Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-04-07

know you are bowling frequently of o
gressions at the Norlh-of northern ia
naiicism; aud YOU cast upon US ever
opprobrious epiihRt that you can music
from the dictionaries, in order TO sho'
that we are NOT, somehow. well behsvet
towards you; but you govern us-yo
boast OF if, and it is true. To-day ever,
department of this Government lies pro
slrdte under your heel, as it has 70
sixty years, as you confess. Tell me
then, wherein we have Irespassed upol
your rights? How could we do it if VI
would.
He wanted to know what guarantee
we could give that we would not plunde
them with tariffs and restrictions upor
trade. Sir, we never have plund ereC
you in that way. If there has been
tariff, your leading men have proposed
il; you have forced it upon the nation
If there has been a Bank of the United
States, your statesmen have proposed it
and your votes have fastened it upon th,
country. All those policies that you de
precate sprang from your own action
were propounded by your own statesmen
and were upheld by their votes. We arr
the conquered people whom you boas
you have ruled for sixty years; and you
the conquerors, complain of aggression
and wrongl The idea is perfectly riiicu
lous. You have nodded the policy of lhi,
government; you have shaped the admin
islration 10 suit yourself; no measure ha;
passed without your assent, within my
memory. | should like 10 hear southern
gentlemen to-day mention 10 me the acI
that has passed Congress, or the policy oI
the Government that has been carried
into effect, unless it has met the entire
appreciation of the southern section of this
Union. | ask for informalion-whai is il!
| hope you will either answer me, or for
ever hold your peace. Let Us hear no
more of northern aggression, unless you
can specify in what it consists; for, as
Lord Coke well said, "fraud lurkelh in
generaliIies." We have pluadered you
we have trespassed on your rights; but
your bill of indictment specifies nothing
Who can meet your charges?
II is thought that we are very unrea-
sonable because We take so much inter-
est in the institution of slavery. Now
sir, it requires but very little sagacity 10
see how that must he. have been here
long enough to know that that great body
of northern people who remain true TO
the traditions Of their fathers, who &C; up
10 the spirit of those who inaugura,ed our
are just as much prescribed
from any of the bensfiis, emolumentS, or
honors Of this Government, as if they
were alien enemies. There are nearly
thirteen thousand voters belonging 10 the
great Republican party of the North,
who, year after year, see the Govern
ment administered by hands that 10 them
are alien, and they cannot participate in
il Why2 Because, when nomination
comes bef,re you, The question is asked
how stands this northern man upon the
institution If ihe-South! What are his
viewsl Did he ever, in an unguarded
moment, give ulterance TO the impulses
of the heart that every freeman feels? If
he did, and any spy can fish it up. and
bring it here, he is prescribed from any
favors from the Government under which
he lives, and which he supports. This
should furnish reason to you why almost
everything political that is unpurchasa-
BILE in The market, that grounds itself upon
principle, and cannot be swerved by
hose appliances, now ranks in the great
party of the North. If men
are purchasable, if executive favor can
reach and sway them, if any of those
appliances that are brough. to bear in
political controversies can swerve them
rom the truth, they have gone over 10
you; they have repudiated the principles
Inder which they were born; they have
orgotten The sentiments that they imbib-
ID even from their mothers breasts
Such men have repudiated all this, and
sworn fealty TO an institution that they
late; such are the men of the North who
ind favor in this Government; the rest
Ire aliens, prescribed by you. Yet, sir,
'ecause they are not perfectly patient
lnder this state of things, they are said
o be fana;ical Aboitionis;s. | should
ike 10 know how long the patience of
he South would hold Out? Let US re.
'erse this nefarious judgment; let north
'rn majorities come here as memorable
Is you; lei US inquire, is he slavehol-
Ter that is proposed for office? does he
rain in their company2 and if he ever
roppad word that favored the institu-
ion of slavery, let US prescribe him
would there be any shrieking2 would
'ou bear it like lambs? | do you the
redit Of saying that you would rise up
nder such prescription as this, and show
spirit more worthy of the fathers than
'e do on this side. know you would. |
we should undertake TO hold YOU to |
hose same iniolerant and prospective
rinciples that you exercise towards US,
Ou would hear howl worse than NJ.
Buchanan heard from the South when
Walker would not count fraudulent votes.
Mr.. President, | have stated some of
he reasons why northern men take deep
nd abiding interest in the question OF
Iavery, because ii tenCs TO faslen its ne
lrious shackles upon them. We may
Ist as well look ii right straight in the
ice, for it never will be allayed with
eminent; you may sing hosannas to this
Inion until you are hoarsc; you may talk
{ our common blood and our common
lemories; and you may eulogize that
reat flag under which our fathers fought;
nd you may go into Mysteries on the
inject; but Tell you that governments,
the long run, will be governed by their
iieresis as they understand them, aud by
o,hing else. These are all very pretty
iatters in their place, but the administra-
Ons of government are made of steruer
uff. They are never perpetuated BY
'niments like these. say TO you, Mr..