Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-12-19
change the institutions of the southern

What has made this difference ? Why
has one party ever been passive and fol>
bearing I? Why has Il never sought to
ihtermeddle with the domestic affairs al
It's neighbors And why has the other
interest been so meedlesome. offieious,
and imperinent Why has it ev.rIast
lngly sought to interfere in matters with
which they had not. nor have, the sligh-
Test moral religious. or civil concern p
Why has the southern portion OF these
States ever been governed by non inter
lerents. and The northern portion by
busy bodies in other. mems matters 2"
The free States have long and anxious
" sought 10 "meddle" TO an ex,ent that
will effect change in southern iustilu-
tlons. The southern States have never
sought 10 "meddle" with. far less to
change, northern institutions. The con-
duct OF both parties. one meddlesome and
The other non interfering, cannot be right?
Which one is right. which one wrodg .
Which has. ir this regard. the better OBJ.
served both the letter and the spirit OF
the Constitution. which they united in
forming Which is the " apyresSing"
and the injuring-which is the injured
party
If the charge. that the Representatives
Of the South seek to extend ''southern in
s'iIu'ions." only means that they unyield-
lngIy insist upon the legal and equitable
right of each citizen of each State. North
and South. East and West. to emigrate
into any part of any Territorr belonging
to all OF the States in common, and 10 car.
ry with him, and there peacefully enjoy
his religious sentiments and his individu
al property, then the charge would carry
with il no reproach but to him who ur,
'ered IL; for it is undeniubly disgraceful
in one section I" seek. for its own benefit.
to exclude another section from lands
owned By them jointly if northern men
are SO full Of prejudice aud passion that
they will not live in Territory with
southern men, is it honorable in them TO
seek, forcibly. to take the whole and ex-
clude US altogether from lands which are
~ much ours as theirs 7 Such a trans.
action cannot prosper, for Two reasons 4;
first. 1t is wrong; and secondly. strong
as the North is. we will not submit to it..
We do not believe that il is the best pol
icy for the weak to surrender all his
rights to an oVergrown aggressor. and be
thankful that the aggressor did not take
his life also. On the contrary, we believe
that every MAJ. State, and section
should sksnd boldly up and honorably
contend for every just right. no matter
how powerful. OF how quarrelsome. may
be the party that attempts to invade such
right. And this is the "southeIn aggres.
sion" of which the abolitionisls and Free.
SoiIers complain
But. say the revilers OF the South
the kansas trou, les" were caused by
the efforts Of southern men to so frame
the laws of Kansas as to allow to Sou
thern men the same projection for
all southern property as is afforded to all
the property Of men from the free States.
This. il true, is a terrible chsrge. The
chief Kansas outrage" in the eyes ol
ignorant bigots, consists in this grea;
fact. viz: that the majority Of the people
Of Kansas believed and acted according
ly-that proper Of all kinds. from all
the States. should be allowed by Law to
be brought into Kansas and when
brought in according to law. 10 be by
and Free-Soilers hold that property
brought from the South into Kansas
should be expelled by law and that pro
perty brought from the North into Kan
sss should alone be projected By law
This is the honest and religious view oI
the patriots and Christians who have
been chiefly instrumtn al in blowing up
the fame Of disco,d now raging in our
country. Like their ancestors. who went
into the country owned by the Pequods
and Narragansets. northern Abo'itiOnists
and Free Soilers believe Kansas belongs
to The Lord that He has given it to His
saints that they are the F" saints 3 and
hence it is clear that southern cmigrants
are =. intruders." who are to be viewed by
the saints as "Canaanites." and " driven
out Of The promised land" in the name
of religion, justice and liberty. They
profess to firmly believe that they alone
have either the legal or the moral right
10 take all Of their property into territory
owned equally by both the North ard the
S.uth. and there enjoy such property
without let or hindrance. In fact. they
caudidly inform the world that. in religi
Gus phr, Sc. their conscisnces have been
80 highly cultivated. aud have become sc
sensitive and SO tender. that they are
morally compelled TO exclude the proper
ty Of southern men, and admit only their
own. They would make a just and equi
table division Of what is equally owned
by both sections. but their " consciences'
compel them TO take che whole. Love d
freedom. and the tear of a righteous God
constraius them most uuwiIliugly to de-
prive the South OF its legal rights.
l propose, at thi. point. to inquire
whether the Government Of the United
States has the legal power to exclude
southern property from Kansas. or frou
any other portion Of she territory acquitted