Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-16

COUNTY SURVIVOR,
CONRAD SIiECkLER, West BuIa.
AUDITOR,
SAMUEL c. WILT, Of lIartlctOn.
THE Politics Of The Day"
Tuesday Evening. Independent Hall,
Lcwisburg, was crowded 10 overt wiu~
with most intelligent audience. coHrri-
SIM a fair Spriukling Of ladies, AMI men
of both parties from town and country.
who listened, for nearly tao hours, with
the most fixed and undivided attention, -
clear, earnest and eloquent address from
Hon. JoHN c. KUYKLE, Of Harrisburg,
Col Philip RuhI presided, assisted iy
Mcssrs. Robert Canior ani Jam,s Kelly,
and the Lcwisburg Band furnished mu-.c.
Mr. kunkle stated. that, heretofore he
had appeared before this people a. Il en-
didate for HIGH station, AMI mi-h, per
haps then have been supposed to be dcsi-
rous Of shaping hi, remarks to win the
support Of his hearers. 1t present, he
was not nominee OF eXpcctant OF any
office, and he could therefore with conf
dencc claim that his views should be rc-
eeivcd with candor.
The Politics of the Day" covered a
multitude of topics; yet they mostly
merged into the one ovcr~hadowin" and
all-cmbracing qur-tiou-,he contest be
tween the Slayeocracy anl American Lib
erty.
Commencing with the eternal founda-
ton truths contained in the Declaration
of Independence, $ years az, AMI the
formation Of the National Constitution.
,trom which the term slave" was careful
ly excuicd) 20 years ago, the speaker
traced the steady, stralthy, onward march
Of Domestic American Slavery up To l'39,
Our forcilthcrs (the frJmcr- Of that Dec
laration and that Conatijution) contcmila-
ted its extinction, a. cyjnccl BY the -en-
eral tone and spirit Of th.;r act, ani par
ticularly by Jetfcrson's Ordinance Of 81
and the prohibition of the foreign slave
trade after 1905 But there lUrNcd with
in that Constitution, the recognition OF
the anomaly that Slavery was not incom-
patible with republican institutions
the thrcc-ifths representation Of poop,
not votcr--and the clause for the rcndi-
tion of fugitivcs tom labor.
The Ordinance Of - saved tha; vast
fertile, blooming. vi@orou, Emp;rc-;hc
free North Wcst-from Slavcry; iol
where Slavery can not exist in Terrific
rics, it can not be brought into States.
But, since l790, num} trs Of Slave States
have been admitted from other /. :. Ter
ritorics, which should have been free
Slave States have been crc1tcl out of ter
ritory purchased from Franco and Spain
The Texan War was with the same rc
sult-moncy and blood were poured on
ike water to establish Slavery whorc j
had been prohibited The Missouri res
friction, resulting from the Gomrromi>,
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