The Shreveport weekly news. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1861-1861, 1861-05-13

which has perslstentiv claimed mat
he Government set above and over
he States an organization created
oy the States. to secure the blessings
II liberty. and independence against
ioreign aggression, has been gradual
.Iy perverted into a machine for their
control in their domestic affairs.
The creature has beep eNo(tedahoNe
it's Croator-the principals have been
made subordinate to the agent arroin-
ted by themselves.
The people of the Southern States.
whose almost exclusive occupa'ion
was agriculture, early perceived Il
tendency in the Northern States to
render a common Government subsrr-
Went to their own purposes by i'm
posing buIthens on commcrc" rs u
protection other manufacturing and
shipping interests.
Long aud angry controversies g'rc"
out of thsse attempts often euecesstui
20 benefit one section of the country
at the expense of the other, and TIE
danger of disruption arising from this
cause was enhanced by the fact that
the Northern population was incrcas'
ing by emigration aHd ot!far causes
than the population Of the South.
! By degrees. as the Northern States
gained preponderance il The National
| Congress, self interest taught then
people to yield ready assent TO any
plausible advocacy Of their right as
majority to govern the minority
Without control they learn TO listen
with impatience to the suggestion O.
any constitutional impeachment to the
exercise Of their will, and 80 utterly
have the principles Of the constitu
ton been corrupted in the Northern
mind that, in the inaugural addres'
delivered by President Lincoln il
March last. he asserts as maxim
which he plainly deems 20 be undenl
able, that the theory If the con5titu
ton requires, in al cases. tina, III
majority shall govern. And IN an
other memorable instance the sam
Chief Magistrate did not hesitate I
liken the relations between States am
the United States TO those which eXI-
between the county and the State !
which it is situated, and by which
, was created.
:, This is the lamentablc and fund;
mentable error IN which rests III
policy that has culmitfated in IA
declaration of war against th"se Con
J fcderate States.
. In addition to the long contlnne
e and deep seated resentment felt b
:, the Southern States at the persistel
: abuse Of the powers they had del!
!, gated to Congress for the purpose
). cnriching the manufacturing and -hl
! ping classes of the North 1T the {,
/. pense OF the South. There has e
-. listed for nearly halt a century, anoth
=. subiec, of discord, involving iaterrs
- of such transceudcut magnitude rs
, all times to crea.e the apiTshcnsl'
y IN thg MIND. of many devoted love
Of the Union that its permanent
- was impossible.
It When the several States delegat
certain powers to the United Stat
- Congress, large portion of the lab,
- ing population We're imported into /
! colonies by the mother country.
~ twelve out Of the fifteen States neg
y slavery existed, and the right Of pro
e7 erty existing in slaves was protect
II by law; this property was recogniz
in the constitution. and provision "
C. made against its loss by the csc.
&c of the slave.
IN The increasein the number of sl1I
e by foreign importation from AIT
g. was also secured by a clause torb
ding Congress to prohibit the sia
IL trade anterior to 4 certain date. and
"a no clause can there be. found a
M delegation of power t" the C"nsr
tie to authorize il IN any manner t" lee
S., late to the prejudice, detriment
III, encouragement OF the owners OF /!
of species Of property or excluding
,e- from the protection Of the Cove
he meut.
m The climate and soil Of the y
ass ern States soon proved unpropltl
al TO the continuance Of slave Ia!
as while the reverse being the cas-.
49, the SOutn maze uAitStIiCttl- Ike
Ter tercourse between the two seeti
ate unfriendly.
n'' The Northern States consu!
on. their own interests by selling Il
oy slaves to the South and prohibi'
lu- slavery between their limits.
ion South We're willing purchasers OF pI
III erty suitable to their wants, and +
,rai the price OF t!ee acquisition witt
by harboring suspicion that Their q
csc possession was to be disturbed
on those who Were not only in wan
itfi- Constitutional authority. but By g
his faith as vendors, from disiuietir
so title emanating from themselves.
AS soon, however, rs the Nortl
5 in States that prohibited African sla'
our within their limits had reache
the number sufficient to g i've their re
III c.,fo+ion {, cnOtrOlllr vote IN