Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1859-11-25

= it-you must adopt some plan oi Emancip;
ton. or worse Wi. follow"
at is conceded, that, al this precise momei
: of our legislation, slaves are injurious To th
, interests and threaten the subverSlon and n
IN of this Commonwealth. Their presei
{ number, their increasing number, all admoi
{ ish US OF this. In different terms, and /
more measured language. the same fact ha
been conceded by all who have yeI addresSe
lhis House. Something must be done, en-
phaticaily exclaimed the gentleman from Din
widd!e and thought could perceive rt
Sponse 10 tina, declaration, in The counlenanc
of a large majority of this body. And wh
must something be done! Because il no
says the gentleman from Campbell, the throat
/ of all the whiie people of Virginia will be GU
No, says the gentleman from Dlnwiddle-
The whites can no, be conquered throat
of the biacks will be cu,.' II is trlfing dii
ference, 10 be sure, Sir, and matters not TO th
argument. For the fact is conceded, that on.
race or the other must be exierminaied.'
"Sr. To the eye of the Statesman, as 10 tn
eye Of Omniscience, dangers pressing, anS
dangers that must necessarily press, are alike
present. With single glance he embrace,
Virginia now, with the elements of des,ruc
uon reposing quietly upon ber bosom, and
virginia as lighted from one extremity to the
other with The torch tf seryIle insurrection
aud massacre. 1t is not sufficient for him
that the match Is not yet applied. 1t Is
enough that the magazine is open, and the
match will shortly be applied"
In addition to all this, we weep to re-
cord the fact that ROGER A. PRYOR, late
Editor Of the most fre-eating Democratic
Journal in Richmond, Va and nOv n Doug
las Democratic Member Of Congress from that
District, preceded Senator Seward in his fam
ed idea, having uttered, in 1852, the following
language:
"There must be last battle between sla-
very and abolition. The struggle will end
only with The destruction of one or other of
the Two hostile parties. Shall the South post
ponc THE LAST DECISIVE CONFLICT
until defeat is inevitable J The strength o.
the enemy Is hourly increasing. Every ship
load of emigrauts discharged in the streets
OF New ork, auSments the forces of abolition,
and every decenial count of the population Of
the country, marks The rapid decline OF the
SCulh."
So much for Mr.. Stewards originality, and
so much for comparison between what a
New Yorker may utter, challenged, and
Virginia Lccotoco may proclaim, unchal-
lenged!
Last Of all, We will give Senator DOUGLAS
testimony in favor of unprecedented efforts
for Universal Emancipation. At the Editori-
al head of the Harrisburg Stntnci-which has
Douglas i'll Nomination for President-ap-
pears, prominently, the following quotation
from that leading Democrat:
Ave are bound 10 extend and spread until
we absorb the entire Continent of America
including the adjacent Islands, and become
SsfHef Ga ss i r. &eRSP do net
help IT, Ii is the decree of Providence. This
continent was set apart as an asylum for tie
oppressed of the whole world, and as a nurse
ry for Hberty-ani here the people are collect
lng from all parts of the world and taking
shelter under the shadow of the great tree OF
ERTG.'-SrEPHEN A. DouGLAs.
Douglas, it seems, is far ahead of Seward
both Continents Of the Western Hemisphere
not only throughout, the Union, but in Central
America, Brazil. the West Indies, Canada, the
Russian Possessions, &c. &c.
Now, strange 10 say, notwithstanding all
these "irrepressibe conhici' sentiments, Ut
tered YEARS BEFORE SEWARD UTTER
ED IT-uitered, some of them by Slavehold-
erS, too--nOne of the Democracy condemn tie .
ty all the walls of their terrible wrath upon
Stewards devoted head for just repeating one
Democratic idea-and that, too, in much /
more qualified, consderale, moderate and
guarded form than they uttered ii!
READER! after all the epithets heaped upon T
that man, tell us, from your inmost soul, do |
no, Seward and MDowell and Faulkner and .
others We have quoted, all say the same thing, /
and all speak THE TRUTH Does not the his .
tory of our race confirm it, Is it not fixed .
fact-a prominent. ever-present, seli-evlden; .
verify in our experience, as anatIon, past and /
present! Do not the leech like demands of /
molls Can the strugglings of the human
heart for Freedom, ever be repressed Can |
free Americans be ground down 10 the level /
OF the chatte slavel
The Republican parry occupies the true
ground between the two extremes of Slavery |
Extension and Abolition. Ii is the only real /
National, peaceful. conservative power. That
party says, "LET SLAVERY ALONE IN !
THE STATES, BUT LET IT SPREAD NO
FARTIIER" a position, which, alone, can
repress undue agitation, and avert the dan
gers which may threaten our Union.
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LADY, UP NkIIN