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E. M. KEITH & B. F. BENNETT, Editors.
1 EQUALITY IX THE UNIOX OR INDEPENDENCE OUT OF IT.”
TERMS—-TWO DOLLARS n-year, in Advance.
VOL. 11.
CASSYILLE, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST
1859.
with their vicious, degraded and disgust- well what would be the result of the sue- its area, to.prcvent its extension, and fi-; out prohibition as to slavery, but provid-1 the tory heart, during the Revolution, to- storm and bowed his
ing habits. How much better then, would cess of abolition designs, he knows what nally to abolish it altogether. It was not j ing for its regulation and protection in j wards the immortal Whigs of that glori- 1 neck to the yoke. H
be the condition of the poor white labor- would be the effect of emancipation, lie only the violation ofa constitutional right, | case it either existed in, or should enter °
ers in our country, were the negroes free ? well understands that if slavery be abol- , but a manifestation of implacable hostility I any one of them by the voluntary cmi'Ta-
How much more demand would there be ished the value of his own labor will be to the “institution" itself. The South ' tion of the Southern people. But how
for white labor, and how much more prof- diminished, his political arid social condi- saw and felt it in this light and resented was it? The Northern abolitionized Whin-
demonstrations which you have this day itable would it become? To say the least tion lowered, and his personal safety it- the dangerous and daring attack. The party having a majority in the House of 1 and Egyptian bondage, filled all their
made toward me, would fill me, I fear, of it, there could be no material improve- self greatly jeopardized. controversy was long and bitter. The ; Representatives, obstinately refused to or- hearts,'Colored all their thoughts, poison- j flower of the Northern Democracy, who
with too much pride, if I did not feel and mcnt > whik t in the social relations be- Set the negroes free, and the rich man North pressed the subject with that obsti- ganize governments for those territories, i ed all their words and blackened all their ! are ready to follow him body and soul,
understand that the foundation and object tween the tu '° classes, the very worst re- foreseeing the danger, and dreading the nate and unyielding tenacity and acri- except with a provision excluding slavery, j deeds, during that exciting and excited j “ horse, foot and dragoons” into the cno-
of the movement were to endorse and ap- suits would follow general emancipation, evils that arc sure and soon to follow, can mony which always accompany fanaticism Such a bill passed that body, but the! contest. If they had succeeded, do you my’s camp, whenever his honest convic
prove, in an imposing and emphatic man- Uany considerations connected with such
SPEECH OE
HOIT. ALFRED IVERSON,
Dilhered at Griffin, Ga., July 14, 1850.
t ellow Citizens : The tender of a pub
lic dinner, and the highly complimentary
ghts,
thick and stubborn
He has not, it is true,
ous and memorable period; a jealousy and gone over “ bag and baggage” to the enc-
envy more virulent than that which insti- my, and announced bis allegiance, to them,
gated the brethren of Joseph to conspire ; but he stands to-day with one foot in our
his death, and which doomed him to exile ranks and one in the ranks of our mortal
a change, crowd upon the mind, ali point-
escape them by removal to a free State or and thcSouth, to preserve the Union, with Southern Senators, aided by the votes of! suppose they would have been satisfied
some other safe and quiet home. The poor short-sighted wisdom yielded to a degra- the Northern Democratic Senators, resist-j with the mere possession of power? That
g to its terrible effects upon the social man mast remain upon the soil, to cn- ding and unconstitutional arrangement, ed this foul demand and defeated the in-1 power w<
•edition, prosperity and happiness of the counter the ravages of that “black plague,” which has subsequently been the fruitful famous' proposal. The consequence was other am
tions or his selfish interests may speak
the word of command.
ould but have stimulated them to .Judge Douglas has been accused of de-
ner, the sentiments which I uttered in the
Senate of the United States, during the late
session, in my speech upon the Pacific rail
road Bill. And whilst 1 am not insensible
to the honor conferred upon me, personal
ly, by these manifestations of your favor
and friendship, l am more gratified to con
sider them as a siyn that your hearts and
the hearts of the people of Georgia are
sound and right upon the great questions _ _ _ _
which press themselves upon the public condition of the poor white man; although the poorer classes of the white population restrictions, Wilmot Provisos, or Squatter which it would be exposed, kept aloof, 1 cm States. What but envy, hatred and ■ current which he found himself unable] if
he knows that there is a class above him —the effects would fall mainly upon them, Sovereignty. even from this land of “milk and honey,” ! malice, could have stirred* up so much ■ willing, to resist.
in wealth, education and social roficcir.ent, and they would reap a rich harvest of all j A weak man never secures the forbear- and the political destiny cf the country ! sympathy for the deserved chastisement, The great mass of the Northern Dcmoe-
hc feels that there is a class far below iiinn those terrible evils which follow into the ance of his more powerful enemy by sub- was settled against us. The South was 1 0 f c contemptible poltroon, even though raev, driven into straits by the swelling
which looks up to him, yields to him and train of internecine wars. mining to a wrong or compromising a entitled to California. it was done in the Senate chamber of the ' power of the abolitionists, had seized upon
obeys him. In political privileges, per- It is true that the loss to the slavehold-. right—his safety lies only on a firm and It is a notorious fact that all mining op-. Capitol ? If a Southern Senator had been the heresy of “ squatter sovereignty” as a
and middle ground between the Wil-
Proviso of the North on the one hand
condition, prosperity anu Happiness ol tne counter tne ravages ot that "black plague, wmen nas subsequently been tUe fruitful larnous proposal. The consequence was j other and more fatal assaults upon the | sorting the South and carrying off thou-
poorer classes of our white population,— which would cover the land. source of still more degrading and insulting that no territorial governments were form-1 rights of the Southern people. ; sands °of the Northern Democracy with
but time will not allow me even to advert And that is not all, a general emancipa- ; expressions from the North. If the South- ed. ! In all ages and in all countries Fanati- j him in the Lecompton war. He deserted
to them upon the present occasion. There tion of our slave population would sooner cm States had then planted their feet upon The rabble hordes of Northern abolition cism grows more ravenous and voracious 1 us it is true, in that important and excit-
is one view T.f the case, however, to which or later lead to a war between the races, the Constitution and demanded their gold diggers rushed in thousands to the i as it devours the victims of its fury; it ing struggle, but it was not, in my opin-
no sensible man, rich or poor, can shut his the most bloody and fatal which ever stain- rights as the only condition upon which golden fields of California. The Southern feeds and feeds, until all being consumed, ion, a voluntary desertion : be was forced
eyes: African slavery, as it exists in the ed the annals of any country. The brunt they would remain in the Union, we ' slave-holder, having no protection for his j nothing is left to gorge its gloated maw J' to his position bv the pubfie sentiment of
Southern States, elevates the charactcrand of that war would necessarily be borne by ; would never again have heard of Missouri property, and dreading the hazard to ! and so with the fanaticism of the North- his own section;* lie was borne along bv a
attention, and upon which I am called to
address you to-day.
In a Government of such peculiar and
complicated form as our own—of such vast,
multiplied and important monetary, com
mercial and political interests—of such ex
tended and extending territorial compass
sonal rights and
class can never apj
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social intercourse, this er and the country would be incalculable, manly resistance at the outset, a resis- orations can be carried on more profitably ! chastised in the same place and in the i safe ai
preach him. This fact the emancipation of four millions of slaves, lance, if necessary, even unto death. It and more certainly with slave, than with j manner, for a personal insult or injury mot I’
—questions of most grave and important devates his pride, enhances his consequen- worth, at the present prices, more than has been this constant readiness of the I free labor. The annual cost of the form
character, are ever arising to interest and
agitate the people ; to awaken the solici
tude, enlist the sympathy, and arouse the
energies of the statesman and patriot.
But of all the great subjects which have
excited the people, divided parties, and
threatened the peace and stability of the
Government, since its formation, none has
produced more sensation, more bitterness
and more danger, than the question of;
slavery in the Southern States of tins con- j
fjderacv. And well may it have produced I
these extraordinary effects. It is indeed!
purifies his morality, Stimulates his three billions of dollars, would be a blow Southern people to submit to unconstitu-' cr is only his personal expenses of food,
aiiibilicn and enobles his manliness. He to the wealth and prosperity of the South, : tional aggression and wrong, “to save this raiment and medical attention, and the
" alks erect in the dignity of his color and which it would take centuries to repair ; glorious Union” that has whetted the ap interest upon his value and price—he is
race, and feels that he is a superior being, but the slaveholder would have his broad petite of Northern fanaticism and made subject to the absolute command andcon-
wilh more exalted powers and privileges acre.-, his houses and lands, his rents and the Northern abolitionists bold and defi- , trol of his owner, and is always at hand
Ilian others, and he enjoys all '.lie proud profits to fall back upon—though greatly ant in their arrogant and avaricious de- and constantly engaged in those duties and
injured, if he did not flee, he could yet; mands. It remains to be seen whether labors, which, to be profitable, must be
advantages of that superiority.
Emancipate the slave, and the distance
between the two classes is at once lessen
ed—the white man sinks and the negro
rises, until all distinction is sooner or later
lost, and both assume a degraded equality.
what Northern man, or Northern press, and the “ Congressional Protection” doc-
would have raised a voice in condemna- j trine of the South on the other. They
lion ?—it would have given them uniniti- j were not bold enough or honest enough
gated pleasure. It was no sympathy for to take the true constitutional ground of
Sumner’s person that produced such a fu
ror of indignation and excitement through
out the Northern States; it was sympathy
for the cause of Abolition, of which he
securing equality to the people of all the
States by Congressional enactment; they
retreated to the plausible, but delusive
and rotten ground of “ popular sovereign
ty,” hoping to “ bamboozle" their Soutlv-
survivc and live; whilst the poor man,— ; once more and again, the South will be closely applied. If the public lands of i was the insultiiv advocate. It was no
like his brother laborer at the North, would . lulled to sleep by the ‘■'■Union's" syren California had been surveyed up and off- personal dislike to Brooks as a man; it j cm allies and at the same time resist the
become “the hewer of wood and the draw- voice and be led on to inevitable destruc- cred in market, as had always been usual; was a deep-rooted and virulent hatred to j assaults of their Northern opponents.—
er of water” for the rich and powerful. | tion. j upon the acquisition of new territories, j slavery and the Southern people, of which | They hate done neither; the Southern
Yes, sirs,- the poor people of this conn-! Having made an entering wedge, by the and if the Southern people had been gnar- he was the noble and honored champion.! slaveholder sees through the flimsy tex-
Who, hut a people steeped in fanaticism | turc of this frail covering to his constitn-
and malice, and lost to all sense of justice I tional rights; the Northern abolitionist
1 low is il in countries where slavery does try are more interested in the maintenance Missouri restriction,towards the final over- antced protection and security to their
a question of paramount importance, and : 1101 '■ Compare the condition ot the of slavery than even those who own the throw of slavery, the spirit of Abolition- slave property, thousands of her adventu-
M'ill continue to grow wider and deeper in : I" 11 ” while chases in the Northern and negroes. I think 1 understand the feelings j ism, alarmed at threats of disunion from rous and enterprising sons would have
interest, until it swallows up all others ‘Southern States of (.his Union. In the for- and sentiments of the people of onr own : the South, although feebly uttered, rested ! sought their homes and fortunes on the
which concern the people of this Union. I mcv , ,llc poor man is the dependent and State upon this great subject, and 1 ven- j for a brief period. shores of the Pacific, and California would
It is not a question in which any one class servant of the rich, with a class above him : ture the opinion, that if the question was i It broke out again in a few years and llilvc been a slave State. The North
alone, at the Smith, is interested; it is a j iimi below lliul - Jn lllu IaUer < lie is put to-day to the people of Georgia, wlieth-1 presented itself in the form-of petitions to knc ’ ,v this—hence their refusal either to
free and independent, with a class far be- er the negroes should be set free in the I Congress from all the northern States, de- oijtanizc a territorial government with
low him in the scale of political, intellect- country, nine out of ten of those who do | toandir." the abolition of slavery from’the protection to slavery, or to survey and
subject in which all are deeply concerned
—the rich man and the poor man—the
owner of his hundred slaves and thous
ands of broad 'acres, and the humble citi
zen, who never owned a negro and who j eal l’l n .'
and forbearance towards their Southern j scorns and rejects it as too rough and tc-
brethren, could have presented a mere ; dious a pathway to tlie goal of his party’s
man of straw for the highest office in the : ambition and success—lie chooses a more
u d and soci.il power.
gift of a great nation, and rallied to his
support upon a sectional issue, the electo
ral votes of nearly one-half of the Statis
of this Union? What is to be expected
There the distance not own a slave, would vote in the nega- j District of Columbia. The South, by a ! scl1 tl,e Public lands. If the South then \ of such a party, when firmly seated in of-
lu ceil him an i his rich neighbor and tive: nay. more, they would take up arms, j successfully resisted this uu- i 11:1,1 acted with manly firmness—if it had
legrading—here if necessary, and fight to the death to pro- j constitutional insulting and dangerous ! said in authoritative'language to the North
i-d and
never expects to own one—all are vitally
interested in the institution ofslavery and
its preservation, as it now exists in the
Southern Sta'cs.
Indeed, follow-citizens, if there he one
class of our people more interested in the
preservation of slavery than another, or
e.isurably and almost entirely ex- vent the infliction of so great a calamity, j j nni
fice, and looking to slavery as the only
impediment to the consolidation and con-
direct road to the suppression of slavery
in the Territories, and demands its exclu
sion by Congressional prohibition.
Of what benefit to the South is the
“ squatter sovereignty” doctrine of Doug
las and his followers? Let Kansas speak.
The South was entitled to Kansas, and if
inovation upon her rights; but the spirit j e are entitled to an equal participa- tinuance of its power? It has already vio- justice hadljeen done her, she would have
1.1 1 —* i • ,l, l. Huh the pool man \\ ho en ^ \e.s, fellow -citizens, th’c presefvation of: of antislavcry at the North was fed by the tion with y oil of this common inheritance lated every constitutional obligation which taken Kansas. I disagree with those
ic. s tne i ioii ni. in s house on business o'|Sla\cr\ m the Soutnern States is indeed of contest, and fattened into such huge pro- we are entitled as joint owners, to go j it could violate with impunity. j Southern men, who, as an apology for the
n.mi o.jeit, takes a seat in the kitchen, incalculable importance to us all. I might j portions .that in a few years it swallowed into it with our slave property—we are | The right of the Southern people to a ! surrender of Kansas to abolitionism, as-
• a stands in the oute. hal. mid ti ansaets • enlarge upon the subject until I would j np the great Whig party of that section, j entitled to its protection under law whilst j peaceful and prompt reclamation of their j sort that the soil and climate of that Ter-
and threatened the overthrow of all oppo- j there, and we demand these rights—if; fugitive slaves, guaranteed by the Consti-j ritory are unsuited to- slavery. Its soil
sing elements. i j ou yield them, well if you refuse them, • tution and protected by law, has been J and climate arc precisely those of the bor-
Thc Wilmot proviso and the outrages of ” c se P crato b ' om TP U - 11 lllls ll!l(1 been | despised, contemned and trampled under ! der counties of Western Missouri, and it
1850 were the bitter fruits of that increas- t * ic vn ^ te ^ antl determined voice of the j foot; Congressional statutes enforcing this ' is a notorious fact that in no part of the
and rampant power of abolitionism on i ^ oull ‘ c |’ n people, territorial governments j right, have been openly repudiated by Southern .States is slave labor more profit-
legislative enactments in many of the free able than in Western Missouri.
his business with the lordly aslstocratie! swell my remarks to a good sized volume,
proprietor ; he no more presumes to enter but neither my own strength, or your pa-
all others, it is tlvit class who “ earn their tlle parlor, or take a seat at the rich man’s tience, would permit such a discussion.—
bread by the sweat of their brow.” E- table, than the veriest abject slave in all. Slavery must be maintained—in the Un-
mancipate the slaves of the South, and the South would do the same things here. : ion, if possible—out o f it if necessary-
what would be the condition of the poor! th
laboring white man ? It is said that slave j est <
labor comes in competition with, and chca- • llls
pens the labor of the while man. Set the ' v ' tb the confidence of a freeman, and with j —“ The Union—it must and shall be pre
negro free, and how much would that com-1 « n assurance of hospitable treatment. lie served.” My voice and yours is, “ Slave-
petition be lessened ? The negro must live * s invited to the parlor, or other convcn-! ry at the South—it must and shall bepre-
—he must be fed, clothed and housed—to lcnt ancl decent room—he partakes of the j served, until in our own good time, our
obtain these necessaries of life, he
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tt the South, and all over it, the hon^\ peaceably ,f ice may—forcibly if tee must.-\ th(j on(j hand and t hc submissive and • vvould ha ' :e bcen fornled at once ’ slavu ry
decent poftr man and laborer, visits j The voice of the Northern abolitionist j vieldi ’ r ; fthe Southern State! on ' vould haVL ‘ lc S al Protection, it would have
rich neighbor oil business or pleasure,; and the Southern submissionist would cry |..... . ... taken root and spread over the country •
the other. The Wilmot proviso—which
was to shut out slavery fron all the terri
tories acquired from Mexico, and from all
that might be acquired in the future from
any and every quarter. If Empires were
spread over the country ;
; California would have been a‘slave State,
and the South would have been spared
the humiliating injustice of the comprom-
States; in others it has been resisted and The census tables of 1850 exhibit the
setat naught by organized mobs, and ren-! fact that slavery had increased in a great-
dered utterly valueless to the Southern 1 er ratio in the State of Missouri for the
people; organized societies have been form- preceding ten years than in anv other
ed in all the free States, and large sums j slave State in the Union, and that increase
of money raised to employ and pay aboli- was mainly confined to the Western por
tion pirates for stealing away the slaves tion of tiie State contiguous to Kansas.
of the border States, and to harrass, in i- The staple products of that region are
This | tate and injure their lawful owners. In ! wheat, Indian com, tobacco and hemp;
ise measures of 1850. But under the de-
must j f~“l »‘«l f the table of the owner and | interests and onr ^ilanthropy shall de- with thTbtod or of the Iusive and fatal P rctcxt * “swing the
labor ; these are all he works for norr * treated with civility, respect and kind- cree Us extmet.on. Southern people, they were to be conse- Union ’” thc South a ^ in sunendeied a
he would work for no less if he were free: ness - '' hat :l marked difference in the j Is the institution m danger m the pres- , i G , right and submitted to a wronjr.
’ ctx i • j-n* , ! , ti j i r- • n m,.. . . orated to ireeuoni, and the south and her c . . . »
,n clthcl ' condition, his labor comes in conduion of the simie class ,n the different { ent Federal l n,on ? This ,s a great, ,m- ■ institutions forever cxdndcd T he man- was the bitter fruit of tnat violent, wide-1 short, the conduct of the masse&of the ; the latter is the most profitable and yields
competition with the white man to that actions ! How much more proud, eleva-; portant, momentous question. Like the | , y vo!cc of a fw not)!c gouthern triot lj extended and all-absorbing hostility to j Northern people exhibits more bitterness j more money to the nand than the cultiva-
extent, and no more in the one case than ted more env.ablc and happy the posit.on commandments in scripture upon which j ^ vojcc ofthe g outhern Ri „ hts p artv of Southern slavery, which had, even then, 1 and hostility towards their Southern ! tion even of cotton in the planting State-
in U,c othcr ‘ 0f thc S0Ut " e ™ than th ° - N ° rthern man ! t J ang al ‘ thc la ' V and thc , Pr °P hctS ’ U P°" I Georgia, and some of her surroundingsis- siezed a,ld ,ie,d the Northern mind in brethren, than ever marked the bloody i I was informed bv an intelligent and
If the whole black race at the South. Let slavery he abolished in thc South- this great question hang the interests and (er droye the Xorth slowIv and re . bondage. And yet from a party and peo- j contests of border nations since the world : reliable gentleman, who emigrated at an
was extinguished wiped out of existence, ern States, and the condition of the poor ‘ a te of millions. If it be m danger, then lnctanfl - nto the Conipron - ise Measures ple wU ° had the P ower and thc win to in -! began. They are this day thc most un- 1 earl v day to Kansas and carried a few-
then there would be no labor left for cm- laboring whites would soon become worse | our interests, our honor, our peace and , oflg50 flict so great an outrage upon nearly one scrupulous, the most violent and vindic- i slaves with him that he could realize
ployment but that of the poor white man. than that of the similar class North. The prosperity, nay our safety and self-preser-
and his labor might be increased in value Northern people boast of their superior ration demand that we shall avert the
Fellow-citizens, there are doubtless
half of this Union, it is thought and
said that we are to apprehend no danger.
—but who supposes that we shall ever get knowledge, of their more general diffusion danger and flee from the wrath to come ; s o mc *!° da '. there are thousands These »»to«s violations of 8m]ili,.rn
- & e . ; elsewhere in Georgia, and the whole South ° wu ions OI aoumtm
rid ofthe black race, for centuries to come, of education amongst all classes, whilst it whilst we have the power to escape.
even should they be emancipated ? Our is a well ascertained fact, that more ignor-• I know that there are many Southern ''b° theujit them wi s e,libei aland just. Southern feelings, was but a faint evi
Northern brethren would not receive and ance prevails amongst their laboring class- men who believe or affect to believe, that | e - were a roca e am supporte v dence of that deadV hostilitv to slivcrv
kcep them. , es, than in any otlmr portion of the coun- the institution of Slavery is on a safer ™ny fcoutnern men, cqual y as honest ^ ^
The free black population of the North- 1 tr T- They can read and write and cypher, foundation now than it has overmen since bv-the^outhernneonle 1 - Vorthcrn heart, and only a dim foreshad-
ernsState is conf^dly the greatest curse but« for a general knowledge of men and the formation of the Confederacy. Some ; ! ° f "* hat ^ “di in wait for us
which afflicts that country. The North- things, the} ai e comparatively profoundly ol these parties are honest m their \ ien s,: ' ' jn the future.
cm people would he the very last on the ignorant; they know little of their own. whilst in others, thc wish is father to to'spclk I The demon of abolition, as he stood
face of the earth to welcome our liberated - d ^ “ unt "“’ | ^ uUeran^ to^nf^enteTnd of thera " ith ^veritv or harshness-a j forth in gigantic proportions in thc mem-
negroes amongst themselves. Instigated At the South, though the poorer class- i erat,ons utterance to sent.ment and r t for the ; nions and ac .! orable contest of 1850, could not but ar-
by feelings of fanaticism, envy and hatred es may not be so far advanced in book n h.ch are not senously felt or of P fellow . citizens rest the attention, excite thc fears, and
towards the Southern people, they are ev- learning, their general knowledge of men tnuj-uuneu. - .....
er ready and willing to steal them from us, and things, is far more extensive and use- My own opinion is, that the institution , . , j
. , , . . ■ , , c i . „ V. „ , x only as a most unfortunate and
—that annoys, harrasses and injures us, fill. Mixing as they do with the higher ot slavery in the Southern States, is not : .... _, . .
tive enemies which the Southern people ! from the culture of hemp from three to
have on the face of the wide earth. 1 six hundred dollars per annum to the
speak of the abolition hordes of thc North hand. "Where in all the South can slave
rights—this reckless trampling upon 1 and the Black Republican party of the 1 labor be more profitably employed ? If
free States. I admit that there are cxeep- thc negro race can live and multiply and
tionp - j thrive in Missouri, why may it not in
The interests of the commercial classes ! Kansas? Kansas was contiguous to slave
in the large cities smothers their fanati- States, especially to Missouri; the natural
cism, but like a hidden volcano, its fires tendency of emigration to Kansas was
are only pent up for the present, to hurst! from the neighboring slave States,
forth at a future day, earn ing devasta- If there had been Congressional protec
tion and death in their train. ; tion to slave property in Kansas, tlie
The Democratic party of thc free States,! So,, tbern people would have felt an abid-
allied with their Southern brethren in po-' ,n 2 security > n taking their negroes into
litical contests, and look in"- to their aid ’-bat rich and beautiful country ; emigra-
leads me to characterize their adoption . ar0u -sc the indignation of every Southern
dangerous n,an - F° r the first time in the history of; for the obtainment of political power, has t,on would have poured into it from Mis-
political error. The Territories acquired tlle Republic, candidates for President for many years given to the constitutional | sourl and t,ie neighboring slave States,
rights of the South a manly support; but : ?nd Kansas would have been ours. But
like an army in the face ofa superior and Ilow was il ? Congress refused to give le-
more vigorous foe, doubtful of its position | S al Protection to slave property in Kansas
and gratifies their malevolence; but take and more educated classes, they acquire a only in danger, but without a prompt, from Mexico were obtained with the Wood Vice President were selected from
away these motives, and there is not a free knowledge, ard take an interest not only bold, firm and manly course on their part, and of the ^ . ! onc sect ion. run upon a sectional issue,
State in the Union that would not prohib- in relation to the affairs of their own coun- f» doomed to inevitable destruction. The ^ tfae common ertv of the ‘ peo le ' and voted for alone bv that section and
it the emigration of free persons of color try, but of foreign lands-they are Tamil- evidences of the truth of this proposition of the Uaited ^ ne gouthern llpon that issue. Opposition to slavery- {and conscious of inferiority, it h‘as kept j al ‘ d ™ beholders to the tender mercies
th T' r What d T 5lt r’ then ' lar U U CUrrent POlitiCS 0f the day_! T nUme T “ UU T m,Staka , bIe ‘ 1 POn pie were entitled to an equal enjoyment what did this mean ? Did they merely j upas it were, only a retreating fire; whilst i ^ patter sovereigns, who were pre-
C0 ?, i nu ^ 0 o emanci- «it t u. operations ot the Government t le pre.en occasion, can on \ glance at 0 f them; to as full, free and untramelled v >"ish to get possession of the Government, its ranks have been constantly thinned bv • cl P lta tod upon her soil by *hc Northern
P . a f Vl ° U . 1 lc - e sent to - f* a ” e a airs o t e country generally. a en o t lem t eir L r °!^ 13 written possess ; on 0 p t p e common property, as to cn j°y tlie ” loaves and fishes” of public; desertion and death, until at length it has; Volition emigration aid societies, to make
ncaa e expense of the Government ?—. T eyare, inshort.the best informed, most upon the outspread pages ofthe times, ami their x ort hern brethren—they had an un- patronage ? It would be paying a poor,' surrendered nearly every inch of "-round ' a fro ? State - Xo Indent man would
To say nothing of the inhumanity of sub- proud, patnodcland happy poor, class of m characters so large that “he who runs doabted ri „ ht t(} emi ^ tc to ’ those terri _ compliment to the keen sagacity and to the enemy. From the beginning of this ! carr T his ^ ™ to the Territory under
to! lnS th t, em l ° * certam rela P se ,nt0 bar - au > naUon 111 the " orld ‘ Thls superiori- may read. tones, and carry with them any and all statesmanship of those able and adroit ! abolition war to the present day, not a I such circumstances. Slavery is prorer-
r.mt'ih’. thCPrOC f SSOfr0niOVal ' VOUld bank ~ l ° 8 Uf extent ‘ attr| butable to the The first dawning of Northern hostility the property which they owned 5t home, >eaders who controlled that movement, to man has gone over to the sound Democ-1 biaI, T timid and will not go where it is
e national treasury. Such a scheme existence of slavery amongst us, and the to Southern slavery was exhibited upon and which was rec^nized and secured to suppose that such was the only or the 1 racy from the freesoil ranks, whilst the n °t made in advance, safe from the fang*
attemntTA lmP Ti CtICabIe ’ an<1 W ° Uld UOt b ® d * v * t,ng tendeuc, « s of that institution,— the admission of Missouri into the Union, them as property bv the Constitution of main object of their struggle; nor did they lessening and wavering hosts of the for- ! of that ™R»ck>us serpent, which is ever
„... Si A- 9 / nerou * Philanthropy and the poor man knows and feels it j i need not detail the circumstances of t h e United States and oftneir own States, disguise their object; their battle cry was mer have year after year, melted away! read - v and ea ? er t0 swallow and devoor it
before their fanatical enemy, like the! [coxo-roEDxerrweex.J
stimulateth e te Y thren ’ wc ! uld neTer When the Northern fanatic is told that that exciting and eventful period of our Having thus the unqualified right to ‘‘Down with the Democracy—down with
ions C |T f exp . enditure of mdI - his continued aggressions upon that insti- history—they are as familiar to yon and go , nto the territories - with their’ stare slavery-down, with the accursed slare-
the Southe” 11 0n5 ]° f h t lr m ° ney ’ t0 nd tution ' will drive the South to disunion, »U the American people as “household j property, they had the necessarily result ocracy of the South—freedom shaft reign
groes. No V^th ° f their J‘ iberated ne ' he tauntingly replies, that a large majori- words.” j fog right of protection in the enjoyment eternal and universal over the American
solution to thisquestio ^ ° ne ^ ^ out ^ crn no * own foe violent opposition of the North- of that property during the existence of States. ’
When \ i S ** VeS ’ * re not lntcrested in the mainten- ern States to the admission of Missouri the territorial governments. As a matter The Republican papers in all the free
without fi 0Ur * VCS * re ^ Pree ’ wltb or ance of slavery, and will not permit the because slavery was tolerated by her Con- : of constitutional obligation, and of sheer! States teemed with the most abusive and
r * wisent, they will be left up - ( slaveholders to break up the Union—no! stitution, the Southern people recognised i justice to the Southern people, it was the ' vituperative articles, not only against
snow, before tte rays of a bdhnngsun. To KaL MrcE.-On going to bed. put a
Whatever others say-whatever crumbs of d««e in your month, and
delKive hopes may be entertained to the, by wjth H op ^ ^ whef)
a mouse’s whis*
contrary, I consider dl lost at the North. kers tickIe bite.
The constitutional, sound Democracy of! ,
the free States, if not dead and buried, are j When the heart is not of tune, the
paralyzed and powerless; even thc bold, j tongue seldom gives good-music.