on
and conquest would be impossible.

Says the Editor of the Marysville (Tenn.) _Intelligencer_, in an
article on the character and condition of the slave population:

"We of the South are emphatically surrounded by dangerous
class of beings--degraded, stupid savages--who, if they could
but once entertain the idea that immediate and unconditional
death would not be their portion, would re-enact the St.
Domingo tragedy. But the consciousness, with all their
stupidity, that a ten-fold force, superior in discipline, if
not in barbarity, would gather from the four corners of the
United States and slaughter them, keeps them in subjection.
_But, to the non-slaveholding States, particularly, we are
indebted for a permanent safeguard against insurrection._
Without their assistance, the while population of the South
would be too weak to quiet that insane desire for liberty
which is ever ready to act itself out with every rational
creature."

In the debate in Congress on the resolution to censure John Quincy
Adams, for presenting a petition for the dissolution of the Union, Mr.
Underwood, of Kentucky, said:

"They (the South) were the weaker portion, were in the
minority. _The North could do what they pleased with them_;
they could adopt their own measures. All he asked was, that
they would let the South know what those measures were. One
thing he knew well; that State, which he in part represented,
had perhaps a deeper interest in this subject than any other,
except Maryland and a small portion of Virginia. And why?
Because he knew that to dissolve the Union, and separate the
different States composing the confederacy, making the Ohio
River and the Mason and Dixon's line the boundary line, _he
knew as soon as that was done, Slavery was done_ in Kentucky,
Maryland and a large portion of Virginia, and it would extend
to all the States South of this line. _The dissolution of the
Union was the dissolution of Slavery._ It has been the common
practice for Southern men to get up on this floor, and say,
'Touch this subject, and we will dissolve this Union as a
remedy.' _Their remedy was the destruction of the thing which
they wished to save_, and any sensible man could see it. If
the Union was dissolved into two parts, the slave would cross
the line, and then turn round and curse the master from