The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-09-10

% Democratic meeting in New York on the 21st
{. ult.:-
yrs re- F WAsHINGToN, Aug. 10, 1856.
q GENrLEMEx received yesterday, your let
Z ter of the 10th inst, inviting me to address the
'tGrand Ratification meeting to be held at
i,s Tammany Hall, on Thursday evening, the 2lst
2 inst
Would that were able to address that meet
q ing in a voice which should reach not only every
man within the precincts Of Tammany, Hail.
but every true Amercan-native born and nat
D. aIMalized from Canada to Mexico-from the At
lantic to the Pacific. Say what we will about
+ tho impossibility of dissolution Of this glori-
Gus Union of States, such catastrophe is pos
sible; and events are fast hurrying us to the
= precipice. The union OF some of the churches,
kswhose ties ought, if possible, to be more sacred
than our political bonds is already dissolved; in
others the breach is betomng year by year. wi
der and wider, and all religious and benevolent
institutions are threatened with disruption
Mutual defances are passing between men of
the North and men of the South attended oc-
casionally by scenes of violence between indi-
yiduaIs which need only an accession of num-
bers to each side tc become, & most embittered
and bloody civil war And Congress has just
adjourned without making appropriations for
the support of the army when every man of
them knows that nothing but its presence in
Kansas prevents that Territory from becoming
the scat of an exterminating civil war, which
would almost certainly extend through the cen
ter of the Union to the Atlantic coast. Is the
fthe country ripe for this? Are Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland and Virginia willing to be
come frontier States oftwo Empires, whose peo-
pile shall be embittered against each other with
an intense hatred arising out of mutual injuries?
Are Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky pre-
pared to see the Ohio River, now the channel Of
q peaceful commerce. converted into a river of
blood whose fertile shore and thriving cities
shall be alternately ravaged by fire and sword?
Are the people of all the 'confederated States
North and South, prepared to see their sons and
daughters dragged from their fruitful fields and
smiling hearths to be slaughtered in intestine
war, and all the fruits Of their labor taken from
them to support oohtending armies?
,yoLet no man shut his eyes to the danger or
: imagine that the consequences are exaggerated
The signs CT the times are as it were, written
upon the Heavens, and should this Union ever
be dissolved in consequence of the question
which now agitates it, it will be as possible to
unite fire and water in harmonious action with
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our discovered communities. Thrust asunder
by one grand explosion, the shattered fragments
would dash against and destroy each other on
sea Of anarchy and finally sink AMI be lost be-
meath the calm ofdespotsm.
Permit ME to glance rapidly at the worst Of
these dangers and the means by which they
maybe obyated.
The States which achieved cur independence
and formed our original Union were all slave
holding States. Most Of them continued to be
slayeholdng at the time of the adoption of the
Constitution. The basis Of the Union and oil
the Constitution, was the perfect equality Of the
States in every respect Being all or nearly all
saveholding States, it is impossible to believe
that slaveholding would have been considered by
them valid objection to the admission Of new
State into the Union. Nor would it have been
anticipated that Congress should in any way in
terfcre, without the voluntary consent of all the
States, for the purpose Of shaping the institu
tions Of States or Territories before admission
such interference being as efectually violation
Of the principle of equality as an interference
after admission.
x The Northern and most of the Middle States
have by degrees abolished slavery, as they hac
4 right to do, without Interference or complain
from the Southern States. There was no "Sou
thcrn aggression to compel them or even pur
s,lade them to retain their slaves, lest the "slav
power" should be weakened. Emancipation
was gradually advancing from rcrth to soutl
when Missouri applied for admission on the sam
footing with the original States. No artificis
means had been resorted to for the purpose {
making her slave state or q free state, bu
open to every nation, from the North as well a
the South, she had been peopled bya vountar
emigration, and her constitution eminated fror
the dnconstrained will Of her people. Who's
"aggression' was it that refused her adn1issio
into the Union on the same footing with tn
the original States? 1t was the Northern an
the middle States, which, having been then
selves left fee to abolish slavery or not, attemI
ted to force the people Of Missouri to do tn
same thing. Not contentw with the blessings
fee negroes in their own States they must a
tempt to force it on other States!
The Northern aggression ended in the Mi
scuri Compromise, which the slayeholding STATE
submitted to oirather than break up the Uniol
though it was violation of that principle Of
.onsslity among the States which underlies IL
Constituti6h,and is the only sure guaranty OF j
pcrpetuity and Of the peace and glory Of OF
common country, a.- asal8,
qia Whetheritwas wise to disturb that Comprc
mise or not Is not now the question. 1t HI
been disturbed and being wrong in principle
ought never to be restored. The subject is no
lefton the statute book precisely where Il
Constitution leftit But with that portiens
the Northern people werenot content, As Co
,gress had rcceded from the statuatory "aggre
sions they sought to renew it by private orgai
zafions, such as Emigrant Aid Societies, fort
purpose Of filling the Territory Of Kansas wi
apeculiar class Of population, and in that ma
rer controlling its institutions. AS one Yro
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