The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1857-04-04

law. If they accomplish that end, the strong.
est bulwark Of the South will have been swept
away, the last bond of union will have been
broken. But, before they can achieve that
dark design, the halls Of Congress will echo
other sounds than the voices of members.
Agitation in politics as in everything else,
either in the physical or moral world is the
result Of conflict between right and wrong.
an opposition of natural to artificial law: u
resistance Of reason Justice and truth, to pref.
udice or passion, iniquity or falsehood. And
it will never end until the obstruction is rcmov.
ed Heap up rocks in the river and the wa.
tiers will foam and fret against them, for
thousand years, or until the rocks are renoy.
ed and the river rolls on its accustomed course
according to the laws of nature. Train
child to believe that there is no God, and until
reason assumes supremacy over the obstacle
in its way, there will be fear and doubt nm
agitation in the mind, arising from the conflict
Of education with instinct. And so with the
slavery question; as long MS abolitionsm is ex
tant as long as the laws Of the land are oppos
cd and impcded by dSloyalty and treason, as
long as the rights Of the South are denied and
resisted by the North, SO long must there be
agitation, iaccssant, increased and increosinc
agitation on the slavery question. Every pa-
riot in the nation must deplorc it deeply; but
we should dcprccatc the cause rather than the
ciect-abolitonism rather than result of re.
sistance If we would express our real regret
at the disease, rather than an effect of the
remedy.
If the people of the North would cease to
hurl tlunderbol,s at us from their pulpits, to
lirebrands into our society through
tllir press, to attempt TO intercept us in every
territory, to delraud and to force us out of
our rights; if, in other words, they would "rcn.
der unto Caesar the thiggs that are Caesars"
concedc to us equality in the Union, offer no
Illegal and unjust obstruction to the extension
OF our Institutions; il they would lei rs aionr
and leave slavery to the States and to the
same protection and privileges enjoyed by all
other property under the Constitution, the
aga0fton OF the question would come TO an
end on the instant. The trouble would cease
with the cause that produced
It, but as long ~ they empty their vals of
wrath upon our heads, ours must be cmpticd
upon theirs. If they propagate caumncs, we
must rcfnc them. If they incitc Mcir people
to hate and assault the South. we must incitc
o" people to rfctprocate he hatrrd, and rcpcl
the attacks. If they smitc Us Oh one check.
we cannot and will not turn the other to them
too. II there is danger in agitation, there is
still more danger in supiucncSS and submission.
The South has never assumed an attitude of
hostility to the North Our position has al
ways been and is still that Of right and honor
and virtue, acting on the defensive against in
Justice, immortality and wrong IL is true we
hnrl back the anatheuias Of the North, resist
their taunts and jccrs with fUlrfod force and
truth, and expose to the public gaze the vena-
NY and cahkeropS corruption Of their free so.
'Iety. But we never propose to amend their
morals, to alnclloratc the intolcrabc ills Of
their body polite, to interfere in any way with
Their institutions through the inslruncntality
of The federal government. We never send
among them to incitc socialism,
ncenciarleS to instigatc rebellion of labor
against capital, to persuade the starving fngi-
ave slave and their tens of thousands of dos.
lera'c paupcrS to rise in revolt against their
'htfaathfopic mllionarcs. We never protest
lga'nst the protection Of their property by the
' Constitution. We leave their domestic mat
er8 to themselves; and all we ask is an obser.
innce, on their part, Of the same policy to-
wards us AS long us Mrr sword is unshcath.
ii, ours will be also. We make no war upou
mem; but as long as our rights are denied,
he temple OF jams can never be closed.
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