Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-03-21


regon. do not place them in contrast with the
capital States. am no assailant Of States. al
Of the States are parcels Of my own country
the best of them not so wise and gieat as | am
sure it will hereafter be; the State least devel
oped and perfected among them all is wiser and
better than any foreign State know. Is it then
in any, fnd IN which Of the States have nam
ed that negro equality offends the white man E
pride? ThrOughou' the wide world, where is
the State where class and caste are 50 utterly ex
tinguished as they are In each and every one OF
them? Let the European immigrant who avoids
the African as if his skin exhaled eontagion,
answer. You find them always in the States
where laborers are free Did Washington, JEFF
iersou and Henry. when they implOred you to
relinquish your system and accept the One We
have adopted. propose to sink you down to the
level OF the African or was it their desire TO ex-
alt all white men to q common political eleva-
tiOn1
But we DO not seek to force or even inirude
our system on you We are excluded, justly,
wisely and eontentedly frOm all political power
and responsibility in your capital States. You
are sovereigns on the subject of slavery within
your own borders, as we are on the same subjeet
within our borders. 1t is well and wisely 50
arranged. Use your authority to maintain what
system you please. We are not distrustlul of
the result. We have wisely as VIC think. exer-
eised ours to perfect and protect the manhood
Of the members Of the State. The sovereignty
on domestic concerns Is divided between Us by
unmistakable boundaries. You have your ff-
tern distinct parts; we eighteen parts, equally
distinct Each must be maintained in order
that the whole may be preserved. If ours shall
be ass1lled, within or without, by any enemy,
or for any cause, and We shall have need, we
shall expect you 10 defend it. If yours shall be
assai ed, in any emergency, no matter what the
eause or the pretext. or who the foe, we shall de
fend Your sovereignty as the equivalent Of cur
own. We cannot indeed, accept your system
Of capital or ethics. That would be to surren-
der and subvert our own. which we esteem to be
bStter. Besides, ii we could. what need for any
division into States at all? You are equally at
libtrty to reject our system and its ethics, and
to maintain the superiority of your own by all
the forces Of persuasion and argument We must
indeed, mutually discuss both systems. Espe-
eially must we discuss them since we have to
decide as a nation which Of the two We ought
to engraft On the new and future States, grow
ing up in the great public domain Discussion,
then, being unavoidable, what could be more
wise than to conduct it with mutual liberation
and in a frnternal spirit You complain that
Republicans discourse too boldly and directly,
when they express with confidence their belief
that the system Of labor will in the end, be nni.
versaIly accepted by the capital States, acting
for themselves. and in conformity with their
own Constitutions, while they sanction too uu-
reservedly books designed TO advocate emanei-
patton. But surely you can hardly expect the
Federal Government or the political parties OF
the nation 70 maintain a censorship of the Pr IS
or of debate. The theory of our system Is, that
error OF opinion may in all cases safely be tOler-
1 Z
be claimed that more Of moderation and tender
ness in debate are exhibited on your side of the
great argument than our owng We all learned
our polemies, as well as our principles, from a
common master We are sure that We do not
on our side exceed his lessons and example,
Thomas jefferson addressed Or. Price, an Eng
lishman, concerning his treaties on eInaneipa-
ton in America. in this fashion:
'SOuthwnrd Of the Chesapeake your book viii
find but few readers eoneurring with it in sen
timent on the subject of Slavery. From the
mouth to the head Of the Chesapeake. the bulk
of the people viii approve it in theory, and il
will find a respectable minority ready to adopt
it in prnetiee; minority which, for weight and
worth Of character, pr,Ponderates against the
greater number who have not the courage 10 di
vest their families Of a property which, however
keeps their eonscienees unquiet. NorthwaId oI
buc OuNoAl' l'GIhNt NoA AAA4 AfiS NuN AAitit
an opponent TO your duc,rine, "a you may find
here and there a rubber CT murderer; but in nc
great number" This (EIrSinia) Is
the next State to which we may turn our eye:
for the interesting spee of justice in conflict
with avariee and oppresaion-a conflict where
the sacred side is gaining daily. new recruit:
| from the influx into office Of young men grown
! end growing un" "Be not then
discouraged. What you have written will do 4
great deal Of good; and could yea still trouble
yourself about our welfare. no man Is mGte abl'
to help the laboring side"
{ You see, Sir, that whether we go for or agains
/ Slavery anywhere, we must follow Southern
! guides. fou may change your plots with th'
winds or the currents: but We, whose nativity
rcekonel under the Ncrth Star, has rendered III
somewhat sUrerstitiOus. must be excused foT
eonstaaey in following the guidance of thosc
! who framed the national ship and gave Us tl'
chart for its noble voyage. A profound respee
aad friendly regard for the Vice President o
( the United States has indreed me to weigl
/ carefully the testimony he has given on th'
subject of the hostility against the South i'm
/ puted to the Republican Party, as derived
from the relations Of the representatives of th'
two parties at this capital. He says he ha:
/ seen here in the representatives Of the lowe
4 Southern States a most resolute aad earnes
I spirit Of resistance 10 the Republican party
| that he pereeives sensible loss Of that spiTi
/ Ot brotherhood and that feeling Of loyalty, to
/ gether with that love for a common country
that are at least surest cement of the Union; %
that, in the present condition Of affairs, he il
almost tempted to exeIaim, that We are dissolv
/ ing week by week, and month by month; tina
the threads are gradually frettiug thenselvei
aSundtr; and a stranger NAV suppose that tn
Executive Of the United States was the Presi
I dent of two hostile Republics. 1t IS not for M
/ to raise a doubt upon the correctness Of thil
/ dark picture, 50 far a. the Southern groups up
on the canvass are eOneerzed but must be In
/ dulged in the opinion that / can pronounce Il
aS cnIately concerning the Northern or Repub
/ liean representatives here es any one. ] know
/ their public hagnss and their private ways
/ We are not hostile Republic, or representa-
/ tives Of one. We confer together, but only a
the organs Of eysrv rarty do. and must do j.
/ political system which 0bliges Us to Get some
I times as partisans, while it requires Us alwayi
/ to be patriots and statesmen. Differences o
/ opinion, even on the subject Of slavery, viii
US are political, not social or personal differ
ences. There is not one disunionist or dislOy
alist among Us all. We are altogether uEcOR
I seious of any process Of dissolution going OF
among or around Us. WehavQ never been NOR
/ patient, and never loved the representatives o
other sections nCre than now. We besr tn
same stimoHy for the people around us here
who. though in the very centre where the Dol
Of disunioR must fall FIRST and be most fearful
/ in its effects, seem never less disturbed thai
now. We bear the same testimony for all tn
/ districts and States we represent. The pe0pl
OF the North are not enemies but friends an'
{ brethren Of the South, faithful and true as Il
/ the days when death has dealt his arrows pro
miseOusly among them on common battlefield
of freedom. We;will rot suffer ourselves herr
to dwell ON any evidenee Of different tempe
/ in the South; but We shall be content with ex
+ pressing our belief that hostility that IS no
I designedly provoked, and that cannot VrOTok
retaliation, is an anomaly that must be trace
! 10 casual excitements. which cannot perpetual
alienation. A canvass for n Presidential election
in some respects more important, perhaps, tina
any since 1900, has recently begun. The HOus
Of Representatives was To be organized by
majority, while no party could cast more tina
a plurality OF votes. The gloom of the lat
tragedy in Virginia rested ON the Capitol fror
the day when Congress assembled. While tn
two great political parties were peacefully, law
fnlly. and eonstitutionally, though zeaiously
conducting the great national issue betTee
free labor aud capital labor for the Territorle
10 its proper solution, through the trials oi III