The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-12-28
Views OF q Southern Gentleman.

Views Of o Southern 0entlemans
The following letter from distinguished
member of the Baltimore Bar, has been
handed us for publication. As revealing
the sentiments entertained by intelligent
classes in a conservative Southern city, it
will be read with interest
BALTIMORE, December Ii, 1860.
There is no hope, politically, for the cure OF
present difficulties. Analyze them, and you
will find them to result in those diversities Of
opinion by which majority in both branches
of Congress is sure to be organized for the op.
preston of the minority. The trainers of our
Constitution foresaw this difficulty, and admit.
ted that against this there could be no provi-
sion, from the nature of things. Read the Fede.
ral,st from number thirty nine to forty-fve, and
you will see the truth of what say through the
cautious glimmerings that those writers allowed
to escape them. The anti-slavery party have
steadily tutored the Northern mind that there
are now balances and checks in the Constitu-
ton to control them. There is nothing left but
to construct government not having these
diversities of opinion and interests, and see if
it will not last seventy or m ore years for the
happiness of mankind. DR.. Franklin's story,
that man is party animal and will separate, is
verified. Jefferson tells it either in his autobi-
ography or one of bis letters. Two men were
placed in lighthouse to take care of it, which
could not be approached from the shore in the
winter months. When spring came, and the
people from the shore went to supply them
with provisions, they were met at the door by
only one of the men; he being asked for his
companion, said he knew nothing of him, and
had not seen him since shortly after they were
separated by winter causes from the shore. At
first the visitors supposed he had murdered the
other, but on going into the interior, into one
of the wings of the building, they found him
we'll. He stated that they had quarreled, di.
vided provisions and duties, and had kept apart
without seeing or speaking to each other since.
Theology seems to have no restraining effect
upon the dissocializing principle, except to
prevent amicable separation. 1t begins the
separation, and seeks to end it by the eXtermi-
nation of those who differ from the majority.
If you will look at section four of article four
of the original draft of the Constitution, cd
vol. Madison Papers, l227-S,) and section three
of article seven, (page 1888 of same book,)
and to the debate which took place as to in.
cooperating those provisions in the Constitu-
tion Ito be found in Sd vol. Madison Papers,
1862 to 1267.) you will see that the full right to
carry slaves into the territories of the United
States, was expected and conceded by ten
Statet against one New Jersey)
The man who sought to limit the representa-.
ton, and his coadjutor, Rufus King, were on
the committee to ''revise the style and arrange
the articles" I'D vol. Madison Papers, 1929
Accordingly, they disocated the original draft,
SO as to separate the principle of representa-.
ton from all allusiOn to ne,D States. (See arti.
Gle l, Constitution section 2, and article 4, Sec
ton 3D. Thus fraudulently did the reciprocal
bearing of represention and new States be-
come separated. When the Constitution was
being formed no such disconnection was ap-
pretended. The revisers of ''style' thus CO.
verify sought to make it appear that what had
been decided had not been passed upon, and
without such decision no union could have
been made. At that very time the conquest
or obtension of the country about the mouth
of the Mississippi was generally contemplated,
as is evident in the letters of Madison, Wash.
ington and Jefferson.
We mnst make up our minds, then. to sepa-
ration, if slavery is to be sin and the 'sum
of human villainy." No checks and balances
can keep people together who thus differ.