In  spite  of  all  disclaimers  and  professions,
there  can  be  but  one  end  by  the  submission  of
the  South  to  the  rule  of  a  sectional  anti-slavery
Government  at  "Washington ;  and  that  end,  di
rectly  or  indirectly,  must  be  the  emancipation
of  the  slaves  of  the  South.  The  hypocrisy  of
thirty  years — the  faithlessness  of  their  whole
course  from  the  commencement  of  our  union
with  them — show  that  the  people  of  the  non-
slaveholding  North  are  not  and  cannot  be  safe
associates  of  the  slaveholding  South  under  a
common  government.  Not  only  tljeir  fanati
cism,  but  their  erroneous  views  of  the  prin
ciples  of  free  government,  render  it  doubtful
whether,  separated  from  the  South,  they  can
maintain  a  free  government  among  themselves.
Brute  numbers  with  them  is  the  great  element
of  free  government.  A  majority  is  infallible
and  omnipotent.  "  The  right  divine  to  rule  in
kings "  is  only  transferred  to  their  majority.
The  very  object  of  all  constitutions,  in  free
popular  governments,  is,  to  restrain  the  major
ity.  Constitutions,  therefore,  according  to  their
theory,  must  be  most  unrighteous  inventions,
restricting  liberty.  None  ought  to  exist,  but
the  body  politic  ought  simply  to  b  ave  s  politi-


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