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

= Washington and Jefferson would be dri
r er pell nell out of Virgina-uuless tue
e changed their sentiments As they hay
t departed this life, and their views were
d the "old fogy" order, written long befo,
e Democratic National Conventions groun
n out new political creeds every four ycar
: VIC will dismiss although eve
: worse than Seward in hercsy.
So, too, we shall have to condemn on
DANIEL WEBSTER, who said in his speec
, on the Oregon Bill, iu 1913,
IL have made ~ my mind, for one. that ur
der no circumstances will consent 10 tn
further extension ofthe area Of slavery in III
!, United States, or 10 the further increase q
slave representation in the House OF Repre-
ScntatveS."
And in Buffalo, n Y, about a yea
before his dccease, the old gentleman als
Observed
I II never would consent, and never hav,
consented, that there should be one foot q
slave territory beyond what the old ihirleer
Never, never"
In his recent Grafton at the Inaugura
ton of the Webster Statue, in Boston
Hon. EDWARD EvERETr-that Embodi
ment of Cool Conservatism-decla that
ale Mr. Webster not only confidently an
ticipatei what the lapse Of seven years has
witnessed and Is witnessing, that the newly
acquired and the newly organized Territories
! of the Union would grow up into Free States:
. but, IN common with all or nearly all the
Statesmen of the last generation, he heLersd
/ tint Free Lajor uouid ultimately prerqii
throughout the Country. He thought he saw
! that, IN the operation Of the same causes
which have produced this reSul, in the Mid
die and Eastern States, 1t was vlSibly tax
place IN the States north Of the cotton-grow-
ing region. He inclined to the opinion, that
thus also, under the influence of physical and
economical causes, Free Labor would be
found NEST productive, and would therefore
be ultimately established.
1t is true that, interpreting the fundamental
law THE Constitution on this subject [Sla
very,l diversity of opinion between the two
sections of the Union presents itself. This
has ever been the case, first or last, in rela-
ton to every great question which has dlvi-
ded the country"
We admit that Mr.. Webster was cener-
ally acknowledged to be "ihe Expounder
of the Constitution" but then, as he did
not belong to the glorious Democratic
party, what signify his opinions about the
antagonsm between paid and unpaid la
bor? Hewas plainly Of the Seward stripe,
aud more deserving of the rope if he were
living.
There was also a certain HENRY CLAY,
somewhat noted in bis days for gifts of
oratOry, who, from his youth up, declaim-
ed roundly against the extension Of hu-
man bondage, which he considered ipjuri-
Gus to both sides, and in one Of his last
speeches he said,
$50 long as God allows the vital current to
flow through my veins, will never, never,
never, by word, or thought, by mind or will,
aid IN admitting one rood of free territory 10
The everlasting curse OF human bondage"
Rather Incorporate language-worse,
decidedly, than his friend and confdant,
Mr.. Seward-but then, what did this Mr..
Clay know about the sublime vrtnes Of
Popular Sovereignty? lie died before the
discovery of that healing balm for every
"confict"- patent remedy which SO
effectually "repressed" all "agitation" in
Kansas, and works so beautifully in Utah
Besides, Col Polk beat Mr.. Clay for
President; certainly, then, Mr.. Polk must
have been the best man; yet Mr.. Polk,
as President, signed Wilmot Proviso
which passed Congress and kept Slavery
out of Oregon-so that Polk also was
quite as wrong as Clay.
But there are other "irrepressible
conflict" men-now Hviny IN tie heart Of
old T1ginia-who are infinitely worse
than Seward, and from whom, doubtless,
Brown, Cook, COppic, Copeland and Green
took their cue. They should be executed !
for treason before Seward is, for their
crimes are older. For instance, the Hon.
Mr.. MCDOWELL, once Gorernor Of Eryi- /
nia, did declare in the Legislature of that
State
"Who that looks to this unhappy bondage |
of an unhappy people, in the midst of our So
cieiy. and thinks of It's incidents or issues, /
but weeps over 1t as a curse as great upon |
him who inflicts as upon him who suffers II |
Sir, you may place the slave where you Please |
you may dry up, 10 your uitermost the |
fountains of his feelings, the springs of his
may close upon his mind every |
avenue o: knowledge, and cloud it over with |
artificial night-you may yoke him TO your
labors, as the OK, which livelh only TO work
and worketh only TO hve-you may put him
under any process which, without destroying
his value as a slave, viii, debase and crush |
him as rational being-you may do this, and
the idea that he was born to be free will sur
yive it all. II is allied 10 his nope of immor-
is the etherial part of his nature
which oppression can not rend. 1t is torch
lii up in his soul by the hand of Deity, and
never meant to be extinguished by the hand
Of man.
More than this-CHAs JAMES FAULK-
SER-late Congressman from the Harper's
Ferry District, and Chairman Of The DEM
ocratic National Committee during the