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The Bobolink's [Campaign]
[When the bobolink mi g rates to the
South, he stops singing, changes his pin
mage. and is known as 'the rice-bird of
Georgia and the Carolinas, and the reed
bird of Murylaud.]
•
When I am at the sunny South,
I dare not sing my mellow strains ;
A song of freedom from my mouth
Would drown amid the din of chains:
So I think-On—think-ou—think-on,
Until my visit there is spent.
NoW Abe Lincoln—Lincoln—Lincoln
Is to be'our President.
So, in the clover meadows here,
I spread with joy my happy wing,
And long before another year
In the fair Sonth-land I can sing: -
Now I'll drink-on—drink-or—drink-on
From the soft tiower-cups filled with dew
Cousin Lincoln—Lincoln—Lincoln,
Here's my best respects to you.
May every man who feels and thinks •
The time of triumph is at- hand,
Repeat the songs of bobolinks,
Now ringing through our happy land. .
If long Lincoln—Lincoln—Lincoln
Falls, notwithstanding my sweet strains,
-Isbell get, I'm " think-in "—" think-on,"
.c 1 coat if feathers for paint.
1 can be chief Musician hero ;
Only a reed or rice-bird there;
I truth my notes for half the year,
And change the plumage that I wear.
In bright fields 1 blink-on—blink-on;
Now I am not a plumed poltroon,
I'll vote for honest cousin Lincoln,
To take the Presidential throne.
They have no bards nor bobolinks
To sing for liberty divine
In the fait land where slavery clinks
Her chains across the border line..
They will clink on—clink-on—clink on
Until the Union breaks in twain,
Unless votes for Lincoin—Lincoln, -
Fall like storms of summer rain;
SOUTHERN SECTIONALISM
Speech of Hon. John Hichmon,
OP PENNSYLVANIA,
Delivered en the House of Representatives of the
United . States, May 1, 1800.
[Concluded.]
Mr, Chairman; in the.last half of the
eighteenth' century, when the republican
patriots of France and Aineriea affirmed
the freedom'and equality of all men by
birth arid nature; our colonies accepted
the declaration as an axiom, and rested
upon it as the rook of tli&r hope.—
Around it they kinkled and fed the fires
of the Revoludon, and shivering and in
rags .upon the ice of winter, and fainting
and wasted upon the sands of summer,
they defended it with their lives, their
fortunes, and their honor. They saved
it and consecrated it. On it rests all our
institutions. It is the great shrine which
our fathers covered with their blessings,
as the Cherubim eovered'with their wings
the ark of the covenant of the Lord.—
Now, it is assaulted so frequently it nei
ther excites interest nor occasions remark.
A new gospel has beau preached to the
nation,,and the man who values either
his character or repose will be careful
not to molest the modern orthodoxy by
vain attempts to resusitate the past.—
Those traitor zealots, who were FO mis
guided as to giro their labors to God, and
posterity, died too soon to learn the lie
they had advocated, and' how little they
had achieved. Itis well it; was so, for
they barely escaped the day when, if liv
ing they .'would have. been followed,and
taunted by derisive and detractive ephi•
thets; and when a Federal cheif, sitting
giddy-heatlecLin . the chair of Washington
and Jefferson, would hdve opened upon
them the vials of his indecent wrath and
demanded them in sacrifice, to appease
the vengeance of those who must always
despise him. Largely connected with the
institution, they did cot permit the con
sideratioa of slavery interfere with the
discharge of that plain duty they believed
they owed the cause or mankind. Think.
ing it right to rebuke wrong, they did so
in plain and unambiguous language.—
They were not theorists merely, bat prac
ticalists.' They ,looked forward to an un
confined liberty; and declared absolule,
perpetual bondage inimical to the educa
tion, opinions, genial life, ,and every mor.
al quality of those who were surrounded
by it.
.We are not permitted to follow
their example.or their precepts. Silence
even, will'not leave us unmolested. We
are now required, under the impending
pains and peachier of party anathemas
and proscription, to declare the enslave
ment of a weaker race to bo patriarchal
and heaven-ordained ; and that those who
fought out battles, and framed and shap
ed our government, were banded infuri;
aces and silly philanthropists. In this
land there are as yet no chains forged for
the intellect which may not be broken;
and we will never allow either our faith
or our confidence to be shelled: It was
this exaction made of believing Christ
ians, to array themselves against the•sen,
timeut of the world, and .to proclaim
slavery a sacred institution, which has
divided the churches ; I:tid laid the founds.
EEMMEE!!
S. D. KELLY.
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?iiileipits of ilia:Disseipioqiioil of titeNyli.O 411
*Miral.
BY GEORGB W. BINGSY.
COPERSPORT; POTTER cpl4l l l7( . _FA., THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1860;
foi'.thet_ remarkable
. propagandism -, 1
which professes . to rely .. upon. the Divine '
faYorlor "its iltititate . asemitleney and sue.
cess. ' - The eroncitieSt -- of - the . sbuth6in I
church to the sanction -- and iuterest'• of,
slavery: has givenit a city of refuge.'which
it always before lacked,-and has made it
bold iu the enormity of its demauds. We
are required 'to fall down and trorisbip
This is a sectional 'view that we never can!
sanction ; and we appeal to the justice oft
God and the moral sense of - men to sus
tain us in our refusal..
The effort to justify the orig
in of slave
ry, bewever it may be regarded by tbi.se
taught in a different theology, cannot be
more objectionable than the -means used
to coerce them into the adoption. Some
of these it is my purpose to ref.:r to; and
I regret that I cannot command the time
to speak of them with that particularity
which is demanded by their importance.
The people of the northern States, en
tertain a loyal
.attachment to the Consti
tution and tho. Union. Those who would
deny the declaration have fallen into the
mistake of assuming the singularities of
a few to the type of the mass. We, will
maintain the Federal compact in its .in
tegrity. There is no law written, organic
or statute: against which we will raise-the
hand of rebellion; and we are fast term
ing the &termination to restrain others
from doing so. There is no record of a
time when we fell.short of a dischargo of
our whole duty._ We have not only
fought our own battles, but the battles of
a common brotherhood. We-have
striv
en long because we loved well, and- we
gathered victory because we were-devoted.
We have branded t*eason, rebuked the
fanaticism, and kept the faith. And now,
having thus acted,- strategy makes use of
our patriotism to overcome us. Those in
the South for whose rights and welfare
we have struggled and exhausted our
selves through long and arduous cain-
paigns, feeling our passion -for the Union
to be our weakness, break in upon owl
needed rest and startle our fears with its I
threatened dissolution. Tnis cry always
comes from the same platter, and is sec-
Lionel. It has been wonderful, magical
in its office. It has secured tribute, sub,
sidies, arid esteem. Where our judg
meuts would deny, our hearts have grant-
ed ; - and - stung . by , our wrotig4; - we 'have
even caressed their cause. This cry that
ties so often startled the nation in the
oast, " the Union is in (longer," has by
no means been a groundless one. It has
been in danger. It has been placed
surroundings of danger by the political
speculator. for the mere purpose of hav
ing it saved. It will be again in danger;
how frequently it may be so, it is not for
me to predict; but this I will venture to
declare, that 'danger will pefiodicallv as
sail it until the lessons of justice shall be
better learned an one hand, or concessions
shall be refused Upon the other. When
ever that dar.ger has existed, security,
transient from its very nature has been
easily purchased, and always at the sante
price—by weakening the strength of one
, partion'of the Union and by strengthen
ing the weakness of another portion of
the Union. The consumptive system of
slavery can no longer feed upon itself and
live. It is to be nourished by milk drawn
from the healthy breast of vigorous liber
ty. The sinking energies of . the one are
to be invigorate' and sustained at the ex
.pensc of the stalwart natural energies of
the other. 'ln this way is an equilibrium
to be maintained in the Republic. The
laws of God and nature are to be counter
acted, and principles of vastly unequal
forces, and always at war with each other,
are to be made coequal by human enact
ments. Shall God or man rule T- Shall
the temporal iaw repeal the eternal law ?
If the Unicn is to be preserved; it will be
by bulwarks and not . by flight. Seces
sion, now so flippantly promised, is a vi
olation of more than sworn obligation; it
is worse than treason it is the destruc
tion of the happiness of a numb.-rless pos
terity; it earns the fellon's death ; and
we trust its punishment first to him whom
we.shall 'call to rule over our destinies,
and if he fails us, then to self-preservatiOn
and the unconquerable .energies of truth.
as it-presides in the hearts of educated
freemen.'
The Years from 1844, toiBso, inclu
sive, will long be remembered from the
most remark4ble, as it was the most bold
and adroit sectional movement known to
our history. it had for its object a gi
gantic slavery extension ; but under a
pretext very different in its form: It, was
nothing less than its forcible aclubition
of one half, if -not the whole of Mexico,
fur the purpose indioated, under dolor of
the annexation of-Texas. It is worse
pail folly to suppose that the determina
tion to sustain what the South call. The
balance of pnwcr, but which would be
more sppropriatelynamed.the supremacy
of power. -has only just. been determined
upon. It has long been a settled .policy
with southern leaders, recognizing in it,
as they do, the condition of the life of
slaviry. Arid how is the correctness of
. their views to be resisted?. That man
who has read the history of hisi-race,.and
. . .
Was nat closed ill 6 eve .-againsi the plain
teachingof events transpiringdaily around
him, will nevi r bo-coninced that there
can be an enduring peace between slavery
aid freedom. Truces ;may be agreed tp
on, but they will be like the compacts of
'kings; Made to be brolien,' wheneVer in
terest, ambition, pass ton, or trogiess,
shall will it. Air lined may - dehne rival
States,.but they can ne,t'er buundieontlict-
ing sentiment.: The 'vigorous. 'n'd the
true will invade the siebly and tie false.
The light of the pres 4, the meehanical
agencies and other presfuctions of highly'
cultivated art, - the green, fields and pro
fuse harvests of scientific agriculture, the
widespread wings ofl prnsperons com
merce; and - the fleedingt wealth of cease
less thrift, are not to be restricted by riv- 1
er,banks, or corner steno, or
_parallels ofj
latitude. These influences are' forever!
and ever at work. They are your zealots,
your fanatics, your traktors, your Aboli
th:lists, eternally preaChiog of the noblest
triumphs of civilizatio , and impressing
their lessons upon - the marts of the most
inconsiderate and wapvard. They me
the invincible antagot fists of Ignorance,
indolence, sterility, an poverty, and none
but the unwise or di ingenuous should
attempt to deily it. 1 'hen you Can wall
theth in, you can con rol
1
the travels of
reason and the mighti st impulses cf hit-
Inanity. Then you•nry "bind the infiu-
ences of Pleiades andlloose the bands of
Orion." Then you bray " bring forth
MaZzoroth in his sea Son," and. " guide
Arcturus with- his sons!"
It is not the handlu of men planting
sedition and warring o enly against legal.
ilinstitutions and fugda ental law, which
the Stales South fear, nd against whose
acts they seek protecti.n through 'expan
sion. It is the reflect' a from the whole
surface of the States North--their intel
ligence, bkill, product+, enterprise, and
prosperity,. winch threaten and disturb.
To foster and encourage these is to aug
. -
ment the danger. Not to attempt to
counteract them wouldlintheate abandon
ment, of the struggle—.-the breaking down e
of the Trojan- bridge. I, I see here the
cause - of all the agitation upon the slavery
question, in Congress and out of Con--
' , Tess, for the lira. lifte n years. - . Herein
lies the seerceofithe c utests for
. the Ter
ritories,' tirjAiolatitin . ibf -covCriatita • find
- compromises , and Wei, appalling aggres
sions upon the sovereign rights of the
people.• The South seek the acquisition
and tenure of the, Territories; and what
better agency, let me. ,Inquire, can they
to fortify themsOves ? Once sur
rounding us by a - belt of States Which
should regard our institutions asiniinical_
to theirs, we might Well anticipate the
fate of the man in the Iron Shroud. With
the powers of the General Government
thus placed beyond our control, the walls
would constantly contritet upon us until,
at last, we should bq crushed by the
pressure,; or, if left to survive, it would
be upon some rugged mountain-top,
• dwarfed to the insignificance of San Ma
rine. Here I point to the cause and
source of that seetionallautagonism which
1 niuSt continue until either the North or
i the South shall gain!: the ascendency.
1 Time will cast our country s horoscope;
but let us trust that it Will remain her
flood- fortune to exercise a humanizing
..5 , •
;and christianizing sway ; over an injured
and distorted humanity. There is such
I a thing as "manifest destiny ;" 'and the
I destiny of the South iiiperfectly manifest
to every one except themselves.: .
Sir, h few foot-printi in the past point
out unmistakably the direction in which
events have been hurrying' us. The least
noticed of these, at thetime, was the. der
-1 ing resolve of party leaders to 'set aside
the expreSsed and known will of the Dem
.'
cantle voters in the selection of a Chief
IMagiStrate. As Mr. Van Buren was
i cast off in this way, andwithout• damage
',I
to those engaged in the plot; it- lies never
mince been cousidered'iunsafe for a dole
gatedf body to engage in usurpation, or to
give to their edicts the ferze of obligation.
This is a great mischief, but by Po means
the most grievous result of - the:act i fur
i upon it may be - charged one of the great 7"
j est outrages, as I con delve, our people
have
. ever been ealledinpon to endure. I
allude to the
. e.nactinetit of the comprom
ise measures of 185.0., f
end thb fruits they
have prochee.d. By the great body of the
then dothinant party of the country, Mr.
Van Buren had .been .lirirtually- filaced in
nomination - for the Presidency;' but be.
• - causti, he faiiedc to sae that, necessity for
the immediate annexation of Texas which
was felt by .others, delegates 'front Penn
sylvania, even, who died given L . written
-
pledges to sustain hin t ; were among the
earliest to sacrifice their' plighted faith
and-the wishes of those they preiumed to
represent. Thl contrivance wast.success-
In!, and the issue born: But, - I am glad
to know, the'monater proceeded from no
northern -womb; we d..id but ea ] as mid 7
wives at the birth..' ' The annexation
achieved, as was foreseen by its 'reirents,
the war with Mexico, and an acquisitioti
of her soil foreordained, as was- sUpposed i
for slavery, followed a closely 7 liiiked re
sulting consequences. 1 But as God some
ifetus.
,
tune. •• t ti ~ .1. ti , .I.tt n 8
of m i en, even the irisest of.men, au un-
Seeui , hand was at ,work to disappoint pur
posel , bringing good out of_evil. As Ar
lona s bath in the brook, by attracting
the ttcntion of Duke Robert of Norman
dy, l i ed to; the establishment of the Brit
iSh i
t
npire, so a shovel-full of earth, care,
lessl thrown up near Sutter's old fort.
liresled California from blight and mil
dew, and converted it into . Arcadian pas
tare and vine-wreathed vales. • The dis-
Cove y then made was 'the real philoso
pher a stoney which gave a golden throne
i ,
to I' eedoni, and planted 'her victorious
ban ers'on. the shores of the broad Pa
lifie So
far, well ; but now the folly and
sub ission.begau.• Those who bad se
eretl played with stocked . cards for the
prig ;and lost it, still made claim au.d
shotd their hands; and the winners,
nlwacs magnanimous—rich in pi esent
gainiagreed to pay bouuty fur their
dariag and their enterprise.. Yes, Cali
fornia, with an area enough to make three
States as largo as New York ;-with a pop
ulatinn more than sufficient to entitle her
to iNto Representatives in this Hall; and
with a constitution desired by her people,
was denied admission into the-Union be
cause, of her choice of institutions, al
theuih purely 'republican in her form.
Preferring the energy and productiveness
of NV lite labor to the- aitith and sterility of
blac ••, we were required, I may say con
strained, to buy her in as sister, and at a
prig fixed by the usurer. As lam on
the abject of sectionalism, it may be ex
pect•d I should be particular as to the
eons eeration yielded.
I, the first place. we gave the fugitive
slav law, and bound three million adult
free en, engaged 'in professions, trades,
and . . griculture, to leave their books and
tool and plows, to seek after
,and retake
the running property of those who refus
ed the captors the, equality guarantied by
the ' onstitution and the justice demand
ed b the spirit of the Government
I the second place, having, by the
resolutions of annexation,- conceded to
Texas, with a title, to less-than one hun
dredand seventy thousand square miles
of te ritory, the astounding.right to mul
tiply her power—to' divide and subdivide
herself by at least ', ten Senators—we in
-the hooding grateful hearts, but with
eyes blinded as by, cataracts, made her a
free gift cf additional domain, sufficient in
extent to constitute two States as large
as Cllio, and bound the .public Treasury
to pay her ten Million of dollars and in
terest, that she might the sooner avail
herself of the monstrous prerogatives con
terre'id upon-her. - .
In the third place, although 'the father
of "the compromise measures" declared
thatlslavery did not exist, by law, in any
of the. territory. acquired from Mexico,
the demand was made . and agreed to, that
it might be entended over Utah and New
Mexico, comprising near half a million
of - siirface. In a word, these were the
humiliating concessions made to the
South as far bask as 1850, not in return.
for acts of grace or good. will ; but seem
ingly, as-a propitiation for the enormity
Of having petitioned for a plain right.
Such is the statesmanship of barratry and
the Statesmanship of bungle, -over which
prailes have been sung to cover up dis
grace. _ • •
T ie South have a settled policy; the
Nor h have none'. • The South have the !
policy. of sectional interest and advantage;
the North lack even • that of consistent
and persistent opposition. • When they
won d make oblations to.their peculiar
institution, they clothe themselves in the
inantle of pretended patriotism, and de
claim on the sacredness of the Constitu
tion ; but Nvheu we venture to ask a sus
taining hand for ours, they would disfig
ure us by attempts to . gird us with sack
cloth, and Idling our ears with the yelp
and taunt ofsectionalizsm. And I should
like [some one to name to me a President
who within the last decade, at least, has
not contemptuously turned his back, upon
those to whom he • promised fairness,
whose votes were neceisaryto his promo
tion, aqd who really constitute the right
arm of the nation. Let him be named,
it prissible,„ fOr.I confess I have never
known him, even by repute. • They haVe
alliyes, an—been living commentaries
upon the insecurity: of platform profes
siting and the spirit of 'submission, if not
forgiveness, in .the betrayed elector. The
present Executiie has nut so much reri
dered himself 'notorious by his! mere par
tiality; as he has by the disgusting-,sub
serviney displayed in his rule. His ca
jolerY and deception as a candidate have
only! been excelled by his -cynical demean
or to his true friends, as a true officer.—
He has valued praises of flattery above
the honest support of disinterested friend
ship -au& prefers retirement, amid the
execration of his reighbors to the eulo
gies which wait upon faithful service. A
.self-relying and self-sustaining 'manhood
Would nducc him to look above and be
yond the artificial or
"seeks
horizon by -
which the. trickster seeks to limit his
vision ; and not allow himself to be made
pa tisau anitdupe. But when we find
e
FOUR CENTS.
TERMS.--$1.25 PER ANNUM,
ohr confidence betray ed,
,and-deceney-in
,iilccd; let us not blink the. cause.—
Thosd communities whjch harmonized , by
acommon, concern, take advantage of our
Want of unity and purPose, impress the,
placeman - and spoilsinati with the.notioa
that they hold the keys of honor and'Of
fortune. There is something here to study
and to learn.
iThe South have necessities; and act'
upon them. The North have necessities
and sink into dreamy sluthber. We fail
to', observe the steadv - steppings of the in
vader, but get into a frightful bustle when
his guns begin to thunder at our city
walls. The South are vociferous for par
ty] as long. as its machinery works aver,
ringly to their advantage. 'The North - aro
sapslied with declarations of govern
mental policy, withoutiregiud to its Suc
cess : and exult over platforms whilst all
their embodied principles are violated. I
cannot sanction the course pursued either
by the South or by the North; it is un
fair, it is unjust. That of. the - South is
sectional and aggressive ; that of the
North, yielding and Self-destructive.--
D4recatin< , 'anarchy and war, I desire,
ab'pve all triings, au honest maintainance
ofl the compact between these United
States and its integrity.. Sestainhag .
D.)inueracy, I protest against its _being
made a catch and a cheat. , Born and liv
ing in one of the most powerful, .prosper
ouS, intelligent and generous of the free
Stides, I will not admit-a right of gyve;
riority over our citizens, either by nature,
edncation, or grace.
lu 1856 there was nothing better- un
dcirstood than the doctrines and .pledges
of the national - Dentheracy. They were
pithy written, and received . but one in.
tevpretation. Popular sovereignty over
ali t fkunistic institutions was declared to
betas perfect and complete in the resi
dent of a Territory as in- the citizen of.a.i
Sritte; and that party bound itself to its
ful fitful maiutaioance. If it was sound,
and undeniable before ,the election, it was
tn,t.the less so afterwards. •But no; it .
failed in practice. It failed to acaotu- ,
plish what it was believed by tnany it
would accompiish, and therefore it was
repudiated. It failed to give Xansas"to
slavery. It failed to make eight million
of i men, ; without industrial habits, and
colonizing. capacity; . stifierier to eighteen
wiiliau t - ith,these. auxiliaries, in their
rage
for new sovereignities; and henee
for',.,varil it was enrolled in the catalogue
of hutnbue.s. It failed to aid the-section
al 'purpose, of the South, and thetteefor
waVd to favor it became heterodox; and
all who hare done so from that day.tu
thiS, have been branded with treason and
trodden down beneath the irou heel of
feaVstruck, renegade President. • The end
(Attila to' have been seen frout.the begin
ning. On the. 19th of March, 1856 when
014 doctrine was at ,the flood-tide of its
poPularity. I ventured to this lan--
gulp here:
Sir, the supporters of that bill. (the
Kansas-Nebraska bill) have proclaimed
to the nation that the Territories of the
'United States are to constitute a_ :fair
field" and that there is to be 'a free sole
there, between the North and the South,
to decide whether slavery or freedotit
shall rule them . .. If the energy, the en
terprise,
_the active modes -of life,
"the'
available capital, and the numbers of the
North, shall not be able to comPete.suc
cessfully with their opposites in the.Suilth
and secure freedom to the Territories,
then I will admit that there k a Vitality
and a power hi slavery- which tve(of the
North have never dreamed of. In tnY
opinion, ,the Representatives of the South
in the Thirty-Third CongressAtave SetVit
the lire, and they will - gather fire . into
their own garners."'
I have only to add. that the correctness
of my vieviS'has'been Proven at an earlier
day than I then anticipated, and that the
pang of repentance now conies to l / 4 i . late.-.
The 'choice to be made by the B,duth
and I admit it is for them a Severe
ono—
is between the rigid observance of exist
ing! law, which will .- AUG.:out slaierY
from the Territories -by. popular vote, and
congressional intervention directly: to ex
clude it. The 'next census if fairly taken,
will show such la preponderance ,Of popu
ulation on the* side of the me to
convince the Most skeptical on this point.
But there are moreappalling evidences
of the sectionalism I - charge. These are
found in acts of glaring lawlessness and
dishrder; and in the determination to
cripple and impoverish 'northern labor.
Sir, there are eighteen States of this
Union, and soon there will be twenty
three, extending froth the
_Atlantic to. the
Pacific, and across fifty-eight degrees of
lopgitude, teeming with millions of men,
controlling and ,directiog the literature,
connuerce, agrieultute, manufactures and
mechanic 'arts„ of the whole _country.;
fraitful in peace and able for war, who
will not soon forget the early history of
Ka r nsas, and the euVring of their friend.
and kinsmen there through violence 'HI :
fraud. It was there the lessen way'
dus.triously taught and fully learned .
tlui rightful rule of the people oree . : ;.
tbdir inStitutiout meant but the: riot