The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-01-02


fact that large portion Of the leading
politicians of the South, including the
s'nationals" of our State, are determined
the country shall have no peace--the
Union no quiet-until they have accom-
plishcd their unholy purpose of disunion.
Years ago Mr.. Calhoun set this ball
in motion, and by artful appeals for
Southern Rights, hoped to carry off the
entire Southern States in his mad scheme
Of nullifcation. Luckily the rcins Of
government were in the hands Of the
immortal Jackson, from whose indignant
frown and patriotic denunciation these
workers of incipicnt treason fed, abashed
aud terrified Though baked in this
first attempt, they were not discouraged,
and casting about for material to renew
their unholy purpose, they, in an evil
hour, seized upon the slavery question !;
determined to use it as an entering
wedge, and finally drive it to the heart
Of our glorious confcdaracy. and thus with
one fell blow destroy that beautiful and
costly cdifce of human liberty for which
our Revolutionary fathers toilcd in sor-
row or bled in death.
The introduction of this baneful her.
esy into our midst was the notification
Jackson Resolutions in 1919. These
Resolutions, yelled under specious ap-
pearance Of ardent devotion to Southern
Rights, were in fact but pledge Of real
hostility to national union.
Since that day, with an iron will and
unfinching resolution, the negro test
has been applied to every man and in
every case where public trust or politi-
cal honors have been sought. Fidelity to
the constitution and laws have been Set
aside as worthless qualifications, unless
coupled with the more absorbing claim
of the negro.
In every circle from the political are
ma to the bar of justice, from thence to
the more quiet pursuits of private life,
all things have been made to conform
to this useless abstraction, drawn into
prominence by the artful or designing
demasogues, whose avowed purpose of
protecting Southern Rights is only as
sumed the better to consummate their ul-
terror object of sundering the Federal
Union--eyen the pulpit has not escaped
the exciting contagion, and the embas-
sailors of the Prince Of Peace could not
be competent to dispense the bread of
life, unless they could satisfy their per-
ishing fock that it should be favored
with a southern peculiarly; and the
whole land is filled with iacessant ap-
peals to Southern passions, to Southern
prejudice, and ali that can tend to engen-
der sectional and local animosi.y, in lieu
of national patriotism.
We believe the instigators of this ex-
element and the authors OF these appeals
are insiucere. We regard their Efforts
not truly in behalf of Southern Rights !;
but really assaults upon national fdel-
ity. From this same class Of men we
have heard the same appeals in behalf Of
the Missouri compromise line-a line on
the perlaanency vi which they told US
all the rights of the South were suspen-
ded--and yet these same men erased that
line from our statutes as gross and un-
pardonsble injustice to the South. We
have seen the same men equally yocifer-
Gus for the compromise act of 1850
Yet in 1854 they hesitated not to justi-
ty and assist In acts that robbed the com.
promise measure of 1850 of all their vi
tai force. This same class Of politicians
have since 1854 held up to us the Kan
sas- Nebraska legislation as containing the
only true and sound doctrine. All who
refused to join in hallelujas of praise to
that masterpiece of craftsmanship we're
denounced as foes to popular rights-as
enemies to democracy--and to crown the
sum of their political wickedness, they
were pronounced Black Republicans.
And yet, this same party are now endea-
voring to rob that same Kansas N ebraska
act of all its vital force, and by the most
barefaccd insincerity and shameless trick
cry arc endeaovring to evadc the plain
Of the law.
With such examples Of shifting pre-
varication and insincerity in the leaders
Of that party can it be wondered that we
distrusti it altogether-that we have no
more faith in it's being the friend Of the
South, than we have Of its being the
friend of the Uuion.
We sec that il has in turn baxled
loudest and longest for sundry measures,
which, when granted, it has cast aside
with scorn, and ut once renewed its clam
ors and threats for something else. We
have seen it under pretense Of seal for
Southern interest, binding itself TO over.
turo or evade those very laws upon which