The eastern clarion. [volume] (Paulding, Miss.) 1837-1863, 1859-08-10

the hearty greeting with which YOU wei
come me home, bring fF&neaSuch Joy as
the mariner may feel. when his trials end
ed, ms doubts and fears are resolved. hv
seeing the smoke of his own cottage and
the shadows of the trees which speak To
his heart of affection and rest.
The purpose for which we were assem-
bled has been achieved, and we are about
10 diSperse each and all in their appro-
pirate sphere to labor for the common
good. You have chosen our standard
bearers, not for their own, but for the
public interest, for Democracy regards
government ~ the property of the people.
and recognizes no prcscriptIve right to
office. You have met the issues of the day
as becomes party whose characteristics
are stability and progress. Whilst the
world Is changing, and new relations, ma
| terial and moral, are the result, YOU can
not stereotype a form of expression for
| your opinions neither can the principles
which are eternal and of universal appll-
| cation, be too often re-asserted. To stand
| still, or to walk with retroverted eyes,
| would i'll become the genius of our age,
| and still less the condition of our country.
| 1t i ours to deal with the present. and
| look to the future. and ii is only 10y walk
! ing out from the shadows Of the past that
| its lights become available to our onward
! course. BY the bold encounter of power
and the arraimment of precedent, all the
| great victories of Democracy have been
won. The history Of our predecessors fur
nishes both an incentive and a chart
| Had they listened to the counsel of "cOn-
servatism," and in view of the hazards of
expansion and the mingling of different
nations and languages in our contederacy,
Louisiana and Florida and California had
not been of Us. Had they shrunk from
the conflict with which monarchy threat
ened republicanism, the time-honored
policy of mo entangling alliances" had
not remained to Us. but in lieu of it we
should have been under treaty stipulation
forbidding Us in any event to acquire the
| Island of Cuba Your duty l. two-told-
your responsibility j. immea,urahle. 1t is
yours to maintain the constitution, and to
adapt it to the changes Of time and of cir
cumstance, that the purposes for which it
was ordained may be realized by ourselves
and posteritv: it is yours to develop the
institutions we inherited. to their greatest
capacity; and your responsibility embra-
ces all the hopes which depend upon the
demonstration of mans capacity for self.
government.
For more than fifty years have demo
cratic principles prevailed in the admins
tration of our government. The fame
! the prosperity. the growth and happines,
of our country, attest the adaptation oi
our theory to a confederation of free and
sovereign States. We have pride in the
past. we have zeal for the present; may
/ l e. Il F,,t,
If use the form Of interrogation, it ],
not because | am prone to despair of th,
republic: but because we are necessarily
cognizant Of the fact that the unity Of tn,
people Of the States Is disturbed hv a sec
tional. fanatical hostility as irrational a.
it is vicious. However well il may scry,
to fan the flame of local excitement, an,
to promote the personal ambition of az
aspirant. the idea Of incompatibility fo
the purposes of our Union, because of dit
fercnt systems of labor in the States. j
palpablv absurd. and would be suicidal j
the purpose avowed were attaInable-
Though the defence OF African SLAYER,
thus it is commonly called) is left to tn
South. the North are Jointly benefited b.
it. Deduct from their trade and manu-
features all which is dependent upon tn
] IIbfAli'l- ~ ~ltthf ltiHflf AAAfll I'l'' ~
| would fade and poverty would come upol
, them "as one who trayaileth.' Our f.
4 | thcrs wisely saw harmony in diversity
and mutuality in the opposite characte
I of the climate, population and pursuits {
the people in the different States. Bu
to them the proposition was far less al
parent than it Is to as. A vast eXpansio
Of territory. and the addition to the Ii
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our Country'- exports. have given to irC
trade between the States value whlc
could not then have been fully anticip
ted All Of the neceS-aries. and nearly a
of the luxurics of life. are now produce
within the limits of the United State
and exchanged for each other withol
other charge than the cost of transport
tion. The day hope Is not distant. whe
10y the acquisition of tropical territory, v
shall complete the circle of products.
What but iatuity could cause cor
mercial manufacturing people to overloC
their advantage in such a relation as tn
which exists between the North and Il
South? Ours is an agricultural peopl
blessed with fruitful soil and genial Q
mate. the elements unite with man to re
der his labor profitable. We have, und
IA ]
cr engage in a general competition with tho
who, for want of land and by rigor of c
mate find in the workshops their only
- dustrial employment. Stimulated 10y clG
legislation, and aided by taxes indirect
j.. wrung from other pursuits, it has had
further extension than this,-but spe
of its Just and normal condition.-su
. a. will exist when under the operation
T. f.Inpal shall
ep- imposed upon the citizen than that viii
&C. is necessary to enable the general govel
sE. ment to perform its delegated function
That errors of theory and practice shot
!. occur in the administration Of a system
= government as novel and complex as o1
nd should not excite surprise, and the fac
nm ty with which reform has from time
~" time been introduced, proves how CO
Y plete are the cOmpensatlng advantages
Iot our new system. Errors of judgme
For or want of information, cannot dest
!, the principles of our government, and
= such it was truly said, they are ne
dangerous whilst reason i left free to &C
bat them
1t is. however. otherwise when divis
Is made on a geographical basis, ana II
been our fortune to witness tins last We
Il phase of political division. party
- powerful to be unheeded and marked
IN nations are distinguished by terrific
ly limits, is now organized for the destr
LIS. ton Of the labor system Of the South,
mar seeks to obtain possession OF the gene
~ government that its machinery may
49,. used in aid of their war upon our e
Wit tence as a sovereign state.
Such would be the consequence Of {
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= which they avow. Their movement
. Tor no longer the character OF specula
I va philosophy. 1t is not the political d
.'old ion of a people because of different o
II. ions upon matters of Joint interest;
.ly is in the nature of foreign war waged
conquest and dominion.
SO far as the abstract right to hold
IL African in bondage. Is concerned, we ]
cause to congratulate ourselves on
progress which, within the last ten "
truth and sound philosophy have III
Anterior to that time it had been
habit of Southern men to refuse to
.toc, cuss a question Of strictly domestic
j. and cernmcnt with those who assumed tC
/, ,aP wade il. Thus, for long period, c
: any scattered her seeds broadcast over
.Pi 10 land. whilst reason IN over contid,
who stood passive. ne recent Tree discus
.ir in by the press. and on the forum. have
Of PEELED delusions which had obscured
mems, mind of generation until even an
- ourselves il was more easy to find
cry, apologist than the defender. The ca
now SO far reversed that many Not
.5nceE, men have addressed themselves to
task of defending our constitutional r
'iy on the ground Of their justice, and t
is not probably an intelligent mind an
our own citizens who doubts either
and moral or the legal right of the instit,
- of African slavery rs it exists in our {
JS' try.
ssipp II is not little curious to note the
AN 6e tuations Of English and America
D, in a Northern and of Southern opir ion,
a time this subject.
!, nd During the colonial condition,
2 else Britain not only protected the slave {
EMS but denied to the colonies the rig
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