Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1860-12-26
e,y- The Hon. Albert Rust, of Ar

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kansas, in a lettcr to the editors OF
the National Mfeiligencer, hits tho
nail on the head when he says;
"There are few men in the South,
WHO would not prefer the experiment
of almost any change of Government
to that under which should be II re-
currence, every four years,ef the
distress, ruin and bankruptcy which
many have already realized, and
with which all are threatened at this
time, If the political waters should
be broken up, and our wheels Of gov
ernmcnt reduced to chaos, tempo
rary modification, if agreed upon by
politicians, should not be ratified by
the people. The evils ofwhicb they
mplain should be extirpated, root
and branch, not alleviated. The cure
should be thorough, radical and per-
manent, not the patching up of n
rickety Constitution, to prolQng its
siclSly existence for n few years,
more or less"
This distinguished gentlemen pro-
poses a plan for the scttlement'ofthe
secession. question which he thinks
would be permanent. He does not
think that the demand he would
urge will ever he accepted and acce-
ded to by the North. The plan in
our estimation is impracticable, be-
cause we see that ghost Of our de-
parted rights looming up; we mean
guarantees from the North. We con-
tend that if we secure these paper
guarantees, we have no assurance
that they would respect them for one
year a ter date. But we give Mr..
Rust's plan in his own words:
"What should be the ultimatum
of the slave States if the present
Union should be perpetuated? First,
agree>upon some line which shall be
extended to the Pacific ocean, north
of which slavery shall never be es-
tablished by Congress in any terri
tory that may now belong to or may
hereafter be acquired by the Govern
ment of the United States. Provide
that South of the same line slavery
shall not be interdicted in any terri
tory belonging to, or that may here
after be acquired by the General Gov
ernment, by the'Federal Legislature,
by the Territorial Legislature, or by
the Legislatures of States that may
be formed out of the same. Let the
right Of the Shareholder to 60 and
abids upon any Of this territory be
inalienable and perpetual. Allow
no one Of the present slave States to
abolish the inst tuition by Legislative
enactment without the assent oi' all
the other slave States. It's only by
denying. to Legislative bodies every
where under our Government the
power to impair or affect the rights
of property in slaves that you give
permanent peace and security to the
Shareholder. You thereby neither
multiply the number of slaves nor
make any citizen an involuntary
slaveholder. If a majority OF my
ncighbors, more deeply imbued with
the feelings and principles of Chris
tianity than myself, cannot resist
the argument which the small remu-
neration for the labor of their slaves
where they live, and the tempting
offers which the profits of the cul-
ture of sugar and cotton enables the
Southern planter to make them for
the slaves themselves, addresses to
their conseicnces in favor Of the sin
fulness Of the institution, and sells
them to the highest bidder without
inquiring whether the new master
is kind and humane or cruel and
brutal, there is no possible reason tc
be assigned why I and the minority
should be compelled to follow theii
example"