Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-01-13

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the masters Of the domain independent Of
the poor whites holding neither lands nor
slaves. They must become slaves them
selves to escape starvation.
We have heard il announced, that a
league has been formed to compass this plan
that its qualifications cover all the slave
states-that tho principal nulliiers every
where are in the conspiracy, and that il is
a part of the scheme to leave Virginia and
Maryland, Kentucky and Tennessee and
Missouri in the Union for time, to cover
the seeding States, from the invasion of
northern force to restore the government Of
the confederacy over the lower Mississippi
and the borders Of the Gulf Of Mexico
The policy of leaving tier Of shave States,
in connection with the free States confidiug
in the perfect protection Of tho "peculiar in
stitution," under the wings of the latter,
while the multiplying States fly off to open
the slave trade, and subdue the enfranchis-
ed republics of the south, to become the ro.
ceptacle of the human spoils of their piracy,
is proof that the nullifying leaders we'll un-
derstand, that all the rights of the South
recognized in the constitution are safe in
the Union. 1t makes manifest, too, their
fears, that in abandoning it, and entering
upon q piratical career against the liberty
OF the two hemispheres, they hazard revo-
luton in the bosom of their own communi-
ties, full of bloody issues, the least fatal of
which would be the instant overthrow Of
the institution, for the extension of which
they put everything else they hold dear, in
jeopardy. If attended with success at the
threshold in dissolving the great confedera-
cy and creating a small one, the introduc-
tion Of standing armies to confront border
war on the slave and free frontiers, and to
push the schemes of Southern conquests,
and to maintain them and keep down do
mestic insurrection, would be the succeda-
neum for the security conferred by COM
mon government But way TO the success
of the League cannot be opened without
assurance of the conquest and enslavement
of Mexico and Central America, the obsta-
cles to which, seem not 10 have been con-
sdered
1t certainly would not fill the measure of
the ambition of those who first demanded
the surrender of California, then of Kan
sas and all South of its Northern line to the
Pacific and the Gulf to the Slave States,
as the price of remaining in the Union, to
throw off the Northern tier of slave State
as out-posts to protect them from Northern
aggression, and huddle the four millions of
slaves along the Gulf coast, making string
of their confederacy, beginning with North
Carolina, and ending with Texas, on the
Rio Grande. Such Gordon of slave States,
exposed to invasion and abduction all along
shore by all the naves of the powers op-
posed to the institution, and liable to be
broken by the rush of the masses from the
Western States, resolved to assert their
claim to New Orleans as th cir port, and
the whole region as part of the Union, is
certainly not that grand and secure empire,
TO which the slavery extensionists look, to
exalt them above the Coufederacy in which
they now enjoy their full share of power
and glory.
1t is not this sickly shred of Gulf States,
though filled to overfowing with freshly
imported Africans, that the agitators against
the Union look for compensation for its
abandonment. They look to the conquests
of those masters in slavery propagandsm,
who superseded the declining Roman on
the Euxine and Mediterranean, and who
still exhibit on the Bosphorus, the symbols
of expiring sovereignty. Our aspiring i'm
itators, who would propagate their faith and
its peculiar institution by the sword, ma
king the Gulf of Mexico, as distinguished
Southern statesman called it, their Mare
Clausum, and, as consequence, its islands
and surrounding States now free, its vassals,
have hitherto too successfully used, in this
direction, the power of the Confederacy
with which they are still connected, to aban-
don it hastily.
The price of Cuba, whether it is to be
acquired by the purse, or by the purse and
the sword would cost more of treasure and
of blood than an infant Southern Confeder-
acy could afford. So the conquest of Mex
leo and Central America, with all the peo-
pie to resist impending slavery, to say moth
ing Of the allies which might be brought to
aid resistance in such cause, presents diff
culties that make ambition pause.
Hence, as long as the Southern combina-
tion can dictate Northern President with
their Southern principles, the Federal pow
er will be used to promote the scheme of
foreign conquest in their behalf 1t will be
content to get Mexico by piecemeal, and to
wait on intrigue and the chances of filibus-
tering for Cuba, And now, TO bring in a
new President to be under the control of the
Combination, we hear it announced that
the election of Republican Chief Magis-
trate by the voice of majority of the peo-
pie, in defiance of the dictation thus pro-
claimed, dissolves the Union; but yield the
President to the Combination, and for the
present the Union may stand.
In my opinion, acquiescence in demands
thus made, tends to produce the state of
things which can alone tempt any portion
of the South into secession. If Northern
wealth and power can be driven to hand
over Cuba, Central America and Mexico, in
manacles, to the slave States, they would
then have capital to set up for themselves,
on the principles of Constantinople. The
seceders from the Sublime Porte-Egypt,
Tunis, Tripoli and Algiers, might afford ex-
amples moro suitable than the Grand Seign-
or's emporium, to direct the enterprise ofour
repudators of the Union-the filibusters
along the Gulf coast-their corsair expert