The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1860-11-28
The Real Bangor.

The slavery question: is usually regarded
as the only ground of controversy between
the people of the North and South. Were
there, in fact, no other sources Of disagree
ment, that question might, perhaps, be set
tied; and its settlement would bring peace
to the whole country. Bat the slavery ques-
ton, in truth, is rot the only bone of con.
ention between the two cxaspcratcd sections /;
It is not, really, and of itself, sufficient to
have excited the angry feelings which now
threaten the disruption of the Confederacy.
The question of slavery is amerc instrument
employed by the ambitious leaders of the
North, for the purpose Of enabling them to
control the powers of the general govern
ment for the exclusive advantage oftheir Sec
ton, and at the -expense of the South. From
the time Of the adoption of the Federal Con
stitution up to the present moment, the
statesmen of the North have steadily pur-
sued the same invariablc and Evolutionary
policy, looking to Northern asccndcncy in
the Union. Fishing bountics, navigation
laws, restrictions upon slavery,uational banks,
internal Improvements, high tariffs, oil those
were measures resortcd TO in futhcance of
the general design, and were calculated in
their practical operation, to bring about the
result desired 10y those who inauguratcd
Them In the natural course Of things, and
bv the regular increase of population, the
North would have acquired the power to
override the South Ia Congress, and to elect
the President; but they were impatient of
results, aad, that they might sooner grasp
tho cnvried nri7c tl''y raised the ralfyinG
cry of anti-slavcry, as mere political strata
gem, in order to acquire the support Of the
fanatics in their midst, and infamc the
minds of their people with a sentiment OF
hostility against their brethren of the South.
/ Among the various schemes of pacification
which have been discussed OF late, we have
met with none that seems to reach what we
regard rs the actual "roef Of the matter
1T seems always tn be taken for granted that
securityto slarery is all that the South ought
now to require. The North might well af-
ford to give us the most Stringent guarantees
on that subject, now that they have EN-
ployed it so effectually against us; but, if
we are secured by fresh constitutional re-
strictious only in reference to slavery, the
North will still be left in full possession Of
the long coveted power to rule the South al
pleasure. OF what avail to Us will be the Sc
cure possession Of our slaves, il the profit OF
their labor may be taken from US by the Gun
ming devices of sectional Legislation by the
Northern maioritics in Congrcssl There j:
danger enough, as we sadly believe, in the
slavery question, for the South, within the
4 Union; but. with a new "paci6catie n, p'ol
compromise" which shall settle only that
isolated question, and leave al Others as
they now arc, the South might inscribC
"Ichabodp upon her banners. We would
scout, as an insult and deliberate snare, any
proposition for settlement which should
not confer upon the South, for all time, the
power, absolutely, to prevent the passage ci
any law, upon any subject, towhieh she may
be opposed. Any thing short Of this deliver,
her over, bound, into the power of her foes