The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1855-12-20

Washington in the whiskey rebellion
in Pennsylvania.
The President is sworn to execute
the laws Of the Union; and when pro-
cess under law of the United States
is resisted, his duty intcrposes the ne
cessary military force in aid of the
civil process. But no legal process
under law of the United States is
resisted in Kansas. No marshal or
governor or legislature has called for
an armed posse to enforce law, Or the
militia to repel foreign invasion or
suppress domestic insurrection. The
punishment of lawless men rests with
the Judiciary, not with the executive.
The actual settlers of Kansas will
ultimately settle these local dissensions
The organic law Of the Territory
provides peaceful remedy. fla law
less legislature enact unconstitutional
laws in Kansas, as lawless legisla-
ture has Just done in Massachusetts,
the courts will pass upon them.
There is the remedy, like the peace
full remedy of law and constitution,
provided for all evils in our domestic
institutions. Not by violence, not by
usurpaton Of military despotism by
the President, not by civil war be-
tween the North and the South. Geo
graphical parties cannot remedy these
local evils. Voting all together at the
North against the South would effect
nothing but sectional evaporation,
and fighting would be civil war.
How plain it is, then, to calm COM
mon sense, that this sectional Fusion
party of the North can do no good to
the slave or to the country. The whole
of their party policy comes down to
the solution of the political problem,
how long the two sections, north and
south, can stand elimination, irita-
ton and collision, before they shall
come to the shock Of civil war and
dsunion. The North is to combine
in a grand foray upon the South, and
tie her to the sectional rack, while
these fusion doctors, SO much wiser
than Washington, who warned us
against geographical parties, are to
feel the pulse of the Union and tell Us
how much torture it will bear before
the patient expires! In plain Ian
guage, this new fusion anti-slavcry
party, which is to swallow up every
party except the democracy, is to
start for revolution or Northern Con
federacy. SO that, after forty years,
we are, here in New England and
New York, carried back to the old
conspiracy for Northern Confcdor-
, alton against the South, which John
Quincy Adams has left upon record
went so far in thc CID federal & demo-
cratic collision between North and
South, "that The proposal had been made
10 an indipidaM to be placed at the heai
of the miiita,y mopemem mhlch ii uaS
. forcscen mouid be necessary for car7y'"g g
ii into erccntion"ILetter of John z
Adams to Harrison Gray OTIS, Dec,
26, 1928.
When such an issue is made up a;
the North, the South must unite in self
defence for sclf-preservation. We al
the North have only an abstract senti-
i, ment, they at the South have interests.
property, life, involved in the strug-
, gle.
"Fusc" at the North on anti slavery
as "the paramount issue" Break up
all business and social intercourse be-
tween North and South. Sacrifice all
national interests, all federal relations
all advancement and expansion OF
: the country, and narrow down all
great ideas and enlarged statesman
ship into hatred of the South and dper-
secution of men foreign born! And
what then? The geographical par
> ties are formed which Washington
. warned his countrymen against as the
grave of the Union, and the ark oftht
!, Union will rest solely in the hands OF
the men of the north, whose love ofthe
Union and the white race is stronger
than their false philanthropy for tho
o negro.
Who can doubt the re 'ult of suci
. an issue, fearful as it will be, if made
: To sustain the Union and the faith o
the constitution will require but TWEEN
ty-nine electoral votes from all thu
=. free states, and the democracy ant
the Union men of the north will com
e mand many more whenever they arr
- required to put down the Treason
! = which this Fusion conspiracy is con
. cocting for the next presidential elec
ton. Maine has given her pledge
Pennsylvania and Indiana have spo
, ken, and even if Ohio seems now +
= have deserted to the black flag, tn
: :, free West will still prove loyal to tn
70 Union.
J. To what end, then, is this fusion G
a all other issues in a mere sectiona
n anti-slavery opinion at the north tha
A. cannot abolish slavery in a single stat
A. or territory where the people wish
70 have it, whether they remain in, q
:. are driven out of the Union? Whs
o. is to be the destiny of the twenty-tiv
A. millions of whites, while the countr.
Q arrayed in two hostile sections,
al fighting over the servile condition
re three millions of blacks? What bel
ID eft are the merchants, mechanic
is manufacturers, farmers and laborir
al men of the north to derive from tn
,;- sectional war about race whose p
r. litical condition can no more
he changed by it than the Ethiopian ca
v. change his skin or the leopard h
o. spots? =,