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

fcation and admonhion OF the ingenious youth
of our LacedPmon North.
Dissolution of the Union by such influences!
scorn the very idea. 1t is equally absurd in
the mouths Of those who threaten it as the
means Of aggression, OF the North or South, and
of those who threaten it for defence of the South
against the contingent aggressions OF the
! North
Bot then, IL is said, If such men do not azfe
peril our institutions, yet others of larger aims
and OF discreeter iaciousness, who use them to
disturb the popular mind, do; others, who talk
of Freedom when they mean power: who cla-
NOR continually of the imputed encroaChments
OF the South on the North; who organize and
uphold sectional party combinations, and whose
avowed objects are the establishment OF a sec
tional administration of the Constitution.
/ Well, these | admit are dangerous men, who,
not by their own strength, but by the dissen-
sions of the true friends of the Constitution,
have attained too much influence IN the North.
They are dangerous because they have no fixed
principles, no stable convictions, no samples Of
consistency 10 control their acts, because their
only creed is what has been called the duty Of
success; the successful accomplishment OF a
sectional organization of the government on lhr
ruins of is nationality, would be the de facio
dissolution Oft the Union.
Their incessant cry is Of the 'slave power"
If, perChanCe, new realms are TO be added to
the magnificent domain Of the Union, though
such addition be for the desire and superior
benefit of the population and commerce of the
North, they cry out on the slave power. If|
the revenue Of the Union is 10 be modified
though ii be done with their own hands, and
for the advantage OF the North, again they cry
out on the slave power. Ifnew territorial gov
ernments of the Union are TO be organized ia
the West, though such organization be in the
interests and 10 The gain of the North, still th
cry out on the slave power. If the dignav
and honor of the Union are TO be vindicatei 81
war, though The grievances 10 be redressec, SAsl
the securities to be conferred, are at the North,
always they cry out on the slave power
Shame on the parrot cry Never, in the worst
England or France, was there more gross ef- /
fort 10 nflame the popular passions by false ap-
peals to preudces-never a more wauton
abuse the freedom of republican speech
never more abominable attempt to crafty per-
sonal ambition at the expense of country's
welfare and peace. Slave-power 1t is the I
cry OF 'stop thief" on the part of the burglar
fleeing from the pursuit Of the officers OF JUS
tice.
We at the North have been addicted more
or less, for the space Of some twenty years, 10 .
persistent attacks on the constitute ona rights of
the South. Busy mischiet-makers, the "can-
kers of calm worlds peace" have set up I
newspapers, formed societies, thrust themselves |
on the public attention, subscribed agitatioaI
funds, perverted legislation in the several I
States, and usurped, as far as they might, the
voice Of Congress, in order, if possible, to i'm
pose their opinions and their intruded authority
on the sister States; laboring to destroy their
property, and to exclude them from their com
mon share Of The inheritance, and of the public
on the part of some Northern States as against
those CT the South have been perpetrated under
the shelter OF our common government, when
there would have been just cause OF war as be-
tween foreign governments; and occasionally .
reach to such a point that some States and |
statesmen ofthe North, in the extremity of the;s
blind zeal, apply TO their iellow-crizens of the |
South, language of political and personal denun-
enemies. And then, if goaded by the sense of
wrong, State or a statesman of the South, re-
ours to defensive words or acts, there is anoth-
er outcry of the Slave power. Meantime, all
these aggressive acts at the North are underta-
ken, we are continually told, in order to repel |
the aggression and overthrow the domination of
the slave power
Does the South dominate over the Union l.
That is the question. 1t is a matter, in which |
l myself, man OF the North, have for one rea-
son or another, felt little interested, and
which, as matter of philosophical study we'll
adapted TO an hour of rural deness, under the |
shade OF green trees, and with the melodies of
the many voiced sea to lull me into the mood of
tranquil contemplation, have undertaken TO
investigate.
My friends, you know We naturally, almost
necessarily, regard things from cur own stand
point, at least in the first instance. /, there
fore, in rejecting on the present question, be-
gan in this way, that is from the point Ofview
Of my own State Of Massachusetts Il rather