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


must and will always exist, side by side
! and that no one shall argue against thpi
. co-cxiStence. OIL and water will mingl
when Right and Wrong harmonizc-no
before. Gen. WASHINGTON himself SAT-
he slapped 10 see a Confe4eracy IF Ere
.Sates.' Congress did abolish Slavery il
all the North-Wcstcrn Territory. Penn
sylyauia, and State after State have doom
cd it to death. The West Indies ar,
nearly clear Of it. The most enlightened
nations Of the earth are moving against it
JUHN {. CALHOUN in his day confessed
that "the literature Of the world wa:
against the South
B Yet Slavery aud Democracy indicate
that there must be nothing said about this
'.Colf.ct of Ages" and those who do SC
are ;'rraitorous,' disturbing the peace,
'inciting Instructions" encouraging j chm
Brown, and worthy of denuuciation, oblo
Guy, aud punishment.
And does the Slave Power really sup
pose that it can crush the natural, inhe-
rent, Constitutional right Of the Frecmcn
Of the North, East and West to discuss
freely and fully-Siavery, or any other
subject whatever?
Il would be au interesting task to at
tempt to gag the Million and Half of
EEEMoNTEEs-mostly Sors of the Sires
of &c. 1t would be pleasant job to un-
durtakc TO blot from existence all the dir
reprcssible couhict' writings Of the world.
1t abouuds in our religious and miscella-
neOus books-in our magazines and news
rapcrs-and in our very school books. 1t
breathes in the prayers Of Christian people
in the Declaration of Independence-in
the Preamble to the U. S. Constitution
in the speeches of our Fourth of Julyars
in our Inscriptions TO our National Bird
10 our songs to
''The land Of the Free and the home Of the brave"
and in the thousands of ways in which the
love of freedom and haired Of tyranny are
wrought into our very souls from our in-
fancy until our dying hours!
Do we not all remember the familiar
quotations, in our school day copy books
Equality Of Right i Natures plan.
sni following Natures is the march of Man.
.Know We not who would l.. free.
Themselves must stEIhc the blow
'-one hour Of virtuous Liberty
Is worth whole Eternity OF Bondage.'
Our school-ma.:ers and schoOl-ma' ans
must no longer "set" such inccndiary /
''copies," for they are rank Sewardisms.
1t is already crime, in parts OF the
South, for Sunday School teacher to
teach slave to read God's Book. But to .
keep out, effectually, all expressions of
hostility to slavery, more rigid censor
ship must be exercised and spies must
darken every nook and corner Of our fair
land We must expurgate all the ancient
au,hors-cspecially the orators and poets
of Greece and Of Rome, Of England, Of
France and of Germany. Wm. Tell, and
all the heroic ideals of all time, must be
prescribed. The school-boy must never
more "spout" the Irish orators tribute to
the ''irresistiblc genius Of Universal
Emancipation'-neyer more decaim with
Patrick Henry, "Give me Liberty or give
me Death"-uever again use the words of
Gen Warren of Bunker Hill, "Thc voice
of our fathers comes to US from their
graves, My sons, scorn to be slaves
All these we must forego-avoid-rc-
nouDce-proseribe: for, do they not have
the "color of the idea" of.the "irrepressi
Bile conflict" of the New York Senator?
In reading the Bible, hereafter, We
must not notice that it denounces Oppres-
sion and Wrong, aud requires good people
to take the sides Of the poor aud feeble.
Don't believe anything in that remark
about "Gog and Magog'-about fighting
evil and doing good all our days-it
sounds SO much like Seward that no good
Democrat eau tolerate it.
In perusing History, moreover, we must
be careful to shut our eyes to any fact
that looks like one people or race rising
against their conquerors, and striving to
better their condition. Do not allow
yourself to trace, with a philosophers eye,
the gradual amelioration and advancement
of society, from barbarsm, serfdom, and
slavery, nearer and nearer to civil and po-
litical equality. If you see any signs of
advancement and struggles for human
rights, you are just as bad as Seward.
However, in many cases, 1t may be
Seward is wronsrfor the "con-
dict" between Great Britain and her re-
belli9us Colonies was "repressed," and on
the right side, too The attempts of the
people of Poland and Of Hungary, against
their masters, have been stern!y rebuked
by the strong arm Of force. 1t is true,
that similar antagonisms are now going on
in Italy, Germany, &c. True, half the
world is heaviug in convulsions caused by
the ill-,reated masses uprising and strug-
,ling-some:imes, alas like blind gi.
,nt-for Liberty: but the bayonets and