Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-01-30

rule the South, never crossed th'
imagination of our ancestors, lh'
Union of the Constitution was 4
union OF slavcholding States II
rests ON slavery, by prescribing Il
representation in Congress, in'
thrce-fillhs of our slaves, There Is
nothing in the proceedings OF The
Convention wich framed the Con-
stitution to show that the Southern
: States would have formed any 9th
, or Union and still less that they
would have formed II Union with
more powerful non-slaveholdtng
States having majority in both
branches of the Ledgislaturc of the
Government. They We're gufty OF
no such folly. Time and the pro
grcss ofthings have totally altered
the relations between the Northern
and Southern States since the Union
was established. That identity of
feelings, interests and institutions
which once existed is gone. They
are now divided between agri ul-
tural and manufacturing and COM
mcrcial States between slavchol-
ding and non holding States. Their
institutions and industrial pursuits
have made them totally different
peoples. That equality in the Gov
crnmcnt between the two sections
of the Union which once existed no
longer exists. We but initiate the
policy of our fathers in dissoIving
Union with on-slavcholding con
federates'and seeking confederation
with slaveholding States,
Experience has proved that slave
holding States cannot be safe in
subicction to non -slavcholding
States. Indeed, no people can ever
expect to preserve its rights ana
liberties unless these be in its own
custody. To plumber and oppress,
where plumber and oppression can
be practiccd with impunity, seems
to be the natural order Of things.
The fairest portions Of the world
elsewhere have been turned into
wildcrnesscs, and the most civilized
and prosperous communities have
been impoverished and ruined by
anti-sfavcry flnaticism. The peo-
pie of the North have not left us in
doubt as to their designs and poll
cy. United as a section in the late
Presidential election, they have
elected as the exponent of their
policy one who has openly declared
that all the States of the United
States must be made free States or
slave States. 1t is true, that amongst
those who aided in his election, there
are various shades of anti-slavery
hostility. But if African slavery in
the Southern States be the evil their
political combination affirms it to be
the acquisitions Of incxorable logic |
must lead them to emancipation
IF it is right to preclude or abolish |
slavery in territory, why should
it be-allowed to remain in.the States!
The one is not at all more uncon-
stitutional than the other, according
to the decisions of the Supreme
Court of the United States. And
when it is considered that the
Northern States will soon have the
power to make that court what they
please, and that the constitution
never has been any barrier what
ever to their exercise of power,
what check can there be in the unre-
counsels of the North to G.
mancipaticn? THERE'S sympathyin
which carries men along
without principle but when there
is prime ple-and that principle is
fortified by long-existing prejudices
and feelings, association is omnipo-
tent in party influences. In spite OF
all disclaimers and professions, there
can be but one end by the submls-
sion of the South, to the rule OF
sectional antislavery governments at
Washington; and that end directly
OF indirectly, must be-the eman-
cipation of the slaves of the South.
The hypocrisy of thirty years-the
of their whole course
from the commencement Of our un-
ion with them, show that the people
of the -slayeholding North are
not, and cannot be, safe associates
of the slaveholding South, under a
common government. Not only
their fanaticism, but their erroneous
views of the principles of free GOV
ernments. render it doubtful wheth-
er, if separated from the South, they
can maintain free government
Numbers with them
is the great clement of free COVER
nment. A majority is infi,lliblo and
omnipotent. ''The right divine to
rule in Kings" is only transferred
to their majority. The very object
of all Constitutions, in free popular
government, is to restrain the ma
ioritv. Constitutions, therefore, ac-
to their theory, must be
most unrightcous inventions, res
tricting liberty. None ought to
exist but the body polite ought
simply to have a political organiza-
ton, TO bring out and enforce the
will of the majority. This theory
NAV be harmless in small commu-
nifty, having an idenity of interests
and pursuits ';Ebut over vast States,
still more over vast Confederacy,
having various and conflicting in
tercsts and pursuits, it is a remorse-
less despotism. In rcsistingit, as
applicable to ourselves, we are vim
dicatingthe great cause of free ssgoy-
ernment we have established with |
them, requires. In separating from
them, we invade no rights-no m
terest of theirs. We violate no OBJ