The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1861-01-09
Tne Dragoo.lingy Policy.

readers can have forgotten the emphatic term in which
Gen. James Hamilton Of South Carolina bore testino
ny id the year 1851 to Me- Gllhoun's profound repug
nance to any policy whcAcontempatad the '.dragoon
ing Of the southern States into cooperation witt
South Carolina in furtherafce of the hostile purpose:
which, at apreyioas PERIOD we're cherished against the
federal Union b. many Of her citizens This testimony
was reproduced in our column On a recent occasion
Wehaye already adYerted the fact that ex-governor
Gst in his message to thelegslature ofSoath Carolina
had advised the passage of law prohibiting the intro
dueon of slaves into that State from any of the border
saveholding States which should decline to become
members Of the contemplated Southern confederacy
His language to this effect was a. follows:
The introduction Of Slaves from other States which
may not become members Of the southern contederacy
and particularly theborder States should be prohibited
by legislative enactment and by this they VIII
be brought to that their safety depends upon with
draWa from their enemies and Union with their
friends and natural allies. If they should continue
their Union with the nonslaveholding States let them
keep their SLAVE property i'll their borders ana the
only alternative left them will be emancipation b. their
oE1lac by the action of their own confederatcs-
We cannot consent to relieve them from their embar-
RAISING stuationby permitting them to realise the money
value Of their slaves byseling them to US and thus
prepare them without any loss of property to
MEDIATE themselves to the northern freeSo idea But
should they unite their destiny with u.s. and become stars
in the southern galaxy members OF great southern
conederation-we will receive them with open arms
and an enthusiastic greeting
The policy Of this prohibition as proposed to be laid
by southern friends the inner State slave trade is
seen to be distinctly avowed by the ex-governor and is
plainly designed coerce the action of the border
States BY extorting at their hands willing Of unw
ling acquicscence m tile projects Of the South Carolina
leaders.
It seems that ex-governor Gst not alone in his icta
torid recommendations. Governor Pettus, Of Missis-
spp, his recent message to the legislature of that
State, holds the following language Of similar parport
'sAsit ismore probable that many of the citizens
OF the border States may seek market for their slaves
in the cotton States recommend the passage Of an act
prohibiting the introduction OF slaves into this State ul-
less their owners come with them and become citizens
end prohibiting the Introduction of slaves for sale bv
all persons whomsoeyer.2
We know not how we can better comment on this ex-
raordinary proposon( as conigfrom protested friends
andcoaf4erates than BY adopting heanguage OF that
able and diguiGcd Journal, the Charlottesville North
Carolina) Observer
And this is the friendship which the border States
are to experience from the cotton States,n We have
expressed against the northern States
% ~ M sof tb4r @ Slls ao'nos'lG r.
personal liberty laws Baf Done If these stes Il
as equal in atrocy to the project proposed by the gov
ernor of these two southern States to effect the object
ayOwed by him of South Carolina
And we tell our North Carolina friends that If this
Union should be dissolved the very last fin that tbey
should do would bcto unite her fortunes with these cot
Ion 9a'eS, one o. "1l@h south Carollna is this day
sylni / n hi e Ut ~ ~, u el-
north, let us either set up for ourselves Or ioin e con-
serraFe border States, Maryland, Virginia Kentucky,
tennessee Missouri ana tennessee With these we have
the COTTON States void u
of the interests and feelings of the border States and
would shape all its legislation to the advancement Of the
aoItoh interests le talit polcy q ne United States
nothing 10 ha t5 frp SITS ro 4 raon va
1t the Hands of "king cotton WanuF,rtoraF would
aboFers would be reduced to ato of rsg.
'ge than the seris of Russia! A laboring whiteman
would Pc dog Preserve us from such friends! vino
4 t.si.o - oIce n " Jon thetn
viii tell them tbat we Viii ID neither tEe ns IN III
,ther.o
What degree of likelihood there is that the insulting