Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-12-14

While indignant az the idea Of coercion in respect %
thsnseves some Of the Executives OF the Cotton States
are sy enough 70 coercion in reference to the
Border States That t. they threaten the Border States
with the passage Of laws prohibiting the Introduction Of
slaves into the Cotton States from the Border States
unless forsooth the Border Sties viii surrender their
Independence and Join with them in the secession
meDtl This Is a very small and contemplate business
O, the uart Of those Cotton States Governors and
NAV e. well assure them At that Ear as Virginia
seoncerned she will treat all their threats matter Of
What character with supreme defiance and contempt
The Old Dominion can neither be buied dragged.
either by the Cotton States the Northern States. Be
ing soveregnand independent she means TO act as SEEM
eth 20 her best uninHuenced by any consideration bu,
that Of bee own rights and honor. We advise these
Cotton State gentry therefore, TO abstain from slJ
threats hereafter Virginia will pay no more attention
20 them than she does the idle Snd whh she regards
not
The following article on the mbise, from the Fiyete
vile ~ c. O5,erssr is suggestive, and accordingly
reproduce IL and commend is to the attention Of Que
readers,
I'VE think We never read any proposition Of public
f,.ionaEy With establishment and Indignation than
tbat Of the Governor Of South Carolina that the Leg
re OF that STATE should nterdic the clrryng Of slaves
tther from Any State which did not JOIN her in Sesedng,
All Tor de avoEed purpose OF forcing them to join Der
- % eluancipae their slaves Bus IL seems that south
Carolina and Mississippi 10 ac, 10 concert ia this most
uairendy measure; for Gov Pet,us in his message 10
The IsgisiAturC Of Mississippi, says;
asst il than probable that many Of the citizens
of the border States ay seek market for their slaves
in the cotton States recommend the passage OF al act
pFobbitng the Introduction Of slaves into the State IN
L., their owners cons with them and become citizens
ami prohibiting the introduction OF slaves for sale BY all
persons WhomsOeyer."
And this il the frisni,hip which the Border Staie
are TO experience from the Cotton States Did Sow
ard or Lincoln, Greeley, John Brown, ever
manifest towards North Carolina more dabolcal spirit
than thisf We have often expressed indignation against
de Nortbern States for their outrageous interference
b the domestic alrs Of the South their underground
railroads and their personal liberty laws But none OF
tesetrkes "a as equal IN atrocy TO the policy propo
ed by the Governors Of these two Southern States to
Ell 81 the object avoEed By him Of South Carolina
And we tel our North Carolina friends, that II this
Union should be dissolved land have scarcely hope
that Will not BEL the very last thing that they should
Do would be 70 unite her with these Cotton States the
chief one Of which South Carona IS this day less
tneh 10 North Carolina than New York Pennsylvania
L. No, No. Ii se have 70 separate from tue slave
s,salers and nu6ers Of the North, LEI ehsr set mp
for ourselves Join the conservative Border States Ma
I.gd Virginia kentucky and Tennessee With these Se
have interests IN common and feelings in common. But
a eoafsderacy Of the Cotton States would reopen the
slave trade ID spite OF the interests aud feelings Of the
..Roraer States aud would shape an its legislation TO
the Advancement Of the cotton interest The tariff poll
CIV of the United States against which South Carolina
wanted 70 nuly nothing 70 What the farming States
would experience the hands Of king cotton Preserve
ms fro such friends who openly tell that they intend
20 force Us TO Join them 20 emancpe our slaves II
Ne are frsemcn We viii tel them that viii do neither
the one nor the other.