Newbern weekly progress., 1860-11-27

we refer to the nullifying of the Constitution
and defiance of federal law by many of the
Northern States in opposing the enforcement
of the Fugitive Slave Law This does afford
cause for dissolution, and unless those States
which have passed their Personal Liberty bills
by which slave owners are prevented from rec
laiming their slaves can be induced to repeal them
we are decidedly and emphatically in favor of
the fifteen slave States, after consultation with
each other declaring themselves absolved from
all connexion with the General Government
which now exists As Mr. Buchanan, man
of our own choosing, the pet of the South, and
pretended friend of slavery, has made no efforts
to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law, we have no
right to expect that Lincoln will do it, and hence
we see but one course left for the South to
pursue, and such course, if pursed shall have
our hearty concurrence. We mean this: Let
the fifteen Southern Slave States,-or fourteen
if South Carolina does not choose to come in,-
hold conference at an carly day and propose
this ultimotums to the North-if Alabama has
not patented the ultimatuna business We
the people of the South being loyal to the Union
and desiring to preserve the same, in view of
the laws you have passed multiplying the Con
stitution call upon you to repeal the same and
give US such other assurances as may be reas-
onably demanded, that in future, you will re-
spect our rights to property in slaves, andpass
no local laws to prevent us from retaining the
same when they escape into your territory.
These demands we consider reasonable and just,
and if you accede to them we will still live with
you in harmony and good feeling; but if you
refuse our just demands and persist in nullify-
ing the Constitution by robbing us of our pro-
perty, then we declare ourselves absolved from
all allegiance to the General Government and
mean to strike for our rights and independent
out of the Union.
Believing that we cannot live together as one
people if the people of the North refuse to OBJ
serve the Fugitive Slave law, this is Dur propo-
sition for final effort to save the Union, and if
we fail in that, final determination for a final
separation. Let the Southern States hold the
Conference and present an appeal to the peo-
pie of the North, and let copies of this appeal
be sent to the Governors of Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wiscon-
sin and Iowa, which States have nullified the
Constitution by their personal liberty bills,
with request that the subject be brought be-
fore their people at as early day as possible,
and then after giving them sufficient time to
act, should they refuse to repeal them, let the
whole South separate from the North.
Such course would meet we doubt not the
approval of the civilized world and give to the
movement a moral influence in the eyes of ma
tons but if South Carolina goes out alone
and attempts to drag other unwilling States
after her we shall all sink in the common ruin.
In a separation the North have more to lose
than we have and they will be the worst suf-
ferers, as they are already beginning to feel
from the panic caused by the election of Lin
coin and had the battle to be fought over again
we doubt not but Lincoln would be defeated
by large majority. One thing we should
carefully consider before breaking up the
Union-he is elected with majority of 500, 900
of the popular vote against him, and we should
also remember that his election by minority
was brought about by the damnable plot at
Charleston and the contemplate fnsions which
followed Let us then fight on for the Union
and our rights under the Constitution until
our Northern brethren shall have had time to
reflect and consider, AID then if they refuse to
obey the law and respect rights, let ererY
.Southeyn State risr in its poocrr and h"rz the
tyrunt from tie Nrone By Rerolvtion, and
frame uetc Io,cx and establish q aetc gorefamcnt
IN rhich are c0n lire as cqu0}s.
Our position is taken, and by it we are viii
ling to rise or fall now and hereafter