Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1858-09-01

So'etHiheuts; auu occasionally reach to Sucn
point that some States and statesmen of the
North, in the extremity of their blind zeal,
apply to their fellow citizens OF the South.
language of political and personal denuncia-
ton ut only for the case of declared national
enemies, And then, if goaded by the sense
of wrong, State or statesman of the South
rscurs to defensive words or acts, there is
another outcry of the Slave power Mean-
time, all these aggressive acts at the North
are undertaken, we are continually told, in
order to repel the aggression and overthrow
the domination of tho slave power.
Does the South dominate over the Union?
That is the question 1t is uiatter, in which
| myself. man of The North, have for one
reason or another, felt little interested, and
which, as a matter Of philosophical study well
adapted 10 Rn heur Of rural idleness, under
the shade of green trees, and with the melo-
dies OF the many voiced sea to lull ne into
the mood of tranquil contemplation, have
undertaken to Investigate
My friends. you know We naturally, almost
necessarily regard things from our own
standpoint, at least in the first instance. I,
therefore, in rejecting on the present ques-
ton, began il this way, that is from the poin t
of view Of my own State of Massachusetts
1t rather seemed to me, on looking back, that
Massachusetts had pretty fair run Of the
power of this Union. Two Presidents two
Vice Presidents, place on the bench of the
Supreme Court for sixty-six ont Of sixty nine
years OF the Federal Government, seat In
the Cabinet for sixty Of the sixty nine
years; Secretaries of State, of Treasury, Of
War, Of Navy, of Justice, most of them
again aud again, and one or the other alnos.
always; embassies without number, aud a
half monopoly of the most important one,
that of st. james; and potential voice al
ways in the councils Of the Government and
of the pcople-a voice, which when it did
not rule by authority, of Office yet governed
by the higher authority Of genius, Of virtue,
Of eloquence, and which never spoke but to
penetrate as with an electric flash, to the ut
termost bounds of the wide Union. Is 1t not
SO? When was there day, that an Adams,
an Ames. Quincy Adams, a Webster, an
Everett, Choat. did not live to maintain by
voice and pen, by opinion and act, the due
ponderance Of Massachusetts in the conduct
of public affairs of the United States? When
was there day that Massach usetts did not
form the e1uberance of her political wealth
furnish King, q Marcy, or Bancroft. 10
be accepted and honored even here in the
Empire State Of New York? And yet, in
the face Of all this, and with some personal
"reminiscences of my own to aid me to the
conclusion that Massachusetts men are prone
to be, | will net say domiueering, but domi-
nant enough, either in Congress or in the
Cabinet am to be told that the South dom
mates over the North.
And New York, the Empire State of the
Union, what is her testimony in this present
issue Of the alleged domination Of the South
over the North? h?-We ere the Hamiltons the
Jays, the Ligingstons, the Burrs, and the
Kings of the earlier days of the Republic,
men without wills of their own? Were the
Citations the Tompkins, the Van Bureus the
Wrigbts ond the Marcvs of later day.
! Why, who does not know, what schooib0y of
the first form is there so ignorant as nor to
| have heard. not only that these men of New
York ruled in their time and turn, in the
| high places OF the Union, and ruled by the
intellectual right divine stamped their i'm
mortal brows, aud ruled as men Of the North,
in their proper pcrsons-not only this, but
! that history is now preoccupied with the
! question, whether they did not also in fact
rule. when the tituIar places of power were
| held by the South.
| The South dominate over the North, with
New York in it, and holding. by her popula
! ton her wealth and her power, the hegemony
!
! the scroll OF her arms that she is ever 10 be
uppermost, just as Charles of Spain inscribed
Father yet on the pillars of Hercules. Oh
most absurd, most prep0sterous, most rI1icu-
| lous of all the foolish imagnatiors which ever
entered into the head of wayward men. Why
| the South like the North, struggles and strug
! giles in vain to escape from the authority
and TO shake off the ascendcncy OF New
| York.
But, some simple hearted person may say
Is there nothing in this cry of slave powcr:-
! Is it mere faction and falsehood from begin
! ming to end? | think it is utterly destitute
| of any foundation in fact, [ had long ans
/ diligently sought in the proper quarters. for
/ It's PRETENDED foundation, and it is but recently
! that | have discovered it, in much applau
/ dcu speech Of one of the senators from the
! State Of New York That eminent person
/ if any one, may be presumed to understand
the subject, and lie explains the mystery O
iniquity thus: 1t appears, that when th4
J Constitution was adopted, and for some tim
afterwards. there was but one free labor Stat
( in the Union; all the rest were slave labo
| States. And SO the slave power got the up
! per hand and has held it ''almost uninter
I ruptedly" ever since, Notwithstanding suhse
! uuent changes in the relative number of th
! free labor and slave States. That is. New
/ York and Pennsylvania having been at III
beginning slave holding States their yower i
slave power! | hope and trust that, in tn
lamentablc state of things, New York vii
continue to govern herself in all tenderness
and mercy, and will, moreover, have little
! consideration to spare for the rest of th
North, and especially for Massachusetts, who
| as the only original non-slave holding State
is hopelessIy dependent on the slave pow
er," and its representative, New York.
Ny friends. pray you not to laugh a
! these fallacies, ludicrOus as they are, Wit
! which asnirinn men GEEK 10 insutrcctioniz