Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-01-31

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 SUIT up servile war. To this end they hay,
 perverted our mails, and post offices. and fo,
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 unquestloned among us; thus by virtue o the common government, they have been enabled through the mails and secret agents to spread insurrectionary ideas among on, negroes to such an extent, as on more than one occasion ended in rebellion and blood shed. As recent example, we need only refer you to the troubles resulting there from in Texas last fall.
 Sd. They have, by armed invasion of southern territory, endeavored to stir up servile instruction; they have burned our houses, murdered our people; and then, when called upon to deliver up the perpe- trators of these outrages to justice have nulllfied the constitution, and refused = Why? Because it is no crime, no sin to war against slavery, even if in that war the owner is murdered.
 4th. They have denied us the right, guar anteed by the constitution, to recapture flu gltive slaves escaped among them, and by laws, again nullifying their admitted consti- tutional duty, have made the very attempt to reclaim them punishable by fine and imprisonment. In other words, the consti- ton declares the owner may follow his slave into the free Statss and reclaim him those States say, yes that is all true, but then Ii you attempt to do it, we will punish you as for the crime of stealing.
 5th. They have declared that negro steal ing is no offence known to their laws, and Tn consequence thereof, have extended to the negro thief the protection of their States, and when called upon refuse to de- liver them to justice; thus again nullifying the constitution, and worse than that. en. couraging their citizens to dcpredate upon our property.
 9th. They have declared that with our property, all participation in the common territory shall be forever denied us; and to effect this object, in spite of law and con- stltution, emigrant aid societies precipi- tated upon devoted Kansas bands of armed assasslns, instructed with bayonet, and with ball, with fire and with sword, to drive the southern slave owner from it's borders. How well they succeeded let the history of that territory proclaim.
 And finally, when solemnly appealed to. as the only salvation of our common coun- try, the only hope for the Union, to at last obey their constitutional duty, yeild us our just rights and give us some guarantee that in the Union they can, and will be maintained, they have answered, that they had no compromises to make, no guaran~ tees to offer, that they would not abate one halr's breadth of the principles proclaimed Ill the Chicago platform. And moreover, thelr State governments have with rare con- slstency one day nulliied the constitution and the laws of Congress, and the next, have denounced as traitors the seeding States, and rendered to the general govern, ment the military powers of their States to coerce them back. Notification by them IS right and iust-resistance to that nullii- cation in us is treason. Most rare md wise consistency!
 But says the submissionists, wait for the OVERT ACT! A little more sleep, a little more slumber, little more of the folding of hands together" Congress. they say bye and bye, will call general convention of the States, or the southern States will de- mand Of the North new guarantees, by ob- tanlng amendments to the constitution, and thereby place the institution of slavery upon firm basis.
 Vain hope A general convention of the States can only be called in one way, ac- cordlng to the constitution Here is the constitutional provision for that purpose:
 "The Congress, whenever two-thir,ls of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to tine constitution or on application ot the legislatures of two-thirds of the several States, shall call convention for proposing amend. ments, which in either case, shall be valid, to all lntents and purposes. part of this constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratiica- ton may be proposed by the Congress. "-A Article 6, Constaution U. s.
 It seems to us that people possessed oi rational minds, must forever give up such hope. For 1t must be evident to all. that such proposition never could receive two-third vote in either house of the na- tional Congress. But admitting the fact that this impossi5ilHy could be overcome, and that convention might be called; who for moment cherishes the vain hope that proposition for new guarantees in tayor ot slavery, would ever pass by three fourths vote of all the States? The black republican party do not want any compro- mise. "They believe in an anti-slavery Bible, and an anti-slavery God, and are determined to have an anti slavery consti- tuition as they now have an anti-slavery government" It is true that some of the black republican leaders have recently at w ashington, expressed sentiments of great veneration and loyalty to the Union; and to the unsuspecting they are considered an omen of peace. They would declare them- selves Tn favor of any measure that would be effective in bringing about delay until the 4th of March, when the reins of the go- vernment will be placed in their own hands, and when thus converted into an engine of oppression, the South will be forced into position of unconditional submission. The plainest index to the vile intentions of the black republican party is to be seen in the recent action of the border State committee at Washington. They proposed as an ul- timatum, Tn that committee, to run the line of 36 degrees and 30 minutes north latitude, to the Pacific Ocean, and to pro- AidH slapery forever north of that line; all south of that line to be free or slave, ac- cording to the vote of the people when they presented their State constitutions for ad- mission. This is an empty proposition, only opens the door to the repetition of such disgraceful squabbles, as occurred in Kansas, running emigrants into the coun- try, with the chances all in favor of the North. Consolidating and compromising, as MT. Crittenden is, he indignantly reject ed this proposition. Such propositions are alike offensive to the rights and intelligence of the people of the southern States, and never will be accepted by any but the cring ing and cowardly submissionist
 If the northern people are so anxious for a compromise, and are so willing to grant