The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-12-30
Logic Of the Union Savers

The Union Savers are very peculiar men,
and not less remal kablo for their logic than
for tho extreme tenderness with which tboy
deal with thor "bretbreu of tho South. ."-I
An institution exists in tho Southern section
of this Confoderacy, which threatens 10 dis
rupt tho Union and destroy tho Govern
meut. Its pracicnl workings are, and ever
must DO, entirely wrong md delcterous to
oil tho best interests Of tho country. Like
every other moral evil, having no self.
sustaining onorgy. it is necessarily aggress.
I've; aud its aggressions produce agitation,
which increases with tho evil, and can DO
nllayad only when tho evil is removcd-
Slavery ia tho cause, and agitation the effect.
As long as the natural relation between
Cause and effect continues (and tho laws
which produce it are permanent and tmmutn-
ble,) so long will tho great evil of Slavery,
wherever it exists, occasion agitation, moro
or loss violent and alarming, in proportion
to tho number and magnitude Of tho efforts
mado to foster and extcud that evil. Even
If Mr. Seward, and al! his Republican col
leagues in Congress, should voluntarily with.
draw from tho contest, tho agitation would
still 60 on.
But Messrs. Brooks, Everett. s. Co. reason
differently. Thoy 500 the nation disturbed,
as they profess to beiicvo, by agitation,
md. confounding cause and effect, charge il
oil upon tho opponents Of Slavery. With
equal reason, they conclude that. by driving
these mcn from public life, aud allowing the
evil of slaVary to take its own course, the
agitation would be stopped at once Far
bottor is the logic OF the Shareholders. who
claim tina. Slavery is right per sc, and are
satisfied with tho position OF no man who
cannot juatify it on principle. They reason
thus Slavery is either right or wrong. II
right, it can be no OWL anywhere; If wrong
1t is an evil everywhere. and tho Rcpub.
lcans are right in opposing it, Though W.
abomipato their Wow of tho peculiar insti
tuition" VIC cannot but admire tho frankncEt
aud ability wiia which they attempt to sup
mort il. Mr.. Charles O'Conor told tn,
whole truth Whou he asserted, at tho New
York Union Moeting, that such friends o
the South as himsch' and his Union n'savinl
coadjutors, should not hesitate to detcnC
Slavery ns q wiso and bonehoent institution
But oven that gentleman fell in with th'
peculiar logic of bis class, whom no claimo'
that, if Slavery DO an evil, tho Shareholders
left to themselves, would remedy il. III
evidently believes in the ra,urai tendency o
evils to work out, in good time, their owl
reformation,
Mr.. James Brooks, Of tho Now Yu,k Er
press, made uso of somo logic, in his oiIor
at tho Union Meeting, which certainly onti
tlos him to tho credit OF originality, II
Baid that the Roman Empire, whose domin
ions extended iiom the Euphrates boyon
the Pillars of Heren,es, and of VIII ich Jesu
Christ was q subject, contained sixty mi
lion slayos; that Judea, 10 which ho wa
born, Galilee, in which no resided, an
Egypt. which he visited. were oil slavollolt
ing States; ana loft Ills auditors to info
Gf any Inference could DO drawn from thes
facts) that Josus Christ himself wss in fave
of Slavery, or at loast-disposed to wink Z
tho Sin OF that institution. Such reasoning
to Gugbody but Uuion sEvcr would pro'