| Show T ai 1 c e crisis on all the S clr I 1 ft C cry it 31 t ll 11 est 0 li S t it 1 li g S 0 t arii r ji p Pro r 0 g gramme r i i ll 11 i i 1 e 0 ol 01 i r krotec r 0 e dionor iti onor we ive are standing upon the tha threshold of the most momentous events in the history late of the civilized world for good oi 01 evil for a renewal nettal re of the bo bonds ads ot of pea peace cc and harmony harmon between the N north orth and ami th hi south or a dolent 1 rupture e are entering ing upon a new things thing the IT late te desperate and bloody abolition inva inai sion ot of Virgini aits extensive ramifications the lite widespread sympathy betrayed betra red iba ib throughout a t the north tor for that wretched yr etched traitor ai rlou cutthroat ayd aud horse thief old brown I 1 who pays today to day dav the penalty 0 of his black and mawford niA crimea cri es still and all the elements of 0 this black republican republic anwar war of subjugation against the south have hare brought our political affairs to a crisis jt it must most be met the beadi leading P minds of the south are moving to meek it read our par latest advices advises from washington the southern plan or of operations thus disclosed comprehends in the first place a law of 0 congress for the protection ot of the he institution of slavery in the slave states against abol abolition incursions abolition and abolition inter inthir ference arence with southern institutions aps tro ying or calculated to endanger end apger the lives ives and property of our southern brethren ati this I 1 a law the south will vi ill doubtless lemand demand shall embrace a practical en n forcemeat of the object of the fugitive slave law and kiich ch pains and penalties against all traitorous encroachments encroach ments upon southern rights as may be learned deemed necessary for the prot protection action of slavery and the he security of thi the people oje of the slave s tates and why not the constitution of the united states fully recognizes recognises ud and amply provides provi dei for the security of the institution u tion of slavery when the constitution was formed formell all the f states we believe were practically slave states v with ith the single exception of afa massachusetts where the soil and climate hai baa proved b by experiment that slavery laver roide not be made to pay the recognition prospectively ro s of the african slave tra trade a t to 0 I 1 the he year 1608 the allowance of a count three fifths of 0 the slave population in the federal ratio for congress the pr tor for the recapture of fugitive tive slaves ind and the paramount recognition of the eq amli ty ly of the several states as members ot of the general confederacy were the worl of the constitution we of the norh are bound by bv this compact and all its concessions and compromises and A 1 0 iky 03 3 i anve aye ceased to atford afford that protection to the lie ball boi ui rt states tes which rightfully they may clans does it not become the duty of congress to provide that protection under the constitution which chic the laws as they stand local and federal have failed to secure secured there can call be but one answer to question such theu then hems the ilip protection which ane bogli may angwill and will demandt demand abt tibia con re st question uc stion recurs will it be bei granted grante 4 we think not iha he thing r 10 impossible in the ilia present I 1 lease house of rep a or of men pledged to gela aga igainia irist slavery and of oe men ft f 0 a g aa school pledged to co congressional r sale nat t rioe to intervention Antici anticipation patin the inesita ble le result then it appears in tbt lb second place ilace that in failing to secure any meas irea area of protection from congress this souther apiAn the he in of the southern Sou thein from rom congress Con greiss and a meeting of them at richmond lib mond or some other oilier convenient lo 10 alit to consider the ways and means demanded for the security ot of southern in an independent southern on and v hat then while bile the southern deis from contress congress ire are shaping out their measures for lie ie general movement mo ement on the part of the southern states for independence em am the organization of a militar military y and overtures of commer ial reciprocities to the western powers f europe it is probable that a quorum sufficient for business purposes will still ie a left is in each house of congress we nay safely conclude too that thus being ott ett to their own pleasure and without enoca opposition the republican republica party rill adopt stron measures for the coer lon on of the rebellious south into bubbis su brals ive measures mea irea calculated to ta precipitate aher than avert an irrepressible 11 and so it is possible that the lose close of out oui impending presidential cam laign may be the beginning of or a civil aar between the federal government and the he southern bout bern states are the contingencies foreshaw forean a d cai owed ad in li this southern 1 pro gramme ramme of protection or independence of security within the union or a separate government and when we consider the lin important urbant fact that the expenses of oe the ani rif oi are chiefly extracted from the south ibale the benefits beDe fitS and profits of the un union ion are chiefly pocketed by the north we find a very significant meaning in this allusion to southern reciprocal commercial treaties with england france and all other commercial foreign rowers powers the southern states to as in an ill independent dependent confederacy 2 could extort arom the north any a y amount of protection to their slave property upon a commercial basis this idea at all event has taken a deep hold upon the southern goatbe mind so that we must henceforth remember that disunion has ceased to be a southern scarecrow and has baa become a term full of southern advantages and how stand we at the north in view 0 of this programs pro grame graine of oe disunion the solid north excepting the imperial and conservative city of new york stands arrayed against the south and threaten ingher her sullus alinn dionn kr I 1 find the democratic party called upon to r ratify a lack afy a degrading submission to the b black republican balance of power in a recognition recognition of or the abolition heretics of t the a buffalo platform this ha be ma nay regarded as aa but a straw trie the upon areat ir r eat stream ot of our national aal affairs airs but st it is I 1 a straw which marks the jr drift ift of the tide in revolutionary times timea a straw or a feather may turn the scale and in view of the C critical ax I 1 movements we have detailed w we are now on the very verge of a terrible revola tiou |
