Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-12-03

II Instead OF conhdlng that duty to Congres
i, and that they secured to the Slave State
l. while yet retaining the system of SLAYER
$ thrce-titths representation of slaves
l. the Federal government, until they shoul
C find themselves able to rclinquish it wit
:, safety. But the very nature Of thes
notifications fortilies my position that th
a fathers knew the two systems could M
n endure within :he Union, and expecte
/ that within a short period slavery woul
e disappear for ever Moreover, in orde
c that these notifications might not alto
. gether defeat their grand design of Re
t pubic maintaining universal equality, the
| provided that two-thirds of the State
might amend the Constitution.
! 1t remains to say on this point only on
word to guard against misrepresentation
, If these States are again to become uni
versally saveholding, | do not pretend t
say with what violations of the Constitu
ton that end shall be accomplished. Or
the other hand, while do confidently be
lieve and hope that my country will ye
become land of universal freedom, dt
not expect that it will be made SO other
wise than through the action of the sever
al States, cooperating with the Fedora
Government and all acting in strict con
formity with their respective Constitutions
The strife and contention concerning
Slavery, which gently disposed persons dc
habitually deprecate, is nothing more than
the ripeuing of the conflict which the
Fathers themselves not only thus regarded
With favor, but which they may be said to
have instituted.
1t is not to be denied, however, that thus
far the course of that contest has not been
according to their humane antc;pations
and wishes. In the field Of Federal poll
ties, Slavery, deriving unlocked for ad-
van:ages from commercial changes, and
energies unforeseen from the facilities of
.oGiti.-'is- h-.-n~- ..~--L--- -e A.
slaveholding class and between that class
aud other property classes, early rallied,
and has at length made stand not merely
to retain its original defensive position,
but to extend its sway throughout the
whole Union. 1t is certain that the slave
holding class of American citizens indulge
this high ambition, and that they derive
encouragement for it from the rapid and
effective political successes which they
have already obtained. The plan of ope-
ration is this :: by continued appliances
of patronage, and threats of disunion, they
will keep a majority favorable to these dc.
signs in the Senate, where each State has
an equal representation. Through that
majority they will defeat, as they best can,
the admission of Free States and secure
the 7amrIp af tSIIs States. JIILlad5eE.lhs
Slavery into all the Territories of the
United States now existing and hereafter
to be organized. BY the action Of the
President aud the Senate, using the treaty
making power, they will annex foreign
slave holding States. In a favorable
cojurcture they will induce Congress to
repeal the &c. of 1908, which prohibits
the foreign slave-trade, and so they will
import from Africa, at the cost of only $40
a head, slaves enough to fill up the interi-
or Of the continent. Thus relatively in
crcasing the number of Slave States, they
will allow no amendment to the Constitu-
llon prejudicial to their interest, and SO,
having permanently established their pow
or, they expect the Federal judiciary to
lullify all State laws which shall interfere
with internal or foreign commerce in slaves
When the Free States shall be sufi-
GENTLY demoralizcd to tolerate these de.
signs, s,they reasonably conclude ,hatSavery
Will be accepted by those States themselves
shall not stop to show how speedy or
low complete would be the ruin which the
Of these savcholding
schemes would bring upon the country
For one, should not remain in the coun
ry to test the sad experiment Having
pent my manhood, though not my whole
lfc, in Free State, no arstocracy of any
lind, much less an aristocracy of Slave
folders, shall ever make the laws of the
and in which | shall be content to live
lavlng seen the society around me uni
ersa!Iy engaged in agriculture, maufac-
ures and trade, which were innocent and
eneicent, shall never be denizen of
tate where men and women are reared as
attic, and bought and sold as merchandise. |
When that evil day shall come, and all
urther effort at resistance shall be impos- {
ible, then, if there shall be no better hope
Or redemption than | can Eow foresee, | {
hall say with Franklin, while looking
broad over the whole earth for a new
ONE: "Where Liberty dwells there is t
my country" '
You vii! tell me that these fears are i
aud chimerical. Ianswer, they t
re SO, but they are so only because the
esigns of the shareholders must and can
c defeated. But it is only the possibility
defeat that renders them so They can a
OF be defeated by inactivity. There is C
0 escape from them compatible with nom t
,sstance. How, then, and in what way, a
lali the necessary resistance be made a
here is only one way. The Democratic
lrty must be permanently dislodged from Il
lie Government. The reason is, that the
emocratic party is inextrcably commit f,
d to the designs of the Shareholders, Il
hich l have described. Let me be we'll a
do not charge that the c
emocratic candidates for public office now el
fore the people, are pledged, much less e
at the Democratic masses who support Il
EN- really adopt those atrocious and dan ci
rous designs. Candidates, may and a,