Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-08-24


come numerous enough to be admitted as a
free State, they could afterwards establish the
institution, even if the Missouri line or the
act of 1920 had not been disturbed. Sup
pose, for example, that any of the States
covered by the ordinance of 1877, were at
this time to establish slavery, where would
be the remedy? There would be none If
the people of territory should desire to have
the institution, but perceiving that Congress
might object to their admission into the Union
they could forbear to establish it until after
their admission, and then DO as they might
dee-a lest Hence the wisdom of allowing
that power to control in the beginning, that
will most certa<sly control in the end, or at
a subsequent period.
1t is not to be denied that there is most
violent and unwarrantable spirit evoked by
this slavery conflict, that should be discounte-
nanced blythe good men of all parties. 1t is
one of the enigmas of human nature, that it
can become so unreasonable In some of its
manifestations. Our A1ki-Nebraska friends
should take care lest the mania of wild
and ungovernable fanaticism should possess
them as it has already possessed many Others
The infammatory and tres ssonable proceedings
OF an abolition convention in the city of New
York, not long since, calls for the earnest
condemnation of every lover of our national
Union.
Wendell Phillips said
''The Union sentiment is the great vortex
which swallows up the great minds, and they
have power enough for the time being to in
fuence the people. The only remedy for
the slave is the destruction of the govern
ment. / challenge any man to tell me what
the Union has done for u.s."
W., ,1roDocad tba fo1Iox.ino, roso
luton:
Resolved, That the one grand vital issue
to be made with the slave power, is the disso-
luton of the American Union"
Henry G. Wright spoke to the resolution
and said
Il like that resolution very much This
country denies God, or if it believes in God,
[ do not The Christian God is the most ac-
cursed OF demons. No mans right can be
ascertained by reference to Bible, law,
or a Constitution. don't care that (snapping
his finges) for any such book or Constitution,
when the question of liberty or slavery is to
be considered. The only thing of Importance
is that the mass of the people venerato the
Constitution. We should endeavor to do away
with this. / thank God that / am a traitor to
that Constitution I thank God also that /
am an infdel to the popular religion of this
country and of all Christendom"
The Hon. Edmund Quincy said:
1.-The Constitution displayed the ingenuity
of the very devil; and that the Union ought
to be dissolved" !"
This was during the tendency of the Ne
braska and Kansas bill before Congress. At
the same time the leading Abolition journals
were loud in their denunciations of the bill it
self; and reasonable in their opposition to
the action of the Government.
Horace Greeley said in reference to the
passage of the bill:
''Better that confusion should ensue-better
that discord should reign in the National
Councils that Congress should break
up in wild disorder. nay, better that the capi-
tai itself should blaze by the torch of the in
cendiary, or fall and bury all its inmates be-
meath its crumbling ruins, than that this per-
fidy and wrong be finally accomplished"
There were many reasonable exhibitions
also, by the same class of men, during the
recent Anniversary of American Indepen-
dence. At some places the bells were tolled,
as if mourning for some great calamity. At
Farmingham Massachusetts REASONABLE
speeches were delivered, after which Garri-
son, above named, burned the Constitution
of the United States and the Fugitive Slave
triotism IS Benedict Arnold or himself
Such are the incendiary and infammatOry
sentiments with which despicable fanatics are
endeavoring to indoctrinate the minds of the
Northern people. Such sentiments are the fit
precursors of the recent riots and murder III
Boston, trampling the Constitution and Laws
under the foot of violence.
Let us therefore, fellow citizens, discard the
doctrines of the Abolitionists and anti-slavery
agitators, and look upon the opinions which
they have promulgated and are now promul-
eating, as the false lights thrown out by the
ancient Federalists, during the Missouri con-
troversy, to mystify the people and regain lost
power
We have great confidence in the doctrine of
popular sovereignty, and in the justice and
wisdom of the people. They have saved the
country in many important crises IN our affairs.
1t was the people that settled the government
upon the republican platform after the Fede-
ralists of 1898 were driven from power. 1t
was the people who sustained jackson against
the mammoth bank 1t was the mass of the
people that have always uphe Id the country
in time of war. 1t is to the people that We
must look for protection against the miserable
treason and despicable wiles of the enemies of
the republic. The people of ofPennsylvania Will
be true to their constitutional obligations, and
their triumph in 1851 and 1852, are eviden-
ces, that they are not only willing to be So,
but also that they have the power to be so.
The day of wild fanaticism and stolid bigotry
on the question of slavery has passed by IN
this State, and her Democracy and her people
generally have planted themselves upon the
principles of the Compromise of 1880, and
there they will continue to stand, whether VIC
tory or defeat awaits them. They are willing
to see the citizens of the territories determin