The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1857-03-07

when this day comes. ana It aSSuredly Will
come, and that not rcry distanHy, as that the
Union shall last. and existing circumstances,
as operating causes, shall be permitted to pro.
grcss to full fruiton, the South before the
North, will he as powerlcss as hind in the
crushing folds of an anaconda; ut one fell
swoop two thousand millions of slave property
will he annihiatcd. together with twice that
amount Of other interests; and this immense
sacrifice of property will be the h1a Of the
evils inflicted upon your sunny and now happy
country. moral pcstilcncc, in addition, will
sweep over YOU, like to that which buried
Sodom md Gomorrah beneath the waters of
wrath! like to that which weighed in the bal
anccs and hurled into oblivion the empire of
Assyria! like to that which rended the Tenn
pie and oblitcrated thu. .Jewith nation from the
earth! In the emancipation Of the negro and
his elevation to the same standard IN society
with the white man, war of races will cnsnc,
dcuging the land with blood, and
! Priest and Temple. wor.hipp'd and worshippcrs,
viii sink down o,.ether 10 rise no more
"Tnc dark shadow Of all this most horrible
realization is already resting upon yon, and !
sludarr to think that we may live TO see the
actual presence Of the monster There are
men, however, among you, advanced in years,
and who have but brief space Of time where
I in TO play their petty games Of srlli>hncss and
ambition, who like the Infamous George the
Fourth of England, when rcrrpacI,ed with
the dangers to his country likely TO flow from
his iniguticS, are rndy to eyrn M hc Hag-
linn mWi ST duriag ma time, nd I dont care-
d0ma mhok Games atier.'"
II IS not time strengthened rather than Of
faced these positions? Is it noi more evident
that the Territories are in possnsSion Of the
North? Is il not more evident that the d.
visions Of those Territories into States. and
the admission Of those States into the Union,
win Scrnre TO the North II fwotlirls vote in
the Congress? l. il not more evident that
under the two thirds vote, the agrarians Of the
non-snveholdng States then in beinr. will de-
maud and pass amendments 10 the Constlu-
'ion. snnctionne total emancipation? L if
not more evident that when the North shall
have grown Tins powerful in the vuon the
South will he incapable of cficctunl resistance?
Is it not more evident that your danger Is al
ready upon you aud yonr enemy at hand?
The ngrnrian rolcr of the North extends
not only to the full of MI that has been suc-
gested hut beyond It. Dcmagogucs have i'm.
under the Compromises of 1850 and the Kan.
saS-NebraSka act. no practical ground can ho
obtained by the South on which TO base sccns
sion, however provoking the North may he,
aSd. therefore, ILL" Southern States will never
withdraw from the Union, and ror'a not il
they would and should not If they could. he
cause through those measures they have made
their own terms aud must abide their owl
choosing They talk to the South after this
fashion,: lyon repealed the Missouri Compro
mise line and called for the Constitution. nn(
now you shall have it, We differ, and mn
differ, about the spirit Of the instrument hut
the letter is plain, aud the'lrticr yon shall have
letter by letter Fugitive slaves shall be sur
rendered, but aided by the Federal arm nlon'
You ntSt take them--the instrument does not
call upon us to assist you. Yourselves nn(
yonr slaves may 80 into the Territories. bn'
we shall he there sooner than you aud vo''
your slaves free, and take good care to apply
for admission under Free State constitutions
fol'such is onr reading of the Kansas act
The letter Of the Federal Constitution give
yon the right to propose amendments and have
yonr amendments adopted, If gon c0n' W.
have the same right, and this right we vii
exercise when we can. Yon have cllmorrc
: for the letter, and You shnll have the lettc,
and nothing but the letter. ion shall have
! your pound of nrsh' but neither more nol
2 less nor spill one drop of blood in its oxtrac
ton, for such is the law of Venice If you
own bantlings smitr yon, if the spirits yon have
evoked madden you, it shall not be reasol
for your tearing us. Our welfare is wrapt il
the Union the Union is ours as well as your
--and you shall not sever it. Yon prnte o
: principle and integrity. Is it honest and ins
to us, after having forced us to the Constitn
ton for you to fly from it? Because you sui
, fer yon shall not destroy us"
+ Such is the angu &c Of 1lcmagosucs, and h
it logical or illogical, sophsticnl or otherwise
the fact is, it is poteLt with the Northern mas
t scs. 1t cannot be concealed that the Sout'
: has woven the mesh destined to bind it fast
, it, rather than sever it with the blade OF nfces
7 sity, it idly prates with some abstract morallt
$ of an unreal world. The law OF laws is tn
t law of necessity, and right morality is the wis
G dom Of the law Believing the South to b.
: thus caught without any fair chance OF eXtrl
cpton-qm tint chante they mW nerer openf
+ gire-- Northern prophecy and policy, after tn
= abolition of negro slavery and the absorption
/ of tie South, in the manner indicated, reveal
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