Year: 1859

In our present paper will be found the proceed


ings OF an extraordinary political meeting, COM


menced at Austin on tho 2lst inst. as taken


from an extra Of the State Gazette. We con.


lcss we have the most painful forebodings OF the


tho results that are likely to follow from this


attempted organization ofa new party in our


State; for we cannot divGst ourselves OF the con-


yicton that the meeting was really the initiation


of a new party that will eventually embrac, with


IN ii all the elements Of opposition TO Southern


Democracy, and what we mean by this term is


the State Rights Democracy of the South, in


contradistinction to the Douglas or Squatter De-


mocracy of the North and West. Nor can thore


be reasonable doubt that this organization will


endeavor to strengthen itself by lraternizing with


all the anti slavery elements in the State, where.


yer it may be scattered, and under whatever


forms and names it may have been Disguised
We hesitate not to predict that if there is man
in the State, who has either ventured to
idecare his opposition openly to the institution


OF slavery, whether as a moral, social or political
evil, or whose acts or words have ever subjected


him to well grounded suspicion. or who has eyor
manifested any sympathy for the abolition or


FREQ soil party, or who has over been particular


ly Jealous in opposition to measures of self de.
fence by the South against Abolition assaults
on that institution-such man, under which
ever of these categories he may be more properly
placed, will soon be found acting with this now
organization. However innocent many Vt its
members may now be of any intention to co-ope.
rate will the declared enemies Of the South still
we have not the remotest doubt but that this |
new party will most eHctually oooperate with |
those enemies, whether intending to do SO or not,
anu will by them be compimented for their oppo-
sition to the Southern pro-slavery States Rights
party, ifnot acknowledged by them to be their
auxiliaries in putting down what they call the
Slaveocracy of the South. The war Of sections
has oecn steadily approaching crisis for many
years past, and that crisis is now near Mt hand,
when we must either surrender the institution
of slavery, or all the great bulwarks of tho Con-
stitutiun by which alone it can stand or we must
defend it and all its constitutional guarantees in
allstheir length and breadth without compromise.
There can be no middle ground Those that are
not with us must be against us. 1t is great
fundamental constitutional principle in issue
II was for that principle we contended when the
Missouri restriction upon slavery was repealed.
That was an for the assertion of constitu.
tional right that had been compromised thirty
years before, and Che safety of the South demands
The repeal of every similar compromise in the
past, and firm resistance of every new that &
may be proposed. A great principle must be ad' t
'ocated in its entirety not at all-it cannot be
livided. The institution of slavery must be sus-
aimed, not only as right in the sight of God and
man, but morally and socially beneficial to both
aces, otherwise it cannot be sustained at all
The moment we surrender the principle in part, v
he whole of it is gone. There are those among a