The Feliciana Democrat., 1858-05-01

who claim still to be in the Union. AND re-
Gently, the state of Massachusetts, has pcrpc-
tratcd an act such as was never committed be-
fore by any constitutional government; to wit,
the removal of Judge (Loring) without inn
peachment for any crime simply because he
has honestly and faithfully enforced that law.
If the southern states were to pass laws pro-
hibting any citizen Of Massachusetts from re-
covering any debt or other property within
their limits. or without such law. should re-
move from Office every judge who should rcn.
der Judgment in a suit IN favor OF citizen OF
Massachusetts, Massachusetts could not COM
plain, but the Union with Massachusetts, would
be DESTROYED Is it not dissolved already, if
the southern states choose so to regard it? But
this is not although this is enough to cx-
pose the dnngcr--and the true question is
shall the south wait until the danger ovortakcs
her. unprcparcd then to meet it fully and ward
of its evils. Again
You are painfully sensible of the protractcd
and excited struggle which has for several
years, been in progress in relation to the set.
temcnt and government of the territory of
Kansas. Finally the struggle seemed to have
been terminated, by the adoption Of Il consti-
tuition for the territory, to constitute 1t state
It's SODll HH UtlllllltH lUlO tnt \ UlOU. w ltII
details Of the controversy VIC do not propose
to deal. We shall speak only Of results. When
that Constitution was adopted, it was trans
mitcd to the President, and with noble pa
triotism coming rs he does from the North,
and with faithful adherence to the constitu.
tional opinions Of the States Rights party, he
submitted it to Congress, with the recommend
alton that it should be received by it, and the
State Of Kansas left to correct the errors, if
any were committed, or redress the wrongs. if
any were perpctrated, Of the Territory of
Kansas; and thus remove the agitation of Sa
very from Congress, to whom ii in no wise be-
longs, to deal with the question Of slavery in
any form, and who can mcddc with it only for
mischievous purposes, and III violation Of its
constitutional duty.
The consequence Of this act has been the re-
opening not only of all the sluccs of abuse and
dctraction Of the south from more than one
quarter, and especially from the representative
of the great State OF New York, in the Sen
ate, by whom it has been proclaimed, without
rcbukc from any Northern Senator, that we,
the slave owners Of the South, are to be pur-
sued from Maryland to Mexico, and if need be,
in order to strip us of home and shelter,
across the Gulf Of Mexico into the island Of
Cuba, by the insatiatc appetite and voracious
demands of free labor; and the Supreme Judi
ciary is TO be corrupted and degraded because
the present illustrious bench has been true to
its oath and the constitution, thus TO make 0 II
bondage sure by securing an Infamous APPROX
al OF vicious and unconstitutional laws by q cor.
rdpt and plant Judiciary.
II these things shall continue and be persist.
ed in, every man must perceive that the alter
natives presented to the south, will be ruin,
disgrace, and bondage, on the one hand, or in
dependence OF her prosecutors and oppressors,
on the other. She will be compelled to assert
her nalienabc right, and refuse longer submis
sion to the laws of perverted Union, prcten-
ded to be passed under a constitution which
has been not only desecrated but destroyed -
Whether the spirit which is indicated by these
events will finally prevail, and its purposes be
consnmmated, as far as Congress can consum
mate them, we will not, because we can not
predict We would humbly pray to God that
they may not, for we would, if we could, per-
petnate the Union Of the States, under the
Constitution, as its immortal founders made it
We would prefer to die, as we have lived, I'M
der one flag, with one name; with the Consti.
tuition, which our foretuthers conquered, and
lsoh"NNihtN' hith 'iiSii 'loJNi, iiht tiit
spanning our beloved conntry, "atiIl the land
OF the free and the home Of the brave
But il cannot be disguised and must not if
it could that the free states as they are called
constitute now the majority, and upon their
vii upon their wisdom and patriotism it de-
pends, aud not upon the will of the SOUTH
whether the things which we have indicated
shall be done or not. But this we may and
must say, that the south is now forcwarncd
and she will be rccreant to herself and all the
great hopes Of liberty aud happiness to the
which may follow, wS%,'ftt"sha8t II mgag4 of the i'll
She docs not proceed without delay, to provide
all the peaceful and constitutional means with.
in her power to place horsclf i'll condition to
meet the crisis when it comes.
First among these, is the restoration of her
commerce, and the encouragement Of her own
manufacturers.
We urge you, therefore, most respectfully,
but most earnestly, to send delegates to the
approaching Convention, at Montgomery, and
let them be Of your ablest, best tried, and most
trusted sons-for the presence of such is de.
manded by the dstempered state of the times,
and the magnitude of the interests to be con.
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