Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-07-17

For the last sixty eight years, slavchol-
ders have been the sole and constant rep
rcseutatives Of the South, and what have
they accomplished? 1t requires but little
time and few words to tell the story of
their iadscreet and unhallowcd perform
ances. In fact with what we have already
said, gestures alone would suffice TO answer
tho inquiry. We can make neither a
more truthful nor emphatic reply than to
point TO our thinly inhabited Statcs,to our
fields dcspoiled of their virgin soil, to the
despcablc price of lands. to our unvisited
cities and towns, to our vacant harbors and
idle water-power, to the drcary absence Of
shipping and manufactures, to our unpen
stoned soldiers of the Revolution, TO the
millions of living monuments Of ignorance,
to the poverty of the whites, and to the
wretchcdness Of the blacks.
A CHANCE FOR THE WIIIG PARTY.
For its trucking concessions to the slave
power, the Wing party merited defeat, and
defeated it was, and that, too, in the most
decisive and overwhelming manner. But
there is yet in this party much vitality and
if its friends will reorganizc, detach them
selves from the burden of Slavery, y,espouse
the cause of the white man, and hoist the
fair flag of Freedom, the time may come,
at a day by no means remote, when their
hearts will cxult in triumph over the ruins
of mscalled Democracy.
WARNING TO TIE DEMOCRATS.
1t is not too late, however, for the Dem
ocra,ic party to secure itself pure renown
and an almost certain pcrpctuation of its
power. Let it at once discard the worship
Of Slavery, and do earnest battle for the
principles of Freedom, and it will live vic
toriously to period far in the future. On
the other hand, if it does not soor repudi-
ate the fatal heresies which it has incorpo-
rated into its creed, its doom will be inev-
table. Until the black flag entirely dis
appears from its array, We warn the nom
Shareholders of the South to rcpulse and
keep it at distance, as they would the
emblazoned skull and cross-bones that float
from the flag Of the pirate.
A NEW PARTY IN THE FIELD.
Henceforth there are other interests to
be consulted in the South, aside from the
interests of negroes and shareholders. A
profound sense Of duty incitcs US to make
the greatest possible efforts for the aboli
ton Of Slavery; an equally profound sense
of duty calls for continuation of those
efforts until the very last foe to Freedom
shall have been utterly vanquished. To
Wit sitnhr hr~W~sns sHs qf thS 5sbsSSgvse Sve lREGHiSy
no opportunity for inficting mortal
wound in the side of Slavery shall be per-
mitted to pass US unimproved. Thus, ter
ror.engenderers of the South, We have fully
and frankly defined our position; We have
no modification to propose, no compromi-
ses to offer, nothing to retract. Frown,
Sirs, fret, foam, prepare your weapons,
threat, strike, shoot, stab, bring on civil
war, dissolve the Union, nay, annihilate
the solar system if you wiil-do all this,
more, less, better, worse, anything-do
what you will, Sirs, you can neither foil
nor intimidate us; our purpose is as firm
ly fixed as the eternal pillars of Heaven;
we have determined to abolish Slavery,
and, SO help US God, abolish it We will
Take this to bed with you to night, Sirs,
and think it, dream over it, and let Us
know how you fell tomorrow morning.
Is TIE SOUTH TOO HOT FOR WHITE MEN!
Too hot in the South, and too unhcal-
thy there-white men ''can't standit'-ne-
groes only can endure the heat of South
ern climes How often are our ears in.
suited with such wickedly false assertions
as these In what degree Of latitude
pray tell us-iu what degree of latitude
do the rays of the sun become too calorifc
for white men? Certainly in no part of
the United States, for in the extreme
South we find very large number of non-
slaveholding whites, over the age of fifteen,
who derive their entire support from man
ual labor in the open fields. The sun,
that bugbcar of slayeholding demagogues,
shonc on more than one million of free
white laborcrs, mostly agriculturalists, in
the Slave States in lS50, exclusive of
those engaged in commerce, trade, manu-
facturers, the mechanic arts and mining.
Yet, Notwithstanding all these Instances
of exposure to his wrath, We have had no
intelligence whatever of single case of
coup de so-leH Alabama is not too hot;
sixty seven thousand white sons Of toll
till her soil. Mississippi is not too hot;
ffty-fve thousand free white laborers arc
hopeful devotecs of her outdoor pursuits.
Texas is not too hot forty seven thou
sand free white persons, males, over the
age of fifteen, daily perform their rural
vocations amid her unsheltered air.
1t is stated on good authority that, in
January, 1856. native ice, three inches
thick, was found in Galveston Bay; VIC
have seen it ten inches thick in North
Carolina, with the mercury in the ther
mometer two degrees below zero. In
January, 1857, while the snow was from
three to five feet deep in many parts Of
North Carolina, the thermometer indica-
ted degree of coldness seldom exceeded
in any State in the Union-thirteen de.
grees below zero. The truth is, instead
Of its being too hot in the South for white
men, it is too cold for negroes; and we
long to see the day arrive when the latter