Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1861-01-02

- aGgresslons OF the South Tor
ina,, win any one put bis finger on
o.sr 70 ,ns,pce of such aggression ? 1t
,on,o ,,bon , charges against a whole
lem by incendia2O is to be set against
or pa lion. appeals to local pre-
.ho voted in the Moth WIN VI an 'no'o
~ nnelo nut down the
'rongc. or even attempted to cong
be poe lie 0 the free States by any dc.
.ial Of, r any encroaehmeuts upon their
iyll ri ITS Q: their political interests ?
We Il an to speak now, Of course, Of
ats Of injustice or aggression, in
which e South was, as a section, ex.
clu,iye} engaged, Ii the faction which
seeks justify its late crusade against
the S].bern States on the principle of
rcd on, will cite Southern opposition
40 Tire rotcctiyo policy, we ask them 20
say ' 'ther every protective tariff we
ever ii was not obtained, in part, by
Sou.bn votes in Congress, which more
than fset anti-protcctive tariff votes
in thoNorth And ia this connection,
we wdd ask those friends of protection
to gu Northern industry who voted for
Lihco, how it is possible to obtain a
satisf-ory protective law under his ad.
miuisstion, with New England and the
Nortlest against the policy, and how
they pc to avert or resist the fearful
excitccnt, the resentful feelings, the
maddcng necessities Of an unemploy-
ed ~anGtarying laboriog population in
the Nth9rn cities and towns, during
the coug winter? 10 this question
they lst, sooner or later address them
selyesnd we trost TIA. they may find
. s"T0ay to conduct off from their own
and the heads of many innocent
the lightning of a storm which
their own folly and obstinacy will have
provoked
Bus 10 resume. WIN tho Repub.
tel US that the South is respon.
for the Missouri Compromise and
that it Is also answegablo for its repeal !
We say bat that line between slavery
freedom would never have been
but for the influence Of the free.
soil Of The abolition party of this section
that 1t vas forced upon the South, in
seItde.euce, by Northern aggression, il
violation Of the Constitution, and thai
the father Of the bill which repealed it
was a Northern free.Slate man--Mr
DougIas-ana that it was carried partial
" by Northern votes, under the auspice.
of a Northern citizen for President. ant
against the honest convictions and eyeI
Of Southern Representatives.
Except these two cases of supposed in
reference with the rights or interests o
even prcjudices of this section, we d
not know one that can be justly charge
against the South.
But what have we on the other sid
of the account? We have, for twent,
odd years past, had a party organize,
aVoRedly and openly, on ideas and pril
ciples hostile to a vital institution of IL
South and the equality of the Southel
people in the common territories Of Il
nation, Oh account of that institution. :
We have lad Emigrant Aid Societi
formed, with the purpose of sendiI
enemies of the South, armed with t
Bible and Sharp's rifles" to peoy
the territories. We have had emissari
of abOlitionism sent, clandestinely, to
South, to poison the minds of the Fl
blacks and inAame the passions of
slaves. VIZ have had the Federal ms
filed with books and documents design
to stir up a servile race, in league W
a supposed discontented portion of
free white race, against the men, won
and children of the South. We b,
had a raid upon the State of Virgi,
made by mad partisans of Northern
%nOtics, armed with pixies, pistols and
ies froln Northern factories, and led
a crazy abolitionist, whose death on
scaffold was hailed with hosaDuahs
every free State, and d%ignifed as
e apotheosis Of treason. And, finally,
have had a dozen Northern States to
null, by solemn act of their Legislatu
IS not merely a law Of Congress- the
gitivc Slave Act but a law based u