The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1857-02-28

asseverate that nothing is more foreign to their
intention than the abolition of slavery IN the
Southern States, and that their real aud only
purpose is It's restriction to its present li'nlts.
lngenously put and wisely conceived. Con
cede this and the South comedies everything
AS well may it be undertaken to quell future
hunger through present supply Of food, as TO
ouell the future wants Of continually ncrcas
Ing landlcss and day.laboring mass through
present supply of lands Surrender all the
Territories to their present demands, and stlp..
ulate in the bond taken never so clearly ana
peremptorally the condition on which it is done,
to be no further interference with domestic
slavery by printing, writing, engraving, speak
ing, voting, acting, or by any other mode ana
modes, and device and devices now known, or
hereafter to be, or that may be known what
socycr, and still it would be but the allaylng
of present appetite. In few years the rel
alive proportion now existing between inc
nosoperty and property classes OF the non
slavcholding States. would be re-establlshed,
and under the law Of their necessities Is great
II want Of land would exist among the landcss
and the contract made by theiranceslors would
he regarded by them as Of no binding force
upon conscience. Though the present may
provide for the future the future 1oW provide
: for itself. 1t is the law of all things to look
, forward and not backward, for the present to
! anticipate the future for the future to regard
: its own future, and for the past to be forgot
|. ten as of no value. All impulses, human, be
:. stial or material direct only to the future
= Under this law ancestry looks to postcrlty
+" but posterty looks not back upon ancestry
:, save as it subserves interest or grates vanity
|! Parents sacrifice to children but children maxi
T. no sacrifice to parents Rivers flow from thel
- fountains towards the ocean. The double
:, ~ faced Janus was only true Of destiny, or tn
~ line OF causation, as denoting the fact OF tn
- present being derived from the past and LOOK
i ing 10 the future; otherwise the face to III
:, rear would have been designated with signifies
~ orbs This law in legislation draws the pc
ID through old statutory provisions and make
~, new ones This law obliterates at will write
-, constitutions and ruthlessly tears signature
\: and seals from treaties. How then could IL J
=; hoped that mere compact would bind the ]
~ ture Iandless mutitudes of the non-slaYehol
10, ing States on the subject OF slavery! we
~ the Territories now to agrarialllsn, and
- next policy would be unavoidably the abo
49,. .v ton of negro slavery in the Southern State
~, to be followed by the armng of the negro
;ne and war of races, the one having labor wit
4, out Janus, anu tnc olncT lahuS "ithou' '"''
~" In this war both sides would ''perish and
IT, ~, destroyed" and the Southern States would !
ial come re-popuated by the improperly hord
t"d of the non.slaveholding States. as the Ierri
oa' ries previously had been. Again, yield 7
i,as Territories and how would stand the qucstl
~" no. geographically, and still further POLITICAL
, i, Look at Johnson's recent map oil the uni'
'oSo States. The Notwithstanding tide from
way, ,w eastward would would sweep down southw'
"ao wardly through Kansas along the west
'o"n borders of Missouri; and from the wcstw
Co.., enthusiastically through New Mexico, ale
,nd the western borders of Texas. The I
liz, streams would then meet and minglc with
SOS rapidity of thought in the Greek and Chero
.r;nn domain, Overwhelming the few helpless lndl
nott there, and then dash their conincnt wa
e oo.; against Arkansas. Thus the slayehod
,hso. States would soon become cnvcopcd betw
a, this agrarian tide and the tide OF the AT
> and tic. Nor would the agrarlan tide stop h
and but next dash EDWARDS into western Ie
cont forming free State there and hcmmln
on,h slavery still more closely. BY this time
: tho the time the census would have been t.
com. told from this day, the political relations
the G. vernment between the non.slavcho
and the sayeholdng States would be
e,ore trolling majority in the former and q hop'
'u 'on minority in the latter.