the Convention for the special purpose of clothing the President of the United States with power to do, what General Jackson assumed the authority to do, viz—to strip the states of their Sovereign Rights and coerce their submission to the will of the General Government -and in the face of such resolutions, advocated by the Federalists of the old school and rejected by a large majority of the Revolutionary Republicans of the Convention, the General's arbitrary assumption of power could only be attributed to his cordial approbation of the exploded doctrines of the old Federalists and advocates of a consolodated despotism. We offered it as our opinion that Gen. Jackson was not the author of the Proclamation; that some artful advocate of the Tariff penned it, and we would soon see the baneful effects of its Anti-Republican principles. For these remarks made in the face of the foregoing resolutions, we were reviled and anathematized in epithets more profane than" an old Piney Woods traitor." And now in view of the desolation with which our country is threatened, and in sight of all the horrors of a civil and servile war, we ask, not with feelings of exultation-no God forbid; we ask with emotions of deep heart-rending grief, who spoke the truth on this subject? We intreat our fellow citizens to look at the calamities with which our country is threatened, and impute the causes, if they can, to any thing but the doctrines of the Proclamation and Force Bill.

When the Proclamation was published, there was not an organized party of Abolitionists in the United States. At that time, they were sneered at as "a few

miserable fanatics." Who, says the Editor of "HuMAN RIGHTS " in his paper of the past year

"Who does not remember the ridicule that was thrown upon the handful of Fanatics in Boston three years ago; upon the twenty-two men and two women in New-York, two years ago; upon the fifty or sixty men who met in Philadelphia a year and a half ago; what a fine joke it was that such a handful should meet to form an American Abolition Society? Now this same society numbers 250 Auxiliaries in 13 States. A few pens, a few tracts, a few periodicals, a few limited agencies have electrified the nation, and already stirred up a mighty Host to plead for the oppressed. Our cause is rapidly getting the supremacy; it has received accession of wealth, of talent, and of unconquerable zeal, that insures its speedy triumph."*

Rapidly indeed is their cause gaining ascendency, for since the publication of this article 18 months ago, their organized associations have increased to 1006, comprising men of the most unconquerable zeal, and more wealth than our Revolutionary Fathers commenced their struggle with. "Fifty thousand copies of the most inflammable and treasonable matter are published weekly and gratuitously distributed, and a party have already proposed to have 20,000 followers in the City of New-York and nominate its Candidate for the Presidency of the United States." +

In the face of these facts and the innumerable evidences of the long cherished hostility of the Abolitionists to the institution of bondage, will any marr

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* See the South vindicated from the Treason and Fanaticism of the Northern Abolitionists-page 191. + See the same work page 79.

say they have not been recently impelled to action by some mighty impetus? And what but the doctrines of the Proclamation, have moved them to action? While they believed that the States would exercise their Reserved Rights in opposing any Act of Congress conflicting with theirdomestic institutions, they made no effort whatever to rally their forces and ob tain ascendency in Congress; but when the President announced the States subservient to the will of the National Legislature, and ordered his Frigates and Army to enforce an unrighteous and unconstitutional law, against which prayers and remonstrances had fol lowed in succession for years, that day gave birth to schemes and purposes which now convulse the Union.

The fact cannot be denied that the Abolitionis s are determined to gain the ascendency in the Anti-slavery States and control the elective franchises of the same. For this purpose they have enlisted two hundred travelling agents, who go forth "conquering and to conquer." In addition to their treasonable pamphlets, they take with them

"Pictures of slaves in chains, with the negro's complaint in Poetry."

"Anti-Slavery Handkerchiefs, ornamented with four cuts and extracts from the Slave's Friend, printed with indelible ink.”

"Anti-Slavery Seals, giving a fair impress of a slave in chains on sealing wax &c. &c. &c." *

In a work entitled "the South vindicated from the Treason and Fanaticism of the Northern Abolitionists "published in Philadelphia, these and such other facts are exhibited, as should make the advocates of the Proclamation and Force Bill, blush and weep, *See "South Vindicated &c." page 197.

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The work has been imputed to the pen of Col. Wm Drayton, formerly of Charleston, South Carolina, but for the past four years a citizen of Philadelphia. Col Drayton's character as a scholar, a statesman, a patriot and a "Union man," entitles the work to the confidence of every friend of the Union. It embodies 300 pages, from which we have already taken extracts and to which we beg leave to add the following.

"It is impossible that any reasoning man can contemplate the resources and activity of the Abolitionists and wonder at their progress. It is impossible that any patriot can view, in connection, their past success, their present energies and activity, and their future prospects, without coming to the conclusion, that either this band of traitors must be crushed, or the Union abandoned. They cannot exist together."

"Let the South look to it. We have already demonstrated that the advocates of abolition are neither few nor feeble; that they are wealthy, powerful and united: possessed of a number of influential presses; and led on by men whose intemperate zeal is only equalled by their untiring energy. Their strength is despised, because it is not known. Let him that takes an interest in this matter examine the open evidence of facts; let him observe the extended and insidious operation of Presses, Agents and Societies; let him mark the progress and results of these efforts for the last four years; and then if he is still secure, he may sleep on, until he is roused by the glare of the midnight conflagration, or startled by the whoop of the negro at the door of his chamber."

"A few years ago it was announced in the Emancipator" slavery will never be abolished until it is done by THE SWORD or the fear of THE SWORD-the slaves will soon be free." This was then, and is now their policy. They cry peace, peace, but purend and must end (unless the

sue a course which is designed to South erect herself and interpose the only shield which can ward off the blow,) in a servile war, and render the whole South a Pandemonium, from which the shout of exulting rapine, and the shriek

of murder and violence will go forth. We repeat, THE ABÓLITIONISTS MUST BE CRUSHED, OR THE UNION ABANDONED."

With these stubborn facts in the face of the world, and in the face of the Representatives of the people of the United States in Congress assembled, Mr. Wise of Virginia raised the all important question, whether any set of men had the right to petition the Government to do what the Constitution said it could not do, and should not do-in other words, whether the Abolitionists had the Constitutional Right to petition Government to take away the property of its citizens and to grant them license to create a servile war that must end in the dissolution of the Union. This question on which was suspended the very life-blood of Abolitionism and the salvation of the Union, roused the vindictive passions of the advocates of the Tarriff, the Proclamation, and Force Bill, who united and voted it down by a majority of 48.

Fellow citizens of the South, look to this matter. Your rights, your liberty, your all is at stake. It is not our purpose to enter the arena of political discussion, nor to offer you reasons why the party in the mi nority on the question of "the right of Petition," were classed with "the Catalines and Robespierres, Arnolds and Burrs of notorious villany "* for their honest opposition to the doctrines of the Proclamation and Force Bill, and why the said "Traitors" and opponents of the Proclamtion and Force Bill, were the only oponents of the TREASONABLE · PRAYERS of the Abolitionists. We leave this to those better quali

* "See the Federal Union" December 1832 and others,