The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-11


 viduals, was never intended by its creators as repository of political power. But whether in legal contemplation, the States have right to secede or not, has now be- come entirely mportant-they have done so, fully, emphatically, and completely the enigma has been solved by practical demonstration. The golden chains once bracing up the Joins of the Union, have been rent in twain by the very hands that forged them. Georgia and South Carolina, matrons among the original thirteen States, have thrown off the galling letters, and struck second time for unrestricted liberty.
 Since they have exercised this abstract right, are they morally justified in what they have done? Have they in the light of heaven been sinned against, or are they sin ming against others? Their offence, like our own, in the eyes of the northern people, is slare1y. This institution. co-existant with the remotest periods of civilization, and sanctioned by divine authority, is declared by the President elect, to q be in the course of ultimate extinction.''' '' He has declared, and that truly, that the United States go- vernment C cannot erist holf slape and hdJf free" An irrepressible conflict, says he, is going on between freedom and slavery That institution is now upon its trial be- fore you, and if we mean to defend and transmit it to our children, let us terminate this northern crusade, by forming sepa rate government, in which no conflict can ensue. -
 But if, upon the other hand, we are pre- pared to admit the argument, that slavery is sin-that the melioration of the white and the black races require us to abolish it, we shall keep in the true line of policy marked out by the incoming President, by remaining in the Union.
 Great solacc is indulged in by some, that it is the avowed purpose of black republi- can domination to permit slavery to remain unmolested in the States where it now exists; whilst it is as distinctly announced upon the other hand, that the institution shall be denied all power of expansion over territory now possessed or hereafter to be acquired.
 The laws of physical science percieve no stand point, from which there is neither progression nor retrograde action. Peo- ples, governments, and the institutions of government, must either recede or advance. The aera of slavery must be extended, cor relatiye WiM its antagonasm, or 1t will be put speedily in the course of ultimate ex- tinction-" It must invest the southern portion of North America. from the Allan tic to the Pacific, south of 36 deg. and 30 min. north latitude to be permanent; else when hemmed in by cordon of fire, "like a scorpion, it will sting itself to death. ."- Put it in the bounds, and 1t will soon have general goal-delivery.
 The extension of slavery is the vital point of the whole controversy between the North and the South, as is plainly mani fested by the persistent opposition of the northern people, to its being engrafted upon any newly acquired territory, whether south or north of the negro line. Does there ex- ist inside the borders of Arkansas any di versity of sentiment, as to the religious or moral right of holding negro slaves? Do any imagine that the non-slave holder will be less involed pecuniarily and socially, in the exterpation of this institution than the slave holder himself. The productive portion of the soil of Arkansas Is so geo. graphically circumstanced as to preclude the idea that it can be successfully cultivat ed by white labor. From these more fer tile regions is produced by slave labor in superabundance, the staple commodity, cotton-:justly styled commercial king of Flu rope and America. From the exportation of this article alone, our people receive annu ally an influx of capital, which permeates the hill tops and the valleys ofevery section and portion of the State. The cotton planter of the South. exposed to insolubri- ous clmes, indeed is but the factor for his northern neighbor-inhabiting the noun tain region, blessed with health, free trade and prices for his grain, fruit, stock and other articles produced for and sold in southern market. Who could find market for the surplus products of North Arkansas, if the more genial soil of the South was deprived of slave labor?- God in his omnipotent wisdom, 1 believe, created the cotton plant-the African slave and the lower Mississippi valley, to J1 otbe and feed the world and cra lla nj ra ce