Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-12-01


Senator stuAab Be- iho undhrWcl lga
dur olthp Auu.soeiy Black Repulli
can pbtty oi the country For yuau hc
has been recognized as such, and recent
events have rather combined Than disiur-
bed his position. 10 be sure, there has
been nt nll times q baud oi ultra Abolition.
ists, by Giddings, GARRISON and such
mad, wild lanntic. bat they were not an
element i'm the composition Of political
parties or combinations. They talked and
raycd and dreamed of some sch cmc for o.
verthrowng this form Of goycrnm mt, of
destroying the Union and the Constitu.
ton, aud ofbuilding ON the ruins D system
of negro equality, social as well as political,
vet they only talked, they had no power
to act. Whenever the Abolition party has
acted as an efficient agent in the political
contests of this nation, IL has followed in
the track pointed out by some cold, calcu-
ating demagogue some man less honest
and more crafty than the masses who
compose that faction. Such a man is WM.
II. SEWARD. He has famed the Anti.Sla-
very flame for years. Each turn of this
agitation has been watched 10y him with
intense interest, for in each he was most
deeply and vitally interested. Ii was his
capital, the lever which was to lift him in
to power and place. Adroitly, too, has he
managed this nortern element OF political
power He has not outrun the tide of
sectional prejudice and thus endangered
his bloody and dangerous project. First
it was the right Of petition on the subject
of slavery, then the abolition of slavery in
the district of Columbia then opposition
70 : lg, Of n tO Up
.nism to the Fugitive Slave Law, then the
contest against the principles on which the
Kansas Nebraska bill was based, then the
attack upon the practical carrying out OF
those principles in the Territory OF Kansas
Each one of these separate and distinct
manifestations of Anti-Slayery feeling, was
a step forward towards the full deyelope-
ment of the Anti-Slavery ianatlcism OF the
north, upon which Senator Sewa. d relies
TO make him President either of a Union
entire, or the northern portion of one with
the southern States as mere dependencies.
The last act in this Anti-Slavery drama,
in which Senator Seward has for years aC-
ted the leading part, has been opened by
the Rochester speech of the above named
gentleman. And what aspect does the
subject now present? Undoubtedly that
Of the total and entire sulugaton of the
southern States. The programme is thus
laid down by Senator Seward:
Hitherto the two systems-yoluntary
and involuntary labor--have existed in.
different States, but side by side, within
the American Union. This has happened
because the Union is a confederation of
States But in another aspect, the Uni
ted States constitute only one nation. In
crease of population which is filling the
States out of their very borders, together
with new and extended net werk OF rail
roads and other avenues, and an informal
commerce which daily becomes more init
mate, is rapidly bringing the State into a
higher and more perfect social unity or
consolidation. Thus these antagoui tic
systems are continually coming into closer
8 contact, ard collision results.
Shall | tell you what this collision
means? They who think that it is acci-
, dental, unnecessary, the work of interest
ea or ianatical agitators, and therefore
Iephemeral, mistake the case altogether.
1t is an irrepressibe conflict between ops
posing and enduring forces, and it means
, that the United States must and lrU, sooner
, or later, become entirely u SlarcioliiHg nation,
or catrcjo G'sf-i1joruation. Either the cot
ton and rice fields of ,outh Carolina and
the sugar plantations Of Louisiana will Ill
timately be titled by free labor, and
Charleston ard New Orleans become marts
for legitimate merchandise alone, or else
the rye and wheat fields Of Massachusetts,
and New York mGst again be surrender
f ed by their farmers to slave culture, and
to the production ct slaves, and Boston
and New York become once more tho
, market 70, trade in the bodies and souls Of
men. 1t is the failure TO apprehend this
great truth that induces so many unsuc-
, cessrul attempts at final compromise be-
tween the slave and free States, and it is
- the existence Of this great fact that rem
dcrs all such pretended compromise,when
| made, vain and ephemeral"
/, In this exhibition of the onward move
, meut Of the Anti-Slayery party in this
r country, can be seen the real designs of the
arch-conspirator who is leading and gui-
. ding, controlling, encouraging and direct
t ing the whole campaign for his own bene-
I fit. The mask is now removed, and the
face of the monster revealed in all its hid.
Y cous dclormity. From opposing the in.
4 PRODUCTION OF slavery into the Territories
Oh the fight is to be transferred into the
, States, no matter what Constitutional i'm.
}. I ediment may exist in tie path Of such q
. movement The position is boldly taken
e that the United States must and wW soon,
!, er or later, become entirely a slave-hold
;, ing nation, or entirely airee labor nation
n And how IS this to be turned into fact
How is the new and startling programme
t of Senator Seward to be made to yield it,
!. expected fruits The Constitution pro,
d tects the property OF our southern breth
o ren, The Constitution guarantees the peo
,f pie Of each State the full enjoyment Of al
IF rights not coded to the general Govern
y ment. The Supreme Court of the United
r States has judicially interpreted that in
strument,and that Interpretation protects
J. slave property in the most sacred and so
e lemn manner, even in the Territories
l. much more in the States How, then i
i Senator Stewards prommciameeto to be car
ie ried into effect2 By what agency is thi