The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-10-09

being who would not be so without il. In.
deed If there be any morality N the ques.
ticn, it is on the other side, because by
spreading them over Q large surface, their
happiness would be increased, and the bur-
den OF their future liberation lightened by
bringing a greater number Of shoulders un-
der it. However, it seemed to throw dust
into the eyes of the people. and fansIicise
them, while to the knowing ones it gave a
geographical and prepondering line to the
Potomac and the Ohio, throwing fourteen
States to The North and East, and to the
South and West. With those, therefore,
1t is merely question Of power. But with
the geographical minority it is q question
Of existence, for IL Congress once goes out
Of the Constitution To orrogate the right Of
regulating the condition Of the inhabitants
of the States. its majority may, and proba
bly, will, declare that the condition of all
within the United States shall be that OF
freemen; in which all the whites south Of the
Potomac and the Ohio, must evacuate their
States, and most fortunate for those that can
do it first" . ... ........
He wrote December 90, 1929, to Lafay.
cite: r..
"With us, things are going on we'll. The
boisterous sea Of liberty, indeed is never
without wuve; and that from Missouri is
now rolling towards US. But we shall ride
over it as we have done all others. It is
not moral question, but one merely Of
power. Its object is to raise geographi.
cal principle for the course of the President
and the noise will be kept up until that is
effected"
On the 22d Of January, 1921, he wrote to
John Adams: ... .o. -.
"Our anxiety in this quarter is all con
cen'rated in this question, what does the
holy alliance in and out of Congress mean!
And this, by-the-by, is but the name OF the
case; it IS but the John Doe and Richard
Roe of the ejectment. The real question.
US seen in the States afflicted with this un-
fortunate population, is are our slaves to be
presented with freedom and dagger? For
if Congress has the power to regulate the
condition Of the inhabitants Of the States,
within the States, it will be but another
exercise Of that power to declare that all
shall be tree. Are we then to see again
Athenian and Lacedamonian confederaces! :!
To rage another Peloponessian war to set.
tie the ascendency between them! Or
is it the toscin OF merely a servile war?-
That remains to be seen; but not, l hope
by you and me. Surely, they will parley
a while, and give US time to get out Of the
way. s,-,.. Is ...,s ,.. ..,s....... ..
On the 5lh of February, 1921, he wrote
"All, fear, do not see the speck in our
horizon which is to burst as a tornado
sooner or later. The line of division,
lately marked out between different por.
tions Of our conIederacy is such as will
never, fear, be obliterated."
After the storm had passed over, he
wrote November 4th, 1928, to lafayette: /:
"On the eclipse OF Federalism with us.
though not its extinction, its leaders go,
up the Missouri question, under the false
form Of lessening the measures of slavery,
but with real view of producing geo
graphical division of parties, which might en-
sure them the next President. The peo.
pie of the North went blindlolded into the
snare, following their leaders for while
with zeal truly neral and taadable. until
they became sensible that they were injur.
ing instead of aiding the real interests OF the
slave, that they had been used merely as
tools Tor electioneering purposes; and the
trick of hypocrisy then fell as quickly as il
had been got up" .r....a a...s ...
Such were the opinions of Jefferson upon
the Missouri Compromise line. Yet Black
Republicans are the followers Of Jefferson.