The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-11-11


I conversei, (and I con cred with hun
dreds, spoke of the Peoples party as
great conservative moeeHcnt towards the
Inauguration OF an enlarged aud nation
al system of policy, in support OF which
ali patriotic aud Union loving men may
cordially unite without respect to previ-
Gus party tic, or sectional considerations
True. the issue of the late elections in-
wolves most decid, d rebuke to the Ad-
mini-tration and its followers, tor their
eour-e Oh the Kan>as question: rebuke
which was richly deserved, ana which |
was deli Shted to see administered. This
whole Kansas tu-iness, from its lnccp-
ton in the repeal OF the Missouri com
pronise, down to the passage of the Ing
ISL 6iH. | have ever regarded as deiu-
sion and a chest, AMI have 20 pronounced
it. Il hoisted the GOOD gates Of agitation
OH a disturbing question, which patriots
had hoped was pat to rc,t-it has soWn
broadca,t the seeds of disalfection aud
sectional disoord between the north and
the south. Ii has for years su6ordiua;ed
all questions of public policy to one Of sec
tional strife and defiance. It's author
sowed the wind, ami he is now deserved
iy reaping the whilwini. | fear We have
not witnessed all its evils yet. As an y
fnerican citizen and friend of the Union.
| was opposed to it in its origin; as
Aoutbern man | deplored it, because OF
Al IL. / mi fol /
entail on the south. In regard to the IN
stitutoD of slavery, consider the strength
and security OF the south to consist not
in my abstract dogmas touching the mo-
raj aspect OF the question: or, which Ger
tain school of southern politicians un@ise-
ly aud without authority rendered, an is
sue to the nothern mind-but in the great
principle of representative government to
whish advcrtcd in the earl y portion OF
this letter, viz: That the States are eov-
creigu 10 the regulation OF their Internal
police and domestic relations; and that
tnis soscreignty finds its expression III the
legally recorded voice of a majority
These principles, the very sheet anchor OF
southern securitg, were violated in the at
tempt TO force Kansas into the Union with
a con titution which not only her people
tad never approved, tat which, it could
not be igaored, they w,ro violently Op-
posed TO What dangerous position for
tue south! What an insecure guarantee
Tor the protection of the institution of sla-
very-to say nothing of the iuja tiae and
moral wrong involved in tie perpetra;ion
of such fraud And in the reign otter
ror which party proscri ptiou has Installed
over puDlic opiuion in the soath-those
who lo,ed their native land too well to be
willing to see it placed in a false position,
have ben revilsd and stigmatised as false
to it, interests aud traitors to its cause.
The south was deluded into playing
this game for au decrease of political
stren. th, and has lost it. Bat 1t is in
moral power ani prestige Gt is with sor-
row | am compelled to admit it) that the
south has lo-t uost. Partizau couusel>,
for partizan ends, have forced the south
into a position where she is made 10 seem
to be the aggrcssor. Those who we're ln-
struDcntsl in placing her into this posi-
ton, and is forcing her to fight thu, battle
IRON a point strate. .etlca!IJ 20 weak,
where ali has been lost, have done her
more vital injury, have Unlisted a~seTeTer
wound upon her, hase more crippled ber
tnerhles Tor future effort, than all the ul-
ira measures of all tue ultra auti-slayerg
men iu an out OF C3usresS since this con
test arose.
Bat after ali it must be admitted, upon
a calm and dlspassionate review OF the
whole history OF the difficulty, that the
south has been more si0ned against than
auDing. Tae south did not ask for the
repeal OF the Missouri COMPROMISE, which
was the opening of this Pauderas tOx OF
mischief. 1t was rendered and carried
under the pretence Of boon, ty partl-
Zl0 schemerS from the north to accom-
plish u bilious and selfish aims. The
south unfortunately accepted it--not u
naainoasly but against the solemu pro-
tests of thousands OF her truest aud most
devoted sons--and Greeiau horse it has
proven to our Troy, indeed. Public 0
pinion in the south never demanded OF
justified the forcing OF a constitution on
the people of Kansas against their wishes
as was attempted 10 the Senate bill--or
Of securing its adoption by eajoiery and
bribery, as was attempted by the Eng-
lish bIil--ihe worst measure, if possible
of the two. They were party measures,
both sustained and advocated by south
ern partizans, who assumed to reflect a
factliious public opiOion--aided and en-
couraged by their party allies oil the
north. And as evidence iocontestiblc o!
the utter -heartedness and duplici-
" of these northern party aliies-nesrIy
all of them, including the author of the
English bill itself, have, on appearing be.
fore their constituents, repudiated their
own work, which they pretended to sup
port as a 6nality; and signiied their read
iDess to trke the back track. In the
name of truth, of justice. of honor, how
long is the south to be csjoled, deceived,
cheated by these hollow professions OF
devotion to her rights! How long is this