Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1857-04-17
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In the eleven Fremont States there are
more than six thousand more free schools.
and over six hundred thousand more sehol-
ars than in the nne cen Buchanan States
more than double the number Of public
| Libraries, ana nearly double the number OF
Volumes. In common school librar ea, the
former leads tnr latter over eleven thou
sand, and in Sunday school libraries
about double, with more than two hun
ttred thousand more sabbath school schol-
ars. The eleven Fremont States print
and send out more than seeenty millions
copies OF newspapers orsr the nineteen
Buchanan States.
Post Office Free states Revenue S2ol0253
Slave states Outset coo. .oI
NV is not this aggression with a ven.
gcance
Mr.. President, it is not true that the
South has been aggsieved at the hands OF
the North but It's true they've more
than their share, and now claim the little
Of our moiety left.
1t IS true they have des9oiled us Of
our goods hunted our sors like the part
.:d5e upon the mountains; because they
will not bow down and worship the slave
power their lands have been taken {;
their houses burned themselves murder
ed, and their bones left to bleach upon
the plains of Kansas. When the avs
thereof, unjust, inhuman, and satanic,
and | now repeat the wolds Of Pierce
for out o. his own mouth jud se him,
rules AND forms not instituted by them
selves, to which they are not bound 20
conform to which to refuse obedience is
rcJeHioN. and rebellion death. In this
war OF animositv, bitterness and hatred
this same Franklin Picrce has done more
to sow the seeds of sectional strife, than
all other causes and agencies put togeth-
cr. His crimes. like the blood stained
hands of the guilty Macbeth, all ocean $
water will ne er wash out."
From beginning to end, the Slave oil
garchy who overawe and manage the
South. has been the agitator and aggres.
sor. Slavery has advanced. invaded an
! c conquered, at the expense of Freedom.
+ The C aim Of the Slavery propaganda
for Cuba, Central America and the rest ot
Mexico, Is backed " 10y threats Of dis
union at Washington by actual and alb
solatc invasion. Shall we remain passive
lrresoludon and indifference now woult
inS ure disaster and defeat
Mr.. President, the opinion Just pro
nounced by the United States Court il
the "Drcd Scott" case, seems to have
revolutionized, and given new phase anc
form to the political present and future
The crisis nears; the combat dcepens
under that mandate, with Calhoun, tht
Declaration is a rhetorical flourish o,
with Petit, "a solf-evideut lie" or viii
, Choate, a"passionate manifesto, and tn
Constitution is "in league with the dev
H." Are we to be made responsible fo
traffic Of the most unremittng despot
, ism on the one part, or degrading submis
sion on the other. To use the expressiv,
language of Randolph, its trophies ar,
) the manacle, the handcutf, and the blood
stained cowbide. Is this to be the mis-
sion of our Government God forbid
All the great writers on civil Government
: from Moses and Justinian down to Black
) stone and Jefferson, have defined civil lay
to be, "to execute justice between ma
and his neighbor - "to deliver him tha
: S spoiled from the oppressor. Th
statesman or jurist, politician or civilian
who ignores or trampes upon this prin
ciple, or for reasons of state violate