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A d ti 1) ONE
JAM E:i 13 L( .I\.l\--patri , ,t, sage,
That's so, that's so,
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The greate,t statesman of the
That's so, too.
Hell brick• pour Fillmore of the trark,
• That's that's so,
Aud beak poor lucky Fremont's hack,
That's so, too.
Julin C. F. did a travel 1:11;6,
That's so, that's so,
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Aud he ill,,uoverei Great Salt Lake,
But th:t: next cluction he' ll "(7 r,"
That's sq, that's so,
.Another btrcani-- - -the great Myer,
That's so, too.
Friend: Inn'lt tour,
Toat's so, that's so
'Ere lie WiLS 110111111atCli sure,
.That's 50,.t00
I l;at e no (look Itefelt quite tickled,
That's so, that's so
But next No‘ei,ilier he'll he pickled,
That's si.), tuo
I':riptTrls
1) , 1 wrath., then, rallv,
That's so,.tihtt's so,
We'll at the NVOCk 110 /1,11;;Qr dally.
I'll give a. toa , 4 before I'll] flow!,
That's so, that's so,
'‘A hualth to l'ennsy's Favurito
FLOGGL\G WHITE MEN.
rj r zy- Will. L. Daytt-u, the Black Rolathlican
&attilidute for 1' ice. I+,:hilst t mein.-
I.e. tvf the United. States Senate, when the
kine- - i;in of tlog7ing, in 'the - navy
l)ef , re that kith-, VOTED FOR F‘OGG
,:-
INC, WI ar E MEN ! This intenA/y Africai
ized gentleman, who can shed crocodile tears
o - ver the pretended wrongs of the negro, was
that, for every trivial breach of naval
di.~r.~hlinu, leis brave countrymen, who amidst
the :•tirni of - hellos have- karriel the flag of
our conntryin triennplrupon every sea, shodd
l ie s t r ip e ,/ m ikol, np,ln't he mast, and thcir
ipacrriity rut tna.i ilee merryl ws cat o' nine
ta /Ls! This man is now hefore the jieuple,
liciting their votes on the score of his love lip.
the
The ? or! lirrn ii n
The -- trallant .I)Unocr:Ley ot'Susilnehauna
cbtinty had an immense ineetin!" at.:ll,ffl
trose on Monday lveek. It was the first
formal assenibla,ge since the opening of the
campaign Wihnot's distriet. Fivethousand
nificrats were (mi the ground. and the utmost
enthus.ia,sm prevale‘l. The glorious 'states
man, Bon. D. 5. 1) kitison. of New York:
Bpiko mill great ability and effe,:t. Hon.
CharLe:: IL ilnekalew sioke to an immense
crowd in the e veniag. J u il ‘g e.ilorton, o f New
Turk., 1171, - a.r. 0 ; t . / •
tle, of IVytaffing county, also a(l,,lrossetl the
ih ,el)a
Ellis B. Selznabel, Esq., followed Mr. Dick
inson in a must able ;Ind it.arless speech adapt
ed to the Ile tore lnike Wilmot's
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political pretences to tatters. - Ile proclaimed
that he had sent Wilmot a challenge, in writ
ing, to meet hinton the stump in that district,
but had received no reply. lie again called
upon hint p i ehliciy, and in such terms:, that
'ilmot, Who was pre , ent, dafed not remain
silent, and finally sent to the stand an accept
faice of the challenge, to_meet Mr. Schnabel
in Septeniher, ile the 1,',14. , rn and C%afrttl ser
iiionV" replied the eloquent
Schnabel: "it i' Im•e, before the perfle you
have so long deccive , .l it is In - re I will
]110.,!t :111!3 c::1; 'SO y. , 11 . 7 1101' , 10. , '. " But no re
st) ,n , e came. of Mr. -•:ei,e,ll,el
sp , •kir.) 4) tho i i t a r o i
Nye-T[l-i:
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the terl:iv,ir.,:v.i:J,J4
al,nc Itav( wi; en CZ; 4 ;!:'Ch ;i
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disf:f :toy :tk•tive
i 1 politi,:s nII tio. I ': H t.i of the tio , .-
pcl. Le,gn c hut at
au election, and that at au early 11Priod."
tier:l - men should he fi.r.e a , any other cit
izen to take i.ort i:ll+•.lltics; in fact it is their
duty to c.vercisf! al/ the ritrlit , or a free
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HONEST MEN,
Of ALL Parties,
READ! READ!
AMR ESS
To the People of Pennsylvania.
FELLOW - Central Commit
tee, appoiiited by the Demeepitic titate (_ on
vents ,n, have thought proper'to iphire , s you
on the question which you must kleeide at the
eleotion. el), we shall be eau
frank awl Apart fr,na the princi
ple
whit sit aild bind ali men to the truth in
petit teal oisenssions, and in ON cry thing c1..4e,
tte ;.lro well aware that any attvinpt to mis
lead you would' injure our onto e. It is yet
nearly three months . bei . ore the election, and
there is no reason to believe that the public
mind will not use the intermetliatc tune in
cahnly con , ,idering the great i•:stik_i before it.
Wi! are pPerectly willing that whatever .we
may say, whirl) is nt t justifieti by fact and
reason, shall be set down its .so much against
aga*lnst our party, and against our caudi
iitie,.
The time has passed for the 414cti-Ision Of
Bonk avol 'Tariff q ues - tions. % hear no pro-.
enaet a liankrupt law—no word
~pposition to the Independent Treasury. .111
;la( questions :ti e settled agrecahly to the
11emocrittie. opinions upon them. The rise.
the pr,i:Terity. aid the fall - a the great Whig
parry, are themes for tile historian, and f u ll
,:f iiiniiuctiVe ; la; t• we will not dwell
upon them ivay.
It is the pre , sent llntY of the P , tmei!ratie par
ty to k :t.and over the (...!oustilution. and -shield
11 and sutie.it, or perish there, too." . It is oar
(ask in the campaign to la.at its encniics, scp
arate oi; mmllllll4l, just as - they choose to meet
us , to vongtier them with an overthrow wisieh
will be a warning to them fr'inany a ye:tr.-7-
.Itcl it must lie d,ine,.or else this Union i:snot,
sale for a day.
11 - e know very \yell how easy it is t/) sneer
at any tut:7('!stlon of danger to the Union.
But we know also that the iederal relations of
ay en Lmatani_so_tielica tely cot stru t ed.
that they way lie ruptured at any time hr a
serious error of the people in ehoosing Chief
Magistrate. The S:ates et: the Union are not
h e ld together lit' physical tOrce like the de
pendencies of a kingdom, nor et en by politi
cal power, like'diiii_:rent Tarts of the sante
State. They are independent sovereignties,
until by the gentler law of mutual attraction.
This law, operating on their own free will,
made the_ Union ; and when it ceases to oper
ate the . 'Union will be unmade. - Let a Presi
,leat of the United States be elected exclusive
ly by the vOtes of one section, and on a prin
eiple• avowed hostility to the men, the
measures, the domestic institutions, the feel
ings, and the interests, real or supposed, of
the Other section, and what must be the con
:4ololth:cc ? We do not say that it would eer
tapdy or • necessarily dissOlve .the Union.
Perhaps the good .genius of the Republic,
.N-hich , has brought us through many
might save us again. But that man must be
intellectually . blind who doe s no t se e th a t it
w4inid put us infearful danger. For this rea
-on the election of :a sectional candidate must he
as in itself a great puhlic- misholune.
floe platy that avows opposition and hatred
- a certain class of the - States as its
.notive and rule of action, is entitled to no aid
com&*ort from any who loves his e , ,mrv,
or desires to be faithful to its government.
1 ---T-Irt—r,reates t i -the-wi-s-es-t- a n d—t le-hest-4i
this ,!,,ttiary eler protim;i4l, have, waruoil us
that: the Union biti4l riot last awler the ran
n~
oft gemgraphical party. Need we refer
eco we remind you of thettdmonitions which
Jefferson and Jackson litive given? If the
solemn vices which come from the tomb at
llnunt.Verio from the stqmlehre at :Monti
cello, 'and from the grave at the Hermitage,
hare ceased to be regarded, then we are lost
indeed.
The most illustrious statesmen of la ter thnes
felt the same fears fin. the Union, and assigned,
for those fears, the same reason: Clay and
Webster, and their 'great compatriots, ovet
looked all other considerations in the efforts
they inivle to avert this one portentous ealam
ity. Even Mr. Fillmore, the Know Nothing
Out candidate, has not hesiL
tated to bay" that the Union cannot stand in
all Aliontlirla President, like Fremont, lug
chosen ; and he lets it he very plainly under
stood that, in such a case, he would think a.
dissolution of it perfectly justifiable. 'When
you consider thuse things in connection with
the titrt that the ultra-Aholitioni.ts, inost
;hum
;t1 prot•-•;-, tiwir I" hralz. llii
I.!ikt Lni ;hid to “ntfic Con -ti,or:.c,
, w e;LI y"u. ,
f ..to for
h;:e, prw, be a f.c,-:11
wt.! aro trti-t
tilo Go\ - -
, :.'i , 1:•i•••t. _Buz dim ill(
ti.4t \\ \ idU
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it.
Uniun Inn-A .leiren.l on
t: - .[.a11.1.1 of hotter than th , ?. , .
: end
a hot:el- W3,1.1...1111 C. Fremont.
LW"! the Mir, r:shli .
tio•V are
it 6111):1 ut tht:ll'
tirilt the halt! en , r(sariw.l nn lilt' right ,
..f tile N orth. They have pertinariow.ly
r1ar...1 that in all e .iltrover,it..- en tile
I.; Siavory Ivo ..f lhe North
ti.o
ia‘,.r that in , tittifi..ll. "rip.
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of till' ;Lel,
1114 . 1111 . 1 ,. }1 they the i l l.
4 ill ..ur
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iii'.:: wit them 313 tiwir
a;o1-1. the aro .11:L.-gini
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:it It• .I:4f 1.1 hy it.—Tio•re a.-0
think the .V.ith
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GETTYSBURG, PEN.NSTLV.A.
which we have been submitting with a dis
graceful tameness of spirit. This is an artful
appeal to a point of-honor on which all men
are sensitive, and it is not wonderful that
those who are weak enough to be deceived b
it should also be weak enough to break
out into denunciation of the South, us a
cheap and Safe way of showing their courage.
Candor requires as to say that 'if there is
truth in this the Democracy ought to be de
tVa tot. if that party has ever counselled sub
mission to - wrong, oppression and injury, it is
not worthy of your confidence and support.
If we lnive.ever yielded ta.our Southern breth
ren a right with tloi Constitution, in its letter
or spirit, did'uot give them-- 7 -ifwe have made
any eonoe , sion to them in the way of compro
mie, which was rot required icy a fair and
Lianiv sow-4 , of jkl_Atiev—then we admit that
Abolitiot&ln has the side of this arualment.
Bat we totally deny the truth of this impu
dent tn:t m'ation. lt. is false in the aggregate
and false in the detail : fare in the sum to-
I, and talse In every one of
vmounee it fl libel on both sections of the
Union. It could be invented only' in a spirit
of shocr mendacity ; it con be believed only
by gross ignorcome or .ehildish credulity.
The fact that the Democratic party in the
North have betrayed with honorable magna
nimity and fairness to the weaker section—
th eir - brethren in the south—this is•our crime
—this is the wrong which we and our fathers
have been heaping-on our own heads for three
quarters of _a century. This is the offence
which the A holitionits would punish by bring
ing our t;overnment to a violent end, and
by covering.our whole country with shame and
-
Before the formation. of the . Constitution it
was feweeil that the interests, opinions anal
feelings of the different States, wt r so vari
ous and so much opposed, that no general wov
ormuent could possibly he established. Such'
was the \ - iew of the. sultject taken by Wash
ington liitusell. But the elThrt was made. It
owes its success simply to the fact that the
right of each State to manage - its own do
mestic concerns, in its own way, was fully con
ceded. . _
It was easily foreseen that' great diffi'renco
of - ,!pinion arid feeling wOttld exist between
'the people of the several States, in regard to
the treatment that might to be liestowed on the
l•lack race, 'who were among us, hut nut of us
--LW lio Were on our suit, mull yet not a part of
the people, nor qualified in any way to be our
equals.. 'This race was then held in slavery,
or involuntary servitude, - by the laws of mill
the States exeeptone, - But in the North their
truml)ers were lew,'and the climate unsuited
to them, while in the South it
-was just the re
verse. It was utterly Out of the question to
.expeet unanimity. on a ,sullioet Like this. It
could be managed in one way only ; and that
Wits by agreeing:that each State should deter
mine the. whole ; matter , for itself, and on its
own responsibility. It : was then solemnly
agreed that the Federal GoVermuent should
not interfere with Slavery, and that no- State
should interfere with it in any other State,
either directly ar indirectly.- And all the
people said amen r If the -solemn assurances
mutual.forbearenee then given, and sworn
to so often since, have been belied and viola
ted, it has not been done with the consent of
the Demo c racy.
• The question of-involitntary servitude had
engdged the earnest attention of the sages of
the revolution. There can be no doubt that if
they euttlit ha% e proNided for-its amelioration
•tnd gradual emancipation, they -would have
done so: They - fou ad it, Janie ver,' incorporat r
ell in the social,system of all the states but
one, and, they dealt with it according to the,
exigencies of the times in whielt they lived.
We all - know that even at that early day it was.
subject of mutual irritation arid excitement
and although the wonderful uses to which the
ciltton ,Lint has been a ellied, on account of
tiie subsequent discoveries in the utanufaetu
Ilf nuioiinery, were then scarcely anticipated.,
it is enough to say that the republican fathers
could not dispose of this slavery question un-
(11 . t.5%
tl t ley agree( upon ttO Jams nc t el 0
the formation of the Constitution ; the recog
nition of the domestic institutions of the south,
in the ratio of representation, and the provis
ion fir the restitution of fugitives front labor.
Twelve of the thirteen StatesAltat formed the
Constitution, held slaves at the time that in
strument was adopted, and by the quiet oper
ation of their popular exclusive- sovereignty
six of these States have f,ince beeome free.
Throughout all the action of the framers of
the federal Constitution, the idea wideh pre
vailed was that which regarded - the negro as
inferior to the white, and until Abolitif misni
is able to convince the present generation
that this idea is illogical and untrue, (and to
d o this they must agree to the doctrine of a
perfect equality between the races,) all legit , -
lathal on the subject of the negro, race must
and will be controlled by the same sentiment.
In the free States, at the present day, the ne
gro is subieet to a moral, and in many
.re
rt.e(q•s to a phvNieal servitude, quite as miur
ion': to his wopiifton a- the ino , t fabulous pic
tures ~r S , althern slaxery rci;re-ent oth
er-• condizioll in the ,
to, he. We Flu not
:11 the Northern n0, ,, ,re a slave. Let in what
he the ei l ual of 11,0 ? 111
s.tna- !It: is preventoil front voting, iM
.t 1 :( tar' ut,on al prit:,erty Ttalift."ation :
...,Ten In : I f,:--:14:i ttetts certa,it valif,ation:..
thrown his 1"+";:y se Utopian plli 7
-.,nhers, ‘vho eolistnnfly pri,te of tit eTntl
ity f the rfn•e-; iu oth , es , ,till he is met to.' a
tatute that ex.-hides him alto..l:ether 1 . ;•oln en
:ranee upai their soil, told it , .trbi-r,: is he rye
o•_,:oized on the 'au ! le%el with the wliite.
The white who intermai:rics watts the blaek
regarded a s a flograiled being:
t ri iu '4;hoot:4 and. 4:hurt:hes there is almost
a uni \ etsal bar hetween the two ra.ve, so that
e rides of society and the laws of the States,
en in the communities of the non-Aarchold
ihg N . :l ion, are inexorably oppo-ed to the ne
--fo. NV'bv is it that Abolitionism does riot
t•e-g-i a at ionnt.: and reform ..thes.e.things.?
11u t there is no power which can pre
..nt any State passing 11 It:am - er laws it may
olease unrier the Federal Constitution, fur its
isvll:eon.lll,rt and protection, anti the I,ery same
C v,hich induce, t to re-pect ;Ind recog
grea• doetrine of Stat. 4 rights in the
South. ttamler which it 11 ,Isis its, ()wit slaves,
compels us to recognize those laws to which
we hare referre 1 in the North. iitreuard to the
free Ha , ks. The North regulates its colored
populd;ion as it plt irses. and is proteeted in '
s., I,v the Cen , titution of the l'itited
All tin:114.1:1-1o, of the North are riq.--
r r - •
Uzi-lilt - U 111 - We ratio of I.Q.leral rept czentation,
"TRUTIII IS MIGHTY, AND WILL PREVAIL."
tm3 &e.
!mit had nut permitt;,tl it to be made ti/r them
y bivery men re .iding ill ',hi . : N( , 1 1 / 1 (!)%1
`into-. Till , ;tut], front of thoir
tl tiditsz. N'ithing ci •c was clutrgo•l
tliem. Net :ivory S nther:i menilwr
wlei ev: , , , rc - -,-e:1 Coe oi,inion tlu,t :11i,snii
ri bad a right - to niri.lte lwr own ea J:F;ltnti iii
called ii , , , , ,, r0550r, a slialc dri ier.and a
tyriplt, Ncrtlicrn man Aviv)
to the same siotple proposition was i',i•-
riottliceil and abosi.d as a ci,ward. a ilottgli face
and a recreant to the riglit of his
_own see.
lion. Si terci l-,• dill this :,turnof c a lumny
Mow that the gnvernment rucked and
reeled to it. 'There no way / left to
avoid a cilia war but to eranpromise. And
such a compromise! It consisted in an agree
ment that Missouri might exereie her 1111-
dollbted right, and has e her !mn constitution
if Clingress NVollifl abO l ikh the law legalizing
l'ry the—territory outside of that
State an' lying north of a certain line. That
'ongreAs had any power to do this is now al
most unix ersally douhteil, and by a lar g e
majority of the people it ,IS totally jellied that
slavery can he forceil, vitlier in or out Of a
'Territory, by the legislation
,of the (;"eneral
0 vornment. Thu:4l,v nwre clamor and ;Wusti
the North got an 11110,10 , thlitlillial advantage,
in return bir yieldin! , to a Southern State a
privilege which no fair man Call deny •ts as
plainly her own. But even this did lint sat
i-fy the .kholitionist-i. They continued t"
snit the South for tint, tip everything%
and vcutcd their alwii,i'sc and shtuderuus ept•
and yet nearly all are disfranchised and alien
ated by the laws of the Ninth. The South .
does as it pleases with its colored population,
slave and free, and is protected under the
Federal Constitution, lint its slaves are only
represented. in the ratio of three-fifths in the
fedei al representation.
In a nwral point of view, it seams
who
least
inconsistent that these Abolitionists, who are
entirely silent in reference to the condition of
the negroes in the free States, should be so
extremely vituyeritive when they (Yount to treat
of the condition of the negroes of the slave
States. Both - belong to the same inferiOr
class, both are so regarded in all the States.
The South found a leg,nev in slavery, trims
mitted -to it by its English ancestors, and the
(.16tistitution re:Tooted the institution as it ex
ited when that vistrument was framed.. Prite_
North, while it has rid itself of slavery, ( so
lar as the name is concern e4J,), still retaillS the
right to prGteet pgaim4 contact with a
race which is staaiptsl as hticrior 1)!,- all cltv,ses
1;f NVII iteS - ; -- W:101'01".'1* they a-re Tom••
The Northern States', in the exercise of
their undoubted effilstitutioual right, consult
ed what tbey deemed their own true interest,
and one after the other, in their owii thou and
their own way, abolished slavery. Against
these proceedings in the North the South ut-,
tered not a woril of complaint. But the views
and opinions of t he 5( nit horn States were whol
ly averse to abolition. - They believed it to lie
utterly impossible, without the greatest dan
ger, not to their prosperity only hut to their
very existence. This was an opinion to which
they had as good a right as the North had to
the opposite one., But they were not suffered
to-enjoy and to net upon it in quietness and
peace. - Alte-very•first Congress, after the
, overnment was organized, a petition. from
the North was presented, praying for the
abolition of "slavery by Cong,mss. :Treacher
ous attempts to deprive the South of her un
doubted tights• to maniore .hcr -own affairs,
have been constantly ma r de. The framers of
the Constitution declared in its preamble, that
one of their great objects in adopting it W a s
"to insure domestic tranquilily." But the
‘•doniestie traitqOility" of the South has been
constantly and cruelly, assailed - by Northern
Abolitionists, who knew very well that they
had no- business whatever with the - matter.
A •majority of the old States made the ne
groes free without opposition from abroad,
That it was wise for the North to do go "all are
agreed ;- that it was just and proper in the .
South to make no complaint is equally true.
Now let us See whether the South h irk-gained
any advantages or commit 'any aggressions
With reference to the new States.
--Maine and Vermont were:admitted as free
States, and nobody asked them to - put slavery .
into their constitutions. This was it matter
'of course, and sotreated all round.
But with reference s to the Western States,
their exemption front 'slavery wits not a mat
ter of course. The South ,might "have pre
vented. it if she had seen proper. The Whole
of the territory north and west of the Ohio,
and east (d . the MiSsissippi. belonged to the
State of Virginia. She owned the land, and
had power to-control the settlement of every
acre. Whitt did she do? *She magnanimous
ly gave up not only her political jurisdiction,
- hut also her proprietary right .tu the Federal
thwerninent, allowitt 7 4 the voters of the North
to settle its destiny, and all its proceeds to go
into the general coffers. CA omeeticut had a
spurious claim -to a part of it—a claim twe
e sely like that which she :..et up to a part of
Pennsylvania, and which was decided against
her. but her claim to the Western Reserve,
was eimeeded to her—she kept it, sold it, atol
puf:' the proceeds. into her Own treasury.—
Virginia did not protest even when the Ordi
nance of 1787 was passed, abolishing Slavery
within the territory;'Whielt she had . thus gen
erously given away. Was there any aggress;
sion in all this? lf there was "encroachment"
rol either Hy rommittel tt iere
was unwise euneessioll, from whom did it
come ?
is now Arkansas, lowa,. Nebraska,
Kansas,. and the unoccupied wilderness be
yond, was purchased from France in 18113.
It was all slave territory. We-took it with it
French law upon it legalizing slavery. It
could not be made free without repealing that
law. Missouri had been settled long before
by persons who owned slaves and who had
held them there upon the faith ot the law.—
They • were not disturbed during her whole
existence as an organized territory. .When
she proposed to conic into , the Union as a
State, her people, in the exercise of as plain
aright as any people ever posessed, made'n
Constitution for themselves, iu which, with
almost entire unimiznity, they recognized the
rights of the slat eholders to retain the proper
ty required under previous law. Then arose
the . wildest veils of fanaticism'. Large ma gses
of people in the North, and especially in New
EDglimd, led on and excited by the inflamma
tory appeals of their leaders, grew almost
frantic with rage. The sole cause of this out
cry was that the pr.:)ple of Mis , :oori,had made
thcir o wo C.'o, , t;tati,,u to suit their own views,
Will
Amisinna:
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th - ets as vigorously as.ever upon the north be
cause it hail not thsisted on more., Was this
Northern or Southern aggression? , •
DW, this cry of Southern aggression on
Northern rights again rose to a pitch which
seemed to put the Union in extreme danger.
Again the trouble was allayed by a couipm,
mise. The nature s ehartoter and tennis of the
Compromise will show how much aggession
had been committed then. There were five
measures included in it. 1. The admission
of CalitOrnia as a free State. 2. The terri
torial organization of New Mexico on ,the
principle of. non-intervention, whieb it was
known - would exclude slavery. - 3. The pur
chase of a large portion of texas, taking it
away from the jurisdiction of ty slave State.-
4. The abolition of the slave trade in the Pis
trit,;t oreolunthia. 5. The foLjtive slave law.
The first folir of these pleaion:6 were anti
shivery, and were th l y the Niwt,ll,
The fittli one ,(tlie ingitiNe slave law) waq a,
eonce•sion, not to the South, hut to the Con,
It Ivas _required__ by its__plain _and
unequivocal Mandate, and IMO beco admitted
every President and every Congress
from the foundation of the Oovernment,
to be an imperative constitutional
For this, the same .infautotis
saults were again made on. the eminent men
who supported it. The only Measure which
the
,;south got was opposed and- resisted,
even utter its enaCtinent, - luMin manv 'lilac es
its execution was wholly prevented, We de=
mond, ugain, where Was the aggression?
It is on these bets we base the-assertion,
that io every contest where the rights of the
North have been entrusted to Democratic pro
jecthin, they have-been guarded faithfully and
well. We have not resisted. any lust.daini
Which the South ever made; we have nicant
to treat them iitirly, and to carry mitT in -good
faith the obligations iMposed on, yni 'by. the
Constitution. But if there has been any in
stance in which the South :lots got •moreflian
its doe, the history of the transaction has 04-
ca p l ed our-notice.- • On the contrary, we submit
to you, ildlow-citizens, whether the South
has not- got the scantiest measure of justice
that could possibly. be -dealt out to ber. 'Has
not the North -bad all, the preponderance ?
I las not our geetion,laiil , the advantage of all
the hoportant concessions Itiat were - ever'
made ?- _ ,
The-S"tztes . of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mi .. pbl. ,
iri and-'lViseonsin, wive slain teriitory.
They were presented te : us ,by Virginia us - a
racions,g,ift, and we excluded slavery. ~The
2tate-of-lowa T —the—Territarics-ler Aftritte'sota,
and . Nebraska', were sltive territory underthe
aW of Lonisiamt. ,_'We teak tl u
were strong„ fintl we math:Amin, Vree..eil.— . j
'htvcry (Ince covered flu) whole Union. its
•epresentatives in - the - National 'dorernment
ire new in n mit - rarity. Could any tiling tint,'
he grossest imilico, the:lnost stupittfolly,
the most unmitigated knayery, Inggeste4 ;
the idea dna sityrgy was encyouchipg,upon us
while these things' were on? • • '
Our !Milted spree Will;net permit us to re,:,
count the many , unjustifiable • juriej, , which
he 'AbolitiOnists have perpetrated and • at- 1
empted to perpetrate upon the people of the.
:owl), upon these in the,' North who da"not•'
mite With them, Undm pea all the-institittions .
if the country. They have Sought iivory oc
casion, and taken advantage of every_ event
vhiell could give them lin excuse for' pouring
out their venoirous slanders - upon the fathers.
,f the Constitution, upon' the-Constitution it
elf, tual upon all who sup Pert it.
This ngitatimi began-in England among per,..
ons Whose gross ignorance - of America was
he only excuse for their insane' hostility to
rut' Union.' They ,sei it over to this country one
l'hompson,, a member of the - Whist' Parlia- .
Bent, a limb of ability, but reel:less-like 'his'
utployci K, 'Crider his intimrneo mid direction
emetics, modeled,alter, the old English.
rove estaillisbed in-New lingland. • The avow-,
Tlirttlw o `tlftsc si )0 ieties - wirsice - xiiteirrs
.ecti n among ,the •Southern negroes. For
his.pnrpose they
,distrilatted among the-lie
-roes, by every menus in theirpOwer,pictures
• ~ I , :l!/11:8 of' violc 1,
nce, nittribil thew
wh at
and arson, through which the slaves, 11' they
-would adopt thorn, might be • free. These
things Were accompani'ed by promises of uid
and support from British and Atherieau. lead
ers. Long subsequent to
.the
. tinie we mpeal:
of, Joshua It. Giddings; membei—uf - eon- - 1
gress, and now the leading friend•of . Colonel
Fremont, :Omitted the accomplishment of this 1
object, (a servile insurrection led, by British
Akers) to be the dearest wish of his heart.—
No doubt he spoke the . generalseutimentS of
his party.
• .
Think; rellow-eilizens, •of the mtuatton in
_which this must have placed , the 'Southern.
people. They found the institution of negro.
slavery fastened upon them without any fault
of their own. • Many of them believed it to be
an evil, but they could not help it. They had
the wolf by the ear. 4 and they- could neither
h o ld on with comfort nor let go With safety..
A general emancipation ' would have been a
virtual surrender of the whole Southern coun
try to the blaek race, probably the extinction
of the white:, iii their own blood, The late of
St. i) , Thlingo and the 13riti,-;11 West Indies for
hade !-neli a thought. - It was in this.eondi
lion that they were Assailed by every InCanti
ntaliee and. cunning euuldlie h , e, 111
(~rib:-• to inere.e-e the dang, . and diliieulty of
their !lave they not a good right
toeomplain bitterly of a party which wag do
ing all it eould t.o murder ditch', their wire:-
and their eiiihlren ?
They did complain. But their complaints
were uttered in I:zin, Gunt;r:ll Jaekson call
ed the attt,ittion of Congre:m to the subject,
and a hill was brought in tll prohibit the trans
mission or incendiary doeuments through the
mad. but the South was in the minority and
the hill was h -t. It was not only lost, lint the
proposition to prevent the U. S. mail from
being. prostituted to the purposes of assassi
nation and murder, was made the occasion for
a new cry o f Southern aggression, and every
Northern man wholu ored it was again called
a donflditee, cOward and traitor.
the'present canvass, the Abolition party
has a strength which it never had before.—
Th e di,solution of the Whig party left many
owll witi. , tot and s(tr i „,‘ of
them hay' a eamole-!s feeding a!r a inst th e b e .,
mocrary which makes them embrace any doe
trine,.and risk disunion it.4elf, ratlier than join
us. Many' of the adhering Know Nothm! , .s
were 101 over Ii hlv, with their eves shut,
into the pitfall. of Abolitionism. They have,
out of the•ze material*, formed a party which
they dare to call 11.opuldiean. IQs, a combi
nation of men, acting under the influence of
TWO DOLLARS A.IE AR
opinions formed and developed in 'England—
prOpagated' by British emissaries—ladOcated
by the British preSs, and aiming a ditekblow
at the only strong Republic Onoarth—such II
party adds to its other sins , the base hypocri—
sy of calling itself by the sacred name of lie
publiean. - • -
Their only battle cry at this• moment,- and
for some time past, has been Kansait I;Kun- .
slam I Kansas 1 - Mr. Buchanan will beeleeted • '
President, and this Kansas questions,. With Ml_
its incidentals, will pass away among the
things that were: When that happentythe
people of this country will look 'back with '
wonder at the scenes now enacting-, and think
with amazement of the storm which a'few fa
tuities aril traitors could raise on- a question
so simple and so eitaily adjusted. . • •
Tho territorial government of Kansas was
organized on a principle which permitted the
men who might inhabit the new State to de
termine what - should be its laws and institu-
Coos. Thus it expressly declared : "It being .
the - true intent and meaning_ of this net tsar to
legislate Slavery 'ixvo any State or 21:!'rritory,
nor' to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the
people thereof perfectly free to form and .reg-
Oath their-domestic institutions in their own
way, subject only to the Constitution of the .
United States." ..--:,_
-. • -
That, too, watt theyery - principle of the Com
promise bills in - 18.56, with referen6) to-Cali- ,
fornia and-New Mexico, and'. advociated by
Clay, Cass and Webster.. LetVlCigti,,Domo
erats'and Ainerieuits—all men who :love the.
Union—listen to the language of the patriot
Clay, in ids eelebrated report introdneing the
Comproinise bills: "It is high time - that. the
Wounds which it '[ The Wittn'a :Pruden]; has
intheted-should be bellied up and'elosedt fool
that to ovoid, in 01 iniita:e line, agitations
whieh.must be 'produced by the tonfliet of
Opinion on the slavery . , auestion—existing; as
this institution does, in setae of ilit , States,
and prohibited, as it iS,Cinotliers 7 - f the trite
principle which Ought tti'regUlato ' - the..ection
ofCong.reksiti forming territorial goVerinnei6
for caul newly 'acquired doinaitios to refrain
from all' legislation On the 'Suhject in the ter
ritory-acquired, so long as it retains the 'terri
torial-Turin ef government—leaving it,tu - t!te
people of au& Territory, when - they have et
baited to it condition villich entitiewtheratti
inlmission as a' Sta te, 44 - deeide ',ler Merin :elves-.
the qtiestionof the tilloWande 'oeltiohibitidu
'of domestic - slavery."—,(See l'Votighsitienat .
Clithe,May:lo, - . 1850, - pa64,9454 , - 1- '' . _-" .: • ' .
, Certainly: no man - Of Ordinary "itiestht
eomild ' have 'believed thitthoriest'inen in 'the
'North., - after 'coriteuditig''fih:;this- • dectrine
:five Or six - , years rage, - WoUld '-iurit''iliblind'
. on d repudiate 'it' new. , :lint: theim hyliberiti ,
,Cal pretenders complain 'of the ' reptattif the
la*. knoviif as thoMiaseari eatiipititnioo;'' lit ,
whfch -Congre4-. higialitek'slitVery" eat - 4,f
, territory nnith . ef 80r! diigi , 80 niinVinad'per
, mit fed ifloleittitt i it' alf.tertitoty 1010 oettidt,
line i'atid'yetssi ,f6thif plitiforinithichtherkliei '
made tbe their eaudidateti and, iim
part; tb , .s , ,
onnly ' iesole4- 4 .llt'atiee'deity'lhe itfulieriirtif
65nyress, Of wrei.ifiteritii I.44Ml(tith;e, l ' of any
intliviltir[tisstichttitan of indiViiiiiiilo, - to
give legal Heihdenee-testilatiery in any Thli
'Dili of the-United ..Statca, While'the,' - iiitlietit
Constitution s hall' bentairitained.', IfteS. - Iti;
Reptiblieen Platform ? l:B•so'. -' •' -
ThiiB the very Com proini se, *MAO n Alxi- ,
litionists tit one ' , moment 'pretend .''shtitild 'tilt
have been repealed; 'because, nifthey: alloke,
it WAS a binding hiw iinil= ComPaCt4they ititbe
next sidiniinly resolve -ani • no' 'InW-- , 4liti cent--
pact i nay, more, that it-Wits'beyeinltliePtow
er of Congress, 'or of , any 'hum& fewer, to
make latch a law, - vihilelhe UOnstillitiere. shall
lastl •• But 'ire ORS frourthis ii itilothei tonic:'
Sentie disorders haveeceiliredin'tbe'enntest
of opinion. St jai hes been*litigttitiln ItitUtinti
for tWo or tl - i ee yearp,:betWeen the'prol•Slare
rynlen mut t iesAbolitiiinists;:' Whatefeithey
it mounted to', it iatitt hiit thtiati wliiig'Cbmtnitted
these dii - airde - rißlifkild - tilt: Celhb'WtOilliqilillity
and bear the consequences. - But no one can
fail to see that 'atiolitiolibint inii; exatirieritted
and perverted OVerysiticidentosonneeted with
Affilf iif th e - Way' AV h' Ch in t hair 'o - Cniim'iras
best calculated to create prejudice and hatred'
against the 'South, 'Their OWn'sharbin pro--
yoking thte"quittrets they .lioe'trikl'illthey
could to conceal:, ' Instead" of pirpOsiii6; some -
mnde' of settling' the dispUtes in Kansas Rini
eably end peacefully, they'haire artftilbt . fun
ned' the Elaine; and shown, by theiewhotecon
duct that they' would willingly:epread civil
war from Kaunas all over the Union.,
Even an assault and batiery':cornMitted at
Oilcans WaShington city has been used, as of
stirring up the bitter waters of sectionagree.
When riots have been raised in 'O6 North'. to
prevent the execution of the. fitgitive alums
law, a law approved by Washington, yOted,for
by Clay and 'Webster, and, Signed:by Presi
dent Filbnore, and murderS committed for tho
sane purprise like those at Carlialead.Chris
tiana, these same, abolitimxiSts Clapped their
hands in exultation, and cried Welt lenel—
When the South complained that her' hest
citizens had been thus Shiu„Ateree 'fOr'no of
fence but demanding their' laWftil ;rights, tlte
Abolitionists answered With and ribald
ry. But now, when a northern Senator' is
II ell 1/V time Representative of a slave-hurting
St:cc, time whole abolition party is thrown in
to a wild commotion of excitement. We 'do
not juAtify or excuse Mr. liyouls, but we think
that those men who -had ni) sympatlfy"fer
Kenne,ly and Clors'uch might as well be quiet
i s iut Stl7.llllCr.
In conclusion, we still briefly refer toone
important fact, which ought to consign the
le:viers' of the so-called Republican. party to
their political graves.
You are all aware that the Senate of the
United States is largely Democratic. That
Body, some time ago, passed a bill for the pa
cification of Kansas, so just and so equitable
that no fair objection can be made against it.
It provides for the admission of Kansas as a
State, with such a Constitution as the people
themselves shall choose to have ; and that the
vote upon it may be taken fairly, the most
stringent regulations are made. to prevent any
man from putting in a ballot who is not axes
ideut. It provides' that'any one who - has left
the Territory On account-of the previous trou
bles, tear return and vote as if he had not go,ite
away. t bri )I,a tes all the Laws :passed by
the:Territorial Legislature complained of by
the Aliolitionists.-,-No man can derly (and's
far as irew 'ow it never has been denied) that'.
this bill if passed by the other House of Cert.-
-ress would at onee settle the whole difgeul
, • 1
yin a manner perfectly fair. Even' one of
he Abolition Scooters, Mr. Halo, admitted
NO,