Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-12-07
Cbe lewisburs Cbroaifle.
FRIDAY. DEG. :. 1853.
In Union is Str1nSth.

is called at Huntingdon for the 18th inst.
We regret that Court Week will dctain
US, but hope to learn that those who meet
may agree upon measures that shall tend
next fall, and the acgrcssions of Slavery
be thereby checked. To do this, many Of
us must yield, or waive for the time, such
minor differences as would hinder perfect
union. In times OF danger, Christians are
wont to forget all dcnominational peculiar
ities-to subordinate the minor to greater
interests. During the trying era Of &c,
hundred lesser matters were forgotten in
the great struggle TO secure Constitutional
Liberty When that victory was won,
Constitution was perfected, under which
the foreign slavc-tradc was decreed to be
piracy, Slavery itself was by silence barely
tolerated as a sectional institution, and by
the first Congress was indeed abolished in
all the Chem slave territory northwest of
the Ohio
Times have indeed changed. Those who
fought the War of Independence are not
yet in their graves, bat already the foun-
dation stone of the Declaration of Indep-
endence is scoffel at is a "faniaronade of
nonsense" by Governors and Congress
men. Now, large organized party called
"National Democrats" repuiiate the doc
trine that all men have an inalienable
right to Liberty, and proclaim as the main
plank in their platform that a bare major
ity may establish Slavery wherever they
choose. They have expended millions Of
dollars in adding thousands Of square miles
of slave-cursed soil to our domain. They
have monopolizcd the National Offices, and
while contributing the least have drawn
the most in proportion from the Nat!ona.
Treasury. They have dccrecd Slavery t.
be National institution, which they may
establish anywhere they choose, They have
violated a sacred compact IN order to force
Slavery upon soil which had been dedica-
ted to freedom for ever" and in - doing
they wink at anl encourage the most
gross and palpable violations Of individual
and constitutional rights Through this
party, the Slave Oligarchy-composed Of
a few thousand active aud rcsolutc men
rule the Nation, aud some of the nominal
Free States The next Presidential Elec
ton will in a measure decide whether this
odius Oligarchy under the cloak of % Ma
tional Democracy shall extend Slavery
indefinitely, or whether we shall be truly a
Republic, and like our fathers favor LIbcr-
ty aud oppose Slavery.
In our own State also, there is work to
do. A blameless Quaker was Shut up IN
prison three months, by a |. :. Circuit
Judge, for telling a woman the truth that
by the laws of the State she was free and
four out of five Supreme Court Judges
declared they could not relieve him, but
coward like surrendered their own dignity
and the rights of Penusy lvauia to crea-
ture of the President who had declared
that slaves may be held by owners while
passing through Pennsylvania, (and if for
one day why not for two, or ten, or fifty,
or hundred, or a thousand days:) Our
State must assert her right to protect the
liberty of her own citizens against every
agent of the Slave Oligarchy, and prohib-
it, at once and for ever, all Slavery upon
her soil.
Strange as it may seem, nine out of
ten of those who have fed from the desp0-
tisms of the Old World, have enlisted in
the ranks Of the Slave Oiigarchy in the
New. America has been made the recep-
taclo of the alms-houses and prisons Of
Europe. Far the greater proportion OF our
paupers and criminals, are alien-born.
The mass of adopted citizens-not all
from the first are linked in with the Pro-
Slavery influences, and have aided in every
triumph Slavery has achieved. Mostly
Papists, they voted against and defeated
LISGHUYsEN the President Of the Bible
Society-and Texas triumphed. They
swelled the power which elevated Pierce
over ScoTT, and inauguratcd the Slave
Despotism at Washington which originated
and upholds the Kansas outrages. Linked
hand in hand, this Foreign and Slavocra-
tic influence are sapping the foundations
of Constitutional Liberty, and would in
few years completely pervert our Republic
into an Aristocracy all under the abused
name of "Democracy.'
The power Of the Pope thro' hi, subjects
to aid Slavery in its assaults, must be met
and checked. JACKSON said, thirty years
ago, at is time We became more Amcric-
anized > and certainly the character Of
immigrants has not improved since that
warning was uttered An extension of the
time for naturalization to all who seek our
shores hereafter, and keeping out foreign
paupers and convicts, are measures not
improper in themselves, and which self
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