The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-08-13


dents, place on the bench of the Supreme
Court for sixty-six out Of sixty-nine years OF
the Federal Government, seat in the Cabinet
Tor sixiy-seven OF the sIxtv-nine years; Secreta-
Fes of State, of Treasury, of War, of Navy, Of
Justice, most ofthem again and again, and one
or another almost always; embassies without
number, and half monopoly of the most impor-
tant one, that OF ST. James; and a potential
I<T0ice always ia th- councils ofthe Government
| and Of the peope-a voice, which when it did
not rule by authority, OF office yet governed by
the higher authority OF genius, of virtue, of elo-
quence, and which never spoke but 10 pene-
trate as with an electric flash, to the uttermost
bounds of the wide Union. Is it not so! When
was there day, that an Adams, an Ames, a
! Quincy Adams, Webster, an Everett, Choat :,
did not live TO MAINTAIN by voice and pen, by
1 opinion and act, the due ponderance of Massa-
/ chusets IN the conduct of public affairs OF the
| United States! When was there day that
Massachusetts, did not from the exuberance of
her political wealth, furnish King, Marcy,
( or Bancroft, to be accepted and honored even
here in the Empire State of New York; And
yet, in the face OF all this, and with some per-
sonal "reminiscences of my own 10 aid me 10 the
conclusion, that Massachusetts men are prone TO
be, will not say domineerng, but dominant
! enough, either 10 Congress or in the Cabinet,
am 10 De told that the South dominates over the
North.
And New York, the Empire State OF the L
nlcn, what is her testimony in this present issue
OF the alleged domination of the South over the
North Were the Hamiltons, the Jays, the
LIvingstons, the Burrs, and the Kings OF the
earlier days of the Repu bic, men without wills
0! their own Were the Clntons, the Tomp-
kns, the Van Burens, the Wrights and the
Marcys Of a later day. Why, who does not
know, what sChooiboy Of the first form is there
SO ignorant as not 10 have heard, not only that
these men OF New York ruled in their time and
ttra, in the high places of the Union, and ruled
by the intellectual right divine stamped on
their immortal brows, and ruled as men Of the
but that history IS now preoccupied with the
question, whether they did not also in. fact rule,
when the ttuIar places Of power were held by
the South.
The South dominate over the North. with
New York in ii, and holding, by her population,
her wealth and her power, the hegemony o.
the North New York, who assumes in the
scroll Other arms that she is ever to be upper
most, just as Charles OF Spain inscribed "Farther
YETI on the pillars Of H-rcules Oh, most ab-
surd, most Preposterous, most ridiculous of al
the foolish maginations which ever entered
INTO the head of wayward men. Why the
South like the North, struggles and struggles in
vain 10 escape ffom the authority, and to shake
off the ascendancy OF New York.
But, some simple hearted person may say,
is there nothing in this cry Of slave power =
Is it mere faction and falsehood from beginning
10 end ! think it is utterly destitute of any
foundation in fact. had long and diligently |
sought in the proper quarters, for its pretended
foundation, and II is but recently that | have |
discovered it, in much aPplauded speech of
one the senator's from the State of New York |
That eminent person, If any one, may be presu-
med 10 understand the subject, and he explains /
the mystery of iniquity thus 1t appears, that !
when the Constitution was adopted, and for
some time afterwards, there was but one free
labor State in the Union all the rest were slave |
labor States. And so the slave power got the |
upper hand, and has held il "almost unlnterruP- !
tedly" ever since, notwithstanding subsequent |
changes in the relative number of the free labor |
and slave States. That is, New York and |
Pennsylvania having been at the beginning |
slave holding States their power is slave power
hope and trust that, in the lamentable state of
things, New York will continue to govern |
herself IN all tenderness and mercy, and will,
moreover, have little consideration TO spare |
for the rest of the North, and especially for
Massachusetts,, who, as the only original nom /
slave-holding State, is hopelessly dependent on
the s'slave power" and its representative, n.
York.
Ny friends, pray you not to laugh at these |
fallacies, Iudcrous as they are, with which as
piring men seek 10 insurrectIonize the whole
North by factious appeals to the falsely imputed
domination of the South over the Union for
the avowed object of such appeals to mere pre-
iudice and passion is sufficiently serious 1t is
not merely to change the administrators OF the
government OF the country, but also to change
that policy OF Democratic nationality which
has prevailed for SO many years, and has been
the eficacious instrument of the support and
elevation of the Union.