The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-08-27

AFN
happened to be brmed within one geographical
section, and confined exclusively to toit-althOugh
its end and aim is to rally that section against
the other on question of morals, policy, and
feeling on which the two differ etsrnally and
ly-althOugh, from the nature of its
origin and objects no man in the section outside
can possibly join it, or accept office under 1t
without inilmy at home-although, therefore,
it is stupendOus organization, practically to
take power and honor, and full share of the
government from our whole family Of States, |
and bestow them, substantially, all upon the an
tagonistc famly-although the doctrines ofhu- |
man rights, whicht gathers out of the Declara-
tion of Independence, that passionate and elo-
quant manifesto of a revolutionary war, and
adopts, as its fundamental ideas announce to any
southern apprehension, crusade Of government
against slavery, far without and beyond Kansas;
although the spirit and tendency of its election
eering appeals, as whole, in prose and in verse
the leading articles in its papers, and the spec
ches of its orators, are to excite contempt and
hate, or fear of our geographical section, and
hate or dread or contempt is the natural impress
sion it leaves on the northern heart and mind;
that nobody anywhere ought to be angry, or
ought to be frightened; that the majority must
govern, and that the north is majority; that it
is ten to one nothing will happen; that, if worst
comes to worst, the south knows it is wholly to
o,I H., 4ho +l,o,
and will be quiet accordingly.
But do they who hold this language forget
that the question is not what ought to endanger
the Union, but what will dc it? Is it man as
he ought to be, or man as he is that we must
live with or live alone? In appreciating the in
huences which may disturb political system
and especially one like ours, do you make no al
lowance for passions, for pride, for infrmity, for
the burning sense of even imaginary wrong?-
Do you assume that all men, or all masses of men
in all sections, uniformly obey reason; and uni
tormly wisely see and calmly seek their true in
terestS? Where on earth is such FOOLS para
disc as that to be found? Conceding to the peo-
| pie of the fifteen States the ordinary and aver
age human nature its good and its evil, its weak
ness and its strength, l, for one, dare not say
that the triumph of such party ought not to be
expected naturally and probably to disunite the
States. With my undoubting convictions, that
it would be folly and immortality in men to wish
it. Certainly there are in all sections and in all
States those who love the Union under the ac-
tual Constitution as Washington did; as Jay
Madison and Hamilton did, as Jackson, as Clay,
as Webster loved it. Such even is the heredi-
tary and the habtual sentiment of the general
American heart. But he has read life and books
to little purpose who has not learned that "bo-
som friendships may be to resentment soured, )
and that no hatred is SO keen deep and PERM
cious as that.
"And to be wroth with one we love
Wlli work like madness on the BRAIN"
lie has read the book of our history to still
less purpose, who has not learned that the friend
ships of these States, sisters but rivals, sover
eigns each, with public life and body of in
terests and sources of honor and shame Of it
own and within ITSELF distributed into great op
posing groups, are of all human ties most expo
sed to such rupture and such transformation.
, | have not time in these hasty lines and
there is no need, to speculate on the details {
the mode in which the triumph of this part
would do its work of evil. It's mere struggle t
A obtain the government, as that struggle is cor
" Quoted, is mischievous to an extent incalculabl
# That thousands Of the good men who have jei1
ed it deplore this, is certain, but that does NJ
" mend the matter. l appeal to the conscent
q and honor of my country that if it were the ali
l. of great party, by every species of access
If the popular mind-by eloquence, by argumen
ID by taunt, by sarcasm, by recrmnation by a
# peals to pride, shame and nature rghtal to pr
,r pare the nation for a struggle with Spain
d, England or Austria, it could not do its busins
ur more thoroughly Many persons, many spca
crs, many, very many, set higher and wis
he example, but the work is doing.
if If it accomplishes its object and gives
IS, government to the North, l turn my eyes frt
is, the consequences. To the fifteen States of t
or South that Government will appear an ali
,ss government. 1t will appear worse. 1t will &
of pear hostile government. 1t will represe
n to the eye vast region of States organized |
he on anti slavery, flushed by triumph, cheered c
re- ward by the voice of the pulpit, tribune a
,ur press; its mission to inaugurate freedom a
ck put down the oligarchy; its constitution
ng glttering and sounding generalities of natu
to right which make up the Declaration of Inc
we pendencc. And then and thus is the beginn
ize Of the end.
ast If a necessity could be made out of sucf
M party we might submit to it as to other unavo
er, able evil, and other certain danger But VIII
she do they pretend to find it? Is it to keep slaV
ri V out of the territories? There is not one
ma Kansas in which slavery is possible. No n
the fears, no man hopes for slavery in Utah, n
ere Mexico, Washington or Minnesota. natio
yet party to give them to freedom is about as ne
, it ful and about as feasible as national party
tn keep Maine for freedom. And Kansas!
viii that abused and prof aned soil have calm wit
use its borders; deliver it over to the natural LAY
md peaceful and spontaneous immigration; take
la the ruffan hands; strike down the rifle and
if bowie knife: guard its strenuous infancy
ur youth till it comes of an age to choose for il
,lo- and it will choose freedom for ITSELF and
er- have forever what it chooses
ar When this policy, so easy, simple and just
I'M tried and fails, it will be time enough to reso
are revolution 1t tsin part because tina duty OF
low lection to the local settler was not pcrtOrn