The true Democrat., 1857-05-12
'' Mailing and GnashIns of Teeth'' among
 the Abolitionists.


 The spirit of abolitionsm in its early career professed to be simply anti-Savery and aimed ouly to prevent tho extension of slavery, as avowed in prohibiting the foreign slave trade and in the aggressive measures of excluding slave labor from the territories. But famed by the flame of rampant tanat;cism, the spirit has assumed fanatlcsi character, extremely rabid, in the north. For several years past northern aboltionists have banded themselves into social combinations and aided by secret emissaries, liberal contributions, and astipended press gang, they have proceeded with their mad determi- nation of etfecting, if possible, the immediate liberation of all southern slaves They have brought the press into disgraceful requisiton, they have flooded the south with the most in- fammatory publications, they have attempted to excite our slaves to insurecton and have re- peatedly insuted and outraged southern citi- zens. But disappointed in their diabolical ef- forts and driven from their favorite sophisms, they next determine to reach their object by nulllfying the decision of the highest tribunal known to the land through the legislative de- partments of the country. They invade the sanctity of the judicial department and taunt with impunity the supreme judges of the na- tion. They vail and gnash the:r teeth like madmen, and pour out their wrath in desperate resolves. The New York Legislature, moved by this unhalowed spirit of nulfcaton, just at the close of it's session passed the following resolutions by vote of l7 to 10 in the Senate. and 42 to 26 in the House.
 "Resolvei, That t.is State will not allow sla- very within her borders, in any form, or under any pretence, for any time, however short.
 |" Res0lUef, That the supreme court of the United States, by reason of majority of the judges thereof having identified itself with sectional and aggressive farty, has impaired the confidence and respect of the States.
 "Res0'Ued, That the Governor of this State be, and Is hereby, respectfully requested to trans- init copy of these resolutions to the respec- tive Governors of the States of the Uuion."
 It is thus in the face of reason and justice the unrighteous spirit of notification in New York manfests itself to the world. But the worst feature that we have observed in the an-
 
 tasonism to the decision of the supreme court is the declaration that there is " a power higher thar that tribunal-ths great heart of the peo- ple-whch can limit the power of unjust judges, and render their most obnoxious deci- sions, however bolstered and sustained by pow CT in high places, as chaf on the threshing floor" Well, if the constitution, as expounle by learned and just judges, is not superior to the gre at heart of fanaticsm, we must con- fess that the rights of shareholders rest upon very unsound, and to say the best of it, very incompetent basis. The plan of preserving these rights upon constitutional principles would be honorable to the north and satisfac- tory to the south; for this alone can promote the peace and prosperity of the Union. Any other plan evidently contains within itself the elements of destruction, and those who advo. cate It cannot cherish the safety of the Unou