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% aattklj JfMili 1 etospajier— ta Htifits, ITitiratnrf, Ijricnltm :f, ifortigit anil ^fliiifstit t)S, &t. E. M. KEITH &. B. F. BENNETT, Editors. “ EQUALITY IX THE UNION OR INDEPENDENCE OCT OF IT.” TER.1IS~.TAVO DOLLARS a.year, in Advance. VOL. 11. CASSVILLE, GrH., THURSDAY, AUGUST IS, 1859. TSTO. 31. • istdlanmis. To regulate and protect the property of! consider it as a declaration of war against.' opinion that a separation could pot take, after it, and as a necessary incident to it, i pic of the border States are mistaken in , and wealth, would fjnd their way to the citizen, is one thing—to deprive him of it, : the institution of slavery in the Union,— j without bloodshed and civil war. There an amicable and just arrangement and set- j their opinions and fears in this matter, * ocean and over it to all other countries in is another and altogether different thing, and a foreshadowing of a settled policy to j would not, in my opinion, be the least dan-1 tlement of all other questions. Negotiation still it is a powerful, perhaps a controlling j spite of Federal laws or Federal guns.— One is not only within the power of all break it down by the influence, power and I ger of such a result AA'hat motive would and treaty would soon close the door a-, objection in their minds to the formation Any attempt to shut out such a supply governments, but is one of the main ob- action of the Federal Government. lean- impel the Northern States to make war i gainst all disputes or difficulties on theseofaseparateconfederacv ofthcslave States. ' from the cotton looms of the old world, SPEECH OF HON. ALFRED IVERSON, DELIVEUED AT GRIFFIN, GA., JCLT 14, 1859. [CONCLUDED.! , r . ment, under our Constitution, except for /With every-branch of the Government in Xhe loss of Kansas to the South yvas I jects and obligations of all governments, not stop to enlarge upon the process by The other cannot be done in our Govern- which such a result yvould be reached.— upon a Southern Confederacy ? Nations j points. j These and other considerations, both local. yvould set ail Europe in a blaze and bring do not go to war, except to resent an in-1 No, fellow-citizens, there would be no j and general, would, in all probability, pre- to our aid the liberating navies of every suit or injury-, to gain an advantage, or : earthly difficulty in the yvay of peaceable ; vent a common concurrence of all the commercial nation. the lc itimate and inevitable ft it of the -— i™—~ .»..*» *•«■. men me muua of a party steeped in the gall accomplish some important and attainable separation. If the Southern people were j Southern States in a movement toyvards j Would an attempt be made to invade <lg * Un • j* n " . °c t [ ° j U3 *- compensation to the oyvner. Sucli is and wormwood, of anti-slavery hostility,' object. What object could be hoped to J united and determined to take the step, j separation, even for causes which might | and conquer us as rebels with Federal ap- Kansas^ebraskT n'? a.- *• ^-tructed and ,bc * an K ua g e °f tlle Federal Constitution, ambitious of success and maddened by op- be accomplished by a hostile demonstra- : the way would be easy and plain—no yvar j be held sufficient by a majority of them ; j niies and Federal arms ? The first regi- 1 ras a in as con., rue e < This right of the Southern people on the position, no stone would be left unturned, tion on the part of the States from which j would ensue—not a gun would be fired , and I doubt whether a general convention ; ment that crossed Mason & Dixon’s line cn orce } its iorticrn aut^ors an one hand, and this power and duty of Con- no means neglected, no effort untried to wo may have separated ? Would it be to , except in joy at our deliverance—not a i could be obtained to consult unon the i on such an errand, yvould be the signal foy rienus. wy yyere cnou c i m em ress on the other, are, I hope and believe, accomplish its diabolical purposes. In the force us back into a Union with them ?— drop of blood would be shed—no quarrel common safety, and to consider and do- 1 the rising up of thousands of stout hearts selves to produce that icsult, but as a f as t becoming the settled doctrine of the Union, its poyver yvould be omnipotent— Vain, foolish, impotent thought! No man I yvould arise between the tyvo sections, over j cide the question of disunion; or if such and stalwart arms, even in those Southern part and parcelof t ic influence and pow- g ou {fj ern people, and will, sooner or later The rejection of slave States and admission . of common sense in all the North—no j the spoils or trophies of our former asso- ; a convention was assembled, whether any-! States that had not joined us, to dnve the er of the freesoil sentiments of the North- | Je demanded by them, with a spirit and of free States, would soon swell their ma-. statesman yvould ever entertain it for a ' ciation. i thing like unanimity would prevail in its ! abolition invaders hack to their dens.— cm States, tie a ministration even of powcr w hich cannot be resisted. But jority in both Houses of Congress to an : moment. To invade and conquer the South- j The mutual interest of the two Govern- ; counsels. How, then, shall those States, j Who can for a moment suppose that the Gen. I icrce, gave way to its bold and im- this doctrine, so dear as it is and ought overpowering, irresistible number, against ern States, and force them back as revolt-i ments and people, and more especially the ] C ss than the whole, or even less than a other slave States yvould cither stand in- pudent demands, and put over Kansas a to be t h c South, will never be recognised yvhieh the feeble voice of the South yvould ed and subjected colonies into a fraternal j superior interests of the Northern section, majority, satisfied of the necessity, policy j differently by, or join in a movement of batch of freesoil Governors and other Fed- Qr adm ; tted b y the North, whilst the be raised in vain. The reversal of the Dred embrace yvith their imperious masters!— yvould produce treaties of friendship, of! an d sacred duty of some action looking to j the Federal Government, usurped and con- eral officers, to warp off yvith official pa- South is divided in sentiment or undeci- Scott decision, the exclusion of slavery Never—never. The sagacious statesmen commercial and personal intercourse yvhieh ; their security out of the Union—how shall: trolled by Northern abolitionists, tostrike tronage and influence, tlie sentiments , ded jn act ; on The Black Bepublican from the Territories by Congressional eh- who would guide the councils of theNorth- j would ensure peace and make us more ob- they proceed towards the accomplishment down the spirit of Southern resistance and and political action of the people. party at the North scouts it; the Northern actment, the repeal of the Fugitive Slave ern people, would knoyv too yvell that such ; servant of the rights of each other than j 0 f that object ? j coerce their kindred and friends into de- Ncbraska yy as a Northern 1 ei r.torj,,giv - : Democracy shrinks from it. It will nev- Layv, the abolition of slavery in the Dis- an effort would be fruitless—nay yvorse j yve are noyv in the present “ glorious Un- j Fellnyv-citizens, the action of a single ! grading submission ? No, sirs, the first en up by all parties to free institutions. cr be g,. anted or actcd upon untd { j le trict of Columbia, the imposition of high than fruitless—it yvould be yvicked and j ion.” These would be the immediate, nec- ; State, except under circumstances enlist- attempt at Federal legislation looking to Kansas yvas a Southern Territory, and I South, united upon it, speaks in’autlior- protective tariffs to burthen and cripple ’ suicidal. The Southern States contain a j essary and certain results of a separation , ; ng the strong sympathies of her contigu- j coercion—the very first military move- ouglit to have been subjected to Southern j tativc ^ pos itive asd determined language slave labor in the South—in short, the ex- white population of eight millions, and j yvilled by a united South. But I admit ous sisters, might lead to defeat and disas-' ment towards our conquest would arouse control; but yielding to the pressure of Nor-, t(> thc jr ortlian( j tells it . u ^- u are cnti . ercise of every power, for which an excuse could, in such a contest, raise and main-; that the prospect of a harmonious union ter. If South Carolina had resolved herself the sympathies of all our sister Southern them anti-slavery hostility, and lliestiong ■ t j ed t0 tlvis i-iglit—we must hare it; if yve may be found or invented, calculated to tain an army of a half a million of men, i of all the slave States in a great movement out of the Union in 1882, on account of States, and drive them out of the old and cannot get it in the Union, yve will seek it weaken the institution and finally to de- equal to any troops in the yvorld ; and i like this yvould be dull and doubtful un- j tin: alledged oppressive operations of an bring them yvith hast}- steps into the open current to make Kansas a free State—to appease the morbid appetite of the aboli tion monster, yy ho shook his bloody fin out of the Union.” If the South ever stroy it, yvould be the first and early fruits fighting on their oyvn soil, in defence of , . brings its united mind and heart up to of their daring and malignant experiments, j their country, their rights, their honor, gel s at the 1 i c--ident, he i <-' >-• 'be lla *- ; // ul ( point, then her constitutional rights If the South submits to one, she will sub- ■ their altars and their firesides, would he ural and appropi i.ite oi dei of things, a ^ l< ^ will Ijc respected anti conceded by the mit to another, and to all of these abomin- invincible. Defend themselves against the appointed Southern men Goyuno.sofNe- p- e ,q ci;l ] Government. But without such able and damnable aggressions, until she | North! They could stand against the world braska, and Northern men for Kansas.- j a Md ,* anh . and decidud course And the present Administration, though ;ire ^ to expett fr0!n the North crn States, professing the greatest regard for South ern rights, and the most profound indij- or from Federal legislation ? l.ook at the present condition and future ference, as to the political fate (d Kansas, | prospco t s 0 f public sentiment in the free South, as well as her true honor, dictab has folloyvid the cx.n.ip.e of his ill i j g^tes— a t the presnt and future state of a firm and manly resistance to the first I by the arms of the United States; but ous prudcccssoi a.id he,.old the ai l .13 of. pQ j ; c . d par f ;is ; n Congress. There are a success of the Abolition party, which shall Mexicans are a feeble race and no match few sound and true Northern men still be founded upon opposition to slavery and for the courage, skill and physical prow- lingering in the Senate; nearly every ves- looks to its overthroyv in the Union. If, css of the Anglo-Americans. Hungary, tige of sound Northern conservatism in therefore, the Republican party of the free ; yvith less than eight millions of people, was Northern Freesoil Governors over Kansas —Reeder, Gary, Shannon, Walker, and Medan - , all hailing from the same section —all of the same materials made, and all consecrated and devoted to the same great end of making Kansas a free Shite. ;as yvas lost to the South dor any except extreme circumstances.— odious protective tariff, yvhieh at one lime and inviting arms of the new Republic. Circumstances might arise yvhieh yvould was sa ; d to have been seriously consider- Such would be the inevitable effect of unite them all and bring about prompt, ; cd and contemplated, she could not have any hostile demonstration against the new decided and successful action. resisted the combined opposition of all her : confederacy, and no such demonstration Any act of the Federal Government in ' sister States, and the power of the Feder-1 yvould be made. Nor yvould it matter the hands of a dominant abolition party, ' a l Government, upheld as it yvas, by the ! whether any effort yvere made or not, to looking to the genera! emancipation of the approving-voice of the country. The gal-! entire the seceding States into the former slaves of the Southern States, yvould, 1 have ■ lantrv of her sons would have maintained j positions in the Union. A new Govcm- the true safety of the \ weak, lias ever been invaded and conquer- j no doubt, arouse a universal spirit of re. j a hard struggle against Federal coercion,; ment once formed and put into operation ' cd by a foreign foe- Mexico yvas overcome j sistance at the South and lead to imraedi- j either in the form of Federal laws, or Fed-! yvould attract all the other slave States to ate disunion. But for any cause less pow- eral bayonets.; but they would have been 1 it—no human poyver could hold them off. erful than some yvanton aggression upon ' forced to yield at last, and resume her for- j The attractions of a common interest and Southern rights it would be scarcely pos- j mer position, as a State in the Union. | a common sympathy—of a common race, sible to unite the Southern States in a j Whatever therefore, might be my con-; language and religion—of common danger, spontaneous and general revolutionary : victions of the unconstitutional and dan-', insult and injury—of kindred associations yvliat will find herself both unable and unyvil- in arms. ling to resist a decree of universal emanci- | There are but tyro instances in modern pation. | times in which a nation united, though In my opinion feet upon the firm plank of their sover eign equality and constitutional rights, yvhen the Territorial governments were formed, and demanded protection to their slave property by Federal layvs during the existence of the Territorial govern ments, us a condition of remaining in the Union, yve should never iiavc been cursed with the wretched uncertainties or unmeaning generalities of the Kansas- Nebraska bill, and the thousand ills of which it has been the prolific source.— Will it be argued that under that bill, slavery' has been established in Ncw-Mcx- ico? Who believes that it will become permanent or be maintained as the set tled policy of that Territory ? 11 has been adopted through official intrigue and un der the influence of official patronage and pow'er—it yvas covertly and suddenly done—it took the South, as yvell as the North by surprise. But the North yvould even noyv and before this, have overcome and obliterated it from the Territorial statute book, by her hordes of abolition scum, sent there by her Emigating Aid Societies “to regulate the domestic insti tutions of the people” if she had not re served it as an element of agitation and success in the next Presdcntial campaign. the other house has already been extin- j States, yvhieh is only another name for the : conquered by Austria, but it required the | movement. " : gerous aggressions of the Northern States, | and kindred institutions—of similar pur- Thc border States, lying contiguous to ■ and the necessity and propriety of a South- suits and similar objects—of a lik,e origin the North, dread the effects of separation j ern Confederacy to secure the rights, in- J and a like destiny, yvould he as potent as upon the safety of their slave propertj'— ' terests and honor of the South, I should j the all-poyverful and all-provading natural forgetting, or closing their eyes to the fact ! be slow to recommend or approve the sc- j layvs of attraction and gravitation, to unite, guished—four years more will give to the Abolition party, shall present sectional ' aid of the colossal power of Russia and the abolitionists the control of the Senate— Northern candidates in 1800—shall run ' treachery of her oyvn sons, to how her And thus Kansas y\as lo»u to the Sou.h. j jg f .j w ;]j witness the inauguration of a them as sectional candidates and upon a neck to the yoke of the oppressor. If the Southern States had planted then ] freesod p res id cn t, and then, with both sectional platform of opposition to South-! Talk of dricing the South back into the branches of Congress and an abolition - ern slavery, and shall elect them by a see-! Union, when once she cuts loose from it! that both, the motive to abduct their ne- j cession of a single State, without the pro- ■ fa-ten and bind them together by a bond President, the Supreme Court, the last; tional Northern vote, it yvould, in my o-! The thought is preposterous, rediculous groes and the opportunity to the negro for j b a h!e co-operation of her coterminous sis- j too strong to be broken by the combined barrier to fanatical encroachment, will j pinion, be sufficient cause and ample time ! and, foolish. No sirs, no attempt would I escape, arc a thousand times stronger and ; ters, and still less against their expressed j efforts of all the nations of tlm earth. No, soon give way—vacancies upon that bench j for separation. I care not in yvhat speci- j ever be made to force a re-union of these of stern old men, yvill occur, by nature, or; ous form of yvords, such a sectional plat- j dismembered States. The North might he made by Congressional legislation, to ; form may be made, if the spirit of anti-, humble herself at our feet and beseech us be filled by the creatures of party dicta- J slavery Shall be its soul and its animating j to try once more the pleasures of her fra- tion, until that august tribunal shall boyv ' eelment if hatred to slavery and those yvho ! ternal embrace ; and if the terms of tlie its neck to the yoke of unrelenting fanati-! uphold and defend it, shall be the control- j proposed co-partnership suited us—ifsuf- cism—and then, the acts of an abolition j fog poyver over the Northern masses, and ficient guaranties could be presented and Congress, sanctioned by an abolition Pres- j shall carry them to the polls to vote for j agreed upon for the future preservation of ident, yvill be upheld by the decrees of an I their abolition candidates, and thus the j our rights in another Union—if yve could abolition Court, and enforced, if ncces-1 true, sound, conservative men of the North i he impressed with sufficient faith in their sary, by the bayonets of an abolition ar-1 and South shall be borne doyvn and defea-; fidelity and honesty, yve might again form my. j ted, It yvill be time for the Southern peo-1 yvith our old friends a band or union, and The great high Priest of the abolition j pie to look to the safety of their “institu- ( try our fortunes once more in an Ameri- church, Wm. II. Seyvard, has already de- tion,” and to seek it, if need be, in the for- j can Confederacy; but not otherwise, dared in bold and vaunting terms in the Senate of the United States, that “the Su preme Court must recede, or the Court 11 tion of a Southern Confederacy. j It has been suggested that trouble yvould And noyv, you yvill ask me how is that groyv out of a distribution of the public greater in the Union, than they could pos-: w ill and wish. But yvhenever a respeeta-1 fellow-citizens, let a Southern Confederacy sibly be in separate Governments, they j ble number of the Southern States, con- j be once formed, by even a few of the slave urge this as a great bug-bear in the yvay j vinced of the necessity or policy of seek' j States, and all the layvs yvhieh control hu- of any movement tending to separation— ; fog their safety or happiness in a ncyv Gov-1 man action yvould stamp their impress up- or even the manly assertion of our rights \ eminent, shall determine upon such a step, j on every Southern State of this U nion and in the Union. Why, sirs, what guards or 1 they can accomplish that object, if not; bo irresistable. guaranties now exist against the wholesale i yvitliout difficulty, at least without blcod- j Anil now, for yvhat cause and on what abduction of the slaves of the border States, shed or civil yvar. j occasion shall such a movement he made or their escape into the free States ?—! Let the States of South Carolina, Geor-1 by any of the Southern States ? Thisques- None, save the domestic ties and fidelity i gi aj Alabama and Mississippi become ani-j tion is already answered, to a certain ex- of the slaves themselves, and the watchful; mated by a common spirit of resistance to ; tent, by the solemn declaration of our vigilance of the oyvners. ■ Northern aggressions—let them become ! State enunciated at Milledgeville, in the The Northern people arc alloyved, by convinced that their safety - , their interests i Convention of December, 1850. ThatCon- our Constitution and laws, as yvell as by an d their honor demand a separation from 1 vention yvas not one formed by voluntary social courtesy, to come amongst us at the North, and the formation of an hide- • primary meetings of the people, assembled pleasure—they travel with impunity in ■ pendent Government for themselves and in small numbers and, as usual in such to be done—by what steps and through ■ domain, and other property of the United i every State, county and neighborhood, and | their posterity, and a concerted and deter- j cases, controlled by a few leading and am- must be reformed ” And lie has uiore I what process is such an object to he ac- j States-the army, the navy, and materials | have abundant opportunities to inculcate mined movement by them, yvould draw bilious men ; jt was a Convention called power and influence over the Black Re- ! complished ? Fellow-citizens, I am but an j of war. It is a mistaken apprehension. No j insubordination, and seduce ourblackpop- j every other slave State into their policy, ; by the Governor, under the autl.onty and publican Party of the North than the ! humble man, with little pride of opinion, j difficulty whatever could or would arise Nation from their allegiance. The facih- and compel them to join sooner or later, ; instructions of the Legislature; the De e- rcat confidence in my ability to /rom that source. If no arrangement could , ties for escape mow, are quite as great, if fo a Southern Confederacy. j gates yvere erected by the people of tlie be made, each Government would most not greater than they would be, if we yvere j Unless conciliated and reconciled to j several counties, under the usual rules and^ naturally and properly be alloyved to re-1 separated by a national dividing line ; their former associates and the U nion, hy ■ regulations of law; tney were chosen af- tain the public lands yy'ithin its borders. ! yvhdst the outside pressure upon the slave concession of additional and satisfac-1 ter a protracted and heated contest, in The largest share in quantity might fall to | toyvards escape and freedom, and his seeu- t 0I .y constitutional guaranties, those four • yvhieh all the objects ana hearings of the the North, but the South yvould care little ! rity for reclamation, are far more power- Sta ' tcs C0lddi twelve months, break the 1 proposed Convention were fully discussed for that. Retaining those within her own \ hd and effective than they ever could be bonds of thi .. rr n ; on g0 far aSHnn der, that ‘ and considered by the people. It was an limits, she would yvillingly surrender all 1 in the other condition. n0 poyver on earth could ever re-unite I authoritative arid imposing Convention claim to the mountain peaks and sterile I How, under the Constitutional guaran- them. Let any one of them, through a j composed of some of the ablest and best plains of the Northern provinces. The ar-1 ties, we cannot exclude the Northern Pi- Convention called by authority of its Leg- ( !nen both political parties in the State, my and its material are nothing. In case jrate from our soil—in a separate Govern- islature, solemnly resolve that the true . it spoke the yoiee of the people in unmis- of separation, its present elements would | ment we yvould he an alien and a stranger, : policy of the South yvas to form a separate ; takable language, and although there was soon dissolve and be merged with the mas- j without the right even to enter, except by Government, and express a yvilfoigness a large and respectab.e party in the. tate the necessity and propriety of such a move-1 ses of its own respective section. AA'c legal permission. How, all the laws yvhieh and readiness to join any of her sister; yvhie^did not think that the Convention could soon re-construct an army of any ! Congress has passed for the capture and Southern States in the formation and mam- went fir enough, yet they acquiesce, in size, which the exigencies of our country ■ rendition of fugitive slaves, stand as a dead tenance of such a Government. Let her I its final action and its solemn resolutions yvould justify or demand. letter upon the statute book—what are invite in an imposing and solemn form, all | of resistance in the future. I may safely The fortifications and armaments paid ! they worth to the Southern people ? Not' others agreeing with her in opinion and j say. that if the people of Georgia were for out of a common fund, would belong ! the value of the paper and ink with which object, to appoint delegates to a Convcn-; never before or arc not now unite upon to the party on yvhose soil they were found j they have been recorded. In a sepal ated tion to be held at a time and place desig- an . ot..ci po.n.... . u jec ’ - at the time of separation. ‘The ships of’state and independent Government, the ' nated, for the purpose of declaring their j ted upon the1 platform frame y i * comman-' abduction or detention of our slaves from : independence, and setting up a Govern- vention. 1.1s -itii resolution ol t lat pia - Pope of Rome has over the Catholic yvorld. j and no It is in vain to hope that a reaction will j suggest or advise a plan for the attainment take place in the Northern mind, and that! of so important an object It is indeed a sound conservatism yvill ever again rule 1 momentous subject—r.o question yvhieh the Northern heart. AVc have heard that I has occurred since the times yvhen our cry and that hope repeated again and ag- J fathers commenced the Revolutionary AVhenever she chooses she can wipe”it j ain, for more than twenty years, and yet | struggle, arid declared their independence out in twelve months-she has only to the spirit and poyver of abolition have j of the British Crown, has risen, or couM bring the guns of her Aid Societies to continued to spread, increase and strength- j arise to half its miportance-none would bear upon the doomed land, and slavery ! cn, until they control the political action deserve a more serious consideration, or will flee from it, as it did from Kansas.- ! of nearly every free State in this Union, j would demand the exercise of greater wis- \ 0 feUow-ctizens, give no legal and tan-j and openly proclaim the intention of j dom, courage and patriotism. If, h<»wev- g ible protection to slavery, and it will j wipln S out slavery in all the American | er, the Southern people were convinced of never plant an abiding foot print in any | States. Territory of the United States. j The bold and daring declaration of the j they were sat.sfreu tha their T 1,All nor «ton here to arcue the doc- ! great leader of the Republican party, in safety required it, that their honor deman- I bhall not stop here to argue tut . lffii ded it, that their interests called for it, * • to cla- ‘ his speech at Rochester last fall, that ueu ^ , ,, , _ , trine of Congressional protection ' * ‘ , , . . . and icerc united* tnere would be no lack • f,n /.Amhit the' freedom and slavery cannot exist togeth- v very in the lerritones, nor to combat t ‘ . , fW 0 f able and patriotic statesmen to devise c it, ** » t fot-n' or m the same Government, ana that one 1 „ -~ errors of Squatter sovereignty. 1 take. . „ , , i _ the steps—form the plan—penecHhestruc- t « Anftp * or the other must fall, was but the echo F , . _ this occasion to ^ ^ ° of thc popular sentiment all over die free ture > alld inaugurate a Government which the advocato ofthi^Jatter hcrEsj -—earned . ^ ^ I P ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ would be the “wonder, the glory and pride away by its attractive, but delusive soph-j p .. , fin ,; 0 f the world.” With an experience of JT, which like the “qwhW lures j of «*na ^ ^ morc than thrce quarters of a century in istiy, only to destroy, and without serious ex- i* 16 public press aminaUon into* its truth and general bear- 'from the hustings of many popular as Republican Government—with the defects separation, war lying in Southern ports, or aminaUon into its trutn ana genera, near-“7“^. - J V-,, 0 f our present system seen, felt and un-1 could build them. The public buildings cupidity and commercial necessities of the their constituents, declare their indepen- to resist, even (as a last 1 ingandlookingat it as the only alternative } semVlies, and n 1 e Sorthcrn deretood—with the lights of the past, the j a t AVashington Citv, costing over tyventv | Northern people—the paramount iwpor- dence of the present Federal Government, ruption of ever, tie whi ^ t0 take ’ “ 1 C Ca 7 a ' S " to tlle ; ar crv of . intelligence of the present, and the inspi-! millions of dollars, being on Southern soil ’ tance to them of peaceful relations with as, frame a Constitution and form of Govern-: the U nion, any anon of ras wrong, clans are to be metered f rations of the future, we should be able to 1 and in the Southern Confederacy, would | and of enjoying the benefits of our trade ment, and proclaim themselves to the the sub; thc error, j d » n ' T >tb slavery, a , = forma Government more perfect and more; belong to us, and they are worth more and social intercourse,; would impel them world, a free and independent nation.—j Commoi reflection; of unl ' ereal emancipation . - world ev-! than all the nnhlie hnildlnes in all the free : into treaties with us, which would afford AA'ouid any effort be made to force them nsdictioi [as 11 last resort) to a dis- which binds her to Congress upon abject of slavery in the District of Tibia, or in places subject to the ju- and I Mmit, regret and recant Subsequent investigation and renecnon ~ furled until it * stable than anv upon which the world ev-1 than all the public buildings in all the free soon conviocedme that the only true the- j “°tb never again to be furled, until it ; , , ^ •' i - - - * .- .. ory in relation to Territorial government | s ball wave in triumph over a in the Union, is that both the power and j degraded and destroyed South, or, met at the duty are conferred and imposed upon |^ ^—- - - ^ - propriety of this doctrine as I am of the ! such will be its fete and its only mission, | tion from the North ; form a Government,: The national debt, in case of separation, be doctrine of salvation declared to ™.n in I if the Southern people arc true tothemselves and put it into immediate operation. Then: would fell upon the old Government Cer- us, wmen woum anora wouia any effort be made to lorce mem , risdiction of Congress, incompatible w ith disgraced. I or looked ' i States. In this wav, if no agreement could I infinitely better guaranties against the ab- j back into the former Union ? How, and! the safety, domestic tranquility, the nghte disgraced, , , M+: ^ tnrv div ; 5 ; 0 n would i duction of our slaves, and for the return ; by whom ? Could the Federal laws 01 the | and honor of the slavcholdmg states, or j ^ lro - yea souln ’ or > “ Ct at! D0Ubtl 7 f % ^LTSuth^ Con be made^T allthe uublic property of an^ ! of those who might voluntarily escape. *| oldGovernment be enforced over sovereign j any act suppressing thc slave trade be- the threshold by a manlv spirit of South- certain mode of forming a Southern Con- j be made of all the public prop y J j . . i o t t „ .. n : tpd and determined to be tween the slaveholding States ; or any re- • ' federacy, if the Southern people were uni- j value or importance. But the South would | Give me the power over the commercial Stat^ as a State any TerriiLy, !ss and impotent, i hereafter applying, because of the exis- AA'ould ships of war be sent to blockade | tence of slavery therein ; or aw act pro- like angels' visits, few and far be-! our ports, to enforce the collection of Fed- hibiting the i.itro uction 0 . mm. .. tween.” If a stray negro should now and eral revenues—te cripple or destroy our ■ Aerritoneso ta or- ew » then escape and flee into that far and free trade, and break up our intercourse with act repealing or ma en y Jing country, he would be caught and sent back | foreign nations ? Vain attempt! The mil- laws now m force for the rendition of fa- to his owner, in less time than he occupi- j lion and a half of cotton bales produced by ed in his vain race for freedom. The North- these four States, to say nothing of other em people may he controlled by their in- J articles of jytport, would burst asunder ley never have been governed j evervlttgaer-which Federal power could by Constitutional obligations, and never j thrjJ^sBp^jfeem. Probibited-by our will be, when there is a negro slave in the | own ij^^Jpc^^ssing into and through case. j the adjoining States, of the old Govern- But whilst I am satisfied that the peo- ■ ment, these immense objects of commerce the sacred word of God- but whilst I in- * —true to the ir rights, their interests and would follow, as a matter of course, an. tainly we should be bound in good feith sist upon the ab^lute lieht of the South-: their honor; true to that spirit of inde- J amicable adjustment between the two gov-; and honor to pay our proportion of it, and em people to legal protection in the en- ’ pendence and those sacred principles of emments, Northern and Southern; of all 1 so we would, if the North gave us justice joyment of their d* Ye pronertv in the Ter-! civfl and religious liberty which animated 1 questions arising out of then- former asso-^ in ot her matters; but whether we should ritories of the United Statk. and the dow- their immortal sires in the struggles of ; ciation—a just and honorable division of ^ pay at all, how much we should pay, and ar and duty of Congress Wive suchpro-1 the Revolution. ; the public property, and the public debt j when or how, would be que*«p*i - taction, l utterly denythe wwer of £n- I know not how others may look upon! of ^ Government, and a frmndly ar-1 to decide. The settlement of tins oneqws- gtess,undarthoConstitutio^orothe^e,lthe triumph of the Abolitionists in the | rangement of all future relations, interests j tion of the P u bUcdebt^now acting to to prohibit slavery from entering the Ter- Presidential election in 1860, but I do not a°d intercourse ritortas or of abolishing it if them j hesitate to declare for myself; that I should; I know that many have entertained the, not likely to be diminished, would draw gitive slaves.” Since the adoption of that platform tha unmistakable voice of most of the South, em States, has applauded and approved it, and expressed their determination' to stand by Georgia in its mamtainance “ev en to the disruption of all the ties, that bind us to the Union.” Now let any one