Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1860-08-14

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tlon and Legislative and judicial proceed
Ings should be SO shaped, from year to
year, as TO strengthen the few al the ex.
pense OF the great mass of our people
Let II no longer be regarded as a mar
vel Or mystery; the responsibility of i,
rests with those Northern men in whom
we have reposed our confidence and
clothed with the garments of authoritv.-
Examine the recorded votes In your Ma
tlonal Congress, and there lea IN why 1t
Is that Northern capital and labor are
constantly borne down by the enormous
welnhi Of Southern exachon. When vnnr
reasonable requests are denied, | need
not tell you, with earnestneSs and empha-
SIS, 1t is because eight millions of men
control eighteen millions, through our
representatives elected by party pledg-
ed to interests adverse to ours.
Slavery educates its statesmen in a
high school. Under able professors. 1t
teaches that the Northern men are cow
ardly, and that their ambition is linked
with avarice; and, unfortunately for us.
1t has arguments TO fortify It's faith In
half century il may not be credited that
less than dozen men, trained under
these circumstances, SO alarmed a Penn
Sylvanla President as 10 induce him 10
recast message, violate the plghted
faith upon which be was elected. disgrace
his native State, and degrade the high
office 10 which he had then but recently
been elevated. And yet not only this
has been done almost within our pres
ence, but the representatives of free con-
stituencies have been induced to lend
their aid to force serviIe labor into com
petition with that of the white man, and
a Slave State into the sisterhood of IN
depend ence to throw the balance of pow
er against their own people. Some of
these are now not only responsible mem
bers of the Douglas church, but mission
aries among the unbelieving and outside
barbarlans. | have some of them very
distinctly IN my recollection, and it would
be quite refreshing 10 hear their remarks
In laudalion of popular sovereignty, such
as they denied TO Kansas, and IN denun-
citation Of Southern demands, 10 which
they succumbed as reluctantly as a thrice
seduced damsel 10 her lover. | believe
it was Mirabeau who said "ihe presents
of despotism are always dangerous" he
should have included IN his remark, the
threat of the tyrant as well as his re-
ward.
The allegation that Southern combi-
nations are formed for the purpose of
COUNTER -tlng opposition extremists, Is
a sheer false pretense, resorted TO as a
blind and cheat. No fears ever sprung
from such parentage. Slavery does not
exist by legal enactment anywhere; 1t is
the child OF force; and as the sentiment
of the world is against II, 1t cannot live
without the sustaining hand of power
Surrounded by an atmosphere of free
dom, 1t is necessarily unsafe, and sla;u-
tory safeguards and defenses become
necessary. Nassalage and sui lection
never impress themselves, without vio-
lence, upon the natural man, whilst, on
tie contrary, the sentiment of freedom
must forever disturb the subjects of des-
pousm. The South, TO be safe, must
therefore extend through and beyond all!
the countervailing inhuencesIto which
have referred, and consequently, our
frontier possessions must be captured
But as the inherent weakness of the
South is II not equal to this task, craft is
resorted TO TO supply the needed assls-
tance. Upon whom can this be more
adyantageously brought TO bear than a
President without courage, Judge with
out candor, or Legislator without lnteg-
rity! We are sold or betrayed hourly,
and if we had more forbearance than
discretion we would terrify traitors.=
NJ ItttnnE DF Of f..-ffis la
now and then, are filched from our IN
dustrlal classes, who require them for
the support and education of their fami-
lies, 10 be turned into barren wastes by
those who have already blasted more
Than one-half of our soil as with an ava
lanche of fire. Factories and workshops
are tottering IN ruins, and families and
neIghhorhoods left starving and in rags,
because foslered industry Is not required
IN that region where the iaboring man
has no rights which the owner of men is
oound to respect. And ships rot at our
wharyes, and storehouses become rem
devious for idlers and vagrants for The
reason that unCompensated chauel SIN
ews yield fruits more cheap than COM
pensaIed skull, and require no shield
against the pauper products of Europe
If Il change of tariff law were required
by the South instead of the North, they
could not fail of IT'S accomplishment. In
tha; case the President would advocate II
with ardor, If not VIII sincerity, and our
Senators would again illustrate the fact
of their trucking subJeCtion to those who
secretly abhor their baSeness and inf
deity. Our earnest wishes are not only
constantly disregarded, bul our prosperl-
ly IS remorseleSsly paraIyzeG by our SER
wants, without an audible murmur on our
part; and we are not much ayerse. as we
have often proven, 10 conferring new
leases of office upon such as deceive Us;
10 afford them further opportunities for
mischief. Does this seem unaccounla-
5le2 | suggest no, IN view of the truth
have but Just stated, that the party Sc
Letting them has It's heart and BRAIN In
he South, and It's obeying members.
merely, IN The North The remedy for
his shameless evil is as easy as it is SIM
pie. We need but initiate the example
set rs by those who have caused the con-
li,lon of thlngs. Concord and infexi- /
oility of purpose will accomplish all we
ask. Nolhing else ever can or ever will, /
We might as well expect a divided and /
Ilscordant army, marshelled under op- 1
posing generals, TO capture the powerful /
and thoroughly disciplined and guarded (
MY. as for Northern rights and Northern /
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