Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-03-15

" than fGe accidental location Of parties
Our policy Of lae0r in tbs Territories was not
sectional in the frs. forty years gf the He
public. It's nature iulcres. Itlglll Re nation
al again, during the third forty years, and
forever afterwards. Il is not wise and benef
lcent for us alone, or injurious to you alone.
It's effects are equal, and the same for US all.
You accuse the Republican party Of uiteri-
or and secret designs. How can party that
counts its votes, in this land Of free speech
and free press, by the hundreds Of thousands,
have any secret designs? Who is the c9nu
ror, and where are the hidden springs hy
which he can control its uncopgregated and
widely dispersed masses, aud direct them to
objects unseen and purposes pnacowed? You
name only one. That one is % Introduce ne
gro equality among y0u. Suppose we had
the power to change your social system: what
warrant have we tor surprising that we should
carry negro equality among yuu? We know,
aud we will show you, if you will only give
heed, that what cur system of labor works
out, wherever it works out anything,
is the equality Of white men. The labarer
in the free states, no matter how humble his
occupation, is a white man, and he is pcliti-
cally the equal Of his employer Eighteen If
our th;rty-three States are free labor States.
There they are: Maine, New Hampshire.
Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island Con
nectieut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl7a-
MIA, Ohio, Michigan Illinois, Indiana. Wis
conSin, Minnesota, Iowa, California, and Ore
goR. | Do not array them III contrast with
the capital States. am 10 aSsailant Of States
All Of the States are parcels Of mE own coun
try--tha best Of them no, 50 wise and great
as / am saTe it will hereafter oe the State
least developed aad perfected among them ali
Is wiser and better than any foreign State |
know. IS il then in any, and in which, of
the States ! have named that negro equality
uifends the white man 5 pride? Throughout
the wide world, where is the State where class
and caste aras0 utterly cxtingqishcI rs they are
in each anu every one Of them? Let the Eu-
ropean immigrant, who avoids the African
if his sain oxhaled cantagion, answer
You find him always in the State where Ia
Dor is ever free. Did Washington Jefferson.
and Henry, when they impoyed YOU to re
HnguIsh your system and accept the one we
have adopted, propose to sink you down 10
the level Of The African, or was it their de
sire 70 exalt all white n-4 70 4 common po-
But So ia not seek to force, or even to in
trule, our system on you. We are excluded,
justly wisely, ana Contentadly. from all poit
States. You aIe sovereign on the subject Of
slavery within your own borders. as we are
on the sane subject within our borders Il is
well a0d wisely 50 arranged. Use your author
lty 10 maintain what system YOU please We
are not distrustiui Of the result. We have
wisely IS Te think. exercised ours to perfect
anu protect the marAood of members of the
State. The whole sovereignty upon domestic
concerns within the Union is divided between
us by unnistakabIe boundaries You have
your fifteen distinct parts we eighteen parts,
equally distinct. Each must bc maintaiued
IN order that the whole NAV be preserved.
II ours shall! be assailcd within or without
by any enemy, or for any cause. we shall
expect You to defend it. If yours shall be so
aSsaIied, IN the emergency, no matter what
the cause or the preteXt, or who the foe, we
shall defend your sovereignty as the equiya
lent to our own. We cannot, indeed. accept
your system Of capital or It's ctnics That
would be to surrender and subYert our own
which we esteem TO be better Besides, if we
could, what need for any division into States
at all? You are equally at liberty to reject
our system and its ethics. and TO maintain the
superiority of your own oy all the forces Of
persuasion and argument. Wemust indeed,
mutually discuss both systems All the world
discusses all systems Especially must we
discuss them since we have to decide rs Il ua-
ton which Of the two we ought to ingraft N
thr new and future States growing up in the
great public domain Discussion then being
unavoidable, what could be more wise than
to Conduct II with mutual liberation and n q
fraternal spirit
You complain that Republicans discours.
too boldly and directly. whenth nthevexnress with
confidence their belief that the system of Ia
Dor Will, in the end, he universally accented
by the capital states, acting for themselves.
and IN conformity with their own coustitu
tons, while they sanction too unreseryedly
books designed to advocate emaneipation.
But surely you can hardly expect the Federal
Government or the political parties of the ma
ton 10 maInt~ln 6 censorship Of the press or
Of debate. The theory Of eur system is that
error of opinion may in all cases safelv be
tolerated where reason is left free to combat
It. VIII it be claimed that more Of modera
tion and tenderness in debate are exhibited
on Your side OF the great argument than our
own? We all learned our poemics. as we'll
rs our principles, from a common master.
We are sure that we do not. on our side cx
cccd his lessons and example Thomas JEFF
ferson addressed Dr.. Price, an Englshman.
concerning his treatise on emancipation in
America, in this fashion:
Southwark Of the Chesapeake, your book
will find but few readers concurring with it
in sentiment on the subject of slavery. From
the mouth to the head of the Chesapeake. the
bulk Of the people will approve it in theory,
end it will find respectable minority ready
to adopt it in practice minority which. for
weight and worth Of character preponderates
against the greater number who have not the
courage to divest their families Of property
which however, keeps their conscicnces un-
quiet. Nortbward Of the Chesapeake. vou
may find here and there an opponent to Your
doctrine, as you may find here and there a
robber or murderer but in no greater mum
bar."
This Virginiaj is tde next State to
which we may turn cur eyes for the interest
ing spectacle of justice in conflict with avar-