Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-01-27

: And all good hing denied
r And heaTts, IN poorest hurS, admire
Ho=' Love has Ia their all
(Love that not eve. seems 10 t.Te)
Such rich prov lsiJns made!
Remarks OF Isaac G. Gordon, Esq.
%. e.rs,u county 10 the House Of Rep OF Fl Jan H.
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3lR. GORDON. As understand these
resolutions, they are mainly comueudatory
of the reso!u,e stand taken By our Mem
hers of Congress in favor Of the election
of Republican member as Speaker Of
the House Of Representatives,. They DO
not recommend any particular person. bu;
leave those Representatives to act as they
think proper, and in manner which shall
best secure to US the enjoyment Of our
rights and privileges. Now this IS as it
should be. Our men have done well.
They have stood up boldly in opposition
to the South, and, scorning compromise,
have proved to US that our confidence has
not been placed in undescTving men. We
wait no compromises with this negro
whipping oligarchy of the South, or with
their more supremely contemplate lie
compton allies of the North. like to
sec this black dog kicked in his den.
ike to hear his ugly howl as tie lash falls
upon his woody hide, and 1 am glad to
know that the time has come when men
are found in Congress who dare stand up
and knock the teeth out Of its fr5:hy jaws.
These slave drivers have been, and are
now, talking treason in al the high pla-
ces Of the South they have been, and
are now, advocating dissolution OF this
Union. They would lay their foul hands
on the fair fabric Of government erected
! BY the toll and blood Of our iorefatLers,
and demolish it. They have fo- years
been heaping every vile and opProbrious
epithet known to our language, upon the
North; they have destroyed our property,
robbed our mails, aud murdered our citi-
zcns. tell you, sir, that il Mexico or
any other re.y weak foreign State had
been guilty Of half the enormities perpe-
ira;ed by the slave drivers upon our peo-
pie, We would have been at war with it
long ago. But these men who bully IN
Congress, are not the men who represent
the sentiment Of the South. If the honest
sentiment Of the South could once be
heard on the floor of Congress, there would
be an end to the slave power for ever.
And yet it is to this power cur men are
asked to succumb; power that has ever
been used to curse and not to bless the
land-a power that has ever been to US
dark cloud, charged with baleful fires, ev-
er muttering from its black recesses threat,
ening thunder over the land Rather let /
our men fall in their places than for one !
moment bow the knee to this Demo
cratic Baal.
But We have heard upon the floor Of
this House charge brought against Mr.
Sherman for endorsing Helpers book
He recommended only Compendium,
containing the statistics and extracts now
in Helpers work. He never recommen-
dai that Book, and he asked Mr. Clark to
withdraw his resolutian that he (ShermaD)
might have au opportunity of stating what
he really did endorse. This fact is known
to every person who reads the public
prints l read an extract from Helpers
book, page 1j7:
"Some time during this year, next, or
the year following, let there be general
OF non slayeholders from every
slave State in the Union, to deliberate on
the momentous issues now pending
The proposition here is proposition
made to the Southern men legitimately to
use their influence fer the abolition of sla-
very, which they have a perfect right to
DO, unless mere slave.drivers are to con-
troll radically the opinions Of the whole
South. | will read what the gentleman
did not read, the tenth article, page l5G:
"A tax of sixty dollars on every slave
holder fer each and every negro in his
possession at the present time, or at any
time between now aud the
ith Of July, 1SG3-said money to be ap-
Piled to the transportation Of the blacks to
Liberia, to their colonization in Central
lr South America, or to their comfortable
settlement within the boundaries Of the
United States
There is proposition Of tax which is
10 be brought about, legi,imately, through
he southern Legislatures.
! will read some other extracts:
ave must wait with patience the work 7
ngs of an oyerruling Providence, and hope
hat that is preparing the deliverance Of :
hese our brethren. When the measure
# their tears shall be full, when their
,roaus shall have involved Heaven itself c
u darkness, doubtless GOd Of justice d
will awaken to their distress. Nothing is I
more certainly written in the Book OF [
Fate, than tina, this people shall be free" Q
Tbesa are the sentiments of Thomas I