The Feliciana Democrat., 1858-02-13
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THE BATTLE OF TIE SECTIONS.

The line Of separation of the North and the
South is now as distinctly drawn and as clearly
perceptible, both at home and abroad, as the
rock of Adamant in the boundlcsS occau seen
by Mira. The union of the Republic is only
II union in name. On each side of the line,
conflicting opinions, parties and interests have
arisen, and the constant spoiation and opprrs-
sion of one has driven the other into position
of hostility, both TO the spoliator and oppres.
sor, and to the further continuance of the con.
federacy unless as it slipped from the stocks of
the Revolution
The great body of the Northern people are
undisguisedy hostile to the South and its in
stitutions. The cageruess with which they raj
lied around Fremont, the daily diatrbcs of its
press, the atrocious malignity which their PAM
phleteers, bookrights and itinerant lecturers
and stump.orators assail Slavery, and the de-
termincd opposition of the Northern Senators
and Representatives in Congress to crush ont
the South in the Territories and surround us
with the "white line y so graphically painted
by Collamer, of vcrmont-thcsc and II thou
sand other things which could be enumerated
in the catalogue of olcnses, make no longer
doubtful the odious policy which the North
has, with wicked premcdtaton, adopted, for
South. In tile last presidential campaign, a
quiet spectator, looking at the Free Soil and
abolition Saturnalia, might well have cried with
Ferdinand, in the Tempest.
Hell is empty.
And all the devils are here I"
The first great blow struck at the righta Of
the South, and the FIRST line run by the poll
aical surveyors Of Congress, was the Missouri
Compromise There were few chvarous and
prophetic spirits even then, who saw, with
John Taylor, of Caroline, that ultimately the
idea OF n balance Of power between comhina-
tions Of State would result III hostility and tie
result Of hostility was secession or war Ran
dolph Of Roanoke, saw further into the gloom
Of the future He bcsought the Speaker, who
was no less a parsonage than Nv Clay. to
leave the chair he would follow him into X en-
tucky. follow him anywhere in the South =
But Mr.. Clay was a temporscr-a mau Of
conciliation, of patchwork and compromise
and forgot that the way to meet au enemy aud
TO crush him, lies in spirit Of determined de-
liancc and resistance. The keen, penetrating
rapierlikc vision Of the Vrginian saw the pc
ril which threatened Slavery. lie behcd, in
the distance, the battle Of the sections, the cl.
fort of the North TO put withcs upon the hands
Of the South, and reduce its people to con
dition of unmanly and disgracefu vaSsalage
Another struggle came and the line was
apparently oblitcratcd. Congress, by the rc
peal of the act Of 1870, virtually declared
that it had transccndcd its powers when il un,
dertool to make a solemn treaty which should
be obligatory upon the scctions-a power
which it ouly eonstitutionally possesses in its
relations with foreign governments. But what
do we see now? Tile noniutcryention policy
of the Kansas Nebraska bill is a non-intcrycn-
ton humbug. The line between the sections,
like black paint beneath whitewasll, is clearly
visible, and Congress is engaged in again med
ding with the affairs of Territory that, by
right, should be n sovereign state Of this
Union. Insolent and perfdious enemies Of the
South are engaged in the unholy effort to de-
feat the Lccompten Constitution simply be-
cause that Constitution recognizes Slavery
The Northern National Democracy, under the
lead Of Walker and Douglas have sounded
the alarm. That Constitution, framed and
adopted by the ProSlaverytes Of Kansas, in
the teeth Of the President and his gnbernato-
1ial minion, and in defiance of the power,
trickery and patronage Of the Federal Gov
crnmcnt, is now on trial again not before the
voters OF the Tcrritory--not before the people
who, in their sovereign capacity incorporated
in it principles vital to the Sonth--but before
the Senators and Representatives of Con-
gress--bciorc men who have usurpcd the
rights Of the people. Congress may see that
the Constitution of Kansas is republican
instrument further than that it has no more
business to go than the Diet Of the Germanc
Confederation.
1t was Mr.. Webster, we believe, who said
that the people Of the Revolution rcbcllcd
against preamble. 1t was not so much for
what the British King and the Parliament at
his back had done, as what they would do if
not resisted. The coionists proposed to strike
down the jailcr when they heard the chains
rattle, and met him when he came with flash
ing swors and dcadcn arguments. The North F
has long since ratified the chains over our
hcads--the iailer is at the door--t is time to
take him by the throat and save ourselves
South Carolina stands ready to lead or to
second the efforts Of her sister States. Geor-
ga is bound by her platform of $50 to resist
TO dissolution Of the Union the refusal to ad-
nit a State or Territory because of the cxis-
+a,.o Of 9 Ia vapv : Hin borln,. AI,l,u,o