The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1860-11-21


country, who look up TO power and make gain
out of the future viii come out in support o
the abolition Government The Brownlows and
the Bolts in the South viii multiply. They
will organize, and from being Union party,
to support an abolition Government, they will
olitionized They viii have an abolition party
in the South, of Southern men. The contest
for slavery will no longer be one between the
North and the South 1t will be in the South,
between the people of the South.
.. Ir in our present position Of power and
unitedness, we have the raid Of John Brown
and twenty towns burned down in Texas, in one
year, by aboitionists-what viii be the meas
ures of insurrection and inccndiarism which
must follow our notorious and abject prostraiion
to abolition rule at Washington, with ell the pa
tronage of the Federal Government, and a Union
organization in the South TO support it? Secret
conspiracy, and its attendant horrors, with ru-
mors Of horrors, win hover over every portion
of the South while, in the language of Tho
Black Republican patriarch-Giddings-they
twill laugh at your calamties, and mock you
when your fear cometh."
6. Already there is uneasiDess throughout the
South as to the stability of its institution of
slavery. But with a submission 10 the rule of
abolitonis;s at Washington, thousands of slave
holders will despair of the institution. While
The condition of things in the frontier States will
force their slaves on the markets of the cotton
states, the timid in the cotton States will also
sell their slaves. The general distrust must ai-
feet purchasers. The consequence must be,
slave property must be greatly depreciated.-
We see advertisements for the sale of slaves in
some OF the cotton States, for the simple object
of getting rid of them; and we know the stand
ing orders for the purchase OF slaves in this
market have been Withdrawn, on account OF an
anticipated decline of value, from tie political
condition of the counr.y
7. We suppose thai, taking in view all these
things it is not eytravagant 10 estimate that the
Submission OF thc South 10 The administration Of
the Federal Government under Messrs. Lilcoln
and IIamlin, must redrcc the value OF slaves in
the South one hundred dollars each. 1t is COM
pu;ed that there are four million, three hpndred
thousand slaves in the United States. Here,
therefore. is a loss 10 the Southern people OF
four hundred and thirty millions of dollars, on
their slaves alone. OF course, real estate OF all
kinds must partakc also ia the depreciation OF
slaves.
s. Slave property is the foundation of all
=, L.. in
is shaken, all other properly partakes of lis in
Stability. E4nks, stocks, bonds must be in
Auencel. Tmd men will sell oui and leave the
South. Confusion, disirust aud pressure must
reign.
0. Before Mcssrs. Lincoln and Hanlin can be
Installed in Washington, as President and Vice
President of the United States, the Southern
States can dissolve peaceably 1--WE know what
we say) their union with the Nor,h. Mr. Lin
coln and his abolition cohorts will have no South
10 rc;gn over. Their game would be blocked.
The foundation OF their organization would be
taken away; and let TO the tender mercics OF q
bliIlcl, furious and troubled North, they would
be cursed and crushed as the haGitious cause o
the disasters around them. But if we submit
and do not dissolve our union with the North,
We make the triumph of our abolition enemies
complete aGd enable them tc consolidate and
WELD the power of the North for our destruc
ton.
To- IF tic South once submits 10 the rule o
abolitionis,s by the general Government there
is, probably, an end of all peaceful separation o
the Union. We can only escape the ruin they
mediate fos the South by war. Armed with
the power Of the general Government, and theii
organizations at the North, they will use thu
sword for or subjugation. If there is any
man in the South who believes that we mus
separate from the North, We appeal 10 his hu
manity, in case Mr.. Lincoln is elected, TO dis
solve our connection with the North before th'
fourth OF March next.
IL. The ruin OF the South, by the emancipa
ton Of her slaves, is not like the ruin Of any
! other people II is not mere loss Of liberty
like the Italians under the Dourbons. 1t is no
heavy taxation, which must still leave the mean:
Of lyinr, o. otherwise taxation defeats Itself
But it is the loss Of liberty, property, home
ccrntry-eyerything that makes lie worth nav
ing. And this loss will probably take place
under circumstances OF suffering and horror
unsurpassed in the history of nations. W.
must preserve our liberties and institutions, un
Ger penalties greater than those which impen(
over any other people in the world.
IL. Lastly, we conclude ihis brief Statement
of the terrors Of submission, by declaring thai
"a our opinion, they are tenfold greater even thar
the supposed terrors of disrnion.-C Charl,stcs
| Mercury.