The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-10-28

trust the North or Free States. This dlStrGSt
has been increased by ceaseless, censeless agi-
tation and threatened infringements of their
constitutional rights, till all confidence in the
fidelity of the Free States to the guarantees
/ OF the Constitution has been destroyed at the
South; and they feel as a man does when he
finds himself dealing with one who repudiates
his contract; he seeks for the power to oblige
him to abide by it. He rests in unsuspecting
confidence in the good faith and honor of his
obllgor, and yields all that may asked short of
an absolute sacrifice Of his own positive inter-
ests, till he begins to suspect the friendship
and designs of the other party, when he be-
comes rlgidly exacting of all his rights and
privileges and seeks for the power to maintain
ana defend them against apprehended and pos
sioie contingencies. for fear his legitimate rights
may be denied when he shall demand them.
And thus the South contends for new slave
States, not because they want new slave ter
rltory, or desire the spread of slavery as So
cal institution, to both Of which we know
large majority of the citizens of the South
are oppoSed-or at least do not wish it; bat
she insists ON it, to preserve balance of polit-
ical power to defend herself in a time of need
from the aggression which she seriously fears;
and from designs aimed at a vital interest and
peculiar right, in which all the property,
local feelings and domestic happiness of her
citizens are involved 1t is dreaded blow at
their home--its fireside and all its associations
at that which rouses the resistance of the
dullest race. Those only can appreciate the
bond that binds the master and slave, but those
who have stood in that relation; those who
thinkits chief strength on one side, is self in
terest, terribly belle their own natures. aa
he dlstrust Of the South in the popular
feeling of the North is groundless, but to
them it is real fixed alarm. If it were now pos
sible to restore to the South entire confidence
in the good intentions and fidelity of the
North, which abolition and irritating discus
sions have taken away, and the slaveho der
will be the first to urge on every measure for
the amelioration and improvement of the con-
dition of the slave, and to acquiesce in the re-
striction of slavery. Slave owners discuss the
evils of slavery among themselves, and freely
condemn, it and one may hear more anti -lsave-
ry sentiments openly declareda among those
who are its beneficiares, than among it's oppo-
nents at theNorth. We know ofour own knowl-
edge, that almost upon the instant of the re-
peal of the Missouri Compromise, a project
was set on footin the slave states and bv slave
holders to organize political party whose
leading principle was the restoration of that
Compromise, and a reputation of the trea-
son by which it was destroyed But it was af-
ter consultation abandoned, tor the very reasons
that were assigned by Mr.. Fillmore in his
letter to Mr. Berlin, a few days ago. that its
evil consequences were then irreparable; its re-
storation would be without practical results
and its discussion would only keep alive the
agitation and discord which was of ITSELF the
great evil in the whole matter. Upon this
all absorbing subject, on which the fate of the
country, and the interests of humanity seem
now to hang, our opinion, after a long resi-
dence in both sections of the country, is I'M
altered. that if the true principles Of christian
charity, as well as full sense Of our consti-
tutional obligations could be applied to its con-
sideration' all its difficulties and dangers
would cease in an hour. The people upon the
Ohio, as umpires, standing between the two
excited factions, should insist on justice to
both. arf To .z5s. I...e