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KEOWEE COURIER.l| " TO THINE OWN SELF 1JE TRUE, AND IT MUST FOLLOW, AS THE NIOIIT THE DAY, THOU CAN'ST NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN." VOL. 1. PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1850. ^ NO 43'?iM THE KGOWKE OlKII]R, rxiNTKO AM) PUBl.lSIIUD WKEKLY BY W. H. TIUMMIER. J. W. NOURIS, JR., ) t,... E. M. KEITII, $ Editors. t.scTis Ono Dollar and Fifty Cents f?r one year's , subscription when paid within three months, Two dollars if payment is delayed to the close of the subscription year. All subscriptions not cloarlv limited, will be considered as made for an indefinite time, and continued till a discontinuance is ordered and nil n.rrfifirftf?es nni.l. o I , Aduertiwnents inserted at 75 cents per j square for the first insertion, niul 37 1 -2 ots. for each continued insertion. Liberal deductions ; made to those advertising l?y the venr. zsr All Communications should be address- j cd to tlie Publisher post paid. SPEECH OF HON. J. C. CALHOUN, \ ON THE SLAVERY QUESTCON. s DELIVERED IN YHE. SENATE OF THE UNITED HTATES, ! March 4, 1850. I have, Senators, believed from the first that ' the agitation of the'subject of slavery would, if not prevented by somo timely and effcctivo measure, cud in disunion. Entertaining this opinion, I have, on all proper occasions, endeavored to call the attention of the two great par tic? which divide the country to induce them to adopt some measure to prevent so great a dis aster, but without success. The agitation lias been permitted to proceed, with almost no attempt to resist it, until it has reached n period when it can no longer he disguised or denied that the Union is in danger. You havo had forced upon you the greatest and the gravest question that can ever come under consideration: How can the Union he preserved? To give a satisfactory answer to this mighty question, it is indispensable to have an accurate and thorough knowledge of the nature and j character of the cause by which the Union is : eiuinugcreu. v? iinoui sucn Kiiowieuge 11 is nil 1 possiblo to pronounce, with any certainty, by ' what measure it can bo saved, just as it would 1 be impossible for a physician to pronoiuice in I the case of some dangerous disease, with any | certainty, by what remedy the patient could be saved, without similar knowledge of the nature and character of the cause of the disease. The first question, then, presented for consideration, in the investigation I propose to mako, in order to obtain such knowledge, is: What is it that has endangered the Union} To this question there can be but one anstrer: that the immediate causc is the almost universal discontent which pervades all the States composing the Southern section of the Union, i This widely extended discontent is not of re- | cent origin. It commenced with the agitation ! of tho slavery question, and has been increasing ever since. ^H?c next question, going one step further Iwck, is: What has caused this widely diffused and almost universal discontent? It is a gi cat mistake to suppose, as sonic liavo (lone, that it originated with demagogues, who excited tho discontent with 1 lie intention of aiding their personal advancement, or with tli<> dieappoinUju ambition of certain politicians who resorted to it as the means of retrieving their fortunes. On tho contrary, all tho great political influences of tho scction wore arrayed against excitement, and exerted to tho utmost to keen the people qniot. Tho ^reat mass of the people of the ?South were divided, as in the other section, into Whigs and Democrats. Tho leaders and tho prea-ses of both parties in tho South were very solicitous to prevent excitement and to preserve quiet; because it was it..i iL. 4Tir, * 1 buuii ulut vliu uiicuu) ui 1110 iui iiiw wou1u hccc8* narily tend to weaken, if not destroy, the poliu- J Cftl ties which united them with their respective parties in the other section. IZ'hose who know the strength of party ties will readily appreciate the immense force which this cause exerted against agitation, and in favor of preaerving quiet But, as great as it was, it was not sufficiently bo to prevent the wide-spread discontent which now pervades the section. No: some cause, far deeper and more powerful, than the supposed, must exist, to account for discontent so wido and deep. The question, then recurs: What is the cause of this discontent? It will be fouml in the belief of the people of the Southern States, a? prevalent as tho discontent itself, that they cannot remain, as things now are, consistently with honor and nofety,Yn the Union. The next question to be considered is: n mti nas? cituseu vuo wiiei ? , Ono of tho causca w, undoubtedly, to bo traced to the long cdhtifiued agitation of the slave question on the part of tho North, and the many aggressions which they have made on the righta of th? Sooth dnrlnjt thy time. I will not enumerate them at present, as it Will be done hereafter in its proper place. There is another lying back of it, wV>J4 which this is intimately connected, that may Vj ru. garded as the great and primary cause. 1\ u I to be found in the fact that U?p equilibrium be^ll tweonthe two sections in the Government, as it i stood when tho constitution was ratified and the government putin action, luis \xipn destrtyc<Jtf 1 At that tnno thero was nearly a uerfect equilibrium between tho two which afl$)u?dam pie means to cach to protect itself a<a;fftv|j)C aggression of the other; but as it now statftw one section has the exclusive po^r ?r oontrof ttngtta Government, which other without a?vy adequate mcMUij of protecting it self against lt? tAvcroaclu uunU jthd oppression, To p'mcu this subject 4fet:ae<lVi before you, 1 Onmatiia. nenxroCL a brief statistical Cstatement, showing S&e roiBfeve weight of th< two section inih? Gwmnncnt mulct- the firs censuiof 1190#** the last census dp 1840. According former, tho population o HthfeunHod M ?u including Vermonfc^%. tucky, and Tennessee, which were in cipiont condition of h<noming States, butw& iK>t actually admitted, vnounted to 8,620,82' Of thU tho Northern Stn\)9 h;id 1,917.8m, an the Southern 1 MI.&IU, taking a difloreneo only 25,841 in favor of tho fyrnier States. T1 number of Statos, including Vermont, Ke t'leky, and Toone?eee, were Wte*?; ofwhii /ht, including Vermont, belong to (be N< theru section, and eight, including Kentucky and Tennessee, to the Southern, making an equal division of the (States, between the two sections, under the first census. There was u small preponderance in the House of Representatives, and in the electoral college, in favor of the Northern owing to the fact that, according to the provisions of the Constitution, in estimating federal number, fivi slaves count but three; but it was too sma.. to effect sensibly, the perfect equilibrium, which, with thatexcep turn, existed at the time, ouch was the equality of the two sections when the States composing them niffeed to enter into a Federal Union. Since then the equilibrium betwen them has been greatly disturbed. According to the last census the aggregate population of the United States amounted to 47,063.307, of which the Northern section contained 9,728,1)20, and the Southern 7,334,437, making a difference in round numbers, of 2,400000. The number of States had increased from sixteen and twenty-six, making nn addition of ten States. In the meantime the position of Delaware had becomo doubtful as to which section she properly belongs. Considering her as neutral, the Norther States will have thirteen and the Southern States twelve, ma king a difference in the Senate of two Senators in favor of the former. According to the apportionment under the census of 1810, there 223 members of the //ousc of Representatives, of which the Northern .States had 135, nmJ the Southern States (considering Delaware asneu tral) 87, making a difference in favor of the former in the Horse of Representatives of 48.? 7110 difference in the <Sennte of two members added to this, gives to the North, in the electoral college, a majority of 60. Since the census of 1840, f?!r States have been added to the Union; Iowa, Wisconsin, Florida, and Tbxas. yhev leave the difference in the Senate as it fitoou when the census was taken: but add two to the side of the North iu the 7/ouse, tnrking the present majority i? the House in its favor of 60, and in the electoral college of 62. xiic result 01 111c wnoiu is u> give inc northo rn Hcction a predominance in every department of the Government, and thereby concentrate in it the two elements which constitute the Federal Government; a majority of States, and a majority of the population, estimated in federal numbers. Whatever section concentrates the two in itself, possesaes the control of the entire Government. But we arc just at tho close of tho sixth decade, and the commencement of the seventh. The census is to bo taken this year, which must add greatly to tho decided preponderance of the North in tho House of Representatives nnd in wie electoral college, ine prospect is, aiso, i that ft great increase will be added to its pres- ] ent preponderance in the Senate, during tiie ! Scriod of the decudu, by the addition of new tates. Two Territories, Oregon and Minnesota, are already in progress, ana strenuous efforts are making to bring in three additional States from the territory recently conquered from Mexico, which, if successful, will add three other States, in a short time, to the Northern section, making five States; and increasing the present number of its States from fifteen to twenty, and of its (Senators from thirty to forty. On the contrary, there is not a single Territory in progress in the Southern section, and no certainty that any additional State will be ndded to it during the decade. The prospect then io, that t'ue two sections in the .Senate, should the efforts now made to exclude the South from the newly acquired Territories succved, will stand before the end of tho dvcado, twenty Northern States to twelve Southern, (considering Delaware as neutral) and forty Northern Senators to twenty-four Southern. This great increase of Senators, added to the mcM'itxii m ii;uiiiiH:r? 01 uiu nuuyf oi ivepresentatives and the electoral college on the part of the North, which must take place under the noxt decade, will effectually and irretrievably destroy the equilibrium which cxistfdwhcii the Government cornmcnf"* Had tins ??!< uuen the opevation of time, without the interference of Government, the South would have had no reason to complain; but such was not the fact. It was caused by the legislation of this Government, which was appointed as the common agent of all. charged with the protection of the interests and security of all. The legislation by which it has been effected, may be classed tinder three heads. The first in, that series of acts by which the South has been excluded from the common Territory belonging to all of the States, a* the member* of the Federal Union, and which have hud th>i elfcct of exten ting vastly tho portion allotted to the Northern section, and restricting within narrow limits, tho portion left the South. The next consists in adopting a system of revenue and disburse ments, by which an unduo proportion of tho burden of taxation has been imposed upon the South, and nn undue proportion of its proceeds appropriated to the North; and the last is a sys torn of political measures by which the origin^ al character of the Government has beei* radically changed. 1 propose to bestow upon each of these, in the order they stand, fc fewtfefnarlcs with the view of bhowiiw that it is owing to tho lion of this OovAtnment that the equilibrium DCixvenn ute iwn Beowons ims wen uusiroyen wholi ftavremvf tho syeteui centered first of the nerios of net* by which the deprived <ifit? due nharo of the TerritoriesT^rigmuted with the Confederacy .. luch preyed the existenco of this Government. It bo found in tho provision of the lOrd'hi^nco fvjfi7. It* effect was to exclude 1 ^%Houth cutii\iy from that vast and fertile ro I gw?Njhich lies tnween tho Ohio mid Miaais1 *'I>P\ '"V^now ontyacing five Stivtoa and one 2brr?ty. ^Senext <?th? nerios is the Missouri : Coniprom?se>^:chei^do(, tho Houth from that larpe P?"*^Nf I^-inna which lies north [ of 36 aO^exceptjngs^i^ inr,n(lfl(, Jn lhfl a late 01 mutsoun. f ded the South from the wWk|?' wn?8 oxcluTerritory. Ail theae in th? Oregon were what, if? called slave tc*ritoNc "Ay> I free noil,that ia, territories beUWnK""'' not ^ holding powor#, and open to tho ?uiiglifftV0~ ,d Vostora with their alavea. By tho*o ol 0f M*?. tho South was excluded from t28fCK' 10 ^,m ,ndle*p an extent!#country condioraH _ oxeeeding the entire vnuoy of "theMis*N*ip ,j! To the South wa* left the portion of the tw >r- ?f Louieitn* lying eouth of SH 80, and t I I jwrtion north of it included in the State of Mis" sonri. The portion lying South of 36 80, inclu' ! ding the States of Louisiana and Arkansas, and i tlic territory lying Wont of tho latter an<l south of 30 80, called the Indian country. This, with the territory of Florida, now the State, makes in llm wVinlo 9RR ROH smmrn miles. To tliis must bo added tlio territory acquired with 7'oxiis. If tho whole should be added to the south cm section, it would make an increase of 325,620, which would make the whole left to the | South, 609,023. Hut a large portion of Texas ; is still l.i contest between the two sections, j which leaves it uncertain what will he the real j extent of the portion of territory that may bo , left to tho South. I have not included the territory recently ac quired by the treaty with Mexico. The North i is making the most strenuous efforts to appro- j proprialo the whole to herself, by excluding the couth from overy foot of it. if she should succeed, it will add to that from which the south I has already been excluded. 526.078 souarc j mdes, and would increase the whole which flic J j North luis appropriated to herself to, 1.70-1,- ; j 023, not including the portion that she may J auccced in excluding us from in Texas. 1o | j sum up the whole, the United States, since , ! they declared their independence, havo ac- ' ! quired 2,873,046 square miles of territory, j from which the North will havo excluded the j South, if she should succeed in monopolizing ! the newly acquired territories, about three-, fourths ofthe whole, leaving to the South but about one fourth. Such is the first and great cause that has ; destroyed the equilibrium between the two sections ia the Government. i The next is the system of revenue and disbnrsements which ha3 been adopted by the j Government. It is well Known that the uov- | eminent has derived its revenue mainly from i duties on imports. I shall not undertake to I allow thiit such duties must necessarily fall on the exporting States, and that the South, as j the great exporting portion of the Union, has in ' J reality paid vastly more than her due proper tion of the revenue; because I deem it unnecesI sary, as the subject has on so many occasions ! been fully discussed. Nor shall I, for the : | same reason, undertake tctshow thai a far great ; er portiun of the revenue lias been disbursed at j the North than its due share; and the joint 1 effect of these causes has been to transfer a vast | amount from South to North, which, undor an equal system of revenue and disbursements, i would not have been lost to her. If to this be added that many ef the duties were imposed, not for revenue, but for rwotection?that is. in tended to put money, not in the 2'reasury, but ; directly in the pockets of the manufacturers? j some conception may be formed of the im- ; menso amount -which, in the long course of six- ; ty years, has been transferred from South to North. There aro no data by which it can bo estimated with any certainty, but it is bafe to say, that H. amounts to huudrcds of millions of dollars. Under the most moderate estimate, it would bo sufficient to add greatly to the wealth of the North, and thus greatly incrcaso her population by attracting emigration from all quarters to that section. This, combined with the great and primary cause, amply explains why the North has acquired ft preponderance over every department of tho Government by its disproportionate increase of population and /States. 7'hc former, a3 has been shown, has increased in fifty years, 2,400,000 over that of the /South. Tins increase ofnonulation. durine so lonir a ne riod, ia satisfactorily accounted for, bv tno number of emigrant*, and the increase of their descendants, which have been attracted from Europe and the south, in consequcnco of the ad vantages derived from the causes assigned. If they had not existed, if the south had retained all the capital which hus been extracted from hoc by the fiscal action of the Government; and, if it h<>on excluded by the ordinance of '88, and the Missouri compromise, from there. gion lyinj? --?* ? . pi nvers. and oetween mo mississippi una mo i Rocky Mountains, north of 80 80,?it scarcely , admit* of a doubt, that sho would have divided ! the emigration with the North, and by rotaini in? her own people, would have at least equal: led tho North in population under the census of 1840, and probably under that about to be taken. Sho would also, if sho had retained her i equal rights in those territories, maintained an equality in tho number of states with the North and have preserved the equilibrium between the two Rections that existed at the commence ment of the Government- The loss then of the equilibrium, is to be attributed to tho action of this Government. But while these measures wcro destroying J tho equilibrium between the^two section*, the j action of tho Government was leading to a radical changc it) its charactedr, by concentrating ; uli the power of the system in itsoUb. The oc! casion will notja^miv^c to trace tho ujioas. ores by which this great ohango has been cons If it did, it would not be difficult to *ho\v that five proccas commenced at nu caflv period of tho Government^ that it pro ceeded almost without interruption, step by 9tan. until it absorbed virtually its entire pow ere; but without going through tho whole pro ccss to establish the fact, it may be done satisfactorily by a Very short statement That the Government claims, and practically maintains, tho right to decido in the last resort, as to the extentof its powers, will scarce* ly be denied by any ono conversant with ths political history of the country. That it also claims the right to resort to force, to maintain whatever power it claims, against all opjjoaition, is equally certain. Indeed it is appare it, from what we daily hear, that this has become tho prevailing and fixed opinion of u groat majority of tho community. Now, I ask, wliat i limitation can possibly be placed upon the powers of n government claiming ami exercising such righto) And, if none can be, how can the separate governments of the <Stotcs maintain and protect the powers reserved to them by the j Constitution or the people of the several States maintain those whioh are re-served to them, and amoiy others, the sovereign powers b, which f they ordained and established, not only their ' separate State Con4itutioru? and Governments, W but also the Constitution and Government of rfSthe United States! l)ut, if they have no constiri. rWonul means of maintaining them against the V) I i^xlaimed by this Government, it ncce&sarix ' ^Sy?e, that they bold them at it* pleasure . K aid discretion, and tlmt nil the powers of the system are in reality concentrated in it. It ilso follows, that the character of the Government has been changed in consequence, from a federal Kcpublic, as it originally came from the hands of its trainers, into a grent national consolidated Democracy. It has indeed, at present all the characteristics of the latter, and not one of the former, although it still retains its outward form. Tho result of the whole of those causes combined is, that the North hivs acquired a decided asceiulnncy over every department of this Government, and through it a control over all the I powers of the system. A single Rcotion govern- i cd by the will of the numercial majority, has I now, in fact, the control of the Government and J the entire powers of the system. What was ! once a constitutional federal Republic, is now j converted, in real fy, into one as absolute as I that of tho Autocrat of Russia, and as despotic j in its tendency, as any absolute govenuuent | that ever existed. As then, the North hn'j tho absolute control I over the Government, it is manifested, that on j all questions between it and the /South, where | (iil'i it is u uivursivy ui interests, me interest 01 the latter will be sacrificed to the former, however oppressive the effect may be, as the South possesses no means by which it can resist, through the action of the Government. llut if there was no question of vital importance to the Sout^T^i,i^> >?>^?. to which there was a tliversfty oi vie?I- l9f3 sections,! this state of things might be endured, without tho hnzurd of destruction to tho South. But such ia not the fact. There is a question of vital importance to the Southern section, in reference to which tho views and feolings of the two sections are as opposite and hostile as they can possioiy oe. I refer to the relation between the two races in tho Southern section, which constitutes a vital portion of her social organization. Every portion of the North enteriains views and feelings more or less hostile to it. Those most opposed and hostile, regard it as a sin, and consider themselves under the most sacred obligation to use ever effort to destroy it. Indeed to the extont that they conceive they have power, they regard themselves as implicated in the sin, and responsible for suppressing it by the use of all and every means. Those less opposed and hostile, regard it as a crime?an offence against humanity, as they call it; nnd although not so fanatical, feel thoinsolves bound to usq all efforts to effect tho same object; while those who arc least opposed and hostile, regard it as a blot nnd a stain on the character of what they mil tlln Nlllini. ?.wl ???1 ? ' 1 - ??> % tv.vi UICIU9VIVV9 auuurdiug* | ly bound to give it no countennneo or support. On th\3 contmry, tho Southern section regards the relation ns one which cannot bo d??troya<i without subjecting the two race3 to the great- , est calamity, and tho section to poverty, desolation, and wrctcbcdnoss; and accordingly they feel bound, by every consideration of interest and safety, to defend it. This hostile feeling on the part of the North towards tho social organization of the South, long lay dormant, out it only required some cause which would make the impression on those who felt it most intensely, that they wore responsible for its continuance, to call it into action. The increasing power of this Govern m?nt, and of the control of the Northern section over all its departments, furnished the cause. It was this which made an impression on the minds of many, that there was little or 110 restraint to prevent the Government from doino whatever it might choose to do. 21iis was sufficient of itr-elf to put the moot fanatical portion of the No^th in iction for tho purpose of destroying tho existi :g relation between the two races in the South. Tho first organized movement towards it commenced in 1835 Then, for tho first time, societies were org ii ixed. presses nstnlili.vhivl lecturels sent forth o Tcito the people of the South rrns thorougi ly aroused. Meetings were hold everywhere, urfd resolutions adopted, culling upon the North to Apply a remedy to urrest the threatened evil, nnu pledging thornpelvea to adopt measures for their own protection, if it wa9 not arrested. At the meeting of Oomrfses petitions poured in front the Worth, calling upon Congress to abolish tdavery in the Distric, < f Columbia, and to prohibit what they culled u?c internal slave trade between tho States, announcing at the same time, that their ultimata object was to abo ish slavery, not only k..? n.. uui- ? . 1. ail UIU A/inillUV, UUl 111 lliu UUHl'S, UN I Ull'UUgU" out tho Union. At this period, the number engaged in the agitation was small, and possessed little or no personal influence. Neither party in Congress had, at that time, any sympathy with them, or their cause. The i members of each party presented their peti- ! tions with groat reluctance. Neverthei ??>, as 1 small and coatemtttible n? tht> party th*a was, I both of tluj #r?-nt parlies of the NortU (ire?<fyl : them. They felt, that though' null, thev^evo | organized in reference to a suuject which had (i groat and n commanding influence over the Nortliern mind. Each party, on that account, fenrod to oppose their petitions, lest the opposito party should take advantage of the one who might, V v favoring their petitions. Tht effect was ih*t both united in insisting th/<tt tho petitions should be received, and that Con greis should tako jurisdiction of the subject tor which thoy prayed. To justify their course, they took the extraordinary ground, that Congress was bound ^o receive \ictitions on ovory subject, however objqctloiulno it might bo, and whether they liad or ha,v\ not jurisdiction over tho subject. These views prevailed in the Iioubq of Konrcs'jntativof, and partially in the Senate, and tho$ tho parly succeeded in thoir first rrtbvenVonta in guiuing what thov proposed ?a position in Congress, from which agitation could 'oe extended over tho whole Uniojh This won the commencement of the agitation, which ever since continued, and which, m I* now Acknowledged,11an endangcrod the union itself. As for myself, T believed at tlmt early period, if the party who got up tho petitions should succeed in yetting Congro^; to take jurisdiction, Innt agitation would I follow. Jind that.'it wnnld in Mia ?f not arrested, destioy the Union. 1 then so oxprossed myself in debute, nnd called upon both parties* to tako ground against assuming jurisdiction, but in vnin //ad my voice been heeded, and had T ' J Congress refused fo take jurisdiction, by ul the united votes of all parties, the agita- \ tion which followed would have been pre Vi I' vented, and the fanatir.nl zanl whio.1i mvM *' impulse to the agitation, and which has > I brought us to our present perilous condi- ? fi|l tion, would have become extinguished JptfV jfl from the want, of something to lecd the \ 1V !i flame. That was the time for the North to show her devotion to the Union; but unfortunately both of the great parties ! of that section were so intent on obtaining or retaining party ascendency, that all other considerations were overlooked What has since 2 olio wed are but the 'jw 3 natural consequences. With the success of their first movement, this small fanntical party began to acquire strength; and with that, to bccome nn object of court* ship to both the great parties. The ne- ? cessary consequence was, -a- further increase of power, and^^-gradual tainting ^; V. |'f of the opinions of- fcoth of the other parties withjbefr doctrines, until the infectfiJiPhfis extended over both; and the OTflllt mnss <if t.lin rirmnlnf i/-?n ?->f !?.? North, who, whatever may be their opin- L ion of the original abolition party, which still preserves its distinctive organization, W|| hardly ever fail, when it comes to acting, Wi'J toco-opcrate in carrying out their moos- vm ures. With tho increase of their influence, they extended the sphere of their action. In a short time after ihe commencement of their first movement, they had acquired sufficient influence to induce the Legislatures of most of the Northern States to pass acts, which in / effect abrogated the provision of the Constitution that provides for the delivering 4 ) up of fugitive slaves. Not lorn* aftor. petitions followed to abolish slavery in forts, magazines, and dock yards, and all J other places where Congress had exclusive power of legislation. This was followed by petitions and resolutions of Legislatures of the iVbrthern States and popular meetings, to exclude the Southern dimes Irom all Territories acquired, or to be acquired, and to prevent the admission of any &tntc hereafter into tho Union, which, by its Constitution, does not prohibit slavery. And Congress is invoked to do nil this expressly with the view to the final abolition of slavery in the Stales. That has been avowed to be | the ul'iniate object from the beginning of the agitation until the present time; and yet the great body of both parties of the \T?(i., r.n i i--j -* ' v? itu tuc lull iviIUWIUOgC OF in6 fact, although disavowing the Abolitionists, have co-operated with them in almost all their measures. Such is a brief history of tho agitation, as far as it has yet advanced. Now I ^.1. O 1 - V ' .1 - iisK, ounuiurs, n niu is inil'C ro prevent us further progress, until it fulfils the ultimate end proposed, unless some decisive measure should be adopted to prevent it? Has any one of the causes, which has added to its increace from its original small UVgllUllli^ \|hc|?- IV 11(117 attained i'.s present magnitude, diminis* ~'!*'V ed in force? Is the original cause of I . movement, that slavery is a sin, and ou{ to be suppresscd> weaker now than at ti. comcncement? Or is the Abolition par* tv less numerous or influential, or have they less influence or control over the two great parties of the North in elections? Or has the .South greater means of influencing or controlling the movements oi mis uovernment; now, men it had when thl- agitation commenced? To nil these questions but one answer can bo given: No, no, no. The very reverse is true. Instoad of being weaker, all tho elements in favor of agitation are stronger now than they were in 1835, when tho agitation first commenced, while all the elements of intlucnco on the part of tho S^th urifrjAH^kci; Unless something decisive ra again ask, what is stop thii affUaiSn, before final object at abolition of slavery in the' cOnsunU mated? Is it, then, not certutn, thttt if something decisive is not now done fo *W refct it, the &outh will be forced to ohoose between nbolition and secession? Indeed, as events are now moving-, it will not require the iSfouth to secede to dissolve the Union. Agitation will of itseit" effeot it, of which past history furnishofs abundant proof, ji8 1 shall next proceed s aVo<v. It is a grout mistake to supposo that disunion tan be effected by a single blow. The cords whioh bound tbeso States to getner in ono common Union arc far too numoiouft and powerful for (lmt. Disunion muat be tho work of time. It fe only through a lona?ro<ks?, and insuccession* that tho cbro? can be snapped, until iho whole fabric falls asundor. Already tho -gitation of th6 slavery (juesliun has snapped some of tho most im- uOrtuot, and Inw greatly weakened ^ the others as I "ball proceed tor' ,*?