The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1860-12-08
f)olitifal.
A Pregnant Suggestion.

It's matter of no.oriety that the Southern
States which contain the largest number of
advocates for secession and disunion are the
States which have suffered least in the past
tr"m any of the aggressions charged upon the
Federal Government or their confederate
States Of the North. 1t is also matter of
notoliciy that the Southern States which
dying on the horder) have suffered most from
the sectional disturbances that have so long
prevailed are precisely those Of the slave
holding States which are least disposed to
adopt the policy Of eparation.
What is the induhltable inference from
this? Simply that the policy ef dsunicn
finds its most Strenuous supporters among
those uho look for Tie attainment of future
purposes, and not at all for the cure of pas,
grievances. 1.-THE latter were the inspiring
causes of the movement it would proceed
from the States which have the most, we NAV
almost say the only. substantial reason for
complaint.
Reduced, then, to the inevitable logical
necessity Of finding the primun mobile of this
agitation, so far as it takes its motives from
calculations of interest, in some prospective
aims which cannot he secured in the Union
but may be secured in a. Southern Con.
subject from the following prudent outgivings
which are commended to the special altcl,-
ton Of our readers in the border Slaveholding
States. We quote from the communication
Of writer in the Charleston Courier. who
signs himself "a Southern Planter" and
who, after stating the labor demands Of the
South, expresses the hope that the South
Carolina Convention will not discuss the
question of revving the foreign slave trade
and he gives as a reason for this cautious
reserve that such discussion may repel and
disgust the frontier States. lie says:
"The question Of labor and the opening Of tn,
slave trade should be postponed UNTIL ALL THE SLAVE
STATES ARE WILLING 10 UNITE WITH Us IN FORMING
SOUTHERN CoSfEpERAcY HAVE PERFECTED THEIR INTER
N,L ARRANGEMENTS; should any measure that il
calculated to keep amy of our southern states from
be argued or Noted upon by the Convention. The open
ing Of the African slave trade am satisfied WILL
| An IMPORT Ant BEAIISG 1HE MANY OF TIL
| PRESENT STATES. either in uniting them witt
separating them from and even ifa common DIES
tiny forces them into cunncxon with lis hereafter, ii
would be preferable for them to become willing r,th.
than nwlling c"-partncrs in concern. This ques
ton ais, will hnv. much influence with the great nann
Of Europe in acknuwnS our independence. and will
ate like interest in the commercial treaties they
| form with u.s..
In other words, Virginia, Maryland, Nortl
Carolina. and the rest are to be inveiS led into
the Union before the real objects of it are de-
declared. They are necessary to Strengthen
the Confederacy but after they shall have
been used for this purpose, the opinion. no
only of the border States. but of the civilized
world against the revival Of this deplorabl,
traffic may be successfully braved Who
shall venture to predict the dlSastcrs-moral
social and financial that may ensne to tn,
bcncfccnt form of servi,ude which now ex
isis in the South if the arrangements of tn,
present Constitution b. disturbed
National Iniellieencer.