Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-11-08
Election: Saturday, December l 1855
NATIONALITY OF SLAVERY
or MEMPHIS.

NATIONALITY OF SLAVERY
The abolition journals of the North
(says the Memphis Visitor) are ma
king considerable to do about what
they term the attempts now making
to establish the nationality Of slavery.
They seem to regard the doctrine that
slavery is national as most abhorrent
proposition, and bitterly denounce
those from whom they say it is daily
obtaining more support as "fre-eaters
South and dough-faces North" The
Pittsburg Dispatch belongs to this IA
wing class, and is furious because the
Richmond Enquirer copies with ap-
probation the following demands of
the South:
eve demand for slavery not mere
ly protection from Abolition attacks,
but we demand that its existence
shall be more palpably recognized and
more certainly secured. We wish to
see the right of Southerner to trav-
ell with his slave anyarhere in tile Union
fully secured"
This is what they term attempting
to establish the nationality of slavery;
merely asserting the right, which is
guaranteed in the constitution, of a
Southerner to "travel with his slave
anywhere in the Union" as fully Sc
cured as he would be in the possess
ion of any other species of property.
This is what they call the encroach.
ments of slavery which they are en-
deavoring to marshal their fanatical
hosts to resist "at all hazards and to
the last extremity"
The Kansas elections worked
the Dispatch up to a boiling pitch
which was by no means simmered
down by the dismissal of Reeder.-
It's columns have teemed with amari-
tude and the direst imprecations have
been hurled at every thing Southern
except Southern money. This
Pittsburgers are always eager to re-
ceive with open arms, but which they
are in no particular hurry to send to
Canada. The lettings off" of the
Dispatch appear to be indiscriminate,
as they sometimes scald its neighbors,
and if its safety valve is not kept in
better order it will yet "Just itself"
The Dispatch is wrothy at the Penn
sylyanian for asserting the "full and
unqualified RIGHT of the owners Of
slaves to pass through our State with
their property, whenever they think
proper to do so;" and offers the fol-
lowing big dare:
perhaps some Shareholder may be
induced to try the experiment Of
bringing collie of slaves this way,
en- route for Southern market, that
the question may be tested"
If the "slaveholder" were to take
along with him, what the Dispatch
seems to regard as another of the
peculiar institutions" of the South
a bowie-knife, and a brace of shoot
ers-we opine that the experiment
would hardly be as difficult as the
bombastic editor imagines. Those
fanatical thieves who steal under the
guise of philanthropy will scarcely be
unable to appreciate the virtues of
cold steel and leaden prcjectilcs. A
case of this kind occurred in Cincin-
natl a few years ago, in which a young
gentleman of Memphis was "induced
to try the experiment" and assuming
that these implements afforded the
only argument to enforce right and
reason that could reach the under
standings of those one-idead fellows
who act as agents for the underground
railroad, he supplied himself and the
result proved the correctness of the
assumption.
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