LEW E BY 0. N. WOUDEN & J. R. CORNELIUS. ESTABLISHED IX IS43....W1IOLE NO, TCI. - At 1,00 Pun Year, always is Advance. LEWISBURG, UNION CO., PA., FRIDAY, DEC. 3, 1858. AN IXDF.rEXDEXT FAMILY NEWS JOURNAL. I HRON Af J01PtMET roiiLT KnwspApmt, hsucd Frihigsat LncUhury, Union Co. Pa. TF.R V.?. 1.rrt per year. t jir pun I ATT4!(rt ar- t Wiv :ime rate i-t a mnji-r or nl.orter i"Tiod. Thni Ml American people. i aistraclionb' of the Declaration of Indepen dence and anticipating an eternity of ihe iave System. To-day, v.e present Senator Skwiua'a views of the same subject. In a short timeloubliess.lVesiilent Dimhawj.? will appear in his own defence, in mitigation of ihe ris will j:iy inr four m-mt li-1. 75 ct for fix umntis, l tiri. sentence just pronounced upon Uira, for his fir flit iii-mlis, Jul. for m.twa nmntli. 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J 111 tin Ofli-e Hid, by whi. h oflen iuw-rt iuirtautNwr; State. In States where the slave system instead of confiJiiig that duty to Coiiret-s, I iatuDiiorifl," thau it is that cartii is corer- giou thus abaud nel tj Slavt-ry, rrevail." the masters, directlv, or lodi- aod that they tecured to the fclave Mattn, ca wito wrovks rcsulliug troui iuniccut , -lica t b aMtnittta as a ir ami ap ito iuto rectly, eccura all political power, and con- j whila yet rctaiuing the system of Slavery, SPEECH 07 VILLUH H. SEWARD Hotlieslcr, N.Y., Oct. 25, 1858. siitutea ruling atistoeracy. Iu t'e States a threu-Lftus representation of slaves in whero the free labor system prevail, uui- ! te l ederal gvcrnmcut, until they shouiu versa I suirrape necessarily obtainrt,a::d the und themselves able to reliurjuitib it with Stato inevitably becomes, sooner or later, a republic or a democracy. and amiable motived. the Union, the Pemocr-itic prfy contempt The very constitution of the Democratic i oualy njecicd their petition and, drove party commits it to execute all the designs them with menaces aud in: iiuid;ri n fr-rn of the slaveholder., whatever tbey miy be. ' the IlalU of Oonre-Js, aii J arm: d f lio safety. Uut the very nature of these It is not a party of the wbolo I uion, of IVcsiilcnt with military power t enfi-n-? modilications fortifies my position that the all the Tree States and of all the Slave '. their submission to a slave codr, cub!iMi- U,,,,;, vet m-jintaius Slavcrv, and is a ; fat herd knew the two systems could not ; Stae : nor yt is it a party of the Free cd over them by fraud and usurpation. At despotism. Most of the other Kuropean ! endure within the Union, aud expected j States ic the North and iu the North-west; j every subsequent btage of the long coutist The cf Hi i C'H u alranc of Hi- l'hila. t. M;iiU. OmutM-ti-l wi:h tti- !;.. ar nnfle mattr!Ifi fur most kinds ot JOB PRINTING, wliirirwill l-- s.i uUd with Iietll' -6 and ('-(Ji'tll iiud en r''Hrtli;il'tf tvrtn. it J'.i-ual AJvtrn-.ni.-tit. to he paid for when handfd in. aud J..t Work w ht-n dflii.-r.-.l. o '0' trTICK i.n Marit-t marts, north side, ferond atorry aJjojuiijg ihv ikx-k Uinli'ry. Vuiun:x tt ConxEurs. THE CHRONICLE.! l" The firt settlement of "Derr-siou'ii' (Leui.-burg) was in the neighborhood of u hal is now Bruuu's Mill and the Gas Works. The earlieit burials '.vers 03 the rise of ground. .rl!i, from v. huh Market St. Marts, at the Fem-ow-Citizens : The unmistakable outbreaks of zoal wbich occur all around no, jou U1U CarDeSt DR'L 8C(1 such a man am I. Let us, tberefore, at least for a time, pass bj all secondary and collateral questions, whether of a personal or of a fjeneral Daturc, and consider the main subject of tbc present canvass. Tbc Democratic part- or, to fpeak more ac- j curate!;, the party wbich wears tbat at tractive name is ia possession of tbc Federal Government. The Republicans Vtmrmar. til tl iIoif flint nfirtv nml ffifiiuB , e- r v JiUMitl, ov. , inr,s. " j frJ,u il3 l'Hh trust- lbe mam sut joct then is, wbetber the Pemncratic party deter vis to retain the confidence of the American people. In at tempting to prove it unworthy, I think tbat I am not actuated by prejudices against fould order that thehO modifications niii-ht not alto gether defeat their grand design of a Re public maintaining universal crjuality.tbey provided that two-tbirds of ibo States might amend the Constitution. States have abolished Slavery and adopted j that within a short period slavery tbp svstiitii of Free Labor. It was I lie i disappear tor ever. Moreover, in antagonistic political tendencies of tbo two systems wbich the first Xapoleou wag contemplating, when bo predicted that Europe would ultimately be either " all Cossack or all Republican." Never did human sagacity utter a more pregnaut truth. The two systems arc at once per ceived to bo incongruous, liut tbey are more than incongruous, they arc incom patible. Tbey never have permanently existed together in one country, aud they never ran. It would be easy to demon strate this impossibility, from the irrecon cilable contrast between their great princi ples and characteristics, liut the esperi- , enco of mankind has conclusively estab- lulled it. Slavery, as I have already in but it is a sectioual and local partv,h:ivinr, which has siocc racd in Kan.a tl practically,its scat within the Slave States, 1 Democratic party has lent its tympat'jies, uud counting its constituency chiefly and . its aid, and all the pnweri of the 'vern al most exclusively there. Of all its repre- j ment which it controlled to cnf'ree si ivery sentativea in Conereas and in the Electoral ; upon tbat unwilling and injure 1 people. Colleges, two-thirds uniformly come from Aud now, even at this day, while it mni k the ponple, must and will be the re-ourets these States. Its great clement of strength us with the assurance that K itis is is free, for its ever renewing b!rengtb,and coiistaut n hich r;itj lie riiire safciy trntHd ' Kvcry one ko'.wi that if i the U bubln id prty, or none, that shall ditlact the L)cm er'tc pirty. Hut I ai.swtr further, tbat iho ehancUr ar-d fi lclify of any arfy are de terniin'il, o'e-.in!y. nut by its p!. ile, proraimuos, and platf rtiw, but by the public exigencies", and the temp r of 1I10 people w'tcn thpy call it into activity. Subserviency to slavery, is a law wri'hu, not only on the for.-hea l i f the Icm cri tic party, but !o in its vi ry s iul so re sistance t SI ivery, and devotion to freo doin, the popular elenn-t.ts n ai-iitcly working for the U publican pirty aiu 102 It remains to cav on this point only one lies in the vole of the slaveholders, au- '. the Democratic party keeps the State ex- : iuvinratiifu. word to guard ogainst luisapprchcntion. mented by the representation of three-. eluded from her just and proper p!-jee in : Others can not support the Republican It these states are again to Decnme uni versally slavcbolding, I do not pretend to say with what violations of the Constitu tion that end shall be accomplished. On tbc other hand, while I do confidently be lieve and hope tbat my country will yet becomu a land of uuiversal freedom, I do not expect tbat it will be made s other wise than through the action of the sever al States, co-operating with the Federal fifth, nf tha atavo. l)..nrivo ttiA IntrMrnt '. thn Pnion nniti.r tliA linro tli:,t hhr miv Parte, because it has fjnt StlfTleii lit V FI. - - .- . ..... ... ...... . - , , ie party of this strength, it would be a bedragooned intothcacci'ptauceof slavery. ' posed its pla'fjiiu an I d-'ennini d what it helpless aud hopeless minority, incapable j The Democratic party finally has preu 'J "" wual not when tri- of continued organization. The Demo-; red from a Supreme Judiciary, Used iu ils umphant. It may pmve too progressive cratic party being thus local and sectional, ' interest, a decree that slavery exists by t'JT f"mc, and too runscrvative for others, acquires new strength from the admission ' force of thcCoiistitutiou iu every Territory. 'f a"y T'J eT(-'r f"' clearly tha of every new Slave State. A party b in ! of the Uuited States, paramount to a'.l course of tu'ure events as to plan a uuiver- tiniated, existed in every State in Kurope; ; Government and all acting iu strict con Free Labor has supplanted it everywhere 1 formity with their respective Constitutions except in ltussia ami lurkcy. State lie- 'Iho strife aud contention conccrninu eessities, developed in modern times, ere ; Slavery, which gently disposed persons do 1 dictate and prescribe its policy now obliging even those two nations to ; habitually deprecate, is nothing more thau encourage and employ Free Labor, and the ripeuing of the conflict which the one scuse a joint stock association, in which those who contribute most direct the action and management of the concern. The slaveholders, contributing iu au over whelming proportion to the capital strength of the Democratic party, they necessarily Ihe 10- Dro!-e. The regular laying out of the Town, i that party, or by prepossessions in favor of i alrcail't SP"; 'J u"- 'be i 'ers themselves not only thus regarded the location of the Grave Vard. Market St., j :ts adversary for I have learned bv some f ,D aboJ,,8Ulug Uvcry. In the j with favor, but which they may be said to Ac seem to h-ve b-n subseouet.t to this a6 I ' lllaTe ltan"-di bJ 80me United Slates, Slavery came into collision have instituted. ,he'u,,rk,e in. i rf,-..,,,, """e 8Cd patriotism, with Free Labor at the close of the last It is not to be denied, howevcr.that thus legislative authority cither within the Ter ritory or rcfiding in Congress. Such is the Democratic party. It has no policy, State or Federal, for finance, or trade, or manufacture, or commerce, or education, or internal improvements, or for the protection, or even the security of fur the gas pipes, in the centre of the lower end of Market fl, threw up a human skull. "Haw loved, hoar valued once, avails it not, To whom rv iiitej, cr Ly u-hom begot.' Probably no one hvitij knows whose head it was, or when it was tliere deposited, perhaps embalaicd by the tears of mourning friends. The evci.t reminded us of a somewhat an cient poem the author to us unknown which we deem worth copying iu this connection. KtCcctlocs ca t:utr.lrJns a Human ku!l skeleton. century, aud fell before it in New England, New- Vork, New-Jersey aud J'cnnsylvania, but triumphed over it effectually, aud ex cluded it for a period yet uudetermined, from V lrginia, the Carolinas and Georgia. liehold this ruin ! Here's a Once ef eilit'rel spjnt full, I Lis narrcw cell was Life's retreat, i'tus i-ycj ivas Thought's mysterious seat ! i 3: L-c-autuoe.s pictures filled tins Jpot; 'V. .a" i.-!iis o!' i lia urc ii.-:ig forgot ! r 1. v e. 1. r J .. . 1. r II. pc, n.r Fear, !!' ' t:- - of iccoi-J here ! ...ueai'i this mould'ring canopy. Once shone the bright an J bu;.y eye: Itut start not at the dismal void ; If social love that eye employed. If with no lawless lire it beamed, lut through ihe dew of kindness gleamed, '-i vhaM h r y-- llTr. in ihl "i.. . . tun I'erhaps, the ready tuneful tongue! !f falsehood's honey il ddained. And, where it could not praise, was chained, 1: loud ia virtue's cause it spoke, Yet gentle concord never broke, 'J'hit tuneful tongue shall plead for thee W lien leath unveils eternity ! ; - .i.tps ttie heart pulsated, here, 1 1 -.' olteu bled, to think the tear Ul widowed grief and orphan wne t- oft in this cold world should flow, A:id oft alone in thoughtful mood Hath rai-ed a ferre.it prayer loUod, That he would soothe the troubled breast With grief and penury oppressed ! Pay, did these fingers delve the mine, Or wiih the envied rubies shine ! To hew the rock, or wear the gem, 'an nothing now avail to them; Hut if the page of Truth they sought, Or comfort to the mr.urncr brought, Those hands shall meed a richer claim Tuau all that waits cn wealth and fame ! Avails it whether bare or shod These feet the path of duty trod ! If from the bowers of joy they fled, To soothe atllictinn's humble bed ; It grandeur's guilty bribe they spurned, And home to virtue's lap returned ; These feet with angels' wings shall vie, And tread the palace of the sky ! kf:ai it. Then Ps It Along fur roar .Ntl-'hbors to Bead. During the late election canvass in New Vork Slate, Ei-liov. Sewibd made a number of public addresses a custom of his, every year, no matter how more or less " important" may be the issue. One of these speeches was de voted to the subject of Slavery, and its publi cation has called forth an assault upon him from old lime political and personal opponents, from rivals, and from every friend or apolo gist of the Slave Power. The magnitude of laborer, it loads down with chains and this concerted demonstration and the bitter- j converts into merchandise, but scarcely ncss and severity with which it has been char- j les3 80 to the freeman, to whom, only be-acieriwd-have induced us to look back and cause he is a laborer from necessity, it find the Speech, which we think worthy of , . - f , , , ... , UCUI13 lUUlllllia IOI CUIUIUVUICUW UIU WOO it expels from the community because it aud vise and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less ia their morav.1, than in the piAiciet they pursue. Our country is a theater, which exhib its in full operation, two radically different political systems ; the one resting upon the basis of servile or Slave Labor ; the ether on the basis of voluntary labor of freemen. The laborers who are enslaved are all negroes, or persons moro or less purely of African derivation. Rut this is only ac cidental. The principle of the system is, j that labor in every society, by whomio- ' States supposed to be favorable to the far the course of that contest has not been according to their humane anticipations and wishes. In tbo field of Federal poli tics, Slavery, deriving unloosed fur ad vantages from commercial changes, and Indeed, so incompatible are the two sys-! energies unforsccn from the facilities of terns, that everv new wM-t. Ia 01 lio nized within our ever extending domain makes its first political act a choice of the one and an expulsion of tbc other, even at the cost of civil war if necessary. The lavs Statee, without law, at the last na- slavcbolding class and between tbat class aud other property classes, early rallied, aud has at leutb made a stand not merely to retain its original defensive position, but to extend its sway throughout tbo cvitablo caucus system enables them to d'j ! civil or religious liberty. It is positive so with a show of fairness and justice. J and uncompromising in the iuterest of s'a If it were possible to conceive lor a mo- , very negative, compromising au 1 vasoli ment tbat the Democratic party should , latine in regard to cverytbina else. It disobey the behests of the slaveholders, we should then see a withdrawal of the slave holders, wbich would leave the party to tional election, successfully forbade, within j whole Union. It is certain that the slave- thcir own limits, eveu the casting of votes j holding class of American citizens indulge for a candidate for I resident of the tu uited ever performed, is necessarily uniuteilec- tual, grovelling and base, and tlit the la borer, equally for his own good and for the welfare of the Stat:, ought to be enslaved. The wbito laboring mac, whether cative or foreigner, is not enslaved, only because he can not, as yet, be reduced to bondage. You need not be told cow that the pation of our own ancestors, Caucasians and Europeans, as thsy were, hardly dates beyond a period of 500 -years. The great melioration of human society wbich modern times exhibit, is mainly due to tbo substitution of ihe system of voluntary labor for the old one of servile labor, wbich has already taken place. This African slave system is one wbich, in its origin and in ita growth, has been altogether foreign from the habits of the races which colonized these States, and established civilization bare. It was in troduced on this new continent as an en gine of conquest, and for the establish ment of Monarchial Power by the Portu guese and Spauiards, and was rapidly ex tended by them over all South America, Central America, Louisiana and Mexico. Its legitimate fruits are seen in the pover ty, imbecility and anarchy which now per vades all Portuguese and Spanish America. The Free Labor system is of German extraction, and it was established in our country by emigrants from Sweden, Hol land, Germany, Great Britain and Ireland. We justly ascribe to its influences the j strength, wealth, greatness, intelligence, j and freedom wbich tbe wbolo American peoplo now enjoy. One of the chief elements of the value I of human life, ia freedom in tbe pursuit of j bsppiness. The Slave system is not only j intolerant, unjust, and inhuman toward tbe laborer, wbom, only because be is a establishment cf tbe Free Labor system in new States. Hitherto, the two systems bave existed in different States, but sido by side within tbe American Union. This has happened because the anion is a confederation of States. Rut in another aspect the United States constitute only one nation. Increase of population, wbich is filling tbe States oivSd" ibeiruri ls"As rA &asl VJuio&h Jt which daily becomes more intimate, is rapidly bringing tbe States into a higher and more social unity or consolidation. Thus these antagonistic systems are con tinually coming into closer contact, and collision results. of the comet is in determining the appoint ed though apparently eccentric course of tbe fi -ry sphere from which it emanates. To expect the Democratic party to resist Slavery aud favor Freedom is as unreason able as to look for Protestant Missionaries from tbo Catholic Propaganda of Rome. this btgh ambition, and tbat they derive j The history of the Democratic party encouragement for it from the rapid and commits it to the policy of Slavery. It perish. The portion of the party which j professes fraternity, and so often as slavery a iuuuu 111 iuc rree oiaies 19 a mere ap pendage, convenient to modify its section al character without impairing its sectional constitution, and is less effective in regit effective political successes which they bavo already obtained. Tbe plan of ope ration is this : Ry continued appliances of patronage, and threats of disunion, tbey will keep a majority favorable to these de signs in tbe Senate, where each State has an equal representation. Through that majority they will defeat, as tbey best can, the admission of Free States and secure the j.'Jrahp'nr oif.5l?KtU5c.. JE&f uatp Slavery iuto all tbe Territories of the United States now existing and hereafter to bo organized. Ry tbe action of tbo sal scheme for future action, adapted to all possible euvrencies. Who would ever have joined even the Vliir' party of tha Revolution, if it had been obii.d t an swer, in 1 7 7 o, whether it would declare fjr Independence in 177'i, and f'jr this noble Federal Constitution of our, ia ITS", and not a year earlier or later ? The people of the United Stales will bo as wi.e next year, and the year alterwar I, and even ten years hence, aj we are now. They will obiigo the Republican party to) act as the public w- Ifare and tha interesin of j'istico and humanity shall require, through all the stages of its career, whe- rennire. nlli.s ilsflf with nriurir.ti.in. It 'er til trul or triumptl. magnifies itself for conquests in foreign : 'cra wul not venture an eff.rt be lauds, but it sends tbe national eaj-Ie forth causc tLc' b " lLe , u,cn woul1 not always with chaiusand not the olive branch J.0. 'iL'"?! - I' -l'.-f-iu Sitfoslc " This dark record shows you, f Jlow citi- j strain directly along the fibres of which zens, what I was unwilling to announce at " ls composed ? '1 bis is a -Cons'itutiou an earlier stage of this ar-ument that of of I reed .111. It 1. being e.nvertel into a the whole nefarious schedule of slavehoid- Constitution of Slavery. It is a Republi inirdei.ma hieh I Hjce snhiTiitt...! to vnn ' can Constitution. It is beinj made an e o - . the Democratic party has felt only one yet boasts its love of equality, and wastes its strength and even its life in fortifying tbe only aristocracy known 111 the land. It to be consummated tbe abrogation of tbc law which forbids tbo African slave-trade. Now, I know very well that tbe Demo cratic party has, at every stage of these proceedings, disavowed the motive and the policy of fortifying and extending slavery, and has excused them on entirely different has been the Democratic party, and no other agency, which has carried that poli cy up toits present alarming culmination. Without stopping to ascertain, critically, the origin of the present Democratic party, we may concede its claim to date from the era of good feeling wbich occurred under the Administration of President Monroe. At tbat time in this State, and about that time in many others of the Free States, and it has pertinaciously continued this 1 inhering love of Freedom, in the human disfranchisement ever since. This was an heart, which render palliation of such gross effeotivo aid to Slavery, for while the miseonduet indispensable. It disfranchised Aristocratic one. Others may wish to wait until some collateral oicstious con cerning Temperance or the t-X' acise of tbe Elective Frauchise are pr iptrly setiled. Let me ask all such persons, whether time cnongh has not been waste I on theso points already, without gaiuing any other than this siti"Io advantage, namely, tha Shall I tell you what this collision means? t cojuscture they will induce Congress to They who thiuk that it is accideutel, nnne- ' repeal tho act of 1S0S, wbich prohibits cessary, the work of interested and fanat- j tie foreign slave-trade, and so they will ical agitators, and therefore epheueral, import from Africa, at the coat of only 20 mistake tbe case altogether. It ia an irre- , a head, slaves enough to fill np tbe iuteri prcssible conflict between opposing and 1 or of tbo continent. Thus relatively in- enduring forces, and it means that tbo ; creasing thz cumber of Slave States, tbey and more nl.-msil.le ..round. Hot 1U in. . di.-envery that only one taing can be t ltec- consistency aud frivolity of these pleas ,ua"y Jon 8t 0UJ '"" aui1 oao prove still moro conclusively tbe guilt I tulug "huh must and w:.l b? i .ne at any chargo upon tbat party. It must indeed . one ,,lne " just ,hit thin2 wh:,;U u most necessarily excuse such gnilt before man- ! nrr0"' anJ 03 I'5n?or ""it of post kind, and even to the c .useiences of its ponement or delay. I maliy, we are told quotable, aud tbe ttemiuion of .-lavery 13 consequently inevitable. I reply to them, that tne complete and universal dominion of Slavery would be intolerable enough L- j .1.- r 1 -1 : .t. w.... ... ! ,. ;t 1 .f. i.- .;..,. r ...r vrtien it should have come alter the last 1 reeuuuijiuu irecu slave, iu iuci ree emit s, , leii. iu kuj"j io ui au.ii , 111, is prohibited from voting against Slavery. ' be might seduce tbo free white ciiizon into possible effort to escape should have been In If'l, the Democracy resisted the ilec- amalgamation with his wron-ed and d ui- Tll"rc "oM Jn t!lat "'-.(',b tion of John Quiucy Adams bimfelf bo-1 spiscd raee. The Democratic party cou- ' a us consoling reflection of tuelity t j Presidcut and the Senate, using the treaty-1 slaveholder votes for bis slaves against the freo African on tbe ground of a fear maBiug power, they will annex foreign slavo holding States. In a favorable universal perusal. We have no more able, sagacious, well-informed Statesman than Sen ator Si-i),oo the stage of action; and since J.hn (j. Adams and Thomas II. Benton have 0f artcd, we have no man of more general knowledge, or of more keen, unwearied ob servation of not only rjfccts, but causes. He h learned, persistent, independent, and bold. A part of his early life was spent in a hot-bed of Slavery, and he has been for many years in daily intercoursewiih leading Slaveholders, f-jr these reasons, his most profound, elo quent, political, and philosophical speech carrying ihe thoughtful mind to the past, ihe rr-ent, and ihe future is well worthy of be- in? read without prejudice and-weighed with theprofoundest seriousness. Demagogiies.tbe timid, and those of no penetration, may not like its learlessness, or may dissent from some of his propositions and conclusions ; !-t all must admit that there is a mass of KotEoosE trtth in his speech. Mr. Seward argues that, in the ceaseless tv.-.e between Oppression and Freedom.Free ' mU!' "-luinph.yet it will be seen that i.'etnplates ::o aggression upon Slavery ' 4'- ! its real Constitutional refuses. :M,y c:.arued that he wished a can uot enslave and convert bim into mer chandise also. It is necessarily improvi dent and ruinous, because, as a general truth, communities prosper and flourish or droop and decline in just the degree that they practice or neglect to practice the primary duties of justice and humanity Tbe free labor system conforms to the di vine law of equality, wbich is written on the hearts aud consciences of men, and therefore is always and everywhere bene ficial. Tbc Slave system is one of constant dan ger and distrust, suspicion, and watchful ness. It debases those whose toil alone can produce wealth and resources for do fensc, to the lowest degree of which hu man nature is capable, to guard against mutiny and insurrection, and thus wastes energies which otherwise might be em ployed in national developement and ag grandizement. When tbc Free States shall be 6uGi cieutly demoralized to tolerate these de- r else the rye and wheat fields of j signs,tuey reasonably conclude thatSlavery usetts aod New York must again j will be accepted by thoseStatcs themselves. 1 shall not stop to show bow speedy or how complete would be the ruin which the accomplishment of these slavcholding schemes would bring upon the country. For one, I should not remain in the coun try to test the sad experiment. Having spent my manhood, though not my whole lifo, iu a Free State, no aristocracy of any kiud, much lees an aristocracy of Slave holders, shall over make the laws of the land iu which I shall be content to live. Having seen tbe society around mc uni versally engaged in agriculture, maufae- tures and trade, which were innocent and lev -ciid.r. The Free labor system educates all alike, nr'.-ijc against siaverv in th Ktmx and bv oncnintr all the fields of industrial j ....... . -, ( j I o fi aeitahon ; whereas, he would 1 emnlovuient. and all tha denartmcnts of authority, to tbc unchecked and equal riv alry of all classes of men, at onco secures uuiversal contentment, and brings into tbe highest possible activity all tbo physioal, re toFre.. .k. e. l v . ---." .mi iids oeen wrong- ai ta... ' '"" irom ner: and natur- -.r senator Ducoli i'. try i' creed. full scclliti" at the United States must and will, sooner or later, become cither entirely a Slavchold ing nation, or entirely a Free Labor nation. Either tbe cotton and rice fields of South Carolina and tbe sugar plantations of Lou isiana will ultimately bo tilled by Free Labor, and Charleston aud New Orleans become marts for legitimate merchandise alone, or Massach be surrendered by their farmers to elavc culture and to the production of sieves, and Roston and New Vork become once more markets for trade in the bodies and souls of men. It is the failuro to appre hend this great truth that induces so many unsuccessful attempts at final compromise between tbe Slave and Free States, and it is tbe existence of this great fact that ren ders all such pretended compromises, when made, vain and ephemeral. Startling as this saying may appear to you, fellow citizens, it is by do means an original or even a modern one. Our forefathers knew it to be true, and unanimously acted upon it, when they framed tho Constitution of the United States. They regarded the existence of the servile system in so many of the States with sorrow and shame, which tbey openly confessed, and they looked upon the collision between them, which was then just revealing itself, and which we are now accustomed to deplore, with favor and hope. Tbey knew tbat cither tbe one or tbo other system must exclu sively prevail. Unlike too many of those who in modern time invoke their authority, they had a choice between the two. Tbey preferred the system of free labor, and tbey deter mined to organize the Government, and so to direct its activity, that that system should surely and certainly prevail. For this purpose, and no other, they based tbe wholo structure of the government broadly on tbe principle tbat all men are created equal, aud therefore free little dreaming that within the short period of ono hun dred years their descendants would bear to be told by any orator, however popular, tbat the utterance of that principal was merely a rhetorical rhapsody : or by any Judge, however venerated, that it was at tended by mental reservations which ren der it hypocritical and false. Ry tbe or dinance of 1787 tbey dedicated all of tbe national domaiu, not yet polluted by Sla very, to free labor immediately, thence forth and forever, while by the new Con stitution and laws tbey invited foreign freo labor from all lands under the sun, and interdicted the importation of African slave labor at all times, in all places and under all circumstances whatsoever. It is true that tbey necessarily and wisely modified this policy of freedom by leaving it to tbe several States, affected as they were by differing circumstances, to abolish Slavery will allow no amendment to the Constitu tion prejudicial to their interest, and so, having permanently established their pow- foro that time an acceptable Democrat and in 1SJ3 it expelled bim from the Presidency and put a slaveholder in his place, although the office had be n filled by slaveholders thirty-two out cf forty years. In lSu'O, Martin Van Rurcn the first non-slavcholding citizen of a Freo State to whose election the Democratio party cr, they expect the Federal Judiciary to ' ever consented signalized bis inaugura- uulli.y all Mate laws which snail interfere tion into tbo J residency by a gratuitous i(.n.iuoiui ioieiu vumuii-ieu iu slaves. ilemneil flml rlpnneeri .lohn I loineo A.l.ims . duty. because he expended ?I2,0U0,0U0 a year, i 1:ut 1 nVb ft"-""'' I know few I while it justifies his favored successor in i,uk know biUer ,l, in I ,he fesourees spending S70.000.000. SSO.000.000. and al"J ,bc energies ot ttie LVin .cratic party. even $ lUO.OOO.OllO a year. It denies i emancipation in tho District of Columbia, even with compensation to masters and tbe consent of the people, on the ground of an implied constitutional inhibition, although the Constitution expressly confers upon announcement that under no circumstances j Congress sovereign legislative power in would he ever approve a bill for abolishing that District, and although the Democratic Slavery in the District of Columbia. From : party is tenacious of the principle of strict 1833 to 1811, the subject of abolishing j construction. It violated tho express pro Slavery in the District of Columbia and visions of tbe Constitution, in suppressing in the national dockyards and arsenals was I petition and debate on the sul j :et of sla brought before Congress by repeated pop- j very through fear of disturbance of the ular appeals. The Democratic party publio harmony, although it claims that thereupon promptly denied tbe right of, the electors have a right t iustruct their petition, and effectually suppressed the representatives, and even dumaud their freedom of speech in Congress, as far as resignation in cases ol contumacy. It ex- tha institution of Slavery was concerned. From 1840 to 1843, good and wise men tended slavery over Texas and connived at the attempt to spread it across the .Mexi- wliieb, is identical with tbe Slave Power. I do ample prestige tr its tradi.ional pop ularity. I know further few I think know better than I the uitliculiies and disadvantages of organizing a new political force like the Republican party, and the obstacles it must encounter in laboring without prestige aud without patronage, li lt, notwithstanding ali ibis, I know that the Democratic party must go down, aud the Republican party must rise in its place. The IVmoerntie party di rived its strength originally from its adoption of tha principles of equal and ex.iut justice to all men. So long as it practiced this princi ple faithfully, it was invulnerable. It be came vulnerable when it renounced it, and sine- that time it has maintained it self, not by virtue of its own strength, or 1- . .i.. m :, 1 1 .... i rnn territorieo oven to U, sho,. nf lh " ' ' traditional merits. Out DeCiMSS couuseieu uiai xeias suouiu remain oui- ' ,l, ., l, 1 .,... 1 ; ,1 . r.:- 1 side of the Union until she should consent I'-cific Ocean, under a plea of enlarging ; 'hero J ' j - J 1 H P ' to relinquish her self-instituted Slavery : i of freedom. It abrogated the n1 no otI,L'r V"? 'bat baJ the conscience 1 . .1 is ut f- . "J mx:.10 i. -., ... i;.,n,lri i,n, i and the courage to take up and avow and but the Democratic party precipitated her ,'C'C'" ' nu tne .Missouri Um- t :-;.: lr: . 11 . .I. - . r , ... ! nromUA nrnl.iklrln. nf J.r,rc in IC,,,..,,. : practico the lite-inspiring prinmioo which .vu.uw MUyU u, ""J . t 1 .. ... 1 the Democratic mrtv out that condition, but even with a povb. no' to PCt the new Territories to slavery beueficent, I shall never be a denizen of a nant that the State might be divided and Dut t0 lT3 therein tbe new and fascinating re-organized so as to constitute four Slave theories ot Non intervention ana 1 opular bad surrendered. State whero men and women are reared as cattle, and bought and sold as merchandize. When that evil day shall come, and all further effort at resistance shall be impos sible, then, if there shall be no better hopo States instead of one. In 184G, when :h United States be came involved in a war with Mexico, and it was apparent tbat the struggle would for redemption than I can cow foresee, I : cod in tbe dismemberment of tbat Repub- shall say witn I'ranklm, while looking lie, which was a non-slaveholding power. abroad over tbe whole earth for a new home : "Where Liberty dwells there is my country, ' . 1. . 11 .: - : . . .. .1 . .! ...! . : iuc 4'cuioci auc jj.ii ijr irjeeicu. uvvmiAiiiru tbat Slavery should not be established You will tell me that these fears arc within the Territory to be acquired. When iu I SOU, governments were to be institu extravagant and chimerical. Ianswer,they j ted in the Territories of California and are so, but they arc so only because the New Mexico, tbe fruits of that war, tho designs of the slaveholders must and can ; Democratic party refused to admit New bo defeated. Rut it is only tbe possbility : Mexico as a free, and only consented to of defeat tbat renders them so. They can i admit California as a free State on tho not be defeated by inactivity. There is : coudition, as it has since explained tbe moral aud social energies of tbe whole ' in their own way,and at their own f'.eajure no escape from them compatible with non resistance. How, then, and in what way, shall the necessary resistance be made ? There is only one way. The Democratic party must be permanently dislodged from tbe Government. The reason is, that the Democratic party is inextricably commit ted to the designs of tbe slaveholders, which I have described. Let me be well understood. I do not cbnrge that the Democratic candidates for public office now before the people, are pledged, much less that tbe Democratic masses who support them really adopt those atrocious and dan gerous designs. Candidates, may and generally do, mean to act justly, wisely, aud patriotically, when they shall be elect ed ; but tbey becotno the ministers and servants, not tho dictators, of the power which elects them. The policy wbich a party shall pursuo at a future period, is ouly gradually developed, depsodiug on the occurrence of events never fully fore kuuwn. The motives of men, whether act ing as electors, or in any other capacity, are generally pure. Nevertheless, it is not more true that "Hell is paved with good 1 transaction, of leaving all of New Mexico and Utah open .to Slavery, to which was also added the concession of perpetual Slavery in the District of Columbia, and the passage of an unconstitutional, cruel and humiliating law, fur tbe recapture of fugitive slaves, with a further stipulation that the subject of Slavery should never again be agitated in either chamber of Congress. When, in 1854, the slavehold ers were contentedly reposing on these great advantages, then so recently won, tbe Democratic party unnecessarily, offi ciously and with superserviceable liberality awaked them from their slumber, to offer and force on their acceptance, the abroga tion of the law which declared that neither Sovreignty : and finally it overthrew both these new and elegant systems by the En glish Lecouipton bill and tbe Drel Scott decision, on the ground that the Free States ought not to enter the Union with- At last the Republican parry had appear, ed. It avows now, as the Republican party of 1800 did, ia one .word, its faith and its works, "Eq'iilaud exact j isfiee to all mou." Even when it first entered tho fi-IJ, ouly half organized, it struck a blow which only just failed to secure c xnpleto and triumphant victory. In this, its) nut nnnnlntion oisiln! tn fhn mnriMnnla. tive basis of one member of Congress, I sccond e'PR". 't has already won al althouirh Slave States mi2ht come in with- I Tn.,aS'-s "''u-b render that triumph now out inspection as to their numbers. Will any member of tbo Democratic both easy and certain. The secret of its assured success lies in party now here claim tbat the authorities ; ,nal ,TcrJ cnaractenstic, which in tho chosen hv ih indriM nf th n .rtv i,,., m outh of scoffers constitutes its gre:,t and cended their partizan platforms, and so !as,in? """heeility and reproach. li misrepresented tbe party in tbo various iu tbe fact that il is a party of one idea ; transactions I have recited Then I ask ! j? thit iJ,a nnble ooe aa iJua bim to name one Democratic statesman or n"3 ,na P"" a" generous souis; tuo legislator, from Van Rurcn to Walker( i dea of cqti .lity the equality of all men .k;iV,r i;,n,rlt-,,,(;.l t;l- I before bumau tribunals and human laws. or boldly and deOntly, like Douglas, ever tb M arc "l"al Mote ,Uc l'iv,ae refused to executo a behest of the slave- ' hu?a! auJ Dl""e Uw holders, and was not therefore, and for no j , 1 -"no anJ, know ,,hal a '""-uUon other cause, immediately denouueed, and ' J1" b-eUD- know, and all the world deposed from bis trust, and repudiated by i "Mbat revolut,ns never go backward, the Democratic party for that contumacy, j Twenty Senator and a hundred Repre, -n- I think, fellow citizens, that I have I V K , . .'-v ,u J,--r.' " shown you that it is high time for the j ",. , of friends of freedom, to rush to the rescue of tbo Constitution, and tbat their very vbieh hardly sn mtny men even in this free Slate dared to utter in their own homes twenty years ai.-o. While tho first duty is to dismiss the democratic party ., . ., 8,.,.. ... ,,. t .i. i . . f.k : i Government of the I nitcd States, iimier from tbo administration of the government Why shall it not be done ? All agree that it ought to be done. What then shall prevent its being done ? Nothing Slavery nor involuntary servitude should but timidity or division of the opponents ever exist within that part of the ancient territory of Louisiana, which lay outside of tbe State of Missouri and north of the parallel of SG 30' of north latitude,, law, which with tbe exception of one other, was tbe only statute of freedom then re niainiu? in the Federal code. Iu 18u0, when the people of Kansas I for freedom earnestly euougn. had organized a now State within tbe re- i I ask in reply, is there any the conduct of the DVinncr.it io party, has been all that time, surrendering one plain and cattle after another to Slavery, thj people of the United States have been n Ia.u ... .1 1 f mi4 rk:,,:nv.ifin.lfl rr Vi ... i n .. Of the Democratic party. I twrcthi-r the forees with which 10 recover borne of theso opponents start ono ob- ; .7. fi ,. , ... jectioo, and some another. Let us notice wicI) bceu u aiiJ t..f .,,,, ,., hes,, objections briefly. Oue ciass , siy ! vert!)r(w. h. pm, ,1(.,;j,Vr ,he le thal the, can not trust the Rej.ubliein i , f , CliniUwAao anJ Freed.. party, that it has not avowed its hmnlity j j 4.,,.r 10 Jiavory DolUiy cnougn, or us aoecuou , 3lTV' tniny.ia p.oitios ird everything tbr party I fU, 'yet th.r,- t. a tti aR. 1 t i
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