The Oxford intelligencer., 1860-07-25
1 FaI.o and Gra.ullon. Imputnilo,..

CVAE oi tue Douglas papers uaiiy persist Il
imputing to those who have resolved to supper
Breckenridge, rathei than the author Of squat
ter sovereignty, deliberate purpose to dissolv
the Union The evidence, upon which this grav'
charge is based, consists of two propositions
only. The first is. that Mr.. Yaneey, of Alabama
some years ago, in hasty private letter to Mr.
Slaughter, spoke of 'precipitating the cottor
States into revolution" in the contingency thai
the rights of the South could not otherwise b,
secured The other is, that many prominent
gentlemen in our ranks have declared that they
would dissolve the Union rather than that ouI
section should occupy in it position of inferi
ority. From these slender materials the ground
less imputation has been manufactured. that
those Democrats who refuse osupport Mr.. Doug
las are disunionists perse-that they desire dis
union for itself and without reference to any
question of inflicted or apprehended wrong
while those who make this exceedingly charitable
mputation claim that they are the peculiar friends
and guardians of the Union.
We do not question the motives Of that small
band of Southern gentlemen who have adhered
to the fortunes Of the Little Giant We shall
treat them with more courtesy than they have
extended to us. We shall charitably assume
that, in intention, they are patriots; and that
while they desire TO promote the welfare of the
whole country, they are not unmindful of their
duty to the South. But, although We conccde all
this we believe, and we think we shall be able TO
show, that the doctrines Of Mr. Douglas tend in
eyitably to disunion, or military despotism oser
the South and that, if he is made Presidentand
those doctrines are carried out the Issue inialli
lily must be what we have Indicated either in
the one form or the other; and it will be easy
enough, also, to show that the tendency of the
doctrines adyocatedby the Democratic opponents
Of slr. Douglas is to preserve and perpetuate,
and nc; to destroy, the federal Union Of these
States
No sane man will deny, we presume, that the
Union can only be preserved by respecting the
rights of all the States. Each State became a
party TO the Federal compact because she eX-
pected to derive from it certain material adyan-
tagcs; and it. instead of proving blessing to
her, the Union is perverted into an instrument
for her oppression, then, her interest and con-
scqucnly, her duty to her citizens, requires that
she should refuse longer to be bound, on her part,
by the terms of a compact which is no longer OBJ
served by the other parties TO it. If she desires
to go out Of the Union, and is kept in by the
strong arm Of military coercion, She is thence
forth but conquered province, and her people
viii be- in fact, whatever they may assert con-
corning their freedom, the AFFECT slaves of DOM
inant and dcspotic majority.
The Black Republican party is banded togcth-
cr under the single idea and rallying cry of "op-
position to slavery" They look forward to the
ultimate extinction Of Slavery, as a result TO be
brought about through the agency of the Gene |
raj Government, of which they desire TO obtain
the control for the purpose Of directing its en-
orgies against the institution. They propose to
exclude slavery, by direct Congressional legisa- /
iion from all the Territories, to admit no more
slave States into the Union; and, so soon as a
sufficient majority of free States is thus secured,
10 make such an amendment ofthe Federal Con- !
,titution as will confer upon Congress the power /
10 legi>late upon the subject Of slavery in tie .
Statcs rhere IL e1isis Such are the aims Of
Free soilism Let us see how much more the
South has to hope for from Douglasism.
According to Mr. Douglas, Territ orial Le-
gi.laturc, either By unhiendly legislation or
~ refusing to lcgislate At all for the protection
If slave property, may, in a perfectly cons!iu-
ional manner, a. ciiectually exclude slavery
rom the Tcnitorya as Congress could do.-if the
light Of Congress to lcgisatc for the exclusion of
slavery were acknowledged direct prohibi-
DRY legislation. If this doctrine be conceded.
ve know of no man who is wild and visionary
.nough to believe that another Slave State will
.vcr apply fer admission into the Union. When
,vcr a new Territory is thrown open TO settle
ncnt, the North will so far outstrip the South in
he rapidly with which she will send forth cm-
yrants TO take possession Of and control the Ter
itorial government, that there never viii exist
he rcmotest possibility Of making another Slave
state DOugasism therefore, leaves MS, finally,
n the same prcdicament in which Frcc-soil.sm
would place US; and it can be, 10 Us matter OF
20 moment whatever whether that result is
brought abont through the evil designs Of our
vowed enemies, or through the shor,-s.hted
oily of real bat njudicious friends The cor.
sequences, in either case, will be precisely the
ame. The free States will be numerous enough
o change the Constitution TO suit their own pur-
roses; and If they forbcar to make the change, h
viii be the first instance, in the history ofthc
yerld, in which any people have filled TO use,
or their own ACKNOWLEDGMENT the power they
possessed over another people When this point
hal have been reached, the South must seek
cfuge in disunion, or, falling to assert heriights
With success, she viii sink beneath the weight Of
despotism moro calamitous than any that ever
'ursed conquered country.
As between lincoln and Douglas therefore
&c see not why the South should care to choose.
f the first avows his purpose to destroy our in
,titutions through the agency of the Federal
government, the latter declares that he will stand
1y and see the same work of destruction per
orncd by Territorial Legislatures In either
,ase, dsnnion Is our only remedy; and Douglas
SIN, therefore, is, practically, nothing but rank
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