Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1859-11-15
For THE Wine.

Events of the gravest import thicken around u.s. they
are the shadows Of Others to come, and coming rapidly
IL behoovcs TO read them truly, and promptly If we
would have it well for in the future. To do this we must
go at the kernel of them and not trouble our
selves with the hull.
Much of the difficulty Of reading them Alright and
solving them wisely, arises in Judgment from not
keeping in mind the distinction between slavery as con-
difion IN life aud established eristg Institution
IN society Men OF the past and the present who have
deplored, and do deplore il condition of our race
would not the less have hazaed and would hazard their
lives and fortunes TO defend it established social in
sution. Such jefferson, and Madison and Ran.
doph and Clay, and Mcdowell and Richie and Pleas
ants. Did men ever live truer the South and to yr
GINA than these, or reader to pour their blood out
in defence OF this very institution whose existence STILL
they hmenteds
Keeping this distinction in view, without doing which
We are lost in labyrinth of confusion we can better
read the signs of the times truly judge of their sig
nihcance more justly estimate the actors in them and
shape more wisely our own line of action
Among ourselves doubtless now as heretofore are
those who regret the existence Of this condition among
US, As they would what they might consider heretica
opinions flor eIampe) in their mother; but whom
they would none the less, defend with a hundred lives
from assault for entertaining them, whence it
might Are they the less good and for these
differences of opinion? But IT, among ourselves these
differences exist as to slavery, condition of man.
kind, may we not expect, find almost universal
depreciation of IL such condition among those who are
strangers TO s numerous compensations-to its mutual
rusts-its mGltiform conhdences-tsa ttachmens-bnd-
ing our slaves, Often TO Us and children and these
W second IN Strength to those OF
and chidbesides and beyond convenience and
interests, common If not equal to BOTH that render it,
eontnuaneebeyond any substituted condition yet sug-
gested-a blessing 10 both master and slave!
Let Us, then, accept the facts they are and deal
with them accordingly.
Outside of its limits slavery, condition OF e
is almost universally condemned. But though thus &c
neray condemned there Is yet body of men North
and West in all the so-caled Free-States who uphold
nevertheless, clear right maintain social in
stitution-our right to do this, independent States
ri.rhf do f 81.
moreover acknowledge the duty their part aiding
u.s. II need We're TO maintain it, well the further du
~ to restore TO us our escaped slaves.
And there many who recognized and more who
acquesced in right fair proportion of the public
territory for the further extension Of slavery as evidenced
nv the long and faithfully kept Missouri Compromise but
nus happy arrangement for the just fair and peaceful
settlement of the Territories the south itself struck down
in an evil hour and replaced it. by preerred-one
cannot now, perhaps if it wished supersede and
with which the North, having unavaingy opposed its
adoption seems content.
No question, therefore, b,treen IN. North and the
South, as to the Territories, il now open.
There are then in the Free States large numbers Who
though inimicsl to the condition of slavery are none
the less friendly to maintaining the institution and pre-
pared to do by us their Constitutional duty in that re-
gard.
They are all in the only in which we have right
to require they should be regards this subject FRIENDS
| OF SOUTH.
| Such SEYMOUR, and Hun, and WIS1uRos and
PIERCE, and FILLMORE and Bates and CoRwtS and Ey.
ERErT-al men, indeed, think as they NAV of slavery.
who hold for their rule of action the Constitution Of
their country, scorning the pious hypocrisy that would
cloak perjury and treason under pretended obedience
ahgher law no less than they detest the ercenary
and murderous designs OF tho meaner sort Of Abolition.
| ists.
There besides numbers who mipgle hostility To the
condilon with hate to the stakeholder and ayow A de-
termination by force stealth destroy the nsti,u.
ton, even though il 60 down n blood" and desoatop
These are our ayowed and unmistakabe, If disguised
| ENENIEs-wheher thay preach Conflict in words or
| practice IL with pixies
| Such are SEWARD and PHILLIPS and GrpprSes. and
CnEEvEE, the GAREIsoSs, and SMITHS and BRowSs
III we confound with these enemies Of the South and
It's social system those who both in feeling and in prn
cple are friends to US, institutions and constitution.
! alrighs-snd prepared to maintain them-because they
may differ with about the social or moral value al
! slayery--and hold them too as enemies-we eomm, a
grave perhaps fatal bunder, do ourselves irremed
able wrong, and them signal injustice We cut
and support outside OF tue slave States We drive from
our sdamen who are prepared to stand fall by us in
defence and maintenance Of rights and Institutions
And for what should we do this? For their nonconcur
renee with us in opinion point. of abstract morals
about which, not ourselves fully agreed and their
concurrence in which Is hopeless expect as IL i
absolutely without the slightest practical consequence
what their opinions on that subject may be- What mat
ters il TO us whether the Of the free States think
slavery blessing the reverse provided they conceds
our right to decide that question for ourselves and &c
maintain 1t ne Il exists among u.s. and recognize thei
duty 10 abstain from all interference with IT, as well as the
obligation 70 secure 10 constitutional rights in res
! pcct 70 il beyond our limits
| What more should we ask Of themf What more Al
least have We the right TO require Of them The sooner
We see distinctly and practically recognize the true lin
s OF our rights in this respectwhat are entitled q
demand, and what not this subject the better will
be for u.s. and for all concerned
Such men at the North and West--whether Amer
cans, as Hlmore-or Wings, as Bates-or Democrats Al
Diokinson-or Republicans, as Corwn--as are with u
IN respect TO our Rights, and their Duties in the matter
OF southern slavery, are the men with whom and 3,
whom one and all we must look, and must combine 1
We hope, or wish TO escape Dsunion with all the social
political material and individual evils that We see plainly
10 its train with others, dscerned more dmly bn
scarce mistakeable, which the sembauce Of Cyi
War and Social Disorder-and yet further back pros
trate figure, which, from the cap by It's side take to b.
that Of LIBERTY.