M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1856-08-21
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THURSDAY, AUn.

world of spirits, to beware OF sectional dh
visions, and to from upon their first dGiCR-
ing. Beware Of family strifes, the worst and
most fatal Of others.
Now what did Jefferson say on the very
subject now .ogitated by the disuniohsts-
this very Missouri Compromise, for his
life fortunately was spared until that fatal
period Of our history. Though that coun-
Try was then only the abode of Indians, and
few cared for the future so they passed
safely over the present. But the keen eye
ofJeiferson,th fast and original friend Of the
great territory west OF the Mississippi which
he purchased and explored through LeVis
Nnd Clark, saw danger and trouble ii, ,the
future. That future is upon us, and we
havebut to refer TO his opinions Of the mad
act of 0ongressional intermeddling. Here
are his RECORDED opinions-read them and
confront your enemies and the enemies Of
your country:
SOURI, COMPROMISE. I'VE call the especial
attention Of the Abotlonists North, and
their aiders, the Know Nothings, South,
TO the letter of Mr.. Jefferson written to Mr..
John Holmes, and which reads as follows !:
MONTICELLO, April %, 1920.
| thank you, dear sir. for the copy you
have been SO kind as to send me Of the let
ter to your constituents on the Missouri
question. 1t is "a perfect justification to
them. Ihad for long time ceased to read
newspapers or pay any attention to public
affairs, confident they were in good hands,
and content to be a passenger in our bark
to the shore, from which / am not distant
But this mOmentous question, ike a.frs-bsll
in the night, awakened and filed me ,Oith
terror. / considered ii at once as the knell
ofhs Union.
10 is hushed, indeed, for the moment but
this is a reprievc only mt a final sentence,
a geographical line, cOinciding With mark
ed principle, moral Ond political, once con-
ceiDed and held up 10 tho angry passions Of
men, lDiH neuer be Obliterated and eUery aGiO
imitation tciH mark u deeper and deeper.
can say with conscious truth that there
is not a man on earth who'would sacrifice
more than / would TO relieve us from this
heavy rep.oach in any practicable way
The cession of that kind of property--for
so it is misnamed--is a bagatelle, which
would not cost me a second thought if in
that way a general emancipation aud erpa-
triation could be effected and, gradually
and with due sacrifices, think it might be.
But as it is, we have the wolfby the ears,
and we can neither hold him nor safely let
him go. Justice is in one scale and self
preservation in the other. or one thing
am certain that, as the passage of slaves
from one State to another would not make
a slave of a single human being who would
not be SO without it, so their diffusion over q
greater surface would make them individual
ly happier and proportionally facilitate the
accomplishment of their emancipation by
dividing the burthen on greater number
of coadiutors. An abstinence, too, from this
act of power would remove the jealousy ex-
cited by the undertaking Of Congress to reg
ulate the condition Of the different descrip-
tions of men composing State.
This certainly is the exclusive right Of Gu
cru STATE, wkich nothing in The ConstitU-
fi0n has taken from them and given to the
General Government. Could Congress,
for example, say that the non freemen of
Connecticut shall be freemen, that they
shall not emigrate into any other State |
regret that am now to die in the belief that
,he useless sacrifice of themselves by the
generation of 1776 to acquire self-govern-
ment and happiness to their country, is to
be thrown away by the unwise and unwor-
thy passions of their sons, and that my on
" consolation is to be that | live not to
weep over it. If they woulo but dispassion-
dtely weigh the blessings they will throw
away against an abstract principle more
likely to be effected by union than by se-
cesson, they would pause before they would
perpetrate this act of suicide on themselves
and of treason against the hopes OF the
world.
To yourself, ss the faithful advocate Of
the Union, l tender the offering ofmy es'
TEEN and respect.
The above letter is to be found in Jefier-
scn's Writings, 4th vol, PIP. 1884.
A Letter from Mr.. Jefferson to JohnAd.
ans on the Missouri Restriction.
We extract the following from Mr.. JEFF
ferson's letter to Mr.. Adams, written at
Monticello, Jan. %, 1921. The letter can
be found in the writings of Thomas JefIer-
son, page 33s, vol. a. 1t reads as follows
Our anxieties in this quarter are all cong
centrated in the question, What does th,5
holy aIliance.in and out of Congress mean
to do with us on the Missouri question
And this, by-the-bye, is but the name of the
case, it is only the John Doe and Richard
Roe of the ejectment. The real question,
as seen in the States afflicted with this unfor-
tunate population, is, are our slaYes to be
presented with freedom and dagger For
If Congress has the pO,Oer to regulate the
conditions of the inhGJitdnS of the States
l0ithin the States, ii ,0il be but another
exercise Of hat pOlcer to declare that all shall
be free.
Are we then to see again Athenian and
Lacademonian confederaCies, to wage anoth-
-er PeIopcnnesiars war TO settle the ascen-
dency between them or is this the tocsin
dfmerely a seryile war? That remains to
be seen but not hope, by you or me-
Surely they will parley awhile to give us
time to get out of the way. WhaG a bed
lamite is man. But let us turn from our
own uneasiness to the miseries Of our south
ern friends.
The balance of the letter treats of the
condition and future prospects Of Boliver
and Morillo, which portion we deem it un-
necessary to publish. We call the especial
attention of Know Nothings and Abolition
lists to this letter.-OhiO StatesmaH.
The GREAT TRAvELLER.-Fremont is
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