The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1855-11-09


iSn;,sd States i equally within your power
If YOU only will persistentiy Tor TWO years
70 have Il. Notwithstanding all the wrong
Aha, ba. been done. not another slave state
can now come into'the Union Make only one
80 constant. decisive eGrt, and you can
as,s,mine what States shall be admitted:
They will exis, because the evil has be-
coma iniolerable, and the necessity OF
remedy Is universally acknowledged. What
then. 4 waniedi Organization orsaniza-
t;on nothing but organization.
Shall we organize : Why mott Can we
maintain the revolution so auspiciouSly be-
Gun without Organization Certainly not.
Are you apprehensive Of failure because the
revolution is not everywhere and at oil times
equally successfull Certainly not. Do you
saw that You cannot abolish slavery in the
privileged Statesi We have no need, no
purpose, no constitutional power, no duty to
do So. Providence has dcyolyed that duty
on others. and The organic law leaves il wise
l, to them We have power to prevent the
extension Of slavery in the territories Of the
Union and that is enough. Do you doubt
that power Did not the statesmen OF 1857
know the bounds OF constitutional power !
Somebody has municipal power in the unor.
ganixed territories IN the Union. WHO'S 10
IL is not any foreign State, il Is no, any OF
the American States, il is not the people IN
the territories u Is the Congress OF the
whole United States; and their power there
is supreme.
Are you afraid that the privileged class
will not submit? The privileged class are
human and they are wise. They know just
as well how 20 submit TO Just authority,
firmly and constitutionally exercised, as thsy
do how to extort unequal concessions by ter
Tor from timid men Can the Privileged
class i've wIr.uut Union any better than
YOU can, Tl,ey would not remain and wrau-
Gle with you an hour IL they could do So
Can they ever hope TO obtain another Union
so favorable 10 them rs this one, IL this should
be oyerthrown. Will they destroy them
selves that they may simply do harm to you
Did ever any privileged class commit such ab
surd suicide as this are you alone the keep
ers Of the Union have not the priyieg d class
interests as great TO maintain in the Union,
and are their obligations TO maintain Il differ
ent from your ownl
How shall we organize The evil is n
national one. The power and the influence
and the Organization Of the privileged class
peryade all parts Of the Union. IL knows no
North no South, no East, no West. IL is
stronger to day on the bay Of San Francisco,
surrounded by freemen, than il is on tho
Chesapeake bay, surrounded by slaves. IL
il not a sectional but national contest on
which we have entered. Our organization,
therefore must be a national one. The means
OF success are national. We must restore
the principle Of equality among the members
Of the States-thc principle OF the sacredness
Of the absolute and inherent rights OF man.
We want, then, an organization open 10 all
classes Of men, and that excludes none We
want bold. out spoken. iree-spoken organ
izatiOn, one that openly proclaims its princi'
pies, It's purposes and its obects-in fear OF
God and not OF man-like that army which
Cromwell led, that established the Common
wealth Of England. This is the organization
we want.
|, Is best 10 take an existing organization
that answers 10 these conditions IL we can
fluid one IL we cannot find one such, we
must create one. Let US Try existing parties
by this test. Shall we take the Know
Nothing party, or the American party, as i,
now more ambtiously names itself! II is
n purely sectional organization. In the
privileged States it scouts the principle Of
the equality OF man. and iustliies the un-
bounded claims ofihe privileged class. Ia
The the uuprivilesed States, il stiles lis
voice and supnres>es your own free speech
les, il might be overheard beyond The Poio-
mac. In the privileged States il juStiies
all the wrongs committed against you. In
the unprivileged Safes il affects TO cCndemn
them, hut protests Iney shall not be- redress
ed. speak not now OF lis false and ptcyd-
ricaiing rituals, it, unlawful aud unchrislian
oa,hs. lis clandesline councils and Us dark
cuuspi acies. ils MODS and It's murders, pro-
scriblne and Staying men for their con-
science-Sake and for The sake of ;heir ndliv-
it's. have spoken Of them oiten enough
and freely enough heretofore | say now
" lha, all these, equally unfit this social.
rd American parry for any national duty, and
qualify IL to be, what il has thus Tar been,
an auxiliary Swiss corps, engaging the
friend, OF freedom in premature skirmishes
at Que time, and decoying them into am
bushes prepared by their enemies a, another.
Let u pass by.
Snail we unite ourselves 10 the democrat
10 pariyl II so, TO which section or faction
The Hards, who are so stern in defending
the aagressions OF the privileged class, and
in Iebuking the administration through
whose agency they are commi,iedl Or the
Sos, that protest against these aggressions,
while they sustain aud invi:oratc lha, adj.
minislraiiOn Shall we suppose the demo.
cratic party reunited aud consolidated p
What Is il then but the same party which
l.. Ill -, a.. NJ MI Nhssn
eIessions, save one, and which urged, coLn-
selled aud co.operaled in that, and claims,
exclusively, the political benefits resulting
from IL Let the democratic party pass,
Shall We report ourselves TO the whig
pariyi Where is IL Gentle Shepherd,
icll me where! Four years ago /, was a
strong and vigorous party, honorable Tor
energy and noble achievements and still
more Tor noble enterprises. In 1852 II was
invited aud counseIled, aud moved by pan
ic and fears to emulate the democratic parry
in ils pracliseL subserviency TO the pri,ileg.
cd class, and j, yielded in spite Of your Te-
monsirances and mine. The privileged
class who had debauchcd II, abandoned IL,
because they knew that il could not vie
with It's rival in the humiliaiing service II
profered them, and now there is neither
viii. party nor whie, south OF the Potomac.
How is j, in the unpriyileged States
Out OF New York, the lovers Of freedom,
disguised with its PROCLAMATION, iorsook il,
and marched into any and every other or
ganizaiion. We have maintained il here,
and In its purity, until the sidets and abe,-
tors ofihe privileged classes, in retaliation,
have wounded j, ON all sides, am. it is now
manifesily no longer able TO maintain and
carry forward alone and unaided, the grea,
revolution that il inaugefaied. He is unfit
for a statesman, although he may be a
patriot, who will cling even 10 an honored
and faithful association, when il is reduced
so low in strength and numbers as to be en-
tirely Intellectual amid the con,es, OF grea,
parties by which republics are saved. Any
party, when reduced so lew. must Ultimate
ly dwlndle and dwarf into mere faction
Let, then, the whig party pass. I, commit
A A A = A I.