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1 South in Danger. Read before You Vote. Address of the Democratic Association, of Washington, D.C. 1844

handle is hein.trials/addy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE SOUTH IN DANGER. READ BEFORE YOU VOTE. ADDRESS OF THE DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATJON, WASHINGTON, D. C. There never was a period when the South was in so much langer as at this mo- ment. To procure the abolition vote for Henry Clay, we will show thdt the Whig party of the North, their leading presses, legislative bbdies and statesmen, have de- nounced the South, they have held up slavery as a crime, they have promised a speedy union to effect its overthrow with the Abolitionists, and have joined with them in holding up the Sputh to obloquy and reproach. The means used by this new c9alition are to represent the people of the South to their sister States, and to the world as disgraced and degraded by the institution of slavery, and as unworthy of Christian commrunion and social intercburse. Already this demoniac feeling has dissolved the Methodist Church, and other American churches are threatened with a similar, fate.. The object is to taboo tAe SakzM, to render us infamous, to put the mark of Cain upon our forehead, and to deprive us of character first, as the means of despoilihg ussof our property afterwards. Men of the South, the effort is to dis- grace and degrade you and your children forever. That such a party exists in the North, is conceded. They denounce tou in their presses, petitions and speeches, as man-stealers, as robbers, as fksh-jobbers, as slave-breeders, as convict criminals, vile and infamous, as unworthy of Christian or sofal communion; and, finally, as existing only by sufferance as a part of the Union. Nowv if, as we shall demon- trate, the part which thus denounes the South is courted by the Whig rty of the North, if they .are assured, as we shall show, by the whigs of the North, that their views are identical with those of the Abolitionists, that they are only using different mearp to accomplish the same object, and that the abolition of slavery vill be more certainly affected by the election of Clay than that of Birney, surely you cannot continue united as a party with the Whigs of the North, who thus join with your enemies to disgrace and degrade you. If the leading Whig statesmen of the North denounce you as culprits and criminals, and immediately succeeding this denuncia- tion, these your avowed enemies are nominated and elected as Governors, as i iem- hers of Congress, and of the State Legislature, by the Whig party of the North, can you continue united with such a party, and if you do, are nt your own votes join- ed vwith those of your enemis i subjecting you to disgrace 'and degradatin? But let us to the proof; and we extract from the National Intellig er re-published in .he Liberty Legion, the following address tn the subject of Texas, by twenty-one members of Congress, all friends of Mr. Clay, all of whom, since their condemna- tion of you, have been sustained by the united vote Of the 'Whigs of the North. We hesitate not tq say,.that annexation, effected by any act or proceeding of the Federal Government, or any; of its departments, would be identical with disso- .lution. It would be a violation of our national compact, its objects, designs, and the ogreat alementary principles, which entered into its formation, of a character so deep anid. fundamental, and would be an attempt to eternize an institution and a power of nature so. unjust in thmselves, so injurious to the interests and abhorrent to the feelings of the people of the free states, as, in our opinion, not only inevita- bly to result in a dissolution of t e r Union, but ful to justify, it; and we not only .assert that the people of the free States ought not to submit to it, but we say,

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