The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1859-12-30
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Northern doughfaces and mercan
lie aristocrats, In the large cities,
have been resorting TO the expedi'
cut, lately, Of holding Union.saving
ostensibly to harmonize
"discordsnt elements, "but in reality
to lionize the institution Of slavery
in order to secure Southern patron
age. The speakers on these occa
sinns, ha~o shown themselves per
feet toadies, in abusing and de
flaming the citizens Of the North
and in endeavoring in their Union
saving way, to make the impression
that these citizens mediate an in
vasion OF Southern rights, while they
have not a word to say in reference
to the violence and insul, offsrud &c
Northern men in the South, nor in
reference to the repeated threats oI
u disruption Of the government, ut.
tered by Democratic members ot
Congress in their places, in case the
arrogant demands OF tue South bc
not complied with.
These Union meetings, we cay,
have been a farce, being got up and
managed by Democratic politicians,
who give utterance to the stronges,
kind Of pro.slavery sentiment
Here is what Mr.. Charles O'Conor,
one Of tie speakers at the late Union
meeting in New York, said OF slavo-
ry:
l maintain that negro slavery Is not unjust,
"a voice--"No sir" applausej) that il is
benign in its influence upon the white man,
and the black man (voices--"Thsrs so,
that's So" applausejl that II is ordained by
nature; that il Is an institution created by
nature Itself; that IL carries with il duties
for the black man. and duties for the white,
which duties cannot be performed except by
the preservation und-if gentlemen please
the perpetuation Of the system. (Applause.) }
And one Of the reason, for this is, that I
have been taught il by the highes, tribunal
in our country, and the most venerable ex.
ponent Of the principles ofjustice and OF the
bearing and effect Of your Constitution. -
The Supreme Court OF the United States has
told us, what wisdom will ever pronounce
TO be sound and just doctrine, that there
are some principles well known, well un.
derstood, universally recogn ized and univer.
sally acknowledged among men. that are
not to be found written in constitutions or
in laws.
Now, gentlemen, / maintain that il is not
injustice to leave the negro in that condi-
ton in which nature placed him - to leave
him in state Gf pupilage and give him n
master TO govern him aud supply his def
cieneies. Nor is it depriying him OF any Of
his rights to compel him to labor in return,
and AFFORD 10 that master Just conipensa.
tion for the labor and the talent employed n
governing him and rendering him useful 10
himself and to the society in which he lives
{ (hpplause.) These are the principles, gen.
tlemen, which the extreme measures OF nbo
litionists compel us to meet. This is the
ground that we must take. We are not to
talk about slaves being an evil--Uf slavery
being n thing which, though pernicinus,
must be tolerated because we have mad,
bargain to tolerate IL. We are to look at it
as 1t IS; and We are TO look at 1t by the voice
Of inspiration. as to be found in the Sacred
Volume, which nowhere condemns the bond.
aye Of those who are ouly fit for bondage.--'
We must look at it with the eyes of sound
and we must pronounce it Just,
benign, lawful and pr0per.'
"For my port, gentlemen, If the North
continues to degrade itself in the selection
of Representatives to the Congress of the
United States, rs it has, from perhspS de.
gree of negligence and inattention upon
subject heretofore degraded itself, the South
is not 10 be censured If it wthdraws from
the Union. (HSSes and applauSe.) A
so. Three cheers for the
Fugitive Slave Law"
And this WAS the tone Of the most
prominent speakers on that occasion.
such As Dean, Hunt, Capt. Rynders,
and Thayer. ss1~
The New Yd e'ns, a promin-
ent and widely.circhlated Democrat.
ic paper, in speakiny of this meet.
ing, remarked:
"wi,h such a Speaker as Charlie, O, Con
o. the Democracy Of the meeting was fairly
ted himself as a National Democrat. 1 a.'T H..
looked t.i at slavery SLAYER w,th the eye OF ph'lo
negro by the light of past history and the
the south. The discourse Of ex. .Goveruo, :"
Hunt was also Democratic in tone aud