Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-01-02
THE CHRONICLE.
FRIDAY. JAN. 2, 1857.
What OF the Future I


of nations as of individuals, is gradu-
al-step by step-as the water wears
away the stone. Rome was scores of
years in working ont her destruction,
vet luxury, domestic slavery. and the
lust of conquest, were sure but slow
in their influences, and naughty Rome
fell-as proud America MAY fall!
The augmented power Of Slavery in
our land, is seen in the increase of the
number of bondmcn from half mill
ion to three and a half million souls,
and in the large increased territory,
added to our Union, darkencd by the
curse of unrequired toll.
The People and Congress Of this
nation were harmonious and consist
ent in their opposition to Slavery, till
the supposed national necessity for
the acquisition of Louisiana, gave that
power an advantage which it has on
all occasions since used signally for
its own benefit.
The purchase of Florida, was an
additional means of selfcxtension.
The sacrifice of Missouri to the
black power" was only gained with
the promise that Kansas and all the
vast region above should :" for ever"
be free from its grasp.
Part of "the whole of Oregon" was
by Messrs. Polk, Buchanan and their
friends surrendered, at the very time
the deep-laid Slavery plot for annex
ing Texas was successful.
A scheme for making California 4
Slave State, was providentially frus-
trated by Col. Frement and his com
peers, although, since then it may be
said, "a generation arose which knew
not Joseph"
In the last election. Slavery claims
TO have gained a popular endorsement
of The PRINCIPLE that Slavery may 60
wherever il can force its way and its
opponents have no Constitutional or
other power TO arrest it.
a large portion of the Presidents
last Message is taken up with denun-
Citations of the friends Of Liberty and
palliations of Oppression.
And now (tho the fate of Kansas
is vet undecidcd) Slavery is intriguing
for MORE CoNQUEsTs, by secretly stir
ring up dissensions with Mexico, and
Nicaragua. and Cuba. 1t was in this
way that Texas was secured, and the
friends of Slavery hope to strengthen
themselves further by similar means.
Mr.. Buchanan is claimed as friendly
to all these schemes, and his efforts for
Texas and his Ostend Circular doubt
less confirm that opinion.
The proposition to reopen direct
Slave-Trade with Africa, is tho't by
some to be "a little too fast" in the
Programme. but other Slare-breeding
States oppose it from self-interest. In
the late Southern Convention, such a
recommendation was supported only
BY the States of South Carolina, Texas
and a part Of Tennessee.
In Congress, however, the measure
has fair start for future success. On
the 10th ult., in the House, MI. Either
edge (aWhig Member from Tennessee,
who was reelected after opposing the
repeal of The Missouri Compromise),
introduced the following:
R-sofred That this House regard all sug-
ge>tIocs or propositions Of every kind, by
whumsoever made, tor a revival of the slave
trade, as shocking TO the moral sentiments of
the enlightened portion o. man Ind; any act
on the part "fCongress legalizing OF connrving
al the legaliz'ns at that horrid and inhuman
traffick would Justly subject the Unlred States
o. the repr"ach aud execratIon Of all civIiiZed
and CHRISTIAN people throughout the world.
Passed-l52 to 81: most OF the 81
protesting to be opposed to the mea-
sure, but not wishing to commit them
selves in this manner at this time.
1t is needless to say that among the
81 were Brooks and Keitt of S. c.,
Rust of Ark, Denver and Herbert of
Cal, and Florence of Pa.-aIl strong
Buchanan men and not .Tremonter
or Northern Fillmore men among all
the 81.
aLet it be observed, that the first
Texas movement was fairly secuted in
Congress. but, under the guise of De.
mocracy, it succeeded. Had Pierce,
Douglas, Buchanan e. Co. been asked
four years ago, to open the gate for
Slavery into Kansas, they would have
exclaimed, Is thy servant dog that
he should do this great thing?' But
slavery demanded, and they yielded.
ihe proposition to expose Kansas
and the broad North West to all the