Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-12-07
Read and Consider.

Inc Central Democrat, published
at jackson, Tenn, speaking of the
election of an Abolitionist as Cover
nor of Pennsylvania, and of other
recent results of other Northern cleo
tioDs, presents an array Of facts and
arguments we'll deserving the consid-
Grafton of the Southern people. We
only have space, at present, for the
following brief extract which we COM
mend to the attention of our read
ers:
In the first place the convention
which nominated Mr.. Pollock, the
successful candidate in PennsyIva-
MIA, passed a series of resolutions re-
pudiating the Nebraska Bill, recon-
mending a repeal of the Fugitive
Slave Law, and declared open oppo-
sition to the admission Of any more
slQve States in the Union. The PAR
! ty which holds these opinions has
been successful in the States above
mentioned, and the editors of the
IKhig are gloryfying in its success.
None can deny that the settled
policy of the whig party at the North
is to allow no more slave States to
come into the Union. Will this poll
cy suit the South? All of the sue
cessful Whig candidates in Ohio,
Pennsylvania. and Indiana, from
Judge Pollock down to the anti-Ne-
braska candidates for Congress, and
even the Legislature, run upon this
issue. Slavery must have more area,
the territorial and industrial expan-
sion Of the South necessarily de-
mands it. The increase of slavery
is growing greater and greater every
day, aud to circumscribe it within it's
present limits unequivocally implies
its abolition. Anti-Slavery has, hith-
erto, rather carried negotiation meas
ures; that is. it's advocates seemed
satisfied to prevent the extension oil
slavery farther North than SO deg.
80 minis, bot now its real aims are
clear, it seeks to circumscribe it with
lin its present limits by Federal legis-
lation, thus placing it under Federal
dominion, by which means its de.
struction is made inevitable. Under
any circumstances, a declared inten-
ton to emaneipate our slaves either
by direct or indirect action, BODIES no
little evil to the South. Emboldened
as The Abolitionists have beenbv their
late success. they will assert in prac-
tice as well as in theory their favorite
doctrine that slaue is not property.
Upon this issue alone, in all proba-
bility, rests the stability of the Union,
because the jurisdiction of the States
is involved. Has a State the right
to regulate her own municipal af-
fairs? will then be the question, and
embraces State sovereignty and the
right to sell-goyernment. Ii their
schemes are successful, and they OBJ
tain an ascendency in Congress, the
STAKEHOLDER viii have to yield the
control of bis Slave labor, or the
Union, by the withdrawal of the
Southern States will be resolved back
into its intergal parts. In the ex-
act proportion as the struggle of par
ties become sectional, in exactly that
proportion becomes this result inevi-
table. History, is not without ex-
amples of similar experiments, as are
evidently contemplated by the Free
Sellers and Abolitionists, now in the
ascendancy in Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana, Michigan, Vermont, Con-
nectlcut and Massachusetts, and when
the people of the South turn to the
West ladies', when they look at the
present condition of st. Domingo
and jamaica, once the gem of the
caribbean Archipelago, and see in
them what must be the inevitable
of the South if she meets
q similar fate, isit at all singular that
any condition, even dispnion, would
be preferable? No, the proud and
noble Southerner would have to be
tied hand and foot, as the West In
1ia colonists chained and pad
locked before they would even think
IF being bound as the sacrifice upon
IN altar, much less that of sicklyl,
sentimental philanthropy.
We ca see no other result likely
% emanate from the success Of the
present party; not merely because it I
vas the whig party, but because the
ssue necessarily must involve such a
esult.
A band Of Indians recently gave
performances ih Somerset, Ohio, and