The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1858-05-05
Senator Cay, Of Alabama. on
Southern Submission,

do not doubt that you think she
will yield all you demand. | do no
doubt you believe you can extort iroH
her fears OF your power all that yo,
can seduce from her love ofih Union
| believe you expect to excite discorC
among her own sons and to array
against the Shareholders all who are
not shareholders, by pe.'suading thes.
that they are oppressed and wronged
But the example Of Kansas, where
there cannot have been more thar
two hundred shareholders out OF siA
thousand pro-slavery voters, should
have taught you that the sons of the
South know and feel that they have a
common interest IN preserving The in
s,itution OF slavery; that they must
keep the negro in his normal condI-
ton of slavery or destroy hun, or sur
render to him their country. | do not
fear that you can dellie and besuile
them to their own selt.dsstruction OF
the desolation Of their country.
know you count largely upon the
defections and desertion, of Southern
leaders; and ] confess, with shame
and regret, that you have but too
good reason for your calculations in
the mortitying examples we have
furnished OF those who have betrayed
their trust and broken their allegiance
to the South, not, perhaps, because
they loved her less, but the Union
more. and themselves most. | know
it is idle to try to disenchant your
minds Of impressions which you are
found to retain and wish to be true,
but which think dishonor the South,
wrong the North, and may dissolve
the Union. Yet, at the hazard ofyour
ridicule, l must tell you that Alabama,
in common with all her Southern sis
ters but two, has, by the universal
voice of her people, as expressed By
party conventions, by popular assem-
blies, and by her late and former Leg
isIature, resolved:
THAT she will and ought to resist,
even las a last resort) to a disruption
,f every tie which binds her to the
Union, any action Of Congress upon
he subject of slavery in the Dist, ict
IF Columbia, or in places subject to
The jurisdiction of Congress, incom.
,atible with the safety, the domestic
tranquility, the rights and honor otthe
'laveholding States, or any refusal to
admit As State any Territory here
after applying, because Of the exis'
ence Of slavery therein; or any act
prohibiting the Introduction of slavery
nto the Territories; "
" any act repeating or materially
modifying the law now in force for the
ecovery offugitive slaves"
lf this be mere bravado, she shares
he folly and the shame in common
With twelve of her Southern sisters.
While | have INDUCED, and shall in
luIge, in no menace. or promise, or
Of her course, yet ! can and
will say, for myself, that in the day Of
Ter sell-degrecation, by di.regarding
er pledges and submitting to your
| will not sit here to en-
ure the contumely and reproach
which you justly may, and certainly
vill heap upon the heads other Seaa-
Drs.
Mr.. President, ! have not been ad
icted to singing pens or uttering eu-
,gies about the Union, or accustomed
, regarding it as 1.-The paramount po-
;lcal good" or "the primary object
{ patriotic desire" have ever felt
rat owed my first and highest allie
ance to my State, and that her SOW
her independence, and her
onor. and even without the Union,
louId be dearer to her sous, than the
MON and her subordination, depen-
ence and dishonor within it. Yet,
r, the Union OF the Constitution,
hich our iorefalhers made, love and
'verence and would preserve; but this
nion without the Constitution, or
ith it as construed by Northern
epublicans. ! shhor and scorn, and
ould dissolve if my power we're
'uaI to my will. To this Union, the
uu,h 10 cemmsDcsd a. a choice Of