Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-10-01
VOL. 3. NO. 40.

pressed his opinion that Missouri had right
TO make her own constitution was called an
aggressor. slave driver and a tyrant, while
every Northern man who assented TO the sams
simple proposition was denounced and abused
as coward dough-face, and as a recreant
to his own section. So fercely did this storm
of calumny blow that the whole government
reeled to it There seemed no way left to a.
void civil war but to compromise And
such compromise L consisted in an agree
meut that Missouri might exercise her un-
doubted right and have her own constitution
if Congress would abolish the law legalizine
slavery in all the territory outside of that
State and lying north of certain line Tha.
| Congress had any power to do this is now al
most unive rsally doubted. and by large ma
JoTity of the people 1t is totally denied thas
slavery can be forced, either in or out of the
| territory, by the legislation of the General
Government Thus, by mere clamor and A.
| buse, the North got an unconstitutional ad-
vantage, in return for yielding to Southern
State privilege which no fair man can deny
was plainly her own. But even this did not
satisfy tho Abolitionists They continued to
insult the South for not giving up everything.
and vented their abusive and sanderous cpl
thets upon the North because it had .. insis-
| ted on more. Wfs this Northern or Southern
! aggression !!
In 1850. this cry of Southern aggression
on Northern rights again rose to pitch which
seemed to put Ethe Union in extreme danger
Again the trouble was allayei by a compro-
mise The nature character and terms Of
the Compromise will show how much aggres-
sion had been committed then.
There were five measures included in it
l The admission of California as free State.
.. The territorial organization of New Me1i-
co on the principle of non-nterveation, which
is known would exclude slavery g. The
purchase of a large portion of Texas, taking
it away from the jurisdiction of a Slave State.
4. The abolition of the slave trade in the
District of Columbia ). The fugitive slave
.aw The first four Of these measures were
anti-slavery, and were demanded BY the
North The fifth one Ghe fugitive Slave law)
was concession, not 10 the South, but to the
| Constitution 1t was required by its plain
and unequivocal mandate, and had been ad-
mitted by every President and every Congress,
from the foundation of the Government, to
be an imperative Constitutional obligation.
For this, the same infamous assaults were
again made on the eminent men who suppor-
ted it. The only measure which the South
got was opposed and resisted. even after its
enactment. and in many places its execution
was wholly prevented We demand again,
/ WHeTS WAS lile d3gTeSSlOU
1t is on these facts base the assertion
F! that in every contest where the rights of the
| North bave been entrusted to Democratic pro-
lection. they have been guarded faithfully and
we'll. We have not resisted any just claim
which the South ever made we have meant to
treat them fairly, and to carry out in good
faith the obligatio imposed upon Us by the
Constitution. But if there has been any in-
stance in which the South has got Inore than
its due, the history of the transaction has es-
capped our notice On the contrary we sub
nit to you fellow citizens whether the South
has not got the scaDtest measure of Justice
that could be poss IDLY dealt out to her Has
not the North had all the preponderance? Has
not our section had the advantage of all the
important concessions that were ever madet
The States of Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, Mich
igan and Wisconsin were slave tcrritcry. They
were presented to us BY Virginia gracious
gift, and we excluded slavery The State Of
Iowa, the territories of Minnesota and Ne
braska. were slave territory under the law of
Louisiana We took them because we were
strong and We made them Free Soil Slavery
once covered the whole Union lis Represen-
tatives in the National Government are now
in minority Could anything but the gross
est malice, the most stupid folly, or the mos,
unmitigated knavery have suggested the idea
that slavery was encroaching upon Us whila
these blessings were going on:
Our limited space will no. permit us 10 re-
count the many unjustihable injuries which the
Aboli,ionists have perpetrated and attempted
to perpetrate upon the people of the South.
upon those in the North who do not unite with
them and upon all the institutions of the coun-
try. They have sought every occasion and
taken advantage of every event which could
give them an excus, for pouring out their
venomous SANDERS upon the fathers of tn.
Constitution. upon the Constitution itself, and
upon all who support it.
This agitation began in England among
persons whose gross ignorance of America
the only excuse for their insane hostility
to our Union. They sent over TO this coun-
try one Thompson, q member of the British
Parliament, man of ability; but reckles,
like his employers. Under his influence and
direction societies, modelled after the old
British form. were established in New Eng
land. The avowed object of these societies
was to excite insurrection among the Southern
negroes For this purpose they distributed
among the negroes by every means in their
power, pictures representing the scenes Of
violence murder and arson through which,
the slaves. if they would adopt them. might
be free. These things were accompanied by
promises Of aid and suproit from British and
American leaders. Long subsequent to the
tine we speak of Joshua Il. Giddings, mcm-
Der of Congress, and now the leading friend
of Col Fremont admitted the accomplish
men. Of this object IA servile nsurrecjion led
nv Rrifish officers \ ro is the dearest wish ~