The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-11-07

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the slavery agitation, concludes with the
following, which contains some ideas OF
very serious consideration. We, however,
cannot think that the fugitive slave law
viii ever be resisted or repealed-that
the constitution framed by Washington
Franklin, Miffiin, Morris, &C., will be
nullifed, and this Union dissolved on a
question Of such comparative insignifcance:
But suppose that union of all the alb
oiltIonists in the State wings, democrats,
and nggers-should give Seward tri-
i.umph. Other States of the North would
follow the example, and the democrats
would not lose the chance of a final and
complete victory. They would, in spite
of everything, become the national party.
The whole South would 60 with them, 10
a man; old issues of tariff, sub-treasury,
&C., would be forgotten entirely; and the
great question-slavery- absorb all
other considerations.
The next great point would be the do
lngs of the Congress of December, 1852.
That Congress will be elected, part This
fail, part next spring, and the rest year
hence. That Congress will find, when it
Ensembles, a new state of things. The
slavery question will be the paramount
question till it is permanently settled.
Everything will have to give way 10 it.
The two parties will then be the Union,
or constitutional party, and the additional
party. The whole South will go with the
former. II may devolve on the Congress
TO elect President, and the hope is that
the constitutional party will be strong
enough TO put in man who will carry
out the will of the people and abide in the
compromises and guarantees of 1889.
This is what the South ask for, and it is
what they will have, or they will be forced
10 leave the Union. To this point things
seem now to be tending. Congress has
passed the Fugitive Slave Bill. It was
the only thing the South gained in the
compromise; and this was no real gain.
1t only secured TO them what the constitu-
ton of 1889 had pledged-the restoration
of .'fugitires held 10 labor" The Con-
stitution had already bound the free States
10 deliver up every fugitive slave; and had
the compact been truly and honorably
carried out the new bill would have been
unnecessary. But The South felt insecure,
and she wanted an Interpretation of the
old contract by living men-the men
whose fathers had bound them. The
North gave ii; and now, when the South
asks TO have this fresh guarantee carried
out, the whole of ihe abolition party rises
en- nlasse, and says il shall not be done.
HeIe is the issue, clear as daylight.
! How viii il be decided Here is the end.
Either the present Congress, al the next
session, will Abolish this law, Or confirm
ii. In the former case, the South might
secede from the Union. She is driven
into corner where there is no escape.
She knows it-she feels it-she declares
it-and she will do it-she has no other
course.
| Men of the North, will you sustain the
course of your representatives In the last
session of Congress If you will, the
Union is safe; if not, ii is gone; and be il
remembered, now the issue is with you,
and on your heads will fall the conse-
sequences.
| And when the final question is decided,
and the Union broken up, what will be
the upshot of il on you, your families,
your interests Step long enough to ask
yourselves this question. The South will
not war upon you, she will leave you.
And there are your markets, your manu-
! factures, your commerce, Jour agriculture,
your rents. investments, your domestic
relations Have you measured the extent
| of the evil to yourselves and your chill
dren? Above all have you calculated the
consequences 10 mankind of the final fail
ure of the only successful attempt ever
made on earth to establish a permanent
basis for the fair fabric of republican insti-
tutions! Why did you send up your
lamentations over the fall of Hungarian
freedom, or the destruction of the republic
of Rome And yet what was all this
compared TO the final extinction of the
republic at Washington! Look at the
portraits of your ancestors and answer the
Iquestion
| And at last, when the American repub-
lie is dead and laid in the grave of the
father of his country-when the ruin is all
wrought-what will have been the cause
of it all What will you have gained
even for the negro, and on whose heads
will execrations of the oppressed and for,
) lorn of all nations fall The Union will
be broken up, because you violated the
terms of the original compact, and drove
the South into secession-you were lee
blindfolded to the perpetration of tha
damnabIe work. And will you have
achieved the emancipation of the slave
or bettered his condition By no means
Your three millions of Africans are there
still; but cross that line to free them, ant
the first man of you will be shot, lol
5 have rendered emancipation impossible