The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1859-09-15


there, unless they will consent to degrade
themselves to level of equality with the
negro slavei Are you willing that the
powers os the Government shall be per-
verted from the great purpose of promo
ting the interests of Freedom, to sub
servicnce to the base uses of slavery p
Are you willing that these vast Territories
the munifcent gift of bounteous Prov
idence by US to be dressed and kept
shall be sacrificed to the exactions of sla-
very, and thus forfeit the Eden of beauty
and fertility which has been committed
to US, in trust, for the benefit of posteri-
ty and of nankindl The requiem meut
of the passage of slave code for the Ter
ritories by Congress is now boldly put
forth, and has received the recognition of
that large division of "the Democr par.
ty" which adheres to the Administration
in this State and elsewhere. 1t is an is
sue which must be met. and it is for you
to declare at the polls your decision upon
it. You cannot oppose it. and at the
same time support the so-styled "Demo-
cratic Ticket" in Pennsylvania. Embol-
dened by the ready submission which has
been yielded to all their demands by the
Administration Dem ocratic party, and
resoute in their determination to crush
out free labor wherever it can come into
competition with their own hostile syste m,
the propagandists of slavery have actual
ly determined to take the still further
step of re-opening the African Slave
Trade, and have already introduced into
the country cargoes of savage negroes,
smuggled across the ocean, and now held
to compulsory service on the rice, sugar
and cotton fields of the South. The point
has arrived at which in the path of re-
Progression which has been taken from the
position Of the trainers of our Institutions
on Slavery and its cognate questions, men
are found who boldly justify the infamous
tra6c in human flesh, which was prohib.
tied half a century ago by an American
Congress, visited with the penalties of pi-
racy, and stigmatized in the estimation of
the whole civilized and christian world
as the sum of all iniquities.' Leading
men in the Southern States, high 10 the
confidence of the Democratic party"
and holding elevated and public trusts,
are heard proudly demanding that Con-
gress shall repeal the punishments provi-
ded for those who introduce slaves from
Africa, and democratic" State Conven-
tions unite in the demand. Southern
Courts and Juries refuse to punish the
pirates when arrested and indicted, and
the National Administration is either i'm
potent or unwilling to intercept their ves-
sells on the sea, or secure the arrest and
conviction of the offenders after they have
landed their cargo, and received the wa
ges of their crime. 1t is insisted that the
South must have an increase of slaves in
order to enable her to contest the point
of supremacy with free labor in the Ter
ritories; and to plant new Slave States to
be admitted into the Union to prevent the
Free States from gaining complete as
tendency. The battle which has been
waged between the two repugnant sys-
TENS of labor, always to the disadvantage
of Freedom, who has been deserted and
betrayed by those who professed to be
devoted to her cause, has its crisis in this
attempt to revive the Slave Trade-a
scheme which Is made almost incredible
by its audacity, immortality and cruelty.
Unfortunately, facts prove it's existence,
and many of the aggressions of slavery
propagandism which have already been
consummated were far more improbable
of acco conplishment, and received far less
countenance and encouragement at the
start. than this, the most fagrant Of them
ALL ObSta forincipuS is the maxim of wisd ON
and the voice of Pennsylvania should be
pronounced in the most emphatic terms
of condemn ration of project which must
shock the moral sense of every one Of her
rigbt-minded citizens.
The industry of American freemen has
another great and vital interest which has
always been refused the recognition of
those who are engaged in the schemes of
slavery aggression which We have noticed
The material welfare Of the people as we'll
as the financial interests of the Govern.
ment indicate policy of Protection and
Defence of our agricultural, mining. man
ufacturing, mechanical and manual labor,
against the schemes and systems of for
eign nations. as the true course to be a.
dopted 10 our legislation on tho subject
of Tariff Properly considered, and as
actual experience proves, Revenue and
Protection possess blended harmony of
interests At those very periods in our
history when the labor of the people was
best sheltered from unequal competition
with accumulated foreign capital, long
trained skill and low rates of wages, the
National Golfers were most fully replen.
ished-the expenditures of government
were completely met from its resources,
and the process of reducing national debts
contracted under other systems, was in
most successful operation. When, how.
ever, discriminating duties were taken of
or ID ade to discriminate against our home
industry-when free trade was put in
practice, and Protection entirely aban-
doned and condemned by the party in
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