Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-01-31
The Pacific Coast,


1t treats Of the climate of thc Western Or
Pacific Coast of our continent, as compared
with the Eastern or Atlantic, between the
sane parallels of latitude, and shows the i'm
mense extent of mild and habitable territory
there, in ATTITUDES which, judging from our
own experience, we should have supposed
too cold fef comfort. y
IF the madness and wiekedness Of Fanat
cism shall permit this Union to stand what
mighty nation we shall be, even in the
short period of fifty years-shorf, in the
lifetime of nation ! And why viii it not
be permitted to stand Our position before
the rest Of the vorld-oar interests-our
glory as nation, demand that we should
make any sacrifice short of honor. to pre-
serve it. United, the nasions of the earth
will bow before us, aud their people will
bless us, as afording an example of liberty
and equal laws never dreamed Of before.
Divided, we perish under the terrible scouree
of intestine Notwithstanding armies will
devour our substance and prostraIe liberty.
But what sacrifice are we called upon to
make for the preservation of our great
blessing --none-unlcss the surrender of
the bad propensity to intermeddle with cur
neighbor's affairs--to forget the beam in our
own eye, and quarrel with the mote in his
be deemed sacrifice Let the sovereign
States of our Union move in their destined
orbits-let their absolute sovereignty be ac-
knowledged on all hands and respected-let
the mouths Of those evil-disposed persons,
who denounce and abuse the institutions of
come Of them, be stopped by the force of
public opinion at homc-let every State en-
joy the same exemption for her institutions,
from the criticism and fault-fnding of her
sisters, which independent sovereignties
would always demand and enforce from their
allies, and our blessed Union would be per-
petual. This subject of African slavery is
to be the rock on which we must split, if we
are to be severed at all. What ally, with
Uul q oGIct Va boliiN ASai
that clause in the treaty Of alliance, by
which her most valuable property was secu-
red to her, denounced as League with
He'll, and her title to the property held for
nought, without Withdrawing from such al
lies What foreign and stranger nations
would ever dare treat their allies with such
contumely Yet the time has now arrived
when the halls of the American Congress
ring with such reproaches of brother against
brother Such wretches as Sumner, Gid
Aings and Seward, and host Of other Lat
ter Day Saints whose tender conscences
are Mortified at the immorality Of Moses
and the Prophets-in whose nice judge
ments Paul was a kidnappcr, and the whole
civilized world from Abraham down, Tin
Guiding their own fathers,) his fellows in
iniquity, are permitted, day after day, to
belch forth the most scurrilous abuse against
one-haif the sovereign States Of this Union
Ito assail their rights of property in their
slaves, and to insist they shall have no pro-
lection for that property in territories equal
ly belonging to every State Of the Union.
That while it should be the duty of these
territories to protect by law all other prop
srty carried there by the emigrants and
while, except in their character as States,
they have not the power to destroy or con-
fscate, but only to protect the property of
the emigrant Yet SO damhable is the Slave
ny of the South--so utterly void is the right
Of the Southern man to his slave--that as
soon as he carries him into this common
possession his power to hold him is gone !
How can the Southern States be expected
to remain in the confederacy with commu-
mites who thus taunt and yilify them--who
thus set at nought and endanger their most
valuable rights-whose only argument a.
gainst their right to hold their slaves
in the common territory Of the Union, is
founded on denial of their right of proper
~ in the slaves, and calculated to excite
prejudice against them in the eyes of the
whole world besides 7
Yet these men know enough Of the hlsto-
ry Of the African race to satisfy them that
this crusade against African slavery is as
selfish as it is wicked and absurd-tIat
their whole object in pursuing it is not to
benefit the negro, but to foster fanatieal
prejudices among the ignorant at homie, and
10 promote their own selfish ends of ambi-
ton. They know the history of the African
race in his native wilds--in slavery--in
freedom after he had first been civilized
freedom under his own government-frec-
dom among whites in the Northern States
freedom among whites and slaves in the
Southern States. In fact, lie has now been
submitted toa fair and sufficient trial for
happiness and pcrfeetibility in every posi-.
bic shane of human existence, and such
men as Sumner, Giddings and Seward are
not oeignorant to know, that Il state of
slavery, such as he suffers in the Southern
States OF this Union, is his ne plus utt,u Of
happiness and of moral deveopement- that