Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-02-06

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I0leTatloa 10 RegaFd 60 slavery.
Its s.iuiisr ef ths siavsR problem has
been aueu.sa s.h mOFs difficulties aud
dangers than amy other that has ever dis
lurbsd the public peace Of this eOuntry,-
and one Of the slrangssl features Of the
question, has been the attitude Of that par
~, in NO wise affected by the institution eK-
ecpl by their intimate dependence upon il,
as a matter Of Interest, in commercial
point Of view, The anti-slsyery party,
both in this eountry aud in England, since
its dawn upou the political horizon, has
continued with pertenaeily unparalleled
that slavery is SINS moral evil per 80,
while large portion Of their people are
results Of slave labor for the means Of sus-
tenanee, They have, with true Machia-
ysllian, deSierity and cunning, denounced
the evil, while they have enjoyed the fruits
This discussion has grown from mere pO-
li,ieal question To one Of religion,-a mat
ter Of conscience, which the subtlest easu-
lists have so far failed to settle, because they
have not approached It properly, One of
the great errors iRln which the Abolition
party has fallen, is the belief Ihal'they are
the keepers of ille southern conscience and
the guardians Of their morals, This fanaI-
leism is not unlike that If lis parent that
eyineed itself in the days " the religious
wars when rresbyterlans prosecuted Qua
kers and Baptists, and when Catholics of
fered upon the stake the burning sacrifice
Of heriticAl PrOiestants aud gifs rfrsa,-all
because one man could not or would not
think as others did. When men begin TO
fancy that their mission Is to direct thu
conseiences OF other men, the door is opened
to abuse and fanatieism,
During the seventeenth century, crom-
we'll and his Independents impressed upon
that age the great doctrine Of religious toll
Grafton, and produced n change in great
measure, in the character Of the wars that
devastated England, Scotland AMI Ireland,
After religious prosecutions had nearly
ceased in the Mother country, the colonies
enjoying more latitude and larger liber-
ty were nearly wrecked upon this one prin.
ciplc. Their descendants to this day, pos
scss their hereditary traits Of character,
believing themselves to be the keepers Of
the Southern conscience. Religious intole-
rance received its death blow in the Con-
.titution Of the United States, engrafting
these clauses prohibiting religious tests for
Office, an established religion or interfere
with the free exercise thereof Here WAS
liberation in its largest sense, the wisdom Of
which, is seen in the successful rise and
progress Of christianity and morality, be-
yond parallel in any other iNpd on the
globe. The slavery question has become
incorporated into the religious crceds OF
the two sections, in most Of the regular and
in all OF the irregular or heterodoI church
Is, and is now the rock on which the gov
eminent is wrecked, the Union dissolved
and the commercial world shocked TO its
centre. Strong minds and iron hands
must now gather the fragments and recon-
struct upon q permanent basis, and that
basis must be free liberation on slavery rs
in religion, making il in the Southern Con-
feieracy the law Of the land eo-e1tensiye
with its territorial limits,-a great and fun
damental principle of the Constitution, he
yond repeal and legislation, and forever to
be untouched by municipal regulations
save for its protection. Let slavery enjoy
in the new government all the rights and
immunities of religion MS matter of con-
science,-and then and not till then will
agitation and discussion cease, and our
nnti-slavery conscience keepers be silenced.
Let the States few or many, that unite to
form Southern Confederacy, be the nu-
eleus around which this grand principle
will concrete into power that will finally
be the most imposing on this cohtinent.-
Let this be the organic, the fundamental
principle, the distinguishing characteristic
of the new Union, free liberation in re-
gard to slavery and non-nterference with
the property-rights of others. In this, no
violence need be done to any mans con-
scicnce,-those who don't want slaves or
believe ii to be wrong to hold them rs such,
need not own them, and will not be re-
sponsiblc for the actions Of him who does.
II new States claim admission, let it be the
constitutional policy Of the confedcracy to
refuse to admit an antagonistic element,
and to require the completcst endorsement
of this principle. Slavery is no more the
creature of municipal regulations and State
enactments than religion, and if we fail to
establish this truth upon the new Consti-
tuition, we will fail to establish the doctrine
of the Southern party, for which we have
always contended, that slaves ARE property
any other inherent right. Less than this,
the labor of years will be in vain and our
work for naught,-less than this, we will
have come short of our determination, and
will have yielded tho argument and the
field to Abolition sentiment and anti-slave-
ry logic.
BHr From Col. Totten's report made to
Congress and number of guns in the forts
of the Southern States we find that Fort
Monroe at old Point Comfort, in w., is the
largest and costlicst in the South, and per-
haps, on the Atlantic coast. 1t cost 81,
Ann 400. rcuuires a War garrison of ALSO