Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1847-10-07


standing armies liberty can never be 10 danger,
nor with them safe'
But the worst consequence Of this executive
usurpation is the establishment, Of the policy Of
conquest and rapine-a policy wicked in the
sight of God and man and ceIIain 10 bring upon
the conquerors Tie curse which haunts national
wrongs We need no additional territory
" NTH room enough"-we are quoting the words
sandth and hOusandM generation" The course
of The Administration adopts and recognizes,
war, with all its dangers and decentralization,
and with The Ultimate certainty tha, ii must prove
fatal 10 freedom as settled policy.
Sill ii has an object even ye. more fatal
The war was no,--that is now made manifest
commenced TO redress wrongs or vindicale
rights, nor even for conquest alone. II was
commenced, has been prosecuted and will be
closed with sole reference 10 the extension Of
slavery or rather 10 the multiplication Of slave
States. This is deemed the crowning glory of
the present Southern Administration. In the
first place, while all the world exclalms against
the sin, the degradation TO master and slave, the
political crNe and folly Of holding fellow crea-
lures in bondage, the Presiden, borrows North
ern bayonels, and sacrifices the freemen of the
free States to perpetuate slavery. We are i'm
pressed to forge shackles and twine whips
we are made the ministers Of tyranny lha, we
abhor. But result still dearer 10 Mr.. Polk
and his Southern ministers and factoa is sought.
The Free States have, notwithstanding The ad-
mission of Texas, become the stronger political
interest Of the nation. To overcome this ma
jori,y once and forever, it is proposed TO patch
up number of Mexican slave States TO over
balance US in The confederacy. 1t is true that
slavery does not now exist in Mexico, and that
humanity shudders al the thought Of abolishing
freedom, and i, is also true that Mexicans, mon
grel in race and color, ignorant, degraded, cow
ardly, and our foes, are not itled for political
determination with us. Ye, such Is the project,
Against scheme so pa.racidal all the pa,ri.
o,ism of the Democratic party Of the North have
protested. But Mr.. Polk and his entire faction
sus,ains it. Mr.. Skunk has proclaimed his warm
support OF all the measures Of Mr.. Polk his
organs are those of,he National Administration;
and his meetings, wherever held, avow a cor
dial supper, of the Presiden. and his policy
Mr.. Buchanan in his recent letter 10 the Skunk
men of Berks, urged the reelection Of the pres
ent incumbent, and coupled with i. an earnest
exhor,aiion that the people Of Pennsylvania
and oppose The Wimot Proviso.
The motives Of Mr. Buchanan are apparent.
He sacrificed his own pledges and the interests
of the State TO faction in The South upon the
Tariff question. Was it for nothing! He now
would ungralefuly sell the State to this South
ern conspiracy agains. her dignity, principles
and interests. Already we see the most ol,ra of
the slavery papers Of the South claiming Penn
IL. IL r. AZ
Buchanan, upon whom they shower, for his trea
son, praises that should be Goals Of fire upon
his head. He has sacrificed his own convic-
lions as emphaiically expressed in 1919 against
the extension of slavery, and with them, endea-
vored to transfer over TO the South the virtuous
freemen Of Pennsylvania in mass. Will they
consummate the degrading bargain
We will not invoke the gaIlan. Wings of
Pennsylvania 10 arise in their might and defeat
this fearful and guilty conspiracy We will not
point out TO them the duty Of energy and vigi-
lance 10 save The State from the debasement Of
a voluntary sanction of the extension of slavery,
and from the ruin universal and overwhelming
which mus, fall upon US from the establishment
of Southern supremacy and policy. For we
canno. doub. that every Wing who deserves the
name, will be up and dong.-.,hat he will regard
the contest as more vital than any struggle in
the past, and lend his every energy TO dspel the
cloud ,ha, impends over the country.
| But we will appeal to our Democratic friends,
and ask them if they do, if they dare to, call
Messrs. Skunk and Buchanan's opposition 10
the WiImot Proviso, Pennsylvania Democracy.
/. is not the democracy Of Jefferson, for he
wrote the ordinance of 1887 from which the
Wilmot Proviso is copied; nor Of Madison, fol
he advocated it; nor of the democrats of thai
day, for they almost unanimously sustained it
II has never been the Democracy of Pennsyl
vania, for the policy of the State has been con
sisen, in opposition TO the extension Of slavery
II is not the Democracy of Mr.. Wilmo,, the au
thor Of the Proviso, nor Of a majority of the del
egation who sustained it. II is not the democ
racy Of Pennsylvania now, for every one of lheil
representatives in the Legislature voted for the
Proviso at the last session. Whose Democra
cy rs it then! Mr.. Polk, Skunk, and Buchan.
ans
We cannot be convinced that the people o
Pennsylvania will be blinded to the imporan
dates arising from DOtiical issne an vii n,