Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-12-19


Compromise line is very much in the con-
dition of the Atlantic Gable. Let him find
it who can. 1t is cracked in hundred
places, and will never carry messages more.
You will never get the Missouri COmprO-
mise again, and never ought to. It was a
wickedness when first made. We received
it as legacy, and our fathers having been
sworn to keep it, we were willing, l was
willing to abide by that part of the COM
pact. 1t is fresh in your memories how
that compact, although made in the inter
est of the South, was ruthlessly violated.
1t is in every memory, too how, iIlmcdi-
a:ely sequent upon that, the Free State
element in Kansas was treated by the
South. With what supreme impudence
does the South now, Immediately after the
electiOn,-the North having been scrupu-
loUs in her fidelity to every Obliga-
tiOn,-prOpOse new compromises! New
compromises After having, for thirty
years, tyrannized in this land,-for
thirty years shown the morals of slavery
in her statesmen and men in Office at
Washington,-haying bludgeOncd our cit
zens,-hayiug, with violence, opposed the
pistol and the knife to reasons and argu-
ments.-having gone where she would,
and when she would, and done as she
would-by constitutional measures, we
have limited her power.
The question next comes up, suppose the
South should seeede. what would be the
result? l do not knoT-sO far as they
are concerned. So far as We are concerned
1 do know. In the gale on Lake Erie this
week, there came ship, aud many of BOs-
toms solid men, perhaps, had an interest
in her, sor she was loaded with copper ore
To relieve the vessel, they threw over the
copper, and every ton that went down, the
ship went up, and they saved themselves
by throwing over the copper orc. For
every State you throw of, you will 60 up
an inchI cloud applause What have
they contributed to your welfare? saw
the statement in a Southern paper. that
they had spent sixty millions of dollars in
the North. had never been aware that
they did it for our good. l supposed they
wanted their fevered lips to kiss the North
pole, and that they came for their own
and pleasure; it seems that
they came for our benefit 1 think, if they
came for luxury. they will come again;
and if they do not, l think We slrall con-
trive to live little longer.
But, it is said, they won't sell US their
cotton. What viii they do with it,
They sell as much to Great Britain now as
she wants. Viii they eat it? VIII they /
cease raising it? They won't trade with
US, some say. Have they been trading
With Us for our benefit or for their own?
If interest was a necessity in days past, it
will be in the future. Interest never runs
mad ard cuts eapcrs, as Carolina does
It does not get the blood IN its head. In
crest follows certain great laws Of trade.
-fthere ever was a people that would try
70 break its commercial relations with an
,ther country, it was these colonies, after
hey broke away from Great Britain
She was our enemy, while France was our
riend, and had rendered US essential aid.
let the laws of commerce sent US to
Bristol and Liverpool and London, not to
Paris. And so, if they secede, the laws of
will take no notice of their furry.
They will not trade in New Orleans, or
Savannah, or Charleston. any more than
low; they will trade in New York, Phil
lelphia and Boston; for these laws Of COM
nerce are things that do not let men
ncddle with them. They control mcn,
md are not controlled by them, and will
continue to do so.
And as for them, my friends, the South
ire in no state TO be stable. Do you sup
,ose that these men who are so quarrel
ONE, and fighting against this Union,
re going to be lambs, when they are
mong themselves As long as they have
lmbs and sheep to deyour, they will be
7olves and lions against the flock; but
ghen there is no flock to deyour, they
nil be lions and wolves among them
elves, and dcvour each other. They are
OF of the right temper. Freedom of j
peech is a thing that is lost there. Free ]
ON of the press is not thought of there l
here are ne such ideas of liberty and
in the South as we have in :
be North. They are not fit to control !
lemselyes in state of independent gov
rnment. c
That is not all Our thunder storms s
re in the air above our heads; their l
luudcr storms are under tLeir feet, and
le dark cloud, surcharged with the divine
makes the ground heaye at c
rery step. Now,-and l cannot deny 4
it IS the conservative moral and pOlit- t
al power Of the Northern States, that 4
olds in check that terrific element. Let !
lem stand by themselves, and servile In a
directions and war are just as certain, it a
ems to me, as explosions are, where fire L
,mes to gunpOwder. r
And that is not all There is a white /,
Iuall more dangerous than the black Il
,roU The oligarchical few of the el