Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-01-08

" keep together" What effect her movement may have
upon the future, time alone disclose.
South Carolina sovereign state had right TO adopt
the line of policy she has pursued and would have
made special reference 10 her course, if had not
been indirectly invited 10 do by her late executive in
his uncaled for references Virginia. IL has been my
rule the executive Of Virginia, to exhibit in my Of
fetal intercourse with the states Of the confederacy,
spirit Of comfy and to manifest all that respect which
is due from state TO another. Whenever the mo-
tives or the action of Virginia arragned will feel
it my duty to demonstrate and in doing so, will OBJ
that moderation, courtesy and kind spirit which
become the character of state whose large contri-
buttons to the Union" have secured TO her the res
pect and affection of every state OF this confederacy
In the message of the governor OF Mississippi,
find ref the border states, of the char
acter and manifestng the spirit which has been
exhibited by the late executive OF South Carolina;
Gas is than 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 I'M
less their with them and become citizens
and prohibiting the in reduction Of slaves for sale by all
persons whomsoever"
These references to the border States pregnant
with meaning and be at loss to understand
what that meaning is. While dsavowing any unknd
feeling towards South Carolina and Mississippi, must
still say that will resist the coercion OF Virginia into
the adoption OF a line of policy whenever the attempt
is made by Northern or Southern States.
For the present condition of public afirs, the non
slaveholdng chargeable and the Union shall
be DESTROYED upon them will rest the solemn response
bity. Their systematic and persistent warfare upon
the institution Of domestic slavery, it exists amongst
us-ther fierce and unqualified denuncation OF IL, and
all who recognize tolerate it, have done much to create
the present state of evaporation existing between the
two sections of the Union Hatred to slavery and slave
holders is nsted into the minds Of their Children as part
and parcel of their education, throughout the infected
district of New England The institution is constantly
assailedthough the press, in the pulpit 10 public meet
ngs in private associations in their legislative assem-
bies in their statutes, all occasions-as morally,
socily aud politically wrong. The slave owner il paint
ed as the great criminal of the ags deserving DEATH
Money is raised and has been expended III hiring des.
perate aud depraved men, in armi0g aud supporting
them in order that they may make raids into southern
states aud excite the slaves TO nsurrecon and murder
Arms peculiarly suited TO the of the slave have
been fabricated and into the slave states to be
placed in the hands of this class of population after
they have been stimulated to such degree of madness
as will qualify them for the commission Of MURDER arson,
and every species of cruelty. The results of these teach
pgs were seen in the Harpers Ferry raid.
Such an outrage ought to have provoked the unqual-
fed and universal condemnation OF good and lawabidng
citizens in every State Of the Confederacy In arocity,
il stands without parallel in the history of country,
and all right thinking would suppose that neither
the authors the would find apologsts anywhere.
Is it so Did we not find apologlsts for the
conduct of John Brown and his iagltous associates,
throughout many Of the Northern but especially
in the New England States The fountain OF New
England sympathy broken up 10 its pths and
gushed forth when John Brown and his followers were
condemned after fair trial. and expated their crimes
upon the galows. Though they dead, New England
sympathy for them still survives. But few weeks ago
a John Brown sympathzer elected to the guoern-
toral chair of the State Of Massachusetts, OF the
original thirteen The executive chairs of the States OF
Ohio and Iowa also filed with the same description
of men, holding the general views, advocating ~
same principles and measures and exhibiting deep NJ.
patty and strong Partially for these heartess maeiac-
both elected however, prior to the Harpers Ferry
raid.
The people of the Northern States, their statutes
show and it is confirmed by their speeches and addresses
their resolutions in public meetings, and indeed III almost
every conceivable node have been endeavorng 10
fine slavery within its present limits by excluding from
all the territories belonging 10 the government. They
have been endeavorng ito draw line around the South
ern States with the purpose Of then declaring that sla
very shall 90 beyond the limits thus determined by
them The statutes and resolutions of many OF the non
States from the time Texas sought admis-
sion into the Union up this day, confirm this view OF
the designs and purposes of the free States.
Who can have forgotten the attempt made by the
Northern people to use the mails for the transmission OF
the vest papers illustrated by pictorial representations,
calculated and intended ITO produce dissatisfaction and
revolt among the slaves and nctc their Wild passions
to vengeance against their masters aud others in slave
holding States The objects they then had in view aud
towards the accomplishment of which their efforts
directed the abolition Of slavery in the District OF
Columbia and the exclusion Of slave States from adms'
sion into the Union.
Since the formation of the government, composed of
the original thirteen States twenty States have been
added 20 the Union, making the number of thirty
three. OF the number added eleven have been free
States and nine slave States For many years the policy
admit States pari pdssw, as TO preserve tie
quilbrum in the Senate between the North and the
South In carrying out this policy, Vermont and Keu-
lucky Tennessee and Ohio Indiana and Mississippi Hi
nos aud Alabama, Maine and Missouri, Arkansas and
Michigan Florida and Iowa. came in together, or near
the same time When the State OF Missouri admit
ted the State Of Maine cut of from ;he then State
Of Massachusetts, for the purpose OF preserving the eqn-
lbrium between the North aud South in the Senate.
Northern State divided with = view OF keepiug up
the euupOse and that division gave additional free
State 10 the Union. That equpOlse is now destroyed,
and we stand fifteen slave and eighteen free States
Even in this of the case the South has been for
bearing and unsesh that she has never asked Tor the
division of her States that the equpose might be re-
stored.
An advantage has been gained over in another
spect, equally important. The organized territories
with the exception of New MeXico destined TO be-
come free states and il may be that this territory
will be Of like character. All of these territories will
come into the Union about the time and while
the North has the advantage Of six Senator'S
that advantage must in the ordinary OF events,
if the uon shall survive, be greatly increased Besides,
the territory of the slave is generally large the
territory Of the free states generally small Rhode Island
ia made equal to Missouri in the senate; Connecticut IS
to Virginia; Vermont, with its wild fanati-
cism 5 an Offset Georgia, the empire state OF the
South.
Can it be surprising that the people of the south
should he FESTIVE and uneasy under such circumstances
In addition candidate has just been elected to the
presidency who gave uterance to the following afro
cous sentiments indicating his bitter hostility 10 the
south and her institutions: =" In my opinion, 1t (the
slavery agaton) will not cease until a Crisis shall
have been reached and passed house divided against
itself cannot stand. believe this government cannot
endure, permanently, half slave and half free. | do
not expect the Union 10 be dissolved do not expect
the house to fall but do expect it will to be
divided II will become all one thing, all the other.
Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further
spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall
in the belief that it is IN the course OF ultimate
extinction its advocates will push it forward until
shall become alike lawful in all the states old well
as new, north as will south" And again, he says
" embrace with pleasure, this opportunity oil declar-
ing my dsapprObdon of that clause of the constitution
which denies TO portion of the colored people the right
OF suffrage" s..
When a president is elected entertaining and boldly
avowing such standardization, TO this moment, they
have never been retracted qualified, have We not
reason for alarm and resentment
The Union is disrupted; let the north bear the
blame. They have brought these sad and deporable
results upon the country, and the candid and honest
men of the world will hold them responsible for the
destruction of a government that has challenged the
admiration and commanded the respect of the nations
of the earth Before God and the world, they will be
held answerable for this calamity
They yet have the power to end the strife and excite
ment and restore confidence to the country. Will they
do it; await their response, but not without appre
henson. Time, however, will soon furnish the answer.
The present state of things cannot continue long. A
change for the better or the worse must soon come.
Can it be supposed that dissolution Of the Union