The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-05

shall rest in the belief that it is 10 the course
of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will
push forward till it shall become alike law
full in all the States--old as well as new,
North as we'll as South"
Senator Wilson, Republican Of Massachu.
sets:
"Let us remember that moro than three
millions of bondmen, groaning under name
less woes, demand that we shall cease to re-
prove each other, and that we labor for
their deliverance
| tell you here to~night, that the agitation
of this question Of human slavery will con-
tinGe while the foot of slave presses the
soil of the American Republic.
We shall change the Supreme Court of
the United States, and place men in that
Court who believe with its pure an immacu.
late Chief Justice, John Jay, that our pray.
ers will be impious to Heaven, while we
sustain and support human slavery"
Benjamin f. Wade, U. s. Senator from
Ohio, Republican leader:
"7Hcre is really no anion non bet,oeen the
North and the South, and he believed no
two nations upon the earth entertained feel.
ings of more bitter rancor towards each other
than these twonations of the Republic. The
only sal0ation Of The Union, Metetore soas to
be found IN dioesting 1t entirely from all
faint Of sIa0e,y"
Senator Sumner, Republican, of Massa,
chusetts:
"The good citizen, as he reads the re-
quirements of this act (the fugitive slave is
filled with horror < Here the path Of
my duty is clear. lam bound to disobey
this act. X x
"Sir, will not dishonor this home Of the
Pilgrims, and of the Revolution by admit
ting-uay, l cannot beieve--that this bill
will be executed here" Charles Sumner,
Oct., 1850, IN Boston, and Aug. 26, 1852,
IN the U s. Senate.
Senator Sumner, November, 1856:
'Not that love the Union less, but free.
dom more, do now, in pleading this great
cause, insist that freedom at all hazards
shall be preserved. God forbid that for the
sake of the Union"
W II. Seward, Republican, in the Senate
of the United States
''The Constitution regulates our Steward
ship. The Constitution devotes the domain
to union, to justice, to defence, TO welfare,
to liberty. But there is higher lao than
the Constitution which regulates our author
ity over the domain, and devotes ii to the
same purpose"
He declares for co lisiou and an irrepress,
iblo conflict between the North and South.
a bloody issue:
"rhus these antagonistic systems are con-
tinually coming into closer contact, and col,
lision resnlts. Shall | tell you what thi.
collision means? They who think that it is
accidental, unnecessary, the work of inter.
cstcd or fanatcal agitators, and therefore
ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. Il
is an IRRKPRESSIBLE CONFLICT be.
tween opposing and enduring forces, and il
means that the United States must and will
sooner or later, become entirely slave
holding nation, or entirely free labor nation
Either the cotton and rice fields of South
Carolina and the Sugar Plantations of Louis;
ana will ultimately be titled by free labor
and Charleston and New Orleans become
marts for legitimate merchandise alone, OF
else the rye fields and wheat fields of Massa
cbusetts and New York must again be sur
rendered by their farmers to slave culture
aud to the production of slaves, and Boston
and New York become once more markets
for trade in the bodies and souls of men,
1t is the failure to apprehend this great
truth that induces so many unsuccessful at
Temps at final compromise between the free
and slave States, and it is the existence OF
this great fact that renders all such pretend
ed compromise, when made, vain and ephem.
cral. Startling as this saying may appear
to you, fellow citizens, it is by no means an
original or even modern one"
THE PROPHECY.
Gcrrit Smith, Republican of New York,
Aug, 9th, writes:
"It is, perhaps, too late to bring slavery
to an end by peaceablc means--too late to
vote it down. For many years | have fear.
cu anu puplloucu my lOdis5 tudJ III nuSb ~
out in blood. Those fears have grown into
belief. x If / do not misinterpret
the words and the looks Of the most intelli>
gent and noble of the black men who fall in
my way, they have come to despair of the
accomplishment of this work by the white
people. The feeling among the blacks that
they must deliver themselves, gains strength
with fearful rapidity. = = No wonder
they are brought to the conclusion that nc
resource is left to them but in God and in.
surrections. For instructions, then, we
may look any year, any month, any day.
1t will be said that these instructions will
be failures that they will be put down.
Yes, but will not slavery nevertheless be
put down by them? For what portions arc
there Of the South that will cling to slavery
otter two or three considerable insurrection:
shall have filed the whole South with hor.
ror ~
THE COMPLETELY.
Gerrit Smith, iu letter to Capt. Brown
the leader Of the Harper's Ferry insurrec
tion, dated June IL, 1859, says:
81 have done what could thus far for
Kansas, and what I could to keep you d,
your Kansas work. But must