Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-09

from the distiilations of rye? No one
/ believes this. The Slavery-extending
policy Of the Administration had re,
ceived a terrible rebuke from the
people. They had repudiated the
Presidents Sancho Panza, the auto
crat OF the dinner table and the
poor man, shocked and hewildcred,
and tearing his locks, like King Lear,
thought the Government was falling
to pieces, because Slavery Propagan-
dism had been rcprobatcd by the
popular vote. Hioc hacA,ymae Be
comlortcd, venerable chief! It's not
the free institutions Of our country,
but the Pro-Slavery Democracy, that
is falling asunder, like a piece Of
limestone when water is poured upon
it. So also in regard to Cuba. The
real object Of its purchase is not the
orored one. 1t is governed by a race
who do not speak our ianguage-who
are unused to sclfgovcrnment-who
have, and if annexed as States will
contintinuc to have, an established
form of religion, or Church and State
united but, in spite Of all, we are
asked to purchase this Island. and TO
place thirty millions in the hands of
the Executive, to begin the ncgotia-
tions-that is, to buy up the c1jctais I.
Does any one believe that it is for the
benefit Of commerce, or the safety Of
navigation, that we are asked to DO
all this? If So, why not seek to pur-
chase the British West Indies +?
Have we not as much to fear from
England as from Spain ? And where
is Canada, and the other British pos
sessions that stretch all along our
Northern frontier. from the Atlantic
to the Pacific? No; it is for the
benefit Of slave breeders and human
flesh mongerS. And vet these Dem
ocrats profess that they want to get
Slavery out Of national politics.
Would to God they were sincere
Would 10 Heaven this beast of prev
would take the carcas, Of the slain in
TO lis lair. II might gnaw the flesh
and Craunrh the bones without molcs-
tatiou from me. But instead of that.
it asks me to hold its victim while it
sncks the blood. Bat this, | never
viii do. Take your pound Of flesh. if
it IS 20 nominated in the bond, but do
not ask for the blood as well.
Read over the whole Message. and
YOU will find lis entire texture to he
Slavery. Every topic is discussed
with reference to It's bearings on the
subject Of Slavery. And yet the Dem
ocrats, with 81 impudcncc that chal-
lcnge- our admiration for its sublim-
ity, turn to u, and say, DO not agi-
tate this sui i.iect. DO not keep up
this sectional strife" To agitaIc, to
Icgislatc, to make treaties, to annex
territory, to purchase empires, for
Slavery, is all right, but to do any
shlng og1iast Slavery is wrong and
sectional.
And here is another phase of this
fanaticaI spirit, which has taken up
It's dwelling place in the Democratic
party. 1t Identifies Slavery with the
nation, and especially with the South.
Now, am reckoned as ultra and ex-
trcmc as most on this subject, and vet
no one has ever heard me say any
thing against the South. 1t is
only against Slavery that | have
spoken. and | propose to assail that
only in those modes justified by the .
Constitution yet am sectional, and .
Republicans are sectional. When
they only seek to prevent the extern
sion Of a system which is under the
ban of the civilized world. they are
charged with being sectional. In IL
linois, we have suppcd full ofthis hor-
ror. And what is the proof? o, we
have no delegates from Slave States
TO attend our National Nominating
Conventions. Why have we none?
Mark-becausc, if Delegates attend
these Conventions they are mobbed
and driven into exile. What if we,
in the free States, should say to the
Democrats, If you attend the
Charleston Convention, we will hang
'ou," and thus keep them all at home,
md then reproach them with being a
ectional party, because only the slave
states were represented? We'll, you
lave no votes in the slave States
our principles do not circulate with
is at all you dare not even proclaim
our doctrines among US And why ,
10 not our principles circulate in the
lave States? They are the princi- '
lies Of Washington, and Franklin, {
nd other founders Of the Republic. {
he reason why our principles do not {
irculate in the slave States is, that
his despotism has, like another Ma y
oleon, crushed out the freedom of t
peech and Of the press. Allow US a
zee access to the minds Of the nom t
,aveholders Of the South, and in one t
ear We would have more Republican 0
otes in proportion, in the slave Safes, o
ian there are Democratic votes in Il
le free States. Your principles DO I
OF circulate down here boasts the /
Iavery propagandist. Sacred histo- II
tells Us OF certain rich man who e