Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-08-14

when you strike the chain las you POLITICALLY
fancy from the limb of the slave, you start
great famine and desolation abroad through
his happy home Have you told him, that bis
prosperity depends upon the protection of the
South in their rights and interests-and that
you destroy his, by striking down hers?
If these exports be lost where is your Marines
Where is the gallant New England Tar? If
they be lost TO you too, where is your Navy2
If these exports be lost, where is your Com
| merce? Where your commercial cities? Where
New York? Boston? Philadelphia?
Let Black Republicanism repeal the lao Of
climate and soil, which has peopled the South
ern States with Saxon masters and African
slaves, and the continent would feel it-nay-
the civilized world would quake the pillars of
its prosperity would tremble-and its pride and
its glory would pershl
Now It will be said, 1--WE do not propose to
interfere with slavery as it s--it is only to pre-
| vent its spread that we labor"
Whether you propose it or not; you desire
| it--and had you the power, constitutional and
voting power-you would make the South
St. Domingo! Ifyou would not, you are vile
hypocrites?
But you shall not escape under this subter-
fuge. If you had lived in the days of our
fathers, you would have made no covenant
with Heli"-you would never have permitted
the slave trade until lS08-you would have
embodied the emancipation spirit in the Con-
stitution and extinguished slavery before this
in the South.
! In other words-you would have done for the
present slave States what you propose to do
for future States-forbid slavery in them for
ever.
Had you done in 1889, the great interests
which now depend on southern production
would not now exist, and the prosperity which
our fathers policy initiated would never have
grown up under yours. The South would
never have been peopled-her power, her pro-
ductions. her influence would not have been
felt: cotton would not have clothed your poor,
fed your laborers, poured wealth into the
Golfers of your rich, built your cities, and filled
the sails of your triumphant marine.
Ye generation Of vipersl you would have
crushed the infant Hercules in the cradle Of
his being, as you would now destroy him in
his colossal maturity.
And now, when new fields Of future pros.
perity for the South, and through her for you,
are opened to her by the genial climate and
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soil eager to nourish her great products, of our
new territories, you seek to dwarf our future
growth, as your policy would have prevented
our past advancement, by repeating the laws
Of God, violating the Constitution of our fathers,
aud planting the seeds of discord between the
children of brothers, who fought together on
the battle fields Of the Revolution! Shame
upon such traitors Eternal condemnation be
poured upon such impious treasonl
| Let the North and the South live under the
laws of climate and soil. The Constitution
refuses to repeal them. The law of 1920 sought
to do so. The laws of 1850 restored them, by
repeating it. and the Kansas bill re-enacted
| theml
| Mr.. Burlingame wants an anti-slavery Bible
and an anti-slavery God! Until such can be
instituted, or selected by the steaming fanatics
who iniest the northern States, let us be con-
tent, and make him submit to the laws of a
climate and soil which his fat and furious
blasphemy cannot force into subsection to the
edicts of a mad fanaticism. Climate nor soil
will regard you, Mr.. Burlingame. Swell and
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ton, or the Clifton House." climate and soil
will not become universally anti-slareyy. They
have received their orders, and, like loyal sub
jects of the great law-giver, will make you
yield the obedience which they cheerfuly rem
der
We sum up:
The slave will not be carried where climate
and soil exclude him. National interest, North
and South, demand he should be where they
do not
The Kansa, law leaves him subject to the
law Of climate and SOIL
| Obedience to that law has made us glori-
ously prosperous and happy, and will make us
more So
To repeal It retro,pectirely would destroy us
now, and to repeal it prOspectirely would dwarf
US hereafter.
The Constitution forbids such repeal-the
hopes Of the world forbid 1.-THE spirits Of the
Fathers Of the Republic forbid it. Our own
peace, our great banded interests, our future
destiny, all demand that human fanatcism
shall cease to tamper with divine law, and shall
not make the continent Of America, the home
Of humanity's new hopes, the scene Of dis
union, discord, and death.
| TO THE CALM AND UNPREJUDICED.
Mr.. BUCHANAN, in his letter Of acceptance,
truly says: "That the agitation of slavery has
been productive Of good to no human being;
that on the contrary, the whole history Of