The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-12-28
Where the Difficulty Lies.

time have a-majority in the U. ). House
Of Representatives, of more than fifty and
in the U. S. Senate of six. If slavery is 70
be the sole issue, between national parties,
in future political contests, and the nom
.slaveholding States adopt the Harper
policy, which is so strongly endorsed and
recommend by Senator Seward and his
friends, the reduction of the slaveholding
States, to mere dependencies, if they re-
main in the Union, is inevitable. Fifteen
States are to be prescribed, because their
domestic institutions differ from those Of
the other eighteen States. Our govern
ment was formed with reference to this
state of things, and provision made in
the constitution for its continuance, UNI
til each individual State should elect,
for ITSELF to abandon its own internal pol
ity. The non-slaveholding States have
no more business to interfere with slavery
in the States, where it exists, than they
have to Interfere with our common
school system, or mode Of religious wor-
ship. The constitution, which gunran-
tees TO us the privilege Of worshipping
God, according TO the dictates of our own
consciences, guarantees 10 them the right
to hold slaves. We arc no moro respon-
siblc for the existence Of slavery in South
Carolina than in Cuba, where we never
think of meddling with it, But SO long
rs the Union remains intact, and we con-
tinue to recognize the constitution rs the
supreme law Of the land, we are bound
not only to abstain from all interference
with the domestic affairs of other States,
but to protect them against invasions
from without, or instructions within
their own limits. If we, of the non-saye-
holding States, after securing the ascen-
dancy in the general government, proceed
at once 10 repudiate these obligations,
does any sane man believe the mainten-
ance of the Union possible? The South
are not seeking to extend slavery beyond
the constitutional limits of the States
where it exists. However much they
may have desired to keep up the equili-
brium in one branch Of Congress between
the slaveholding and the non-slayehold
ing States, for their own protection, the
impracticability of it has been so clearly
demonstrated that they have abandoned
it altogether, and as last resort against
the encroachments of the non-holdinp
States, will unite together and secedc
from the Union. There were wise and
prudent Statesmen in the North who
} foresaw the danger of giving to either sec
ton of the Union, So long as parties were
: divided on a sectional question, tho pre-
dominating and controlling power in The
government. The attainment of power j.
always accompanied by weighty response
bilities, and the North, having secured
the complete ascendancy in both branch
cs of Congress, with the power TO elect
President, must abandon the Helper crcoC
and repudiate John Brown, or prepare it
self for dissolution of the Union. j
the general government is to be admins
Q tered on the principles laid down by MI
Q Helper, and sanctioned by the written en-
dorsement of Mr.. Seward, and hundred
of others, in the republican party, VIII
are recognized as their leaders, the Uniol
: cannot survive the Inauguration of
President elected upon that issue. Th
republican members of Congress are con
WINGED of this, and justly alarmed by tn
threatening aspect of affairs, begin to dis
claim all sympathy with John Brown, ant
deny that they endorsed The Helper book
without knowing its contents, although
some of them certified over their ow
f proper signatures, that they had read
5 carefully and based their recommendation
: upon full knowledge of its contents
T Whether they lied then, or lie now, is no
! a matter of much importance, but ait
instructive to remark" as one of our &C
/ temporaries would say, if no was sittin
in our place, that they are disposed TO re
t trace some of their steps. We are graf
Y fed to observe even slight indications {
returning sense, if not of patriotism, {
Q the leaders of that party.
$ Milwaukee News.
ANOTHER JOHN BRowN.-An unfortu
u nate youth in Quincy, Mass, aged abou
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