Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-04-04
FAYETTEVILLE, TENN: THURSDAY, APRIL 4, H6L

hOle O0utueIi-itSutS apeSVu VI Oul
gallant representative in Congress
Maj. Thomas, we fod the following
table of statistics. The extract:
But there are those who are ready
to meet me OIL this question aud tel
me that it is Of no importance to
the South, that it is no cause Of com.
plaipl on hsr part. / answer that
the public territories Of this govern
ment, are the common property ol
all the States, held ia t,ust Tor their
common and equal benefit by the
federal government, their common
agent. That the States are entitled
to equal rights in those territoriss,
just so long as they are territories
by privilege Of migration aud settle
meDt therein by their citiz MS re-
spectively with their eysry species
of property 90 equal footing; aud 10
deprive any State OF set Of States
of those tights is degrading and bu-
initiating in the extreme to them, and
renders them tbs uneqoals and iG.
feriors Of the-o: - States. Yes, Ten
nesseeans, unless you maintain your
equal rights in the territories, even
to the extent Of secession, and who
would not prefer that, ca even death
itself, to the degradation Of interiors.
you suffer yourselves 10 be made
the Interiors Of your fanaticai foes Of
the North. Then there is cOnsid-
Grafton of moral di. nifty involved In
this question Of territory that We
must nlaintain, If we be men. Again
the practical consideration of lie or
death to the South is connected with
this question. Oar peculiar lnsiitu-
ton Of slavery, the subject OF an
unholy, outrageous, unchrlstlan al
tack by the fanatics OF tn North when
they have no mole right to interfere
with it than they have to abolish the
system of seilJom in Russia, needs
have and must have expansion or II
canaot be maintained anl in lis wreck
the white race in those STATES where
il Exists cannot bat suff,r Immediate
extinction while the most remote na-
lions will teel the viol, nee most sens
ihly. And in yielding our rights Of
Iomain and expansion We thus COM
nit ourselves to the fatal and de-
struslive doctrine of submissio d, a.
gaiust which ] would invoke the |
#arning of the impassiored and ell
1quent Henry TO The sires Of '76
,gainst the injury, insult, outrage
md oppression of the British crown,
not one-tenth part SO enormous,
,rueI and degrading as that which
We haye already received at the hands
If oor government. and that too when
administered by our friends. If all
bis injury to Southern rights. South
,rn honor, Southern equality and
Southern interests as We have above
it. and the recit,l nigh.
ave been doubly extended but for
ime and space, has occurred while
he government was controlled by
,ur friends, when enemies get pos
session of il what can we expect. Let
his inquiry be answered by the senti-
nenis Of the party that is to be Install
d into power on the 4ih Of March.
Those sentiments are such rs are pub
ished 10 their party platforms and
vowed by their leaders. In their
,latform of 1856 slavery is denoun-
ed as a twin relic Of barbarism with
,olygamy, while 10 that Of 1860 7
be startling fact is reiterated that
he South is to be forever prohibited
IN equal participation in the terrific
les. By reference to the speeches
II the leaders Of the Black Republic
,,u party. those who speak by author
iy, the following may De dedueed
IS the sentiments TO which that party
> committed and which they are
,ounI to and intend to carry oui SO
oon as ever the first opportunity )
PRESENTS itself, namely: The federal
government is to be employed 10 the
nterest Of the North in the irrepres.
,jble conflict proclaimed BY Mr. LIN
,oIn; which means that the South IS
10 be drained os ber wealth in the
manner we have alread described, 10
sustain the hand Of Northerr arro-
gance that is to work her destruction;
which means that the South is to be
excluded from the territories and
confined to her present limits until
her institutions are reliuquished;
which Iaeans. in the language OF