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prlsonment on the claimant or his agent. ant
IN some Of these States, disfrancbisinp ever,
person whatever, whether commissioner hail
III, or counsel, in any manner connected witt
the return of fugitive to his owner. In thu
executive branch OF the State Governments. the
same hostility is shown By the refusal of Gov.
ernors to surrender fugitives from the Justice
OF the Southern States, if the crime is alleged
TO have been committed against the institution
oil slavery. Two cases of this kind have oc.
CURED within recent period, one in Iowa
and the other in Ohio, in which the Governors
OF those States, on grounds manifestly frivo-
lous and dishonest, refused to give up on the
requisition of the Governor of Virginia, persons
charged on adequate proof of being present
and of aiding and participating in the abolition
invasion of Harper's Ferry. Hostility to the
South has even invaded the judicial branch Of
the State Governments, where we would least
have expected to have found its influence.
After long years Of litigation, and Of DENYING
justice by delaying it, the court of appeals in
the largest State in the Union has, at last de-
cided IN the Lennon case, against the right
OF shareholder with his property even to
| touch an tTdnsttu, from one slaveholdng State
to another, at port in a non slaveholding
| State. There are numerous instances of SINH
lar hostile decisions against the property rights
OF the South, cited in one of the mastery Sc
ries of Python" articles published in this Re-
view. 1t would be unjust not to mention
that the Democratic party has opposed all
these things, and although in itself it is a
strong party, it is relatively weak in most of
the Northern States, and has only the useless
power to make feeble protest.
The ultimate designs of the Republican,
party, although its present policy is 10 affect
conservatism, are as "pfain as if written unon
the arch of the sky" Its immediate purnose
in conjunction with the squatter sovereignty
Democracy, is to seize upon all the Terr;tories
of the United States, and in due time to bring
them into the Union as free States. This in
effect, has either been accomplished already.
or is in the sure process of ACCOMPLISHMENT.
1t scarcely needs an argument to show that
the North has greater ability of colonization
than the South. The fact is patent, from her
larger existing population; from the constant
accession to this population by foreign emf
grafton; from the greater ease with which
| Northern property can be converted into cash.
preparatory to removal into the Territories:
from the more migratory habits of her people:
from superior enterprise, for it is folly to DENY
it; from better organized appliances, such as
incorporated laid companies" for assisting
emigration; but chiefly because of the reluc.
lance of Southern men to take slave propertv
where it will be exposed to the contingency OF
confscation. The operation of all these causes
combined, will inevitably give to the North in
few brief years, the control of each and all
of the Territories of the Union, present and
prospective. The South will then be exposed
to the deadly cross fire of Congressional soy
| ereignty on the one hand, and of territorial or
squatter sovereignty on the the other and the
| Territories will march, one after another, in
solemn procession, and be admitted as free
| States into the Union. When all this has been
! fully accomplished, or even before, the next
| great measure of the Republican or Northern
party, for the terms are synonyms in a correct
sense-difierent names for the same thing
will be to abolish slavery, first, in the District
of Columbia, where Congress has the color of
| jurisdiction, and then in the navy yards, forts,
and arsenals of the United States, wherever
situated. This will be followed by prohibi-
! ton to transport slaves by sea under the Fed
eral flag, from one port in aslaveholding State
to another. This will result in corrollary
| from the doctrine which has already been pro-
claimed, that slave property can only be pro-
| tected by State authority, under positive law,
and is not entitled to recognition outside of
the limits Of the State in which the domicil of
the owner OF this property may be. After this
has been done, the next step will be, under
the provision Of the Constitution which gives
Congress the power to regulate commerce, to
abolish tia ;.ter- State slave trade, either dr.
rectly in terms, or to do the same thing indi-
rectly, by taxation, or by burdensome restric-
tons. To complete the subiugation OF the
South, the fugitive slave law will next be re-
pealed; and by the time this stage shall have
been reached, the North will have acquired
sufficient power by the admission of new
States, and the abolition of slavery in some of
the old ones, to amend the Constitution and
take away from the South, in the name of the
equality Of the States and the rights of ma
jorities the three fths representation of slaves
now allowed by that instrument.
This is no visionary programme. All these
things will as surely take place in the Union
as that effect follows cause. 1t may not be
preconcerted plan of the Republican party to
carry into effect each of these measures. One
will naturally beget another The leaders
may be disposed to halt, but the party behind
the leaders will push them on to the accom-
plishment of all their purposes. The South
ern States in the meantime will have become
demoralized, and would no more dissolve the
Union for any one of the successive acts we
have mentioned, than for the Harper's Ferry
invasion or the election of Republican speak
er, which, several years ago, would have driven
them into revolution. 1t is idle to deny that
the Democratic party in the North has be-
come deeply tainted with the prevailing anti
slavery sentiment, and it has begun already
to make its Leace at home by concessions to
that sentiment. This has necessarily pro-
duced arrangement between the two wings
of the party which heretofore has presented
but a single 'front.' As citizens of the North,
reared under and subjected to the unfriendly
influences which surround them; accustomed
to hear daily denunciations of Southern life, |
Southern manners and Southern institutions, |
and at the same time to be fiattered by lauda- |
tions Of their own section, and assertions of its
superiority in all things essen
tial to the prosperity Of people, it is but nat
ural that the members of this party, in COM
Northern supremacy and the predominance
Of Northern ideas in the Government.
With all these influences against the South,
t is too plain for argument, that it is an impe-
-atiye necessity of her condition that she must
nave the power of selEprotection in some one
ranch of the General Government, in order
o arrest hostile action against her rights, her
interests, and her honor. 1t is not absolutely
necessary that she should possess any power,
except the negative power of prevention.
This she has always had in the Senate, until
and this she now needs more than
yer before. But we have already shown thu
he North has controlling majority in the
Electoral college, in both branches OF Congress,
nd is about to obtain it in the Supreme Court
r, in other words, in the executive, the legis.
atiFe, and the judicial departments of the
and we have also shown that
here is no hope of restoring the equilibrium {
n the Senate by the admission of any future 1
aveholding States to be carved out of the ex- !
sting Territories, and at the same time, it is c
bvious that there are no foreign acquisitions {
Territories likely to be made which will Q
eneft her in the slightest degree. With,
len, the Federal Government against her, in f
lch of its departments; with the State Gov t
rnment of nearly every Northern State
yainst her in each of its departments; with a
lie pulpit, the press (religious and secular) J
it'll the lecture room, the school-room, and
lie literature of the North, not only hostile b
ut rancorous; and behind AL these, the feel e
gs of the people no less acknowledgements
lis condition of things shall speedily be Il
langed, nothing will be left to the South,
nsistent with honor, with safety, with due n
gard to her past history aud to the interests r,
the future generations who may have their CT
mes upon her soil, but to dissolve the Union L
these States, and to erect for herself upon Il
ruins-a republic more Homogeneous in char al
ter, in feelings, and pursuits. OIL
There are two modes by which the neces- u
y COP disunion might be avoided, one Of u
lich is, by amendment of the Constitution, u
d the adoption of Mr.. Galhoun's plan Of a,
al executive, giving one to the North and u u
> other to the South, with the absolute veto i,
wer, at least, upon all questions affecting o.
> domestic institutions of the States The Cd
"A of double executive is not so impracti- re
Die as it may seem to many at the first %
w. The Roman Consuls and the Spartan DC
ngs are examples of the incorporation of ma
5 peculiar feature into political eonstitu- or
ms, and whatever may have been the inhe- us
It weaknesses or defects Of these constitu- tn
as they arose from other causes. The &c
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