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HON.I[O. VI.IOODWARD,
Delivered at Me Greql:Union Meting in
Independence .81uare,!Philadelphia,
13th December,. 1800.
We have assemble,fl; fellow-citizens, in
pursuance of - the proclamation of the May
or, that we " counsel.together to avert the
danger which , -threatens our , ,country."—
That danger is not recent or new. It has
a history. And we must glance at that;
we must obtain a clear view. of actual
state - of the crisis ; before we can give or
receive intelligent counsel.
It was announced a few years ago that
the conflict which. .had sprung up in this
country between free and slave labor was
irrepressible-4hat a hottiedivided a
gainst itself could not standi: . -4-that all the
States of this Union must become free or
slave States.
The meaning of this was, and is, that all
were to become free States; for the soil
and climate of the majority of the States
are such that it never can become the in
terest of the superior race to maintin slave
ry in them. Everybody knows this, and
therefore-the alternative form of the prop
osition was only to give it .an appearance
of fairness, and a little more rhetorical ef
fect.. •
=NAT DRINRER
The full scope and meaning of the an
nouncement-are; then, that the citizens of
the Unittd.Statts a-o to be totally divest
ed of the property they now hold in four
or five millions of slaves, of the aggregate
value of many hundred millions Of dollars,
and that the habits and domestic condi
tion of the people—their commercial rela
tions, and their political rights, in so far
as these interests are connected with the
institution of slavery—are to undergo a
,
revolution. ' ' ' .
Nor was thisprediction the voice of an
obsure and unlit:au:wed prophet, hitt of a
citizen whom the people of thefree States
have .just distinguished . , in a signal man
ner; - by conferring on !mirth° -highest of they had;tto gtve..:,s In so far , asitheir
votes are. , tiKbe - consMered yak' responsive{
to his,announeetnent;_ they are ~.a_loud.l
. ..,,,.,
.b toe 11..-ibe , ..-
Whilst wis not to-be doubted that mul ,
titudes voted for titer Prelident - elect with
other Views, and did not intend a distinct
endorsenlent .of hii favorite proposition,
yet Ss the record is made np, the prophe
cy tend the prophet stand approved by a
majority of thi3.people of -the free States.
The inexorable exclusion of slave proper
ty front the comthon ' territories, which
the Government holds in trust for the peo
ple of all the States, is a natural and di
rect: step .toward the 'grand result ;of ei:
ting,nishing slave property shogether,and
was one of the record issues of- the late
electidh. This policy must be considered
as approved also. No t t that every nian who
voted for the successful nominees meant
to affirm 'that a trustee for severel co
equal parties has a right, in law or reas
on, to :exclude the property of some and
admit ',that of others of the parties.for
whom ,he holds—but so is the. record.—
And While. itis not to be taken as. expres
sing the universal' sense of the voters, it
does, tindoubtedly,' imply that -vast mass-t
es of Northeqt people -do heartily approve , '
both Of the proposition to make all the:
States free, and. of beginning-by exclud-i
ing slavery from the territories.
The Send/seem - 4 Maine(' so to accept,,
the judgment,. She holds , the property
that is to be shut out , of territories—that
1 . , i
is•to bb'irestricted, cribbed, and Confined,
more more, until it is - finally extin
guish" -,Everywhere. in the:South the'
people are beginning i to leek ont for-the
meansofieltdefence. Could it be expec
ted that their- wiitild.be indifferent to such
events: na , heti, occurred le—ihat they
would stand idle, and. See measures. coo:
certed and tarried forward for theriannihi
'
iatiim . sooner or later, ..of - herproperty in.
slaves-?.: . Such expectationsiiitiiidnlgeit
were .tiot , reasonable,- The • law -,- Of self-de-•
fence 'includes :tights of propeit y as 'Well as
of person. And it appears to methat there
must be a Utile,. In, the, progress of this
conflict, if ithe ‘mdeedirrepressible,wlien
slaveholders mg,lawfully All - back on
their natural rights, and in de
fence of their property whatever trteansof ,
protection they possess or 'can command.
I do not agree with thenrthat' that time
has , arrived yet; lint it would :be well Tor'
thse Whopusb on this confliet,'lrwhatev
ever ;forth, to • coniider that they. are haii
.tening eri.that time; and that ' they have
convinced One or more Southern States
that it has already colue. , , r , ....`I , 1 ;1 :,' [
Several. States prefiliseto retire from
the ,Confederacy,;and that justly • alarmi
us:, `re come tegetherio consider' what
may be Al'one to prevent itinnilnro bound
in.'fidelity to nurselvesatid. others, to take
the measure !Of .-•the whole MaitOtile:- of
the danger.. p - ~- f -, ..!..,,..,,;...,:-/ .
- This , i irrePreible:comes' has grown
Out of he angle:axon loie of freedom.•
What thatiptision ii, -Mid howit
,tvils''of-:
fended by intiodnetion'OfnegrOilaVeS,
~
may be read-in the chronicles of the, Amer ! : r
icaa`Pi . 4vhices; anidVS2ipiallY iiitlie - earn. I
egt;Ahe,•ol64derit;':and"repeate'd ' retnonr 1
.strancis adgrisied by iCbii_o ( Teny of Viij;
ginia Ito tlis-vro*n -and - Pirliainent . Of,t-
$IMIIN),000
5i.1 73 '.EM 1 4011
OF THE
BIONTRO)SE, PA., THUtSDAY, OCT : . ':1:,--'186:8
Great Britain against their introduction.
But if the anglo-saxon loves liberty a
bove all other men,
he is not indifferent to
gain and thrift, and he is retnarkablettbr
his capacity of adaptation, whereby he
takes advantage of any circumstances in
which he finds himself placed. And, ac
cordingly by the time the Colonies were
prepared to throw off the British yoke,
and to assume among the powers of earth
the separate and equal station to which
the ‘ laws of nature and of nature's God
entitled them, it had been discovered that
the :unwelcome workers, - against whose
introduction such earnest protests had
been mide, could be:turned to profitable
account in the Southern States-- . -that the
African constitution was well adapted to
labor in latitudes which alone could pro
duce some of the great staph s of life—
and that the North, which could not em
ploy them profitably, would be.benefitted
by such employment as the South could
afford. Considerations of humanity, also,
as well as the rights of private property,
entered into the discussions of that day.
What was best for an inferior race thrust
unwillingly upon a superior ? That both
should be free, or that the inferior should
serve the superior, and the superior be
bound by the law of the relation to pro
tect the inferior ? If best for both races
that the existing slavery should continue,
then what was to be its relation to the
general government? How should it be
represented in the councils of the nation ?
1 - low far protected or discouraged by the
power of the new government? Should
r 3urisdiction to abolish it be granted to the
i government, or reserved to the States and
the, people of the States? These were
great questions, and, like all . the ques
tions of that day, were wisely settled.
The Northern States abolished their
slavery, and so gratified their innate love
of freed Om—but they did it gradually,
and so did not Wound their love of gain.
They sold out slavery to the South, and
they received a full equivalent, not only
in the price paid down, but in the mann
flicturing and commercial prosperity
which grew up from the productions of
slave labor,
'When' the Constitution came to be,
formed, some of the Northern States still.
held slaves, but several had abolislizUlte,'
4...44..e..,.... 0 rne55... p . --0bzu,,,, t ,p w ...„
rent'lliat"naterarcauses woullforze it al
tiinately altogether upon the South. The
love - of liberty' was as intense as ever, and
as strong at the South as at the North,
and the rove of gain was common to both
sections. Here Were two master-passions
to be adjusted under circumstances of the,
greatest delicacy. 'They were adjusted,
mid the great qiteations of the time were
settled in the only manner possible. ,
Con
cession and compromise—considerations'
for each other's feelings and interests,sa.o
rifices of prejndices,..arbevance and mod
eration—these were the Means by which
the "more perfect union" was formed.
And what .iwork it was ! If the Un
ion had never brought us a single bles
sing,
the Constitution of the United '
States would still have been a magnifi
cent
monument to the. unselfish patriot
ism of its founders. Not an alliance,'
merely, but a close and perfect union be
tween peoples equally devoted to free-.,
dem, equally bent on bettering their con- ,
dition, but separated: by State lines and
jealOns of State rights—one section seek-''
ing its prosperity under institutions which
were to make every man a free man, the
' other under institutions which tolerated
negro slavery. Had theyenstitution fail- ,
ed to work out the benefient results in-
tended; here was an instance of human ef
fort to' do good—an effort to restrain and. '
regulate two natural passions, to compel
them to co-operate in blessing mankind;
which would forever have challenged the
'admiration of all good and thoug.htful
men. But did not fal,tbani(Goil. lilies
made us a great and
.tirOsperotiti nation,
'And. 'the
of
Of the . *Ad, for, the
'motives of the founders is swallowed...up,
ip;Watider. stills succm'of their - work. .... ,
` tilt all this the '"lrrepreisible .conflict"
`ignores. ' The'passion for liberty, ,spurn 7,
ing the restraints imposed,l4burned oat
''all memories-of the - compromise and the
Compact in those Northern `communities,'
which,,under the false name of Liberty
Bills, obs,tract ,-the execution of the bar
.
gain.n. - What-part 'of the purpOses of the
' founders are the underground railroads in--
0 t
tendo _ .promote ?- Whence comes ,
excesaive.**ibilities that, , cannot: bear a
few : slaves in a retneteterritciry Antil.the.
white people,:establit3h a Constitution ?......
'What ,41oes,that, editor preacher know . Of
the.linion,,ondiOf :the men .who made. it;
whO habitualjy reviles ; nd -misrepresents
4ftite Soutliern ; peopleond .excite the iginiii .
rant Aod f tliought,less hi. our midst.tolate
and:pereecitto.theml. What, has lincomel
of. oar -glad and, willing - obedience, At:tithe.
Buprenieeouq , as.the,thial . txpositori of
the-compact-? I ' , ~ . •
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Betiot deeeived.-.! Let me -not prophe;-
cy smooth things" a t nd -: cry" peace -when
there - is no:peace; ztet:the truth be spa;
lien, be pondered, if we mean to save the
"'Union.' The 'o — nfliet boasts thatitAs ir
'repressible. -It : allies.jtelf...-.witii.lequat'
readiness.tO . religiott 'ap4lipflgelitp:lteo r
list; Of enr - OnsslntiS ) ", g . '9o 4:44:.44,11t. :
1
' nuils l ei: - einiinion•eause - with "taroi:lianipionki'
!;of fkeclirin the: 'ip:irlil n ‘ Ver.„ .. ini;i(3*4, 0 0 :
iiriiitiptit!.=Of inStrkeotiOn, , riot an4.4iseOr . d,
'at 'tone; ' *With' rreedolii . ilis - vri hell .Oti,
. _. •
the banner- it tears, it tramples under foot
the guarantees
.of freedom contained in
the Constitution and laws. /
flow is it to be repressed ? Govern
ni4ll administration cannot subdue it.
That has been tried for several iniciessive
perieds, and the conflict has waxed hot
ter :Ind hotter. Will the next adininistra ,
tion be more successful?, Hoping for the
bot'it cap do, what right have you or I
to anticipate that the man who has been
elected will prove recreant to the maxims
03' made him President? Can trade
and'bommerce subdue it 2 Look ;it the
votes of Boston,; Philadelphia and Pitts
burgh. , The mannfactnrers and merch
ants' are the • governing classbs' in those
cities. They are intelligent and quick to
dibeever their interests. They have weigh
ed and measured the Southern trade, and
then voted against theouthern people,.
Bet what if they had no —what if, like
the city of New York, they had voted a.
gainst the conflict, only to be overruled
by the country counties? Commercial
cities cannot repress the conflict, if the
people of the interior lend it their sympa
thies. No, no; there is reason in the
boast that the States- all shall become
free. All New England has decreed it.
Tlie great'States of New York and Ohio
have repeated, again and again, the de
cree. Pennsylvania seems to have sanc
tioned it. The Northwestern States at
the present committed to it.
f What hope is left, for the Union P. Is
there a man in this assembly who deems
that this conflict can go on and the Union .
last? If there be, that man is beside
ri msel f— her 4 a s lost his wits. I will rear
Sin with no such man. But, though few
tray believe that the Union can long en
dare the shock of the conflict, yet many
ii , opts think that freedom— absolnte
ifeedom is such a boo P—and • negro
every so great a reproach and evil, that'
Vie whole influence of a good man's life
.Ind conduct 'Should be directed to pro-,
mote the one anil . suppress the other—
in eulhough, as a conseqnence, the slave
BtateS should be dnvicen out of the Union.
This is the prevalent distemper of the pub
lic mind. '" Who can Minister .to a mind,
diseased ?"
Fellow-citizens, I profess no ability in
this _rezard s lut my ansitth is oyeand, I
uri
_iabetromit -- .3110 -- imiit in n ns-prism
up filim the - b - eakt to - toe bps. ' -
When, under the, articles of confedera
tion which carried us through our Revo
lutionary war, States had grown jealous,
unfraternal, disobedient, and the general
government had proved itself too weak
..
to suppress conflicts that wore arising,the
people took the reluedyinto their own
hands, called a Conventionond formed a
stronger government. The,- call of the
Convention, the election of deputies,
the-
State Conventions which followed, all
served to engage the public mind, and to
direct it to the common danger and the
possible remedy. Thus the popular mind
prepared itself to receive with approba
the Constitution that wasformed,and im
pending dangers, were averted.
..
History is said to he 'philosophy teach
ing by exampleS. As we Pennsylvanians
were the first to abolish slavery, let us be
the first to `move for the salvation of the
Union. Under the amendatory clause of
the Constitution, Congress is bound to
call a general Convention on the applica
tion
of the legislatures of two-thirds of
the States.. Our legislature will assemble
next month. Let us petition them to de
mand the Convention. Good examples,
like bad ones, are contagious. Perhaps
one and another of the Northern States
may do the like, until the requisite num
ber have" Concurred, and then We will
have a National Convention 'to consider
the evils and the dangers of the day, and
to devise remedies which„it may be hop
ed, shall prove as 'saluthry as those of
1787. Arid note, as then 'the progress of
these radiances will awaken inyntry• and
thougbtfolness in Abe masses—will `call off
'their minds from the petty politics of ,the
,day and from the inischieN•ous agital49ll 4
slavery questions to the .grand jirolileni of
how we can render this glonotiii - Unitin
perpetual. -_ '. • •
In what form and to What extent the
power l of the general Government should
be increased is not .for me to' indicate ; but.
with the confession of President 13tichan ;
an and Attorney General Black before us,
that thesGovernment, as now constituted,
is L onable to prevent or punish , secession,
or suppress the • proud conflict that= disturbs
our peace, and boasts itself irrepitessible,
haye I not a right to 'asAtatne that theGov,-
erilinent . - needs to, be', ptreugtheued,?—
'ilaye, I not ~ , i' right F lo assume _'that, a,
G oA t al r i e oP , wili f eh )irgif' , 0 sufficient for
the 21: 1 5rY'fift'Y 3v.aFfh ag9y. mben- soil v
and mate, ,and St t o soyerp,guty l could
'be trisied,to regehltei,4 spread et' slay,
cry, 4 thrffieient, to-illy,, when,, every , ,up:,
starkiptilitieian ,egn stir 'the ,peoptu L to,
in n 9 w a g ai H st th 9 d° l lle?ti 6l hlsti4htionof
ouroa9lern neighkorar— l wheil , ,rAial4,
jests f seditieuS editors 'like G l itmaxv„
1
and zEcuEn, can sway jedistaturee,-,uol
poiMl, r votes against the -handiwork
of %VASJI/NGTPN alld,Metplao.,l4 - -.lithgnAlle
f Clir# Otlli s liln , lp,ef 'such Ai!pok.ilo AE, L p,,,
ER'B f lopeomii ; ;! ihyOrite, campaign ; dqou.,
anent, pad are a0' 9441./ i s bi. ; Illous.anfis; P 4 ,1
law Auld'aaspe,l , bo t tli- 7 -ntep ,jejlousy, Und - )
bate !live killed AR Or
~frgeroa! feel-,
jugs' foi' L thiec s aytiO ,wero liarrii ,pur.,Prekh•t
ken, alit - 1 1 ,010 have done itts 4. ,4a . o harm?-=-
The traditions of the elders. lingered in
the generations which iminediately-suc
ceeded the adoption of the Constitution,
and , their
-passions for. freedom, just as
Strong as ours, was chastened into loyalty
to the Union, and veneration for the rights
Of States. The'Constitution; which was
strong enough to govern each men, is
weak to retain aswho have outgrown the
grave. a» d, amid( rate wisdom - that excited
no, irrepressible (Patna between brethren,
but taught thenf to dwell together in unity.
inakeit strong-enough to ram
the. madness of our 'day.
And let the people comer the motives :
for nreservingthe , They:- wotild- -
be brought d irectly to the .dabates of
the CO:invention, and by the antecedent
and subsequent debates. I can suggest
only some of them.
First, our name and place and power as
one of thonations of the earth. Are not
these worth preserving ? In eighty years
we have
,mat died thigreatimi thatPome
and England were centuries in attaining.
What may be done in the next eighty ?
heard a sagacious statesman say, about
three years ago, that in twenty years from
that time, if we kept to gether, we would
drive England - from all the markets of the
world as a first class trader. They were'
words of cheer, but there was the• inevi
table if. In what market we shall rival
England, or even the pettiest kingdom of'
the earth, after dissolution of the. Union,
that statesman and no other has ventured
to predict.
See what prosperity would come to us ,
of the Nortlon the process of the grand
rivalry predicted by . that statesman. Man
ufactures and navigation have thus- built
up the greatness of England, and they
would In the same for us as a nation, and
for,our section of the nation. Manutac
turiag has already made us Lrreat. In no
one tesPect'arethe rise ant progress of
our country so remarkable aS in its Mann
--
factures. The narrow-minded-: English ,
statesman who would not have us. inapu
fectare even a " soahl he be
carried alivethrough themanidheterig.of
Philadelphiai•Pittsburgh orLOwell; would, -
_consistent with ;himself, curse tTie
falsei#c r ds wino ,had inspired hisfunreason-Y
able wisli;,and basted-to.,,die .
shall' never mid to depend 'again On any. or.
srYr
couoporon orn000a.: 1. nue far, - at feast, - e
have come. And what:eities .acid- towns
and railroads and canals have we built up
in Oar progress ! :How much personal
wealth and social happiness have we cre
ated;—*hat additions to our - poPulation—
What-accretions in thevalue of our farms
and minerals-r-what industry,- , have - we
stimulated - and . rewarded .--7-!what con-'
*ice We,' We t" Think Of then
thingsMlo*-enuntryinen—con them over,
one , by.One-41issect and analyze each fact
—trace ,its connections And consequences :
and Area when you combine them all _in
(*glowing picture of national prosperity,
remember that COTTON,' the product of
alone-labor, has been one of the indispens- •
able elements Oral this prosperity. More
must. he,an indispensable element of
all our future prosperity. I say it must
be. The world cannot and will not live
without cotton. There is not a matron v in
all the Union -that can clothe her farnily or
herself .without it. Nor can. England do
without 4 our cotton.• . ours ,
ret,, and her operatives and
,cours,
woiilil ataere,.T . f the rogt'Setra id not rain
cotton. 'Manemit • them and -they
never •raise another crop. :They need the ,
authority of a master and the eye Wan,
overseer to Compel and direct them to the
duties to thectotton plant which must be
rendered 'at the right season preCiselyor
the crop is lost. .
And thus it happens that the Providence
of that,eood,Being wholnikwatehed over
usfiom the *ginning and saved. us from,
external foes t has So ordered our internal'
relations' as tti'make - negfo'idaierk 'ilii'in-,
calculable blessiligto us.anittosthe phoPle•
,of Great'Dritain, .4. say to..ury; foi. :I de
noteuter into ,the optotion whether ; the,
institution ho an evil to the • people (it*,
SOiitliern Statis that is their .coheerzic.
not oars. Nite hove nothino l'o" do ' *lib'
it; and to obtrude our opinions upon the
people of ,sovereign States :concerning
they domestic,institutions would be sheer
impertinenee. • put do you not So and
feel how giiod it was for us lb 'totl , Over
our 'slaves to our.friends, of the Sonth— ,
how good it was for us that theyemploy-:
e4lthiltn jr raising PL qaPie f9r
_9ur-•lltanik%
facturets 7 -,boy yqsq.it , Waft to. so -. adjust
the c,oinpromiscs'ef the Catuit)tutiini that
we Conhrlivein uniOn witlklinniand,reap
'the-signal advantageti fo , whicif I have ad=
'vetted,? .We consigned them to no heathen l
;thrall!;, but to l Christinn men, professing
the,sainefaiib with us • --7sp,eolieg Oe.samf4,
Flarign'age;•eading ''th4 ,golden rule in no
1 on`e.sided And'distorted shape; Imit'as it is
1
;icor dd—a nile•to Slavei , as' well as mai;
1 ,ters;; - ..., r , ' - . .:,- -".-
allusion te the Olden r i tile7remin4s
inenflan Abjection ; which :will be urge!)
mineti, that I bai,:e advanced.` If will be
said:that:slavery is &Sin' against Vred;,and
therefore, that 'alireiisonsldrawn fronfoir
Riaterial iuterests, kOr + tovoririg ur,skctting
it most go fOr'hotbingi -
'ti tie '' , ii:sia, t raifie? ilieks; is an 6i(tiki
ay:ill:o6l'64 i.:lititrWhat right bd.§ the "Abi
olition4 irto4rOnpuncelt ,irsiii ?' ( : .1 ,suy
: - A bill 44 1 0 , 10) -....44eae5i 3 th 0 1 pa,sto n 14, Ile . ,
Yirsl! FrgsbY-4 1 :4P , CPurch ~°UrPONNI
VoLIIVE XX.
in a sernien preached Within a ireek, - 'de.
fined an Abolitionist to be'ona who holds
that slavery is , a sin. I accept the defini
tion, !Ma:according to it mn_Liy ofotirbest
ChristhOpeeple must be accounted Abe
.for it is astonishing - ho w ex
tensively the.religious mind of the North
has admitted' into itself the suspicion, not
to say, conviction that slaveholding is a.
sin. If -it is a sin, then it is a violation of
-some Divine law, for sin is the transgress--,
ion of the law.,. - •
NoW,I deny that'any such law has ever
been revealed. The' burden - of showing
it is nu hintarlito alleges it ; and when . it IA
AoWn, VS-wee-that an d
7 0tit,
thatbas-been saidler
slavery. - I bind inyself . neverto raise my
voice' again in favor of such a
But, so far from any such law being.plahr.
ly written for our instruction, whoever.,.
will study the Patriarchal and ;Levitical .
institutions ; will see the princi ple . of hu
man bondage and of property,m man di
yinely sanctioned, if not divinely ordained ;
and in all - the 'sayings Of our Sav ioiir we
hear no injunctions for the suppressicei of.
slavery which existed under' Isis eyes,
while He delivered ninny maxims and
principles, which, like the golden rule,
enter right into and regulate the'relation.
So do the writing s
. of Paul abound with
regulations of - th e relation; but not' with
injunctions , for the suppression. If we
go to the ii oat accredited commentators,
or consulitilivines really wise and geOdin
our own midst—Oil, what is better, study
and search the Scriptures for ourselv.es
we shall fail to find a law whiclijairliin ,
terpfeted and applied, jUstifies.any man ,
asserting,ln or out of the pulpit, that the
slavery
,of the United States, is
What _right, then, I ask again, has the Ab
olitionist to cheat tender consciences into
hostility to an institution on 'whigh our
Union is founded in part ? Good People
any,
,we denet wish to disturb - slavery
where it exists by local law, but believe
it to basinful and inexpedient, we will not
submit to iteeitterision,aoraSsist.tci relitOre.
the fugitive to his master. Such people
soon come to conceive that the more un
friendly they can feel towards slavery, the
more harsh speeches they can make about
slaieholders,*the more they help on tha
irrepressible confliet; 'the better will they
immendithemselvesto God. In' soino
come essential to good standing,
_Accoid.
lug to some .ecclesiastical councils, it would
sewn that thigreat duty of the Arneripn
Christian is to war with 'his neighbOes• .
property, -and if 'oPportnnity•presents, to
help steal and hide it. - ,
Alas! alas I -for -the times upon which
we have fallen.' ..
We must aronse,ourselves and re-assert
the rights of the 'slaVeholder, and. , add
such guarantees to, our Constitution si
will protect Ms profferiy from tbe:'spoilit
tiOn of -religious bigotry and 'persedutioii;
or else we must give up our Constitution'
and Union.: Events are placing the alter
native before us—Constittitiona/ , Union,
.
and liberty according to American law; or
else, extinction of slave property; negro free
dom, dissolution of the Union, aid anarchy
and confusion.
Can any man, even though his mind has . '
been poisoned by the sophisms of. infidels
and Abolitionists, seriously ,conteMplate
the alternatiVe with' d'onipos6re and Indif
ference Y We hear it said let South Cat*
line go oat oCthe Union peambly,,' 1 say
let hergo.peaceably, if she go at a ill; but
why should South, Carolina be driven out
of the Union by an irrepressible conflict
about slavery? Other States will be sure
to follow sooner or inter. The work- of•
disintegration, once fairly established, will. -
not end with South Carolina, nor even
with 'all the slave Stites. Al ready,we pee
it announced onto floor Congrea,,
that the city of Nei York, tired = of her
ecinneettons with Poritan't New litgland
and,thelauatical interior of her own State,
will. IOIPT- 0 704 1 1° 9.oo97MinitY t. 03 sot op for
herselk and threw open : her ,magnificent
pert to'the Vniestrictect eoraineree , of the
.
• Let • ns'bo wise in timer - Our resolu
b.
ons aro , soothing: .anit encouraging
their tone, And, this; vast. assemblage is
symptomatic-o f returning health it‘the.
• pub li c poindar meetings an 4 ,
:fair-ificikin - remilutions are not: going"to
save -the :Union from destruction. The ''
'people must act, and act promptly and
'efficiantly. Let them shOw the South that
the. heart of the great Stito'of-Pentislirtt
ids; is sound. still. It is said that the late;
elections do not i cemmit,retinsylvkinia
alterably to Aischievous conflict.
am willing to-belie - Ye it. -I hofic iti is so.'
I hope the eYentli' Of the winter - 'and 'Mir'
futurfrelections will prove .iL , Thett
Rentiqlvtulia,appeal to.the South - t.O statid -
,by us a little longer, till we havp .pr,oved,
'not . byfair, words, but by deeds, that we
'wilt - arrest the itrepressibleColitlie - t-•=that
.we are not ready to give' up constitution
al liberty for licentibus liberty—that .we
fivill not stithitice all thet:memorieti of the
,paSi iad all the :liore - Of:tho•toitirtiv
noo6;o"ceijok; no not for negro.
dont tiVeul'::-fo`i ' we- tear '401%113744
fait i liailfOro *a° lig' ' n egr °, ‘ ll"ll° 7 4 34;.:
fora`Sain.and mad gitempt:AC Tieß9iNe
'doni;---That is tlie,poor, the' abe i rtiv . e,
abiiird; the' uric cd purpose
ate mipeeted
jiunce.. :God forbid tt'
~.„ , ,
arplirtit
NtMBER 39.