The true Democrat., 1855-07-03
Startling Proposition.


 After stating the present aspect of the slavery question, the New York Herald deliberately makes the following proposition:
 Finally, if, after due and earnest discussion, it is found impossible to invent any compromise which can be received willingly by both sec- tions of the country, that peaceable separa- tion be effected between the north and south, and such treaties passed as may be suitable to their future independent condition" We yesterday cited short but pregnant avowal of John c. Calhoun as to the slavery question:; and also the words of General Hous- ton coinciding with MT. Calhoun. It may sur prise many, who have dinned in their ears week. days and Sundays the alleged aggressive course of the south, to read the asOwal by the states- man, of all others, who understood 1t, and was regarded its representative man, that he "claimed, nohsiug .tor s1avery- nothing at aU"
 An accomplished scholar and careful obser- yer, Dr. Adams, of this city, in his south side view of slavery, has the following among other passages of like import
 "What had the south done to injure us, ex- cept through our scnsibilites on the subject of slavery? What hove que done to her, but adn.o- nish, tbreaten erconanaunacate her, stir up ans~r recton among ter slaves endanger her homes, make her christians and ministers odous n other lands9'' * *
 "What had she ever done, except in self-de- 1 fence, in our long quarrel, which, upon recon, cliatlon, would rankle in our memories, and make 1t hard for us to forgive and forget? PO- sITIvELY NOT ONE THING. We have been Nte assallants, ste tue mark; ,Ue the prosecutors, ste tue detendant a0e tue accuSers, she the seLfdenyag, respondent"
 This then, is the case. The south holds on to the institution of slavery; it asks of the people of the north nothing for slavery; and of their representatives in Congress, only that, in Gen. Houston'S words, they Twill not interfere with the subject anywhere" The frecsoil cle ment at the north, however, insists upon inter- meddling with this institution; insists upon at tacking it; anti is so fanatcal as even to term the party it attacks the aggressors It goes so far as to say that this aggression IS so predoml. nant in southern politicians that any honorable union or co operation with them is idle. l All this is in the worst possible spilt. Deep ly should 1t be deprecated. Too severe terms cannot be used in denouncing the cold-blood- ed proposition of the Herald. Shame on these sewers of sedtion, these disturbers of our har- mony, these advocates of doctrines and of a policy that would rend this Union asunder, and spread the blgh of desoation over our political l fields. The course Is parrcldal.
 We earnestly dissent from the doctrine that there can be no honorable, manly, patriotic ! Un or now with southern statesmen. It is ex- actly the doctrine of Garrison and his raving- mad raitor allies It is ibelous to the insti- tutions of our country There is the same bond that Washington, and Madison, and Sa- muel Adams, and Fisher Ames framed or sign ed. It is living and should be never-dying bond; under 1t our national prosperity, north, south, east and west has been wonderful; with 1t each section can perfect, as it pleases, it's own local institutions; and all-postlvely aU it de- mands of the people of the sister States Is non-interfcrence of one with the other in To- cal concerns Away-banished forever-be the idea that on this basis there can be no more Union of statesmen.
 How the lofty spirit of the other days tow CTS above the modern dsuniOn spirit and makes 1t shrink into thing of loathing! Down with the principles, the measures, and the parties that would tear asunder the bonds that unite this great country. They war against the inte- rests of human freedom; they violate the noblest instincts of American patriotism; they would blight forever the fair tree of American liberty. Patriots, friends of one common country, did not W Washington speak the words of truth, when he said, in his immortal farewell address, "there aoiN aleeays be reason to diarust the patriotism ot those rls0, 1n ony quarter may eadeavor to a0eak en tie bonds cf our Union2" Listen to his last words, and indignantly trown upon these at tenpts to allenate one portion of the country from the rest-Boston Post