The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1854-09-01

rltories is greatly magnifed The right of
sovereign State 10 control this subject is not dis
pated even by aholitionistS. The right TO es-
tablish or abolish the institution is admitted.
The only effect that the legislation of Congress
can possibly have, must be confined 10 The ter
rItorial probation. OF a State, during which time
1t can exercise bat limited influence upon The
social or political affairs of the country. When
once admitted into the Union with slavery,
State can abolish tor admitted without if, she
can establish it. Should the people north of
BOD 30m in Nebraska become Numerous enough
to be admitted as free State, they could after
wards establish the institution, even If the Mis-
souri, hne or the actof 1920 had not been disturb
ed. Suppose, for example, that any ofthe States
| covered by the ordinance of 1887, were at this
time to establish slavery, where would be the
remedy There would be none. If the peo-
pie OF a territory should desire to have the in
stltntlon, but Perceiving that Congress might OBJ
Iect to their admission into the Union, they
could forbear to establish it until after their
admission, and then do as they might deem best.
Hence the wisdom of allowing that power to
control In the beginning, that will most GER
tainly control in the end, or at a subsequent
period.
1t is not TO be denied that there is most Vi
olent and unwarrantable spirit evoked by this
slavery conflict, that should be diScountenanced
by the good men of all parties. It is one Of the
enlgmas Of human nature, that il can become so
unreasonable fsome of It's manifestations. Our
Ant-NebraSka friends should take care lest the
mania of wild and uhgovernable fanaticism
should possess hem as it has already possessed
many others. The infammatory and treasona-
bic 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 Philips said =
s.The Unioh sentiment is the great vortex
which swallow up the great minds, and they
1 have power aough for the time being 10 influ-
eAce the people. The only remedy for the
slave Is the fsFuction Of the government.
|cliaIIrnge ant man TO tell me what the Union
has done fF hs''
VIM L9yd Garrison proposed the following
resoIntion
/ sReso{Adl That the59ne grand vital issue 10
| be made sfih the slave power, is the dissolu-
3tion ofthdexisting American Union.''
Henry q. Wright spoke 20 the resolution
and said
81 likelthat resolution very much. This
4 CSuHtty dFiitS ofbs VI u IL uCtiChFe III pod,
do not TIE Christian God iSthe most accursed
Of demons. No mans right can be ascertained
by referenceto Bible, law, or a ConStitu-
ton. don't care that Isnapping his fngersl
/ for any suchbook or Constitution, when the
question of berty and slavery is to be consid-
cred. The nly thing of importance is that the
mass of the oeople venerate the Constitution.
We should ndeavor to do away with this
4 1aI 10 fbof
ton. hak God also that am an inGdel to
the popular leligion Of this country and of all
ChriSendo1"
The Han Edmund Quincy said that ssThe
Constituting displayed the ingenuity of the We
ry devil, id that the Union ought TO be dis
solved"
This waduring the pendency of the Ne
braska andkansas bill before Congress. Att
same time e leading Abolition journals were
loud in the denunciatons of the bill itself
and rcasorble in their opposition to the action
of the goce7ment. Horace Greeley, through
the New XIX Tribune, said in reference TO
the contemated passage Of the bill
"Bptter tai confusion shonld enSue-better
, that diScordhoud reign in the National Coun-
cls-bettprhat Congress should break up in
wild disord, nay, better that the capital itself
should blazbv the torch Of the Incendiary, or
fall and buriall its inmates beneath It's crumb-
ling ruins tan that this perfdy and wrong be
f finally aecoipliShed."
Therrwef many treasonable exhibitions al
so, by te saae class of men, during the recent
, Annivtearyof American Independence. At
5 some pices he bells were toIled, as if mourn
, ing for;ome great National calamity. At Far
minghn, Massachusetts,, reasonable speeches
were eIiveraI, after which Garrison, above
. NAMED burned the Constitution of the United
Statrsand the Fugitive Slave Law, amid the
; appI8p of men OF as little patriotism as Bene-
dict tnold or himself.
Sth are the ncendiary and inhammatory
sentents with which despicable fanatics are
t pndeoring to indoctrinate the minds of the
: Norm people. Such sentiments are the fit
D precsors Of the recent riots and murder in
: Bost, trampling the Constitution and Laws
: und the foot of violence.
i Ilus, therefore, fellowcitizens, discard the
docbes of the Aboitionists and anti-savery
aeitas, and look upon the opinions which
7 themve promulgated and are now promul gat-
t ING, the false lights thrown out by the an
cienfederalists, during the Missouri contro-
versto mystily the people and regain lost
: pow
: Whave great confidence in the doctrine of
i, popr sovereignty, and in the Justice and WIS
dom the people They have saved the coun-
try many important criseses in our affairs.
o It ! the people that settled the government
n updhe republican platform after the FEEDER
ahsf 1898 were driven from power II was
theope who sustained Jackson against the
y mahoth bank 1t was the mass OF the people
if wBave always upheld the country IN time of
: wa l. is to the people that we must look for
nrftion against the miserable treason and