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Union Of The South

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
June
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mr. Calhoun's speech to his fellow citizens in Charleston, upon a subject of deep and common interest to the whole South, is given n tlus week's Advocate. The dnnger which threatens the South, from the combination among all partios in the free States, is clearly portrayed, and tho remedy, a unión of the South in defence of ts rights, is pointed out. The position nnd ohjects of parties in the free States are correcily stated by Mr. C;ilhoun. There, there is an unión, an identity of feeling and artion, among Whigsj and Democrats - alhorough opposition to the extensión of slavery in ony new territory to be acquired by the United i States. The veslriction of slavery in the Oregon Territory (some Southern members, even twenty-íwo, including Mr. Houston, voied wilh the North on thit question) nnd the VVilmot proviso reveal the sentiment of the free States upon this subject, and fhovv ihat they will insist upon Congress assuming power to restrict s'avery in all new territory. - We of the South contend that Congress possesses no power over the subject ; but that it alone belongs to the citizens who may people new territory to say whether they will have slaves or not ; that they are sole judges in the matter, and thnt Congress isobliged toadmit any new State, whether with or without slaves-, which adopts a Rcpublican Constitution. The doctrino of the South is, we think, correct, and we hope to see the whole South united upon it.

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Signal of Liberty
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