wade, than
the best Northern man have ever known, to
make room for Hamilton Fish, the boon com
panion of Seward and in Massachusetts the
ab1ltionism Of Robert C.. Winthrop has been
repudiated as being too moderate, and Sumner,
the great high priest of Massachusetts abolition
ism. has been honored with the seat lately filled
by Mr.. Webster. Mr.. Webster himself, has
been denounced all over Boston, and the gross
est discourtesy offered him: refused the priv
leRe Of speaking to his countrymen in Old Fan
euiI Hall, place where, in days of yore. he has
achieved some of his brightest intellectual tro-
phies. Even the moderation which Daniel
Webster breaches to his fanatical countrymen,
is Indignantly repudiated. With such an array
Of numbers and talents as the Free-soilers pre-
sent now In the Senate, with Chase, Hale, Sew
ard, Foote, Upham, Baldwin, the elder Dodge,
Walker, who can believe that agitation there is
ended or that it is killed or even stunned in the
States from whence they come. Sir, abolition
ism never had such firm footing in the ma
tional councils as it has at this very moment and
he who expects fanaticsm to moderate or recede,
has read history to little purpose. But these
are not the only evidences North, of the pro-
gress Of nti-slavery sentiments Look at the
0ction of the Vermont and Ohio legislatures in
practically nulifying the Fugitive slave law.
Look at the Boston riots, ahd the sympathy
there shown for the runaway negro, and think
not that the compromisers South are satisfied in
their consciences with the manner in which the
Compromise is carried out North, when the re-
covery of fugitive from Boston costs his owner
$4,000, and from New York almost an equal
amount
Sir the next session of Congress will in all
probability open new plan of operations by the
Abolitionis.s They intend proposing that the
federal government shall buy and pay for out OF
the federal treasury every slave that the owner
is willing to SELL AT the late session, Seward
introduced bill appropriating large sum OF
money to purchase all the slaves in the District
of Columbia, and slavery will be abolished there
in that way. With these signs, who doubts
that the great battle for the institution is at
hand Who doubts that the cotton States,
acting under the first great law of nature, will
be forced from the repose of submission they
are now taking? Who doubts that most of the
honest men of the compromise party, when they
see the punic faith Of their Northern allies, in
executing the only item Of the adjustment ia
vorable to the South, will array themselves on
the side of the Southern rights men in all the
States never had stronger faith of Southern
CO. cooperation than have n0w-unavoidable cir
cumstances must bring it if we do not act rash
ly, and turn friends thereby into enemies. The
cause Of Southern rights has made wonderful
progress in two years. The idolatrous yene-
ration for the Union has been the sternest diff
Guilty in the way of our friends, and demagogues
seeing that attachment have taken advantage OF
it, and are attempting to save themselves from a
Just odium for deserving the casse of the South,
in the day of her greatest peril, by singing
praise to the Union and reading homilies of the
ruin which dsunion is certain to produce
But, sir, the scales are fast dropping from the
eyes of the people. Five years ago dsunion
would not have been tolerated in South Carolina
but now there is not one Union man in this vast
assembly. In the other cotton States, news
papers and orators are openly advocating seces-
sion and Southern confederacy, and the party
Is on rapidly rising ground. The" Union" will
soon be no answer to constituents, for the be-
travail Of their rights. They have commenced
to calculate its value, to see if it is worth pre-
serving, just as our fathers did to see whether il
world promote their interests and safety to
form it. Whenever Southern man makes the
calculation, fairly and honestly with his own
conscience, have no fear that he will afterwards
consent to submit to any wrong to preserve it,
Look at the signs South. In our sister
Georgia, we see the acquiescents, apprehendlng
the energy, and talent, and number of our
friends there, are burying all past differences
and Wings and Democrats are meeting in con-
verntion, to nominate Union candidate for
governor Why this alarm on their part if they
did not dread the power of the adversaries-
our friends. Look to Alabama and Mississippi
A portion of the press is with us, and candi-
dates for the different Offices are pledging them
selves to the cause Of Southern rights. When
old party lines are once broken down efiectualy,
my life upon it, Southern Rights men will
sweep the whole South. But do not let US de-
feat all by prematurely moving. The night Of
our gloom and oppression is nearly ended, and
when day so nearly dawns, why will We venture
to take step that will plunge us into deep
abyss, when the morning rays will soon show
us a safe and certain avenue to our long sought
home With Union Of the South, or part OF
the South, in the language of the venerable
Cheves Great God a tale of submission will
never be told
Let no Carolnian foster the thought of sub.
mission--let our purpose be unalteraby fixed
to persevere, if need be, years in obtaining re-
dress for past wrongs, either in the Union or