Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1858-05-26
go-CsILED soUTBERE AeeREssIoE

The leading supporter of Mr.. Buchanan
among the Philadelphia papers The PenRsyl-
vaRian) thus well discourses:
1t is very fashionable nOw-s-days-and has
been more or less 50, ever since the Abolition
party arose 10 plague the country from its
hcresies-to talk about Southern aggression,
and TO charge the South with persistent and
deliberate design to subiugate the North to the
90 slave power" and TO submission to all sorts
Of unreasonable impositions. Have those who
prate and write so iippsntly, and de-laim 50
elOguently on this perllOus theme. never learnt
by history, and in the school of their own ex-
perience, that " aggression . never comes from
the weak, but always from the strong? What
has the South to gsin-even if her people were
50 dsposed-by attacks upon the North, OF by
abusing and denouncing Der local institutions
The slavehoiding States have every incentive
Of political and social interest to cultivate a
sentiment Of comfy and good neigbborhood
with the non-slavehOlding States. They are
weaker, in both political aud numerical power,
than we Of the North, and to arouse a spirit OF
antagonism against them, must, as sure as the
laws Of gravitstio eventuate In their loss.
To a knowledge OF this fact, perhaps, more
than anything else, is 70 be sscribsd that strict
INTERPRETATION Of the Constitution to which
Southern men always cling, as If it were the
sheet-anehor of their political safety And
this is true. Under the guarantees and CON-
pacts Of the Constitution all the States are
peers-all co-equals in the Union and as long
as that great charter Of State sovereignty and
equality is preserved intact, each member OF
The great family of eonfeders cies may feel safe
ard secure in its peculiar orbit.
Nos, We thiRk we have made It clear that
the South, being the weaker section, can have
no possible motive in aHtagonizing the North
because, BY the natural law Of retaliation, she
must certainly suffer in the end by stronger re-
sisring forces. She must rather rely upon the
maEnGmity OF the North not to impinge upon
those rights which have been guaranteed to bel
| ss part Of a common bond Of union by the
| fathers of the Republic. She knows her weak
ness, and she knows our strength she knows
the prejudice against slavery existing IN the
1 Northern States, bat she has no words OF re
proof for Us on that score. She has kept bel
faith with Us, and 50 far has fulfilled the termi
of the compact No matter how inferior she
NAV regard the black race, or how little adapt
ed for freedom or political rights, she quarrelI
| with no Northern State, II she chooses, in th'
plenitude Of her wisdom, to allow negro suffrag'
or inaugurate a system Of amalgamation
1 Massachusetts,, in the furor Of her mock ku
mauitarian fanaticism, nay admit negroes 70 .
perfect equality With her white citiZeDs-mal
elevate them to her highes. judicial and legis
lstive bOnors-may marry Them to her SON
| and dsughters-South Carolina will not mur
mur nor oppose, If Massachusetts, win but le
her alone 10 manage her own domestic institu
/ tiohs in her own way. Pennsylvania and New
/ York nav project and consummate system
| internal improvements involving an expendtur
I of hundreds Of millions OF dollars, entanglinl
their people ia meshes OF debt and taxation
hanging like millstones around their necks, o
create banks at every cross-roao, with all thel
devastating wrongs and eVils-and yet Mort
Carolina or Georgia viii not eODPlainnOr seol