M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1856-09-04
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| We gave our readers an article upon thi
subject a few weeks ago, showing int mel
her WashlngtOn nor Jefferson. during thei
administrFsionr, favored Congressional ip
reference with the subject of slavery. TIT
former, in his Farewell address, warne'
the people against sectional parties snt
charged them to frown indignantly upon the
fist dawning Of any attempts to ALLEVIATE ons
lportion Of the Union from the other. Yet
our opponents declare they want to ''bring
back the government to the principles OF
Washington!"
Thos. Jefferson, in not less than eight
different letters, plSinly condemned geo
graphical lines and sectional parties. On
the 18th Of February, 1921, he wrote as
follows; "All, fear, do not see the tpeck
in our horizon which is to burst on US as o
tornado sooner or later. The line of diyis-
ion lately marked out between the differ
ent portions Of our confederacy, Is such as
will never, | fear, be obliterated."
He wrote, Nov. 4, 1898, to Lafayette -
f" On the eclipse Of federalism with US,
though not its extinction, its leaders got up
the Missouri Question, under the false front
of lessening the measure Of slavery, but
with the real view Of producing geograPh-
ical division OF parties. which might insure
them the next President. The people OF
the north went blindfolded into the snare,
following their leaders for awhile with a
zeal truly moral and luudable, until they be-
came sensible that they were injuring in
stead of aiding the real interest Of the slave
that they had peen used merely as tools
for electioneering purposes-End that trick
of hypocrisy then fell as quickly as it had
been gotten up
Now is It not singular that the sectional
lists Of the present day, who have produced
as far they have been able, ga geograPhi-
cal division of partes,' should claim to be
the disciples Of Thos. Jefferson! Are they
ignorant or dishonest! ..
In letter dated Feb. 10, 1920, from
Madison to President Monroe, he says: IL
find the idea is fast spreading, that the zeal
with which the extension Of slavery $50
called is opposed, has, with the cOalesced
leaders, an object far different from the well
fare of slaves or the check to their increase;
and that the real object is, as you intimate,
to form new state of parties, to be foun-
ded on local, instead Of political distinctions;
thereby dividing the republicans of the north
from those Of the south and making the for
mer instrumental in giving the opponents
Of both an ascendency over the WHOLE"
Just what the abolitonists are now try
ing to Accomplishing obtain power by ar.
raging the stronger against the weaker por-
ton of the confederacy! 10 this Madison
was opposed, and the democracy Of to-day
oppose it! Still the agitators claim TO be
the peculiar disciples of Madison!
President Monroe, Feb. l6, 1920, wrote
to Judge Roane, of Virginia--"I consider
this an Gtrocious attempt in certain per
sons to grasp at power and, being very
artfully laid, as more likely to succeed than
any other effort know that the people
of the east are devoted to the Union, as
they are in every other quarter; but still,
the eastern people connect this question
with sentiment of liberty. without duly
appreciating its effect on the people ot the
southern States, and are also taught to be-
lieve under the sectional impression made
on them, that if something like division is
not agreed on, all power will be transferred
from them"
The sgitators Of the north in 1920 were
the same sort of fellows that we have in
1856. They cried out against the "aggres-
sions of the slave power" then, and they
do go now. Shrieks for ''freedom" were as
common then as now. The difference be.
tween the Rufus King fed.ralists of that
day and the Chase and Giddings ugitutors
of the present, is simply in the fact that
while the former denounced Jefferson, Mad
ison and Monroe with their party as "slave-
drivers" and slavery extensiOnists," the
latter claim to be the true representatives
Of the sentiments Of those great men!
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