The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-08-09
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For the National Era
Sc ION A Ii s II ,


the time of the great contest between the par.
tisans of the elder Adams and Jefferson, when
everybody said this Union would be at an end
IL their favorite candidate should not be elected
President. Jefferson was known to be tby his
opponents) Jacobin, or what is termed now a
Red Republican, and, worse than all. he was a
Deist, and some said an Atheist; and the Re.
public would surely go to destruction if he were
elected President. Well, he was elected the
Chief Magistrate of this nation, and served the
country faithfully for eight years. and died poor.
The country went on prospecting and to prosper
and has continued to prosper ever since; and
have no doubt those who live in the next cen.
tury will see this Government revolving in lis
orb as steadily and firmly as it does now. and
has done for time past, encircling galaxy OF
perhaps hundred States, and hundred mil.
lion inhabitants.
i have been led to these remarkably reading
an article in the National IIsteIligencer of july
24th, signed Esprit of 49," from the New Yorl;
Journal Of Commerce. The article is evidently
pro-slavery article; the author denounces all
isms," except Slaveryism, and all propagand.
lists, as tending to destroy the Republic, except
the propagandists of the Slave Power. The
writer is probably a STAKEHOLDER of the South,
now soiourning in New York, and he is irving
10 frighten the inhabitants of the North by
Union, if they dare to vote in certain way.
Hear him: IF the Free Soil organization is
suffered to persevere by those behind IL, it may
accomplish deed next winter, at Washington,
in a single sitting, which time, nor talent nor
treasure, can ever repair. If 1t shall make the
restoration of the Missouri Compromise or the
repeal of the Nebraska Act n sine qlta non, and
refuse to vote the supplies unless one or both
succeed, then--then, as certainly the pen in
our hand traces these lines will the days of the
Republic be but bygone days" Whew! what
hot weather il is; thermometer at 93o.
Il recolect the times of 1920, when the Mis-
souri, agitation threw the public into a fever
This agitation lasted, think, from 1918 to
lS2l-four sessions of Congress. The Southern
shareholders then threatened the dissolution of
the Union, if Congress attempted to legislate
10 restrict Slavery. Well, Congress did pass a
law forbidding Slavery to be brought into the
Territories north of SO 30>, and the courts
sustained the law, and the Union was not dis
solved.
Again, in 1850, the Missouri Compromise
reafirmed, and sundry other acts passed,
offensive TO the free States, and yet the Union
was not dissolved. In 1853, the law of Con
gress of 1920, restricting Slavery TO the south
of 3Go 30>, was REPEALED measure highly of
fensive to the Northern and Western States
pulling down the bars, as it did, and letting in
the negroes, like weeds, to ovcrspread the land;
and yet the Union not dissolved.
IL Congress, the coming session, in its wis
dom enacts a law restricting Slavery to the
south OF So 30, it is probable the people will
submit, notwithstanding the vaporings OF the
esprit of TO- or any kindred spirit. Esprit
of TO- indeed The Spirit of 70 rallied her
sons TO fight the battles of Freedom. This
false spirit urges the spread of Slavery, and
n ~ e /.
Unioni The members of Congress must act
under duress, and do the biddings OF this
esprit"
This writer speaks Of a volcano upon which
the free States are inconsideratey standing"
lie has evidently made mistake: it is the
States who hold slaves that stand upon the
volcano. They are in constant danger of SER
vile instruction, and they know not the day
nor the hour when it may take place. Some
OF the hot lava may reach the border free
States, but all the others viii be unframed,
except the harm they meet in rushing TO the
battle to save their Southern fellow-citizens
from destruction. The free States, being free
from Slavery, are free from this eruption, and
know Of none other. They have defended
themselves for two hundred years against all
their enemies and it is probable they are able
still to defend themselves. Ii is the slavehold-
ing States that have TO fear dissolution of the
Union, and they know it. They know that
there is gnawing at theT vitals, and in
the free States which surround them consists
their safety. They know that the Constitution
binds every white freeman of the North to
shoulder his musket. and march into the South
ern swamps and Marshes TO Suppress insur-
rection."
The slave States will be the last States to
dissolve this Union. Think you the South
will, like the base Indian, "throw a pearl away
richer than all his tribe 2" Sever Govern
ment which never could be reconstructed 2"
Ii any of the Southern States should be mad
enough to secede from the Union, there will be
no necessity for reconstruction of the Govern
ment OF The free States their Governments are
already constructed; these States would continue
to elect their Governors aud members of the
State Legislatures, and send members to Con-
gress, and elect a President every four years.
under the present Constitution; and if the Rep
resentatives from the slave States did not APP
pear in Congress. the laws might not be bind
ing upon them; but the people of the free
States would be bound hy them. and the Off
GERS OF the army and the navy would be obliged
20 submit to the lays of Congress-, and the
Federal courts would be bound by them. We
commenced with nine States, and we can 90
back 10 nsne States, and still keep the Govern
ment in motion.
III ID Tor those VINO Secetc To reconstruct q
Government, 20 build a navy, and form an army.
They couldn't have ours without fight; we
might consent TO let. some OF the States retire
peaceably if they wished it; but they couldn't
have any of the property divided among them,
until the death of the old man who has posses
sion. And. Uncle Sam is not dead yet, and he
says he isn't an old mamie is a young man,
and he intends TO keep the family property to-
gether as long AS he lives. Some of the boys
may run off, and some of the sister States y
too; but he says he will disinhera all who run
away, and keep the property for those who
stay.
"Tbe Free Soil organization, il it he not the
most complete within ITSELF is, nevertheless, the
most formidable as party" which the slave
holders have to encounter, in their nefarious
plans Of planting negro slaves in the Central
Western States. And / imagine it is the in.
tention of this organization to persevere In their
determination to plant free white men in the
Territory of Kansas, and exclude black Slave.
ry. And / think that this organization will not
be deferred from its purpose by any threats of a
dissolution Of the Union, by any STAKEHOLDER OF
his allies.
The freemen of the Western States do not
intend that one of the openings of AZ the volca
no" shall be under them, which is now under
the South. SPIRIT OF rs.
THE JAMAICA NEGRO DIFFICULTY.
The Norfolk (va.) Argus publishes the fol
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