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The time has come, when it behooves every Southern mano consider the best means of preserving the Union which he loves, and the rights and honor which arc yet dearer. Sixty years have passed since the Northern and Southern States entered into a treaty for the common defence and general welfare. We joined that ieaijue as equals :its strictly defined powers were to be exercised for the equal good of all the parties, and its benefits and burdens were to be equally shared. But our allies at the North have groin strong under the fostering protection of this great treaty, and are no longer content with the equal conditions upon whi:h it was formed. They have perverted it from its original character, not only wielding the granted powers for sectional and oppressive purposes, hut assuming every doubtful power for their exclusive advantage. In this spirit, they have advanced far in a series of measures, which, if unnsisted, must end in the overthrow of our slave institutions. But it cannot be doubted that a free people, still untamed to the yoke of oppression and the stamp of inferiority, will resist such assaults. The South has at stake, not merely the fourteen hundred millions of dollars, the value of her slave propeity, but all of honor and of happiness that civilization and society can give. To count the means of resistance, the relative strength of the opponents, the value of what we must hazard, and the surest ways of preserving the Union in its original equality, is the object of this Essay. The history of the causes of the present crisis is the history of ever-growing demands on the part of the North, and of as constant concessions from the South. A hasty glance at the past will aid us to divine the future. Virginia owned an immense territory, to the northwest of the Ohio river, acquired by the same titles with the soil of the Old Dominion itself the royal gr
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