Year: 1863

, right g iomeft \ ltstt MS a5s b6nna
to suppress. By the true spirit Of
that compact we are bound to
leave to each State its own inter-
nal arrangements, to leave it in the
quiet enjoyment of all the rights of
Independent sovereignty which it
has not thereby conceded to the
General Government.


Let US convince the South, that,
by this compact, we mean most
scrupulously to abide; that we 60
for the whole Constitution that
in our view all its parts are equally
sacred that ours is no sectional,
or partial, or transient attachment ;
that we as rcsolutely maintain
whatever looks to their protection
and their benefit, as that which
secures our own; that we would
no more add to than we would
subtract from, the legitimate pow.
ers of the Constitution and that
we should hold it as treason to the
Union to take one jot or title from
the leserved and peculiar rights Of
the States.


Every one who knows any thing
of the history of the Constitution,
knows that 1t could never have
been formed,-that the Southern
States would never have acceded
to it for an instant, if it had not
| left to them the exclusive and un-
inolested treatmont of this terrible
disease, this vital subject, their
own domestic slavery; and it cam
not be preserved a day after they
shall Ebe brought to believe that
4 there is, in this respect, settled
I purpose here to disregard or go
beyond the compact.


The South will not tolerate our
interference with their slaves. This
we may be assured ; this, let every
man, refecting or unreAecting, set
down as truth certain rs q math'
cmatical demonstration. All our
history shows it ; the excitement
of the present moment shows it ;
they cannot permit such interfe-
renee - their verv condition for
bids It. Attached as they are
to the Union, important as it is to
them, and certainly it is not less
essential to them than to us, still
they will hold it rs nothing in
comparison with that which i'm
mcdiatcly touches their lives
their individual existence. The
4 Union then, if used to disturb this
institution of slavery, will be there
as the spiders web; a breath
will agitate, blast will sweep it
? away forever"


i Ii, then, these abolitionists shall
60 on, if their associations shall
continue to increase, if their doc
: trineA shall spread and their mea'
surcs be adopted, until they become
the general sentiment and ac-
tion Of a majority Of the people
of the North, aud this shall be
known, as known it will be at the
South, the fate of our Governs
ment is sealed-the day that sees
that cousummation will look only
upon the broken fragments Of our
Union. And who will attempt
to fathom the immeasurable abyss
of a dissolution Of the Union? Draw
the lines of the new confederacies
where you will -war-bitter and
almost iucessant war--will be the
inevitable consequence. ..-


Tell the abolitionists this ;presl
ent to them in full array the ter
rife consequences oftheir attempts
at Immediate emancipation, and
they meet all by cold abstra-
tion. They answer, We must do
right, regardless Of consequent e..
AS if in human action, practically
affecting individuals and communi-
ties, effects and onsequenccs were
to be of no account III forming a
Judgment of what is right, AS if
d, they were not necessary elements
in the formation of correct views
of right and duty. They assume
that such a course is right, when
: thatis the very point in contro-
versy, and when inevitable coDsel
ouencos demonstrate that it must
be wrong. 1t is fallacy which
they themselves discard when its
application comes nearer home.