Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-09-08

free institutions and calmly and considerable
to evolve the duty which is incumbent upon
every Freemen in view of the love he bears his
country and her freedom.
z To JOHN c.. CALHOUN is owing many of the
narrow and sectional dogmas which have usurp-
ed in the South the liberal and national views
once entertained by her statesmen. From his
bold but reasonable schemes has arisen much
of the sectionalism and intolerance which
threatens to subyert the spirit of our free in
situations, and to make our land not the home
of the free, but one great and extended land
of stripes and oppression. His fertile magma
ton early conceived the idea of a Southern
Republic, and the stern will and in1exible in
tegrity of Old Hickory, which crushed his trea-
son in its early stages, turned his active mind
into other cannels, and made him a monoma-
MAC upon the subject of supposed Southern
wrongs. From notification and secession came
those dogmas about slavery, which have since
been received by the whole South, and which
at the time of their PRONUNCIATION were so mon
strous and manifestly repugnant to the Con
s%titution, so opposed to the spirit of our insti-
of our patriotic sires, as to startle and alarm
the whole country, and found little or no favor,
out of South Carolina. How these doctrines
have become so generally received, is easy of
solution. Slavery in some respects is like
vice-for
Though a monster of such hideous mien,
That to be hated needs to be seen
Yet seen too oft, familiar with it's face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace"
1t can hardly be expected that an institu-
ton in which so much capital is invested, which
is so compact and united in its interests, should
not be used for political purposes, and courted
by ambitious and designing men. This is the
secret of the proscriptive and intolerant spirit
which slavery now assumes, making and con-
trolling Presidents and moulding the legisla-
ton of the country for its own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
1t has been courted and sought after so much
by aspirants that it has learned its power to
corrupt and seduce Northern men, and has be-
come arrogant. Shareholders have gradually
relinquished the doctrines and opinions Of JET
FERsoN and his compeers, and seeing in the in
%stitution a source of political power and inhu-
ence, have been ready to embrace different
views, and to seize upon every opportunity to
extend the institution and increase its influence.
Selfshness has usurped the place of patriotism
patronage overcomes philanthropy.
The Missouri Compromise and the Jefferson
Ordinance, after the acquisition of Florida, de-
barred the further spread of slavery. The
South ounditself shut up within existing limits,
without a possibility of extending the area of
slavery. The annexation of Texas was con-
ceived, and the plot so adroitly carried out,
that the North sacrificed MARTIN VAN buren,
for his far-seeing sagacity, and expended its
enthusiasm in concentrating a shrewd scheme
for the extension of slavery. Emboldened by
this success, came the Mexican war-a contest,
which however much its declaration may be
justified by the laws of nations, was unques-
tionably hurried on for the purpose of acquir-
ing new fields for slave labor. From that time
there has been no proposition too monstrous
for the South, which was designed to strength
en- the institution. Her public men have given
themselves up to the one idea of Mr.. CALHOUN,
viz to so increase the power of the slave
states that they should be a preponderance ia
the Nation. For this object, national faith has
been disregarded, compacts the most binding
and solemn been violated, the patronage and
influence of the General Government, misap-
piled and prostituted.
The inward strides of slavery propagandism
have become most alarming. Already the most
gross and unjustifiable measures are adopted
and encroachments made upon the rights of
the North, which point to an ultimate attempt
to crush out Northern sentiment. If the next
five years shall witness the same progress made
in this direction as has been made in the last
five, it will be Unlawful to hold the views of
Freedom, and high treason to doubt the d.
vine origin and benefcent operation of slavery
propagandism. Looking at the past, are we
not justified in such a fear? Would it be any
more progress than slavery has made, in her
outrageous demands When the Judiciary
bows down before the institution, setting law
and justice at defiance, to uphold the sacred
ness of slavery, and to render nugatory the
freedom of our institutions, what may we not
expect?
The dangers that threaten the North and
her duty in this crisis, shall next receive our
attention.
bs~ In another column will be found an
article from the Erening Post, in regard to
the disintegration of parties. We invite for