The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-17

have not the courage 10 disest their Families of
property which. however. Keeps hsef coAeciences
unQeiet. Nerthward of the Chesapeake, you may
and here and there an opponent to your doctrine,
as you may find here aud there rohbrr q mnr-
der.r but in no great numbers .. This fVir- |
ainia1 is the next State TO which may trrn our
syes for the interesting spectacle of Justice in
fict with avarice and oppression conf ct wh"r
the sacred side is gaining daily recruits from
the influx into office OF young men, grown and
growing up = ;" Be not then. discouraged
What you have written will do great deal of COOL
and could you still trouble yourself about our well
fare, man is more able to help the laboring
side"
You see. Sir, that whether we go for or
against Slavery anywhere, we must follow
Southern guides. You may change your
pilots with the winds or the currents but
we, whose nativity. reckoned under the
North Star, has rendered US somewhat sup
.erstiiious, must be excused for consistency
in following the guidance of those who
framed the national ship and gave us the
chart for its noble voyage.
A profound respect and friendly regard
for the Vice President of the United States
has induced me to weigh carefully the les
timony he has given the subject of the
hostility against the South imputed to the
Republican party. as derived from The rela-
tons Of the representatives Of the two par
seen here in tie representatives of the lower
Southern States a most resolute and earnest
spirit of resistance to the Republican party;
that he perceives sensible loss of that
spirit of brotherhood and that feeling of
loyalty, together with that love for com
mon country, which are at last the sureSt
cement of the Union; so that. in the pre-
sent unhappy condition of affairs, he is al
most tempted to exclaim that we IRE dissaIv-
ing week by week. and month by month;
that the threads are gradually fretting them
selves asunder: and stranger might sup
Pose that the Executive of the United States
was the President of the hostile Republics
It ia not for me TO raise doubt upon the
correctness of this dark picture, far "a
the Southern group upon the canvass are
concerned. but | must b. indu1g ed in the
opinion that can pronounce as accurately
cJncerning the Northern Republican
representatives here as any one. | know
their public haunts and their private was.
We are not a hostile Republic. or represen-
tatives ofone. We confer Together but only
as the organs of every party do. aud must
do in political system which obliges Us
to act sometimes As partisars. while it. re-
quires US always 10 be patriots and states
men. Differences of opinion, even on the
subject Of Slavery. with us are political not
social or personal differences. There is not
one disunonist or disloyalist among us all.
We ara altogether unconscious of any pro-
cess of dissolution going. on among or
around u.s.. We have never been more pa
tient and never loved the representatives Of
other sections more. than now. We bear
the same testimony for the people around US
here. who though in the very center where
the bolt nf disunion must fall first and b.
most fearful in its effects. seen never less
disturbed than now. We bear the SAME
testimony for all the districts and States We
represent. The people Of the North are not
enemies but friends and brethren of the
South. faithful and true "a in the days when
death has dealt his arrow. promiscuously
among them common battle fields of
Freedom. "
We will not suffer ourselves here to dwell
on any evidences of different temper in
the South but we shall be rnntenf with ex-
pressing our belief that hostility that is not
designedly provoked, and that must be traced
to casual excitements, which cannot perpet-
uate alienation. "t.E
A canvass for Presidential election, in
some respects more important. perhaps. Than
any since Ia 10. has recently begun. The
zed by majority. while no party c"ull
cast more than u plurality Of votes. The
gloom of the late tragedy in Virgini. rested
on the Capitol from the day when Congress
assembled. While the two great political
parties were peacefully. lawfully. and con
stitutionally. though zealnuslv. conduc'ing
the great national issue between free labor
and capital labor for the Territories to its
proper solution, through the trials of The
ballot, operating direct: or indirectly on the
various departments of the government. a
band of exceptional men. contemptunus
equally of that great question aud of the
parties to the controversy. and impatient OF
the constitutional system which cor fines
the citizens of every State to political action
by suffrage in organizai parties within their
own forders inspired by an gepthuSiasu, pe-
culisr to themselves. and exaspa'atAd by
grievances and wrongs that some Of them
had suffered by inroads Of armed prnpag-
andists of Slavery in Kansas, unlaw full as
their own retaliation was, attempted to sub
vert Slavery in Virginia BY conspiracy. am
bush. invasion. and force The method we
have adopted. of appealing to the reason and
Judgment Of the people, TO he pronounced
by suffrage. is the only one by which free
government can be mainiaine1 anywhere.
and the only one as vet devised which IS in
harmony with the spirit of the Christian re-
ligion. While generous and charitable ma
lures will probably concede that Johh Brown
and his associates acted on earnest though
fatally. erroneous convictions, yet all goos,
citizens will nevertheless agree that this at
tempt tn execute an unlawful purpose in
Virginia by invasion involving sarvile war;
wss an act OF asedition and treason. and
criminal TO Just the extent that IL affected
the public peace. and was destructive of
human happiress and human life. II is a