The southerner., 1852-09-11

their constituencies under their feet as
Webster did, and saw the heavy doors
of Faneuil Hall slammed in his face for
his rew"rd; and more, to see his name
deliberately ostraeised in the Nati,na.
Convention of the Wing party By Just
Southern 0otes enough 10 nominate the
0e1y Aganaenanon Of this occursea abo-
Ntion ogttatton! Does the South ex-
pect that all the great national men of
the North are agoing to live hundred
years longer, and every year 60 up to
Washington to pass another and more
stringent Fugitive Slave law?
The remedy for the South, and the
only remedy, is in her own hands. She
cannot always with good grace, nor ev-
en- with the hope ofsuccess, bring down
Jupiter from Olympus, without she
puts her own shoulder to the wheel.
Let her continue to educate her chill
dren at the North, and sooner or later
they will SO back abolitionists. Let
her rich men continue to spend their
summers at the North, and their for
tunes at the North, and build up for
years to come, as they have for years
past, the watering places, the palatial
hotels, and even the Grace churches in
Broadway;-let the South abandon all
species of business and all profitable
trades and ca,lngs, except The single one
of planting, to Northern adventurers,
who handle all their money and decide
the drift of all their capital:-let the
Southern merchants pay from ten to
twenty per cent. more than is necessary,
in the shape Of commissions and broker
age to the Northern merchants, rather
than send their money direct to Lyons
or Birmingham, thus making her abso-
iutely dependent every hour in the day,
| for every luxury that comes from the
old countries:-let the South raise their
bonds in Wall street, to get money to
build Southern railroadS:-lct all this
continue for fifty years to come, as it
has for fifty years past, and the South
itself will be abolitionizcd, and there
will be no remedy for it: There is an
evil here which can never be cured by
legislation.
AS we'll might the friends of the vic.
tins Of this last holocaust we have offer
ed to the demon of food and fire on the
Hudson, call upon the Legislature OF
New York to restore to them their
| friends that were burned or drowned,
The evil lies back Of legislation-a hun
dred fugitive slave laws could offer no
remedy. Moreover, this cry Of wolf
has been rung out little too loud. The
North sprang generously and fraternai
ly to the rescue in 1850; but the i'm
preston has been quito too common
that for all that there was nowolf there
By and by, however, the beast viii
come, or Hsop is lie as we'll as ia
bic. The rejection of Webster ant
Fillmore, at Baltimore, was the first ON
inous sign-the election of Scott woule
render all llsnbsequent signs unnecessary
| The South seems to us to be dellber
ately cutting its own throat. When ;
Southern man gets three, five, or eish
hundred dollars, or, for that matter, tel
thousand, instead Of making it the nu
clcus for the formation of a railroad,
manufacturing, or banking company
or improving or embellishing his home
he gives it to a niger trader to 60
Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, Del;
w~c, Maryland, and help those State
to get rid of slavery, by laying upon tn
: buyers a still more hopeless Incubus
thus offering bribe to the progress
l abolitionisin in the more Northern slaV
: States, and thus bringing upon the'
c inevitably the final hour.
: To refer again to the Baltimore VIII
e Convention. In the nomination of Ge1
J. eral Scott, we have a living Illustrate
r of the truth of what We say, and also
c the almost electric speed with whlt
i the ruin of the South seems to be a
e preaching. In that convention whe
y was the detection? The South cou
. have nominated Fillmore or Webste
n and yet they nominated General SEQ
s. It was, however, only after fifty-t'
s. ballots that the game was successf1
lie Where did these last nine votes, I
lie which the Northern abolitionists h
y been five days sturdily fighting for
g dog-day weather come from2a Not FRI
v Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Loui
IN ana, Texas, Arkansas, Florida, or Sou
T. Carolina; for those States were bou
IS up in the veal or woe of that instl
en tion. But the aariliaraes Of the Nor
if ern aJolitionists came from Virgin
as Marylond, Kentucky, Tennessee a
ur Missouri-the rery States thot had po
,ct eto3 t,co hundred millions of doll