| Show washington DOC dec 1 1839 we are approaching ng a crisis in I 1 n our burpo po i lotical affAirs which nay may possibly brill bring ting this to a speedy dis dissolution while all the small beer politicians and an 1 spoils men at Washing washington tort are debatin debating p plotting otting and counterplotting counter plotting tor for the oali ces and spoils of the house organization you may depend upon it that the hie leading nen of the south are brooding upon a far noie important gnip matter tile paramos para indi nt question io n with ith them la Is are arene we and our ilia institutions any longer secure tn in thie union and if not secure what steps shall ne ire take for foi our security acting upon t this his idea I 1 understand that the fol following loing pro gramme has been substantially agreed upon by la a number of lending leading sell southern abern men inen in con congress gress arid and out or of con congress ress to wit first that in view view of oe thi OA harpers ferry abolition invasion and its extensive arid and alarming alarming g ram ramifications fica t lons and in view view of the sym sympathies athias of he abolition ebed republican party part fo for r old brown and of the threats is of that parly arty to reduce ducette the south to submission on a special law shall be demanded of congress for the future arte protection alon ind the southern states against all abolition conspirators spira tors emissaries and incendiaries second that in in default of some such congressional protection the southern members of both houses shall withdraw from washinton and meet in in a body at richmond virginia or some som other eother convenient place in in view view of the initial steps for an independent southern confederacy in anticipation of this alternative I 1 am further advised that this southern congressional meeting in richmond or elsewhere Ise where will proceed to put the south 1 in rf a proper position before the be great western I 1 powers ewers of europe inc including inc leding lading a pro gramme of commercial treatise ion iati a pu purely ely southern basis that carf can fall to attract the sympathies of even england for southern rn cotton including southern slavery conf cited by this contemplated southern plan of 0 operations how utterly insignificant ant the house organization the charleston Conven convention tio n and all other political scheme and movements appear in reference to 1860 if a southern southe in demand for far ConTess congressional ional protection of the institution of slavery shall be made and abd it will be made and if this protection protect un shall be refused as it will be refused by the antislavery anti slavery northern majority of the house then we ive may witness before the close cloae of this session of congress Cn eresa the opening of the last chapter of the great american union rely it that if the southern states lanit n noc or be protected against abolition traitors and cutthroats cut throats within the union they will abandon the union peace ox or war and in view of this big list last alternative the preparations for war will not net be neglected eted by this projected southern congressional convention north men way aay say aay that this is is the old soil southern hern cry wolf but they will al 61 ph arhip rr P h hip w h b toolate that the wolf is really at tK a edoor 7 2 |
