COLUM
DEMOCRAT,
AND BLQOMSBURG GENERAL ADVERTISER.
LEVI L, TATE, EDITOR.
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BLOGMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PENN'A,, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1863,
VOLUME 27.
JjIA
COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
rUJlLISHED EVUtlY SATURDAY, BY
LEVI L. TATE.
IN BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, TA.
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in the new Brick Building, opposite the
Exchaiigc,ly the Court House. " Demo
unt ic Head Quarters."
Select Poetry.
THE SUNNY SIDE.
When datkcFt hours of Badness
Cnmo Btonlmso.cr llio heart;
When falsoonesdnro dccclvo llicc,
And from thy tlilo ilopart I
Hear un beneath the nnguiili,
Anil hrcaet the sinking tide,
l'or o'er Iho valo of thaiuwa
Oil, thorn's a sunny aide.
Lctrarly tics be broken.
Whichever thou hcld'U dear ;
It matters but a tittle.
'Nio trial how tctcro;
. l'or there aro many others
In whom thou cmiBt conlldc,
Wheic'erlhy sad heait nlnclh
Vcs, there's a sunny side.
Our lifetime here is finding,
It lansclh soon away,
I.iko fancy's dreamy vision,
And autumn's wan decay.
Then take thou hold in earnest
lieforc though thou hast tried ;
Life is made, up of tlrugglcs,
Thcro's jet a ninny hide.
ThU wide world may look dreary,
The tcniiicft louder roar,
While every gulden moment
Thy life-boat units to shore.
Delay not in thy ttlbrts
Againstthe Mind and tide.
To do hat thou wiunl.l have lu do
Up on tlic sunny side.
jot as tho record is made up, tho proph0
oy and tho prophet stand approved by a
majority of tho pcoplo of iho freo States.
TIio iticxorablo exclusion of slavo property
from tho common territories, which tho
Government holds in trust for the pcoplo
of all tho States, is a natural and direct
step towards tho grand result ot oxtin
Tho Northern States abolished the sla- voted against tho conflict, only to be over
very, and so gratifiod their innato lovo of ruled by tho country counties? Commcr
freedom but they did it gradually, and cial cities cannot repress tho conflict, if
so did not wound thair lovo of gain. ' tho pcoplo of iho interior lend it their
They sold out slavery to tho South, and sympathies. No, no, thcro is reason in
! tho boast that the Slates shall all become
they received a full equivalent, not only
in tho prico paid down, but in tho manu
facturing and commercial prosperity which
guishiug slavo property altogether, and j grow up from tho pioduction3 of slave
S P E E C
OF
H
lion. George AV. "Woothvanl,
at Tim
Great Union Meeting,
Held December 13lh 1800, in Independ
ence Square, Philadelphia.
The meeting was called by the Mayor
of tho city, at the request of the Select
and Common Councils, and was held at
noon, Thursday, 13th December, 1800,
in Independence Square. Mayor Ileury
was called to preside, and a large number
of gcn'lcmcn officiated as vice Presidents
and Secretaries. Tho meeting was open
ed with prayer by llishop Totter. The
address of the Mayor followed. The res
olutions were read by John B. Myers.
The speakers selected by a C mmittuc of
Councils, then addressed tho vast c.on
course assembled in tho Square, in the
following order : Hon. Joseph K. higcr
soll, George W. Woodward, Charles E.
Lex, Theodore Cuylor ami Isaao Hazlc-hurst.
Judgo Woodward said :
Wo have assembled, fellow citizens, in
pursuanco or the proclamation of tho May
or, that wc may ''counsel together to avert
Iho dancer which threatens our country."
'Hint ,l:innpv is not rccuut or new. It has
a"
ft history. And wo must glanco at that;
wo must obtain a clear view of the actual
stato of the crisis, before wc can give or
rceoive intelligent counsel.
It was anuounced a few years ago tbat
the conflict which had sprung up in this
country between free and slave labor was
irrepressible ; that a house divided against
itself could not stand; that all the States
nf tiiU TTnlnti must hccouio free or nlave
States.
I'lio mnrttiino- of this was, and is, that
. . o
all were to become frco States, lor the soi
.mil nllmato of a liiaioritv of tho (states
nro Euch that it novor can becomo tho in
tcrcst of tho superior raco to maintain sla.
. II ,..1.. 1. .,... ll.la
tycry in tucm. jv,vcryuuuy uuuns o,
and therefore the alternative form of tho
proposition was only to give it an appcar
.iiuco of fairness and a little moro rhetori
cal effect.
Tho full scope and meaning of tho an
nouncement arc, then, that citizens of tho
i United States aro to bo totally divested of
tho property they now hold in four or five
millions of slaves, of tho aggrcgato value
i of many hundred millions of dollars, and
that tho habits and domestic condition of
khc people their commercial relations,
and their political rights, in so far as these
interests aro connected with tho institu
tion of slavery, aro to undergo a revolu
tion. Nor was this prediction tho voieo of an
obscure and uniionored prophet, but of a
citizen whom tho pcoplo of tho frco States
have just distinguished, in a signal man
ner, by conferring ou Inm the iughost, oi-
H,ni tlmv had to nivc. In so tar as Uioir
was one ot tho record issues of the latu
election. This policy must bo consider
ed as approved also. Not that tvcry man
who voted for tho successful nominsos
meant to affirm, that a trustee for several
co-equal parties has a right, in law or rea
son, to exclude the property of some and
admit that of others of the parties for
whom he holds but so is tho record.
And whilst it is not to be taken as express
ing the rnivcrsal sense of the voters, it
docs, undoubtedly, imply that vast masses
of Northern people do hoaitily approve,
both of tho proposition to make all the
States free, and of beginning by exclu
ding slavery from the territories.
Tho south seems inclined so to accept
the judgement. Sho holds tho property
that is to be shut out of the tcrritoiics,that
is to be restricted, cribbed, and confined,
more and moro, until it is finally extin
guished. Everywhere in the South the
people aro beginning to look out for the
means ot scli-uctcnec. uoulu it bo ex
pected that they would bo indifferent to
such events as have occurred ? That they
would staud idle an 1 see measures con
certed aud carried forward for the anni
hilation, sooner or later, of her p-opcrty
iu slaves ? Such expectations, if indulged
were not reasonable. The law of self-defence
includes right of properly as well as
of person ; and it appears to mo, that
thcro must bo a time, in tho progress of
this conflict, if it be iudced irrepressible,
when slaveholders may lawfully fall back
on their natural rights, and employ, iu
defence of their property, whatever moans
of protection they possess or can command.
I do not a'Tco with them that the time has
arrived vet ; but it would be well for
thoso who push on this conflict, iu what
ever form, to consider that they arc hast
ening on that time, and that they have
convinced one or more Southern States
that it has already come
Several States propose to retire from tho
Confederacy,. and that justly alarms us.
Wo come together to consider what may
be done to prevent it, and wc arc bound
in Gedlity to ourselves and others, to t?ke
the measure of the whole magnitude of tho
danger.
This irrepressible conflict has grown
out of tho Anglo-Saxon lovo of freedom.
What tbat passion is, and how it was of
fended by tho introduction of negro slaves
may be read in the chronicles of tho Amor
ican Provinces,. and especially iu tho car
nest, the eloquent, and repeated rcmou
stranccs addressed by the Colony of Vir
ginia to the Crown and Parliament of
Great Britain against their introduction.
labor.
When the Constitution same to bo form
ed, somo of tho Nonhotn States still held
tbives, but sovcral had !iolishcd tho in
stitution, aud it must havoccn apparent
that natural causes would foro it ultimate
ly altogether upon the SoutlK '.pi,0 iovc
of liborty wa3 as intense as ovV and as
strong at tho South as at the NcW and
the love of gain was common also Kboth
sections. Hero were two master pasons
to bo adjusted under circumstances ol10
greatest delicacy. They were adjust
aud tho great questions of tho time were'
settled, in tho only manner possible.
Concession and compromise considera
tion for each other's loeliug-j and interests,
sacrifices of prejudices, forbearance aud
moderation these were tin, means by
which tho ''more perfect Uuion" was
formed.
And what a work it was 1 If tb Union
had never brought us a siuglc biasing,
tho Constitution of the United States vtuld
still have been a magnificent mouumcnuo
the unselfish patriotism of its foundcrs.--
Not an alliance merely, but a close and;
perfect union between people equally am
bitious, equally devoted to freedom, equal
ly bent on bettering their condition ; but
separated by State lines, and jealous ol
Stato rights one section seeking its pros
perity under institutions which were to
make every man i freo man the other
under institution which tolerated negro
slavery.
Had the Constitution failed to work out
the beneficient results intended, hero was
an instance of human effort to do good
an effort to restrain and regulate two nat
ural passious, and to compel them to co-
freedom, just as strong as ours, was chas
tened into loyalty to the Union, and vener
ation for tho rights of llm States. Tho
Constitution, which was strong olough to
govern such men, is too weak to rostrain
us who have outgrown the grave and mod
erate wisdom that excited no irrepressible
conflict between brethren, but taught them
to dwell together in unity. I would make
it strong enough to restrain tho madness
of our day.
And let the people consider the motives
for preserving tho Union. They would
bo brought directly to these by tho.dcbates
of tho Convention, aud by tho antecedents
I can suggest
free. Thcro is good ground to appre
hend the extinction of property in slaves.
All New England has decreed it. Tho
groat States of Now York aud Ohio have
repeated, again and again, the decree.
Pennsylvania seems to have sanctioned it.
Tho Northwestern States staud for the
present committed to it.
What hope is left for tho Union ? Is
there a man iu this assembly who deems and subsequent debates
that this conflict can go ou aud the Union only somo of them.
last? If thcro bo, that man is beside j First, our name, and place, and power,
himself; ho has lost his wits. I will as one of tho nations of the earth. Aro
reason with no such man. Hut, though not these worth preserving 1 In eighty
few may believe that tho Union can long years wo have matched the greatness that
endure tho shock of tho conflict, yet many ! Homo and England wcio centuries in at-
pcoplo think that freedom absolute, un-. taining. What may be done in the next
vpnditional, universal freedom is so groat eighty ?
. . It,., ...
l oon, anil negro slavery so groat a re- x uearii a sagacious statesman say
ProV:h and evil, that tho whole influence about
. .' . ,,i
oi a
Unco years ago, that in twenty
nd man's life and conduct should years from that timo, if wc kept together,
be diluted to promote tho ono and sup- wo would drive England from all the mar
press tliWhcr even though, as a consc- ( kcts of the world as a first-class trader,
quencc, slave States should bo driven i They wcro words of cheer, but thcro was
out ofthoYjion, This is the prevalent the inevitable ?. Iu what markets we
distemper ofl10 public mind. ''Who can should rival England, or even tho pettiest
minister to a nJud diseased?" kingdom of the earth, after dissolution of
Icllow-eitizeftt I profess no ability in the Union, that statesman and no other
this regard, but lhv mouth is onen. and I ! has ventured to predict.
ono-sided and distorted shapo, but as it is
recorded, a rulo to slaves as well as mas
ters. This allusion to tho golden rulo reminds
mo of an objection which will bo urged
to much that I havo advanced. It will bo
said that slavery is a sin against God, and,
therefore, that all reasons drawn from our
material interests, for favoring or abetting
it, must go for nothing.
If it bo a sin, I ngrco that thcro is an
end to my argument, but what right has
tho Abolitionist to pronouneo it a sin ? I
say abolitionist, becauso tho pastor of tho
Pirst Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn,
in a sermon preached within a week, de
fined an Abolitionist to be ono who holds
that slavery is a sin. I accept tho defini
tion, and according to it many of our best
Christian pcoplo must bo accounted Abo
litionists; for it is astonishing how exten
sively tho religious mind of tho North has
admitted into itself tho suspicion, not to
say conviction, that slavcholding is a sin.
If a sin, then it is a violation of some
Divine law, for sin is the transgression of
tho law.
Now, I deny that any such law has ever
been revealed. The burdcu of showing it
is on him who alleges, and when it is
shown, I agree it shall rulo out all that
has been said or can be said for a Union
founded on slavery. I bind myself never
to raise my voice again in behalf of such
a Union. But, so fat from any such law
being found plainly written for our iu
will utter some of ti0 thoughts that press See what prosperity would como to us
jp from tho lnart to Hie lips. of the North iu tho process of tho grand structiou. whoever will study tho Patriar-
hen, under tuo articib. 0f confedera- rivalry predicted by that statesman. Man- clial and Levitical institutions, will sec the
tiok which carried us through .,jlcv0i ufacturcs and navigation have built up the ' principle of human bondage, and of prop
luiloiary war, States had grown joa. 'greatness of England, and they would do j orty in man, divinely sanctioned, if net
unfraKnial, disobedient; and .tho Goner- pll0 Eamc for ug as a u; anci for ouri divinely ordained ; and in all tho sayings
al Govehiment had proved itself too weak sccUv of tjj(J ,)!Uioni Manufacturing has ! of our Saviour, wc hear no injunction for
to suppresi conflicts that were arising, the f j i0 ug rcati ln no onQ rcscct the suppression of a slavery which existed
"ven a
under his eye?, while ho delivered many
maxims and principles, which, like tho
&ldcn rule, enter right into and rcgulato
tlic reiuj011i gQ q0 t1(J ,vr;t:n3 0f paui
bat not with in-
If wc go to
, , .'J abound wm- regulation
lUelphia, r w .ton3 lor its b
15ut if the Anglo-Saxon loves liberty
abovo all other men, he is not indifferent
to gain aud thrill, and is remarkable for
his capacity of adaptation, whereby ho
takes advantage of any circumstances in
which he funis himself placed. And, ac
cordingly, by the time the Uolonics were
prepared to throw oft' tho British yoke,
aud to assume amoug tho powers of tho
earth tho separate aud equal s-tatiou to
which tho laws of naturo nn d of nature
God entitle them, it had been discovered
that tho unwelcome workers, against whoso
introduction such earnest protests had
becu made, could bo turned to profitable
operate iu blessing maukind which would
forever have challenged tho administra
tion of all good and thoughtful men. Hut
it did not fail, thank God i it has nude I
us a groat, prosperous nation and the ad
miration ol the world, for the motives of the
founders is swallowed up in wonder st the
success of their work.
But all this tho '' irrepressible cdnflict''
ignores. The pastion for liberty, spurning
tho restraints imposed, has burned out all
memories of tho compromi-'c aud the com
pact in those Northern conmunities,which ,
under the falso name of Vibcrty Bills, ob
struct tho execution of tlo bargain. What
part of tho purposes ci tho founders arc
the underground railroads intended to
promote ( Whcuce conic these excessive
sensibilities that yamiot bear a fewslavcs
in a remote tcrritoy until the white poo-
pic establish a Oolistituttou ? What does
that editor or preacher know of the Union
aud of tho men vJio mado it, who habitu
ally reviles and misrepresents tho South
ern people, and excites the ignorant and
the thoughtless in our midst to hate and
nr.vni-iitn tlifm? What has become of
r 7 (
our "lad and willing obedience to the Su
promo Court as tho final expositor of the
compact I
lio not deceived. Let mo not prophesy
smooth things, aud cry peace when there
is ut) peace. Let the truth bo spoken, bo
heard, be pondered, if wo mean to savo the
Union. The conflict boasts that it is ir
rcpnpsiblc. It allies itself with equal
vrmiUm-st: in rnlinion and infidelity. Itcn-
the iroct nrrrpdi ted COil. "
usors, or oon-
nccrdo tookSlir! rcmcdv into their own , arc tMC r,s0 !U'- ,rnnOI -,-
bauds, called Convention, and formed n so rcmarkablo as in-. faolurM Tll0
stronger government. The call of tho ( narrow-minded English . m who
Convention, tho election of deputies, the , wouiu not nave us mauu..... n
t., n... .: ,.:t. r-ii.,i ii , "bob nail." could ho bo carried
scrvL-J m nffl il,o nnl.lin mind, and to through the factories of I lula.
direct it in ,t.n amnion drmn-nv. and no '. Pittsburgh orLowcll, would, to be consist
siblo rcmcdv. Thus the nomilar mind cut with himself, curse the (also gods who suit divinw really wiso an
prepared itself to receive with approbation
the Constitution that was formed, and im- . Hasten to uic again, m c smuc iwuu ua .L, lor umu.e, u .....
nendiu" dangers wcro averted. I t0 tttpcivi a nam on unyjaicign muwnjur ( iu iu. . cu, miny .uu.-iiuu am
History is said to be philosophy teach-ajabrw mm can vc matte oj cotwihuunw ju,... ..y iu .u
ng by examples. Let us bo instructed wool. Thus far, at least, wo have como. or out of the pulpit, -J.atthe negro slavery
J t i . i-i i- .1 .:i.o,l i.f tlm TTiii'nil States : sinful AVI,nt
by this example. As wc, Pcnnsylvauians, Aim wuat cuics, aim w us, , 4a.-u0, -- - --"
J 1 J . , , t. -Ii. :., virfht (lion T nlr ntrain. nc tlm Ahnlllinn-
were the first to abolish slavery, let us be , "UU canais nave we mm up .u . , -o"". -i -
the first to move for the salvation of tho ' gross 1 How much personal wealth and , ist to cheat . tender consents mto hostility
Union. Under the amendatory clause of 'social happiness havo we crcatcd-whut to an institution on which -mr Union is
... n n !. i.'i 1 additions to our population what accrc- founded in part? G-iod peopasay wo do
U1U (jUIISlllUHUII, .UIIKIi " uuuuil IV, i - . , . , , , , ....
a rcacral convention on the application of tions iu tho value of our farms and mm-1 not wish to disturb s avery whe;o it cx.sts
tho Legislatures of two-thirds of tho States,
Let us bo wiso in timo. Our resolutions
aro soothing mid encouraging in their
tono, and this Vast assemblage is sympto
nmtio of returning health in tho public
mind; but popular meetings and fair
spoken resolutions arc not going lo savo
tho Union from destruction. Tho pcoplo
must act, and promptly and efficiently.
Lot them show tho South that tho heart of
tho great Stato of Pennsylvania is sound
still. It is said that the late elections do
not committ Pennsylvania, unalterably, to
tho mischievous conflict. I am willing to
believe it. I hopo it id so. I hopo tho
events of tho wintor and our future elec
tions will prove it. Then let Pennsylva
nia appal to the South to stand by us a
little longer, till wo havo proved, not by
fair words, but by deeds, that wo will ar
rdst the irrepressible conflict ; that wo aro
not ready to givo up constitutional liberty
for licentious liberty, that wo will not
sacrilico all tho memories of tho past, and
all tho hopes of the future, for nogro
freedom ; no, not for negro freedom,
even ; for though wo tear down this fair
fabric, wc make no negro frco, but for a
vain nnd mad attempt, at negro freedom.
That is tho poor, tho abortivo, tho absurd,
tho wicked purposo for which wo aro ex
pected to saorifico our sacred inhoritanco.
God forbid it
Here on this consecrated spot of earth,
where tho foundations wero laid of tho best
Government tho world over saw, let us re
new our vows to tho Union and sond salu
tations lo our brethren. Talk not of so
ccssion go not rashly out of tho Union
dim no star of our glouious flag givo us
timo to plaeo ourselves right in respect to
your ''peculiar institution," and to roll
back tho cloud that now obscuros, for tho
moment, our devotion to tho Union as it is.
Speak thus to the Southern Slates, and
follow our words by fitting deeds, and
Pennsylvania can slop secession ot cute it
if it occurs. Wc can win back any State
that may stray off, if only Wc can prove
our own loyalty to tho Constitution and
Union as our fathers formed them.
And would it not bo a proud pago in tho
history of Pennsylvania that should record
impdBSp f tho American Union from
ted action WO., , by prompt, generous, uni
That great glory rns,nf Pennsylvania 1
grasp it era it bo forever too lau,. r,ct us
crals what industry have wo stimulated by local law, but believing it to bo sinful
Our Legislature will assemble next month, and rewarded what commereo have wc
account in tho Southern States that the ' Hits all our passions, good and bad. It
African constitution was well adapted to
labor in latitudes which alono could pro
duce somo of the great staples of life and
that tho North, which could not employ
them profitably, would bo benefited by
such employment as tho South could af
ford. Considerations of humanity, also,
as well as the rights of private property,
entered into tho diseussicn3 of that day.
What was best for an inferior raco thrust
unwillingly upon a superior? That both
should be frco, or that tho inferior should
servo tho superior, and tho superior bo
bound by tho law of tho relation to pro
tect the iuferior ?
If best for both races that tho existing
slavery should continue, then what was to
be its relation to tho General Govorniuout t
How should it bo represented in tho Coun
cils of tho Nation I How far protected
votes aro to bo considered as rcsponsivo to or discouraged by tho power of tho now
hU announcement, they aro a loud amen Government ( anouiu junsuiction to auoi--a
solemn answer, so let it be ih it bo granted to tho Government, or
Whilst it is not to bo doubted that mul- reserved lo tho states ami tuo poopio ot
titudos voted for tho President elect with 1 tho States ? These wero groat questions,
other view, aud did not iuCcud a distinct aud, liko all tho questions of that day,
endorsement of w favorite propoatiou, 1 wcro windy settled.
makes common causo with llio champions
of freedom tho world over, and with tho
promoters of insurrection, riot and discord
at home. With Freedom inscribed on the
banner it bears, it tramples under loot the
guarantees of freedom contained iu the
Constitution aud laws.
llow is it to bo repressed? Govern
mental administration cannot subduo it.
That has been tried for several successive
periods, and tho conflict has waxed hotter
and hotter. Will tho next Administration
bo more successful ? Hoping for tho best
it can do, what right havo you or I to an
ticipate that tho houost man who has been
elected will prove recreant to tho maxims
Hint mado him Prcsidcut ? Can trade
and commereo subduo it ? Look at tho
votes of Bosiou, Philadelphia, and Pitts
burgh. Tho manufacturers ami mer
chants aro tho governing classes in tlicso
cities. They aro intelligent and quick to
discover their interests. Thoy havo
weighed and measured tho Southern trade,
aud then have voted against tho Southern
pcoplo. But what if they had not what
if, like' the city of Now York, they had J the Cousliluliou, and their passion
Let us petition them to demand the con
vention. Good examples, like bad ones,
arc contagious. Perhaps ono and another
of the Noithcrn and Southern States may
do the liko until the rcquisito number have
concurred, aud then wo will have aNational
Convention to consider the evils and dan
gers of tho day, aud to devise remedies
which, it may be hoped, shall prove as
salutary as those of 17S7. Aud now, as
then, tho progress of theso meapuros will
awaken inquiry and thoughtfulness in the
masses, will call off their miuds frr-m the
petty polities of tho day, aud from tho
mischievous agitation of slavery questions-,
to tho grand problem of how wo can ron-,
dor this glorious Union perpetual.
In what form and to what extent tho
power of tho General Government should
be increased is not for me to iudicatc, but
with tho confessions of President Bu
chanan aud Attorney-Genera! Black be
fore us, that tho Government, as now
constituted, is uuablc to prevent or punish
secession, or to suppress tho proud conflict
that disturbs our peaco and boasts itself
irrepressible, have I not a right to assume
that tho Government needs to bo strength
ened ? Have I not a right to say that a
Government which was all sufficient for
tho country fifty years ago, when tho soil
and climate, aud Stato sovereignty could
bo trusted to rcgulato tho spread of sla
very, is insufficient to-day, when every
upstart politician can stir the pcoplo to
mutiny against tho domcstio institution of
our Southern neighbors when tho ribald
jests of seditious editors, liko Greeley and
Bccchcr, can sway Legislatures aud pop
ular votes against tho handiwork of Wash-ino-ton'and
Madison when tho scurrilous
libels of such a book ns Helper's becomo
a favorito campaign document, and aro
accepted by thousands as law and gospel
both when jealousy aud hato havo killed
' out all our fraternal feelings for thoso who
wcro born our brethren, and who have
dono us uo harm ? Tho traditions of tho
oldors lingorcd in tho gciieratious which
immediately succeeded in tho adoption o
for
won 1 Think of these things, fcllow-coun-
trymcn con them ovr,
one by
one
aud inexpedient, wo will not submit to its
extension, nor assist to restore tho fuailivc
to his master. Suoh pcoplo oon come to
conceive that tits moro unincnuiy mey
can feel towards slavory the moro harsh
speeches thoy mako about slaveholders,
the more they help on tho irrepressible
conflict, the bettor will they recommend
themselves lo God. In some churches
anti-slavery sentiments have become csscn
According to somo
dissccland analyse cacti act trace its
connections and consequences; and then,
when you combine them all in ono glow
ing picture of national prosperity, remem
ber that cottos, the proluct of slave la
bor, has been ono of the indispensable
nlnmnnfn ol all this prosperity. More, it
i. Sii.Ticnnsnliln nlnmcnt of all ! tial to good standing
nur future prosperity. I say it must be. ecclesiastical councils it would seem hat
The world cannot and will not live without tho great duty of tho American Christian
'.-!.,. ! t. a. matron in all the is to war with his neighbor s property ;
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Union that cau elothc her family or her
self without it. Nor can Euglmul do
without our cotton. Her mills and ours
would starve, if tho negros did not raise
cotton. Manumit them and they will nev
er raise another crcp. They need tho
authority of a master and tho eye of an
overseer to compel aud direct them to tho
duties to the cotton plant which must bo
rendered at the right season precisely, or
tho crop is lost
And thus ithappens.lhattho Providence
ol that Good Being who has watched over
us from iho beginning, and saved us from
external foes, has so ordered our internal
relations as to make negro Mavory an iu
alculablc blessing to us aud to tho people
of Great Britain. 1 say to us; torlcio
not cuter into the quesliou whether tho in
stitution be an evil to tho pcoplo of tho
Southern States. That is their concern,
not ours. Wo have nothing to do with it
And to ohtrudo our opinions upon tho poo-
nln nf Knvni'nifU States concerning then
domestic institutions, would bo sheer im
pertinence. But do you not' sco and fee
how good it was for us to hand over our
slaves to our friends of the bouth how
good it was for us that thoy have employed
them in raising a staple lor our manutac
tutors how wise it was to so adjust the
Compromises of the Constitution that wo
could live in union with them nuil roap
tho Eigual advantages to which 1 havo ad
verted ? Wc consign them to no heathen
thrall, but to Christian men, professing tho
same faith with us speaking iho sanio
JSSTFits, Pits. Thcro is nothing that
gives the Abolitianists fits equal to the cop
perhead badge. They express hatred and
vengeanco against tho wearer with a ve
hemence and malignity unsurpascd, Whv
;, ;t ? tri. ij - iuu query Isi
that tho copperhead badgo is tho expres
sive emblem of liberty adopted by Con
gress aud stamped on tho old copper cent.
The word Liberty anu tuo oiu consmu
itonal coin arc terrible to their eyes. ,
Ohio. The Constitution of Ohio roads,
Article 1, Section 12 :
"No person shall be transported out of
the Stale jor any offence committal within
thttsamc; and no conviction shall work
corruption of b'.ood or forfeiture of estate."
That is tho Constitution of tho Stato
which Governor Tod swore to support.
How well he kept his oath, let tho Vallau
digham case answer.
and if opportunity proscnts, to help steal
and hide it.
Mas 1 alas ! for the limes upon which
wo havo fallen. tTte Loyai, States. Wo hear very
Wo must arouse ourselvos and reassert I j;ttlo gaid) -m tll0 Abolition papors,of late,
tho rights of tho slaveholder, ami aim such , . Un;tca SutC3i q;h0 in,r cucr.
guarantees to our Constitution as will pro-1 .shca alrJotJo titlo of United has given
tcct his property from tho spoliation ol , . jn tLdr vocabulary t0 tbo Kingiy ti-
i .l Ill A nl,nnn r,f o ,nr
will, cro long, doubtless, express moro
r011"lOU3 OlgOU uuu jiuia'wtuuuu,
wo must givo up our Constitution and
Uniou. Events arc placiug tho alterna
tive plainly before us Constitutional
Union, and liberty according to American
Idiv ; or dsc extinction of slave property,
negro freedom, dissolution of the Union,
and anarchy and confusion.
Can any man, even though his mind
has been poisoned by the sophisms of in-
clearly tho ''faith that is in them ;" when
tho he and tho she leaguers will demand
adject submission to Royalty.
A Polite Max. 'My daccascd nude'
says a humorous writer "was the most po
lite gontlcman iu tho world. Ho was
making a vovago on iho Danubo and tho
fidcls and Abolitionists, seriously coutcm- suui.( jj.. uacic Wos just on the point
lato tho alternative with etimposuro and 0f drowning. He got his head abovo tht
water for once, took off his hat, and said
'Ladies and gentlemen, plcrso excuso me;
and down ho went."
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language reading tho golden rule, iu no J world.
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indifference 1 Wo hear it said, let South
Carolina go out of tho Union peaceably.
I say let her go peaceably, if sho go at all,
but why should South Carolina be driven
out of tho Union by an irrepressible con
flict about slavery ? Other Status will bo
suro to follow sooner or later. Tho work
ol disintegration, onco fairly established,
will not ond with South Carolina, nor even
with all tho slavo Stales. Already wo
svo it announced, on the floor of Congress.
that tho city of New York, tired of her
connections with Puritan New England,
and the fanatioal interior of her own State,
will improvo tho opportunity to set up for
herself, and throw open her magniCocnt
port to tho uuvestricted oomuiorco of tho
CSr "Father, what do printers livo on "
"Why, child 1"
''You said you had not paid for two or
thrco years, and yet you havo his paper
every week I"
''Take tho child out of the room, what
docs ho know about right or wroug ?"
est Wo learn that In coiiBcqucueo of tho
near approaoh of tho rebels, tho League
intend to alter tlreir names to L-lvU s
Car Adviso not what is the most picas
ant, but tho inost useful.