The Constitutional. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1860-1861, 1860-12-29

As We understand political science, it is
equally vain and absurd, under repre-
sentative form Of government to say that
the people of the North shall not have
their honest opinions respected by men Of
their own choosing or appointment, wheth-
or their public servants hold seats in the
Executive Council in the Senate as a
court, or a branch Of the National Legisla-
ture in the House of Representatives, OF on
the bench of the Supreme Court Of the
United States If the will of the people
cannot rightiully expressed through these
legal and constitutional channels, then the
idea of republican or popular sovereignty
il Mt best n sham, cheat, and n lie.
While the Northern intellect has bccl
educated TO believe that negro slavery is
blundcrand n curse, politically considered,
the Northern conscience has been taught,
from the pulpit and through the ubiquitous
power of books, anti-slavery tracts, peri
odicals, and newspapers, and by all social
intercourse, to believe that the institution
involves at once both great sins and great
crimes. These facts are not denied. and
cannot be. They have shown themselves
for twenty-five years in Congress; and the
refusal to execute the fuSitivc-slave law,
and the recent election of strictly section
al President, are nothing more than mild
expression Of the best Judgment and CON
science Of the free States. We must go
back ninety years at least, Ito l77O) to
find tie time when the breeding Of anti
slavery blood in the bone, the flesh and the
brain of the people commenced in this
country.
1t is plain to our minds that the voters
of the North, ut this Time do not want any
pro-savcry Congressman to make laws by
which they are 10 DC governed; nor any
Executive officer who is favorable TO the
"pcculiar institution" t. execute the laws
in relation thereto, rs they now exist nor
any United States Judges to interpret the
federal constitution as it has been hitherto
interpreted by the federal courts But as a
large majority OF the citizens Of the Con-
frdcracy live in the free States, they do
not object to carry on the general govern
- mcnt IN Mcir O,cn toay, on the avOwed prin-
:. ciplo that all slayc-holding is "poli;ically n
! blgadcy and morally cyjmc" Ii the South
- will continue it, partnership i'll such gov
eminent, and not ask for the return, 0i
J. delivering up Of fugitives from service,
nor object to the propriety of sending the
. presidents of all underground railroads
tt used for stealing and carry ing off slaves
- to Congress TO enact laws which every
at Shareholder in the South may be forced tC
to obey by federal cannon and high tariffs
-. then our national government may run q
little, and but little longer. What has
80 been bred in the bone and heart Of th,
at people for thirty years cannot possibly b,
y bred out again in any less SINE. Hence, i
No all the anti-slavcry orators, both politica
and religious, and all their PRESSES were t.
become pra-slaycry Mt once, IT would taxi
IL till 1890 TO place public opinion where j
nd stood at the North in 1890. How long
- shall we wait for miracle to make TIN
:, change for our benefit The quickest way
and probably the only way TO cure thi
y chronic and distressing disease, iastcnrr
nd ON the yiial- of Northern society, Is not t.
Sc permit any representative from slave
.,. ioIdn. district 70 have a seat in their Con
, ercss, to irritatc by his presence and vote
the morbid suscoriibilitic- OF abolition
Il nerves How else can they become calm
'a! or sound The patriotic compromise Z
is 1880 snothcrcl the mental fire, and ac;c
cs ~ an opia.c for short time; but IN IL
~; end it unhappilymadc every patient wors
than he was before. Another comproni-
to would be about n effective and quictin
cs a. the application Of a blisicr-Plasic
ear made Of Spanish hios, to an inilamed cy
go, Slowly and painfully, the Northern il
. tcIlrc: and conscience have TO unlcan I'll
error, that have been 30 Unwisrlv, yet zen
lgo ou.ly taught them. Ilrir never Was an
tel nrvc: can be any short, royal road 20 Us
W. rul knowledge Let the South discontinr
, her cagartnership with these moaornanla'
tor one or TWO generations, "ii" NV" Z. ''''
ny children will seek and obtain those adva
ON taocs from negro slavcry which the poop
.ie- the slave State, from experience ever
year, are less willing to part with.
partners under thcfcdcral constitution, an
'ui' slavery men have the Legal right to contr
der hv The force of numbers, every drPartma
UNI Of our government This republican a
aoo vantage they cannot, because they da
az not throw away. There is perhaps iii
'Flh need Of hurry in settling and dividing +
the respective interests of the North and {
:ose South in their joint property. 1t wi
tho however, contribute much to Southc
:. harmony for the fact to be gencraIly und'
=" stood that = separation Is an unayoidal
BIC necessity. The case amounts to Tia
rom Neither section can safely yield what t
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