The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-02-02

trade. Export duties and direct taxation will
be to thcm prosperous policy but how will
1t operate upon the mechanical anil manu-
featuring and mining industry and capital Of
Missouri, of Kentucky. of Virginia of North
Carolina, Of Mary land and Delaware, if Mev
should form part of the confederation? |
know it is asserted that a mutually of pur.
poses and community of interest in slavery
will avoid this result. How is it to he avoid.
cd Sir, when it involves a contradiction of
the avowed designs Of South Carolina for the
last thirty years. and is in perfect correspon.
dence with the declared plans of the people of
the cotton States themselves, how, say, will
| you avoid it ?
An examination Of the census Of 1860 will
disc lose the astounding fact that if the Con.
stitnIion of the United States is taken as a
provisional form of government under this
new convention which they have called to
meet in Montgomery. Alabama the cotton
States with those admitting upon them, will
! have. under the fixed ratio of representation,
! the legislative power ever the border slave
States, and they will L.. bound by policy
which may be, rs to their great material and
mechanical interests, MS oppressive as it will
be runouS. If these causes should exist, we
Shall have an an'agonism in that union quite
as great; fifty fold intensified, it may be,
beyond anything we have ever had in tl,s.-
But if the other view is taken, and the border
States are encouraged and protected it, manu-
features, the white population of those States
will be so vastly increased that they will We
hut nominal slave States. finally becoming
free States by :hc very necessities Of their
existence under that incxorablc law of popu-
laton to which have referred. What prin.
cip'e in frce-trade, or any other principle for
which they are now contending. will the
cotton States have gained by this most dis
astrons revolution! What time 1t may take
to effect these results, no human sagacitv can
ioretel!; but that they will follow, if any
reliance at all can be placed upon past
experience, is at least my own fixed and
solemn conviction. With tier of free
States along the whole northern border of
Texas, the western borders Of Louisiana ard
Arkansas, the northern and western portions
OF Missouri of Kentucky, Of Virginia, and
OF Marylind, distance Of nearly four thou
sand miles, this inevitable law of population.
operating from its geographical center in the
Northwest, and with the facilities for settle
mcnt which Pacific railroad will give, p
branch of which the South voluntarily and
most ialacicusly rclinquishcs the great hog.
eating Teutons o. these vast plains will bear
down even upon Texas and Mexico, and
ultimately bear them away from any con-
!ederacy into which they may enter. In the
Union there is at least fair prospect tia,
Mexico. by the very necessities of our posi-
llon, will fall into our hands, and in the
providence Of God it mag vet he that this
now distracted land, cursed with civil Auds.
and racked with ntcYnecine wars, may vet
be Preserved for the purpose of working out
the great problem under which the brain of
this vast nation is now overwhelmed and
reels.
Mr.. Speaker, gentlemen from The North
shrink back in dismay at the very mention
OF proposition to protect slavery south of
the line Of &c deg. 80 min, either as applied
to territory now existing, or which may he
hereafter acquired, when it is perfectly
demonstrate, on the law of population to
which We have referred lhut every slave
State erected within the tropics can only be
had at the ultimate sacrifice Of kindred
State along the border Of the free States. -
he policy is the policy Of Saturn feeding on
the bodies Of his own children. 1t is time
the North. MS well as the South, app reciated
this state Of facts. The field for argument
and illustration thus presented is inviting
indeed but within the limits Of an hour
can but make suggestions rather than main.
tain any extended line of remark. The ques-
ton Tor the statesman to decide is: whether
the South shall not be guaranteed by consti-
tutional enactmcnts, if need be, in the prin-
ciple secured to her by that instrument itself,
by the decision of the Supreme Court:
principle which may not only be barren
of any practical advantage to her, but if rem
deIe4 effective, can only be 50 on the basis of
compromising benefit TO the free States
themselves. of opening up new fields in
temperate and genial cline for the increase
of white population
would fain hope, in the determination of
this vast question, we may rise above the
silly prejndices and splendid shams Of the
hour. Let rs hare no more cant. Let our
eyes not blink under the truth as ii is. Let us
eEllghtcn, as best we may, the people of
this great country, not only as to their duties
in the present, but as to their destiny to
come. Let us feel we have country to save,
instead Of geographical section TO represent.
Let US act as men, and not as partisans and
the old Constitution, now in the very trough
Of the sea. with battered masts and sails in
shreds, rolling at the mercy Of every breaker,
will again, with her dark and weather.
beaten sides, loom from the deep; will again
skim over the waves like the sea bird, that
scarce vets his bosom OH their snowy crests.
ringing with glad shouts, and the rapture Of
anticipated triumph, as when she ranged.
like mighty monster OF the deep, beneath
the castles Of Tripoll, striking them dumb as
she passed. Or us when she spread her broad
and glorious banner to the wind and rushed
ike strong man rejoicing to run d race, on
the Guerrero and the Java.
Mr.. Speaker, have necessarily left much
unsaid. Ny last hope upon this most dis
tracing question is upon the action Of Eir-
gina. Heed her voice while yet you may
| would now conclude all have to say in the
solemn warning Of one of her noblest sons
the author of The Declaration of Indepen-
dence himself, who, in 1913, in period not
unlike the present, appealed to crring sisters
TO cling to the sanctuary orther fathers.
-" In every free and deliberativc society,""
| says he, " there must, from the nature Of
| man, be opposite parties and violent discus
| sions ard discords; and one OF these. for
| the most part, must prevail over the other for
a longer or shorter time. Perhaps this party
division is necessary to induce each to watch
and de!atc to the people the proceedings of
the other. But if, on a temporary superiority
Of tie one parity the other is 10 resort 10 session
| Of the Union, no Federal Government can erer
eria. If, to rid ourselves Of the present rule
| of Massachusetts and Connecticut. we break
up the Union, will the evil stop there? Sup
| pose the New England States be alone cut oil:
| will our natures be changed Are we not
| men still. with all the passions of men p