The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1861-01-12
Aryxr AND A COMMENT THERON.

valcdictory oil MI T.. M"'P'c' '"e '"''
proprietor, and the introductory OF Mr.
J. A Carpenter, who has purchased the
establishment
The Onion like many other papers IN
the South. seems to think that the prln'
cipal question Of complaint by the
South against the North, arises from the
personal liberty bills passed by the
Northern States, and that if these were
repealed. the two sections could get along
once more harmoniously That IN order
10 force the Northern States TO repeal
these unius, laws. it is only necessary
for the South 10 tax Northern goods
attempted to be brought within their
limits TO the point OF prohibition. 1t
contends that this il constitutional and
perfectly feasible II this be practical
bic policy il is somewhat remarkable that
the Southern States have never be-
fore discovered II. and that the most
eminent public men the South has ever
produced, and who have been most sen
sitive to Northern political and comm r
cial domination, have been unable to
origina u scheme promising relief from
the operations Of u government, which
for a period Of fifty years has been
transit rring the wealth of their section
to that Of their neighbors The truth is,
all such schemes are idle and chmcrlcal
and have their origin in the diseased
imaginations of such men as Gideon j
/ Pillow. and are endorsed alone by those
who fail to reflect, ,r who are anxious
for the southern States aud people to
submit 10 Abolition misrulc But sup
pose the Northern States, one and all.
were to repeal these obnoxious laws. and
to pass the most stringent regulations
for the reclamation Of fugitive ,'ayes.
What then Would slaves be given up
with more alacrilv than at present, Is
the editor If the Union deludcd enough to
think SO? When the fugitive slave law
was FIRST passed a majority of the Nor.
ihcrn people were Indifferent as TO its
execution A large number however,
determined to resist il, and that neither
time, money. nor vigilance should he
wanting 10 render it a failure What
was the result ltcost twenty thousand
dollar. to arrest and carry back the first
negro and We assert without the fear
% contradiction that from the day the
law was placed upon the Statute books
Hutil the present time, not ten negroes
have been reclaimed under the operation
af the law that have not cost double their
value Al the present time a large ma
iority of the Northern States in priuci-
pie aud feeling are opposed to such u
law. and hrucc j, could never bc enforced
uo matter what cuactmcnts were placed
upon the statute books
But suppose the majority Of the Nor
tho,u people were determined 10 brave
all difficulties and to defray every dime of
expense and to deliver up the fugitive
elavcs that NIGH, be dccoyed into their
har hers Ny Abolition cmissaries This
would be all that could possibly be asked;
yet of what earthly use would such a
slave be, after you got him During
his short sojourn in the North he would
be teted and toasted by abolitionists,
placed in their best beds. seated at their
most luxurious tables, taken to their lee.
tprc rooms in disguise, to hear orators
cxpa'iaie on his supposed wrongs
little would he dream that if he were
simply free northern negro, he would
be left to- starcc in the street OF on the
highway The effect of his reclamation,
therefore would be positive injury to
the planter, as such a negro would cor.
rrpt all the servants with whom he came
in contact
We knew that the fugitive slave law
was a humbug when it was placed on
the Statate book That it could never BE-
enforced. and that if it were carried out
it would work more injury than profit to
the South, We 50 expressed ourselves
at the time
For thirty or forty years. the Northern
people have been actively engaged in
stealing Southern negroes and yet. until
recently, it was regarded as the least in
our list Of grievances Aud such it
really is
II is surprising to MS, that intelligent
men, living in the South, and who aspire
to direct public sentiment by editing
newspapers, should cvince SO much igno-
rance of the causes Of division between
the two sections
If our cotemporary, and men who
think like him would read the speeches
OF abolition orators, the editorials of the
leading public journals Of the free soil
party, and the speeches Of Mr.. Lincoln
hirnself he and they would be better
advised These abolitionist certainly
know what their object is, and be /, said
to thier credit, they have he ever disguised