The Oxford intelligencer., 1860-11-28
Overt Acts.

nasty over these States on the weak pretext y
waiting for an overt act Of outrage and oppres
sion, would do well to read and consider the fol
lowing array of overt acts Of aggression against
the South, which Gov. Wise has so forcbly
grouped in one Of his speechess
After rehearsing . history Of the rise and
progress Of slavery agitation, Governor w. pro
cceds:
This makes the triumph Of what Is called
Black Republicanism certainly probable in the
next thirty days. And we need not be informed
what Back Republicanism is. 1t is the very de
mon of national dscord II is death to the
slave States or to the confedcracy Of all States
1t obtained its own compromise in the Consti-
tuition to continne the importation Of slaves. and
now sets up Jaw higher than the Constitution
to abolish property in slaves which it sold to
us its neighbors.
In ls19-eO it deprived us of equal settlement
in more than half the territory acquired from
France.
It seized upon Texas North 80 deg. 80 min.,
and carved out of Texas $4,000 square miles Of
slave territory South SO deg. 80 min.
1t seized upon all the territory acquired by the
common conquest of Mexico and deprived slave
labor of the privilege Of operating in the wealth.
est mines on earth-the gold mines of Califor-
mia.
1t has bribcd slave State with ten millions of
common funds to sanction prohibition of slave
ry in all New Mexico.
1t claims to abolish slavery in all the districts,
forts, arsenals, dockyards and other places &C.
ded to the United States. To abolish the inter-
State slave trade, profits Of production and the
Southern States from their sources Of supply Of
labor.
II claims to forbid all equality and compet-
tion of settlement in the common Territories,
by the citizens of slave States.
Itrepels all further admission of new slave
States.
lit has nufed the Fugitive Slave acts in
fourteen States of the Union. 1t has denied ex-
tradition of murderers, and other felons in seve-
raj States.
It has caused and shielded the murder Of mas
ters or owners in pursuit of fugitive slaves.
1t has refused TO punish or prevent by State
authority the spoilation of slave property; but
on the contrary, it has made it criminal Of
tense for the citizens ofseveral States to obey
the laws of the Union for the protection of slave
property.
1t has advocated negro equality, and made it
the gronnd of positive legislation hostile to the
Southern States.
1t opposes protection to slave property on the
high seas, and has justified piracy ITSELF in the
case of the Creole.
1t has kept in our midst ,emissaries of incen.
diarism to corrupt our slaves and induce them
to run off or excite them to rebellion or insur-
recton.
It has run off millions of slave property by
system of what is called underground rail-
roads," and has made its tenure so precarious in
the border slave States, as nearly to have abo-
litionized two of fthem-Maryland and Missouri;
and it is making similar inroads constantly upon
Virginia and Kentucky.
1t is necessarily scattering frebrands Of incen-
diary appeals in our midst
It has extended fanaticism into our own bor-
ders.
It has invaded Territory by arms furnished
by Emigrant Aid Societies, under State patron
age, and by funds furnished by foreign enemies
in Canada and in Great Britain.
It has invaded Virginia, and shed the blood
Of her citizens on her own soil.
1t has justified and exalted to the highest hon.
ors Of admiration and respect, the horrid muir
ders, and arsons, and rapine Of the raid Of John
Brown; and has canonized the felons themselves
as saints of martyrdom.
Il has burned the towns, and poisoned the
cattle, and formed the midnight conspiracy for
the depopulation of North Texas
1t has proclaimed to the slave the horrid mot
to, "Alarm to the sleep, fire to the dwellings,
poison to the food and water" ofslaveholders.
It has published its plan for the abolition of
slavery everywhere. To s'Tescue slaves at all
associations-to establish press
es-to use vote and ballot--to raise money and
military equipments-to form and discipline
armed companes-to appeal to non-slaveholders
and detach them from Shareholders in slave
CtateS-t0 communicate WITH tne SiafeS--to en
courage anti-slavery emigrants to the South and
west-to seize other property Of shareholders
to compensate for the cost of running off their
slaves-to force emancipation by all means, es-
pecially by limiting, harrassing and frowning
upon slavery in every mode and form, and final
ly by the Executive. by Congress- by the post
al service; and in every way to agitate without
ceasing until the Southern States shall be aban-
doned to their fate, and worn down, shall be
compelled to surrender and emancipate their
slaves
1t has repudiated the decisions Of the Supreme
Court.
It assails us from the pulpit, the press in the
school-room 1t divides all sects and religions
IS well as parties. Itdenounces shareholders as /
degraded by the lowest immoralities, insults |
hem in every form, and hold them up to the
scorn Of mankind
1t has already majority Of the States under
Is dominion; has infected the Federal as wei
Is. State judiciary; has large majority Of the
House Of Representatives Of the Congress Of the
United States; will soon have, by the new
,ensus amajority Of the Senate, certainly viii
,btain the chef Executive power Of the United
states