Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1860-12-07

willing to hug it to its bosom, but insists on
propagating, extending it where it does not
exist, how long, when separated, could thi.
system last, think you Not two years-not
half Of it. We doubt if the first notes of act
ual secession would not also be the first dawn
of the fun and entire emancipation of the
slaves.
II the North is willing to let the South enjoy
all the blessings and all the curses Of thi.
system, the South has all the rights which
it has ever had, and all which it expected at
the time Of the adoption Of the constitution.
What more docs she ask Tina, which she
did not ask for the first fifty years OF the Ma
tons history, and never yet attained, and
never will-simply, an Acknowledgement OF
the right to extend slavery and slave laws into
free territories. This rrcposterous, and Ear.
fetched cause for immediate withdrawal from
the MON reminds us OF the hatlcss and boot
less boy who thought littlqof these neccssarics
OF liicrwhilc he declared he was dying for the
want of bosom pm. Our Southern brethren
have not any new cause for complaint. The
personal liberty bills Of the free States are all
OF them ripening into old age, were in full
fierce and twice as operative, some years since,
when the Southern democracy ruled the men
that ruled the nation; and then South Carroll
mas hot-spurs were as quiet as sucking doves;
not only this, but many of these laws receiy-
ed the sanction at the time, or have since, in
one way or another, of many of the
leading democrats. Then, the states which
are now kicking up such rumpus over these
laws, never lost a slave in consequence OF
them, snd there is no way to account for this
extra zeal to redress fancied grievances only
upon the supposition, that South Cardinals
hot-spurs, are deputed to correct all their
own imaginary wrongs, and also that Of all
the other states.
We cannot well, bear to hear any one tell
ing the public about this sections or that
sections - ultimatum. The North ulti-
matum, the South's ultmatum, How
much like the smart talk Of bad boys that
need the birch The people of the Union
have the right of revolution, in certain con-
,iBseneies, few men, in particular local
Ity, for fancicd grievances and while all law
full and constitutional remedies for real ones
are within their reach, never. So, therefore,
we believe the Union should be preserved
intact, at all hazards. and that the Chief
Magistrate OF the nation should deal with
the men who are stirring up opposition to
the Union, as traitors. lie is called upon
to do this, by wise regard for the interest
Of those very states for which these en- as
sumo to be the mouth peace. He is requ ired to
do 1t because the interests of the whole Union
should not be jeopardiscd and because his oath
Of Office binds him to do it. John Brown and
his comrades were hung with hot haste, be-
cause he sought to DO that which mporriled
the peace of the country-These equally in
sane men seek to do thrice as wicked deed
as his, because its consequences will reach
all parts, and all interests of the country,
and they find apologists, and among those
who thirsted for the blood of the former
These remarks are not made particularly
as an answer to the letter of a Democrat
They are some of our views, and might as
well have been expressed and perhaps would
have been, had we not seen or published this
article from democratic source.