The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1860-12-27

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selves. Mr. Clay, a!ain, with number,
Of the Senators and Representatives lrou
the south, counseled more mod r.tion-
ADVISED that the ''rjght of pftition" wa-
an hereditary, English, American, Con
sHtutional right. lying at the foundation
OF all free institutions; that the right 10
ask. and the obligation to grant, were
wholly different tbings;-tkat to d.ny
the right to petition for any thing. howey
ter trivial. absurd and Unconstitutional
vas to give the signers the advantage OF
adding to one complaint, for which you
cared. another. against constitutional
prohibition, which mankind must g-ner.
ally hor. Accordingly, they advised
tbat the petitions should be received aud
referred to copmiuee,to 70 report bri, fiy.
'Ihat Congress ought not 10 grant the
prayer Of tho petitioners" Bu; Messrs.
Rhet, Wise d Co. we're wiser. however
Than Hcury Clay and his friends Tbey
demanded nsV Rule.viz: that the petit
tions should not be received. read or re
frrred. They again, and again, as thew
often DO now, in order to irigtten minds,
called Henry Nay, in speech and print
an AJOtaionist, and at last carried their
point in the famous Atchison rule. The
result you all know. 1t was as Mr.. CLAY
had SO distinctly forexarned them. From
dozens the petitioners increased to hnn.
dreds; TO thousands; hnndre6s Of thou.
sands OF men, women, children, dogs and
negroes, who first cared no more fsr the
slaves or slave markets, in The District of
Colombia or South Carolina, than for
the man in the moon. Congress was for
years flooded with these petitions for "the
right Of petition" The public business
was interrupted d by debates upon them.
until we would have thought .ha,
there was no measure Oh earth of the least
interest or value, except lie 9lst rule.
1t was swept away in a whirlwind OF pop
uIar Indignation at the North. and of con
tempt at the South. Rea Abohtionists
were made by thisexperiment Ct shallow
lc ncei'ed demagogues in sta'esmanship
The actual rights and the substantial in
terest OF the South, were madly staked,
under frequent threats Of disunion, un
less their rule was maintained upon this
miserable confusion Of different and un.
equal pFinciples,-the llue and untrue
the right and the wrong-tbe cons,itu-
tlonal and the unconstitutional. Now. II
ask-has the South remembered this sad
and notifying lesson? Alas, no! As
you have seer, some Of your wisast and
best men-still urge the stalking Of your
whole Slave.property in tie STATE lsgai{y
and secartlg held. together with the I'm
ion itself 1.-THE palladium of our safety'
Against another 2lst rule in the Dis.
trict of c ,lumbia; or the right Of some
brother Kentuckiau Of mine to take his
bIackmammy nobody was ever fool
enough to 90 thilber with any more val
liable slave) to the bleak snow plains Of
Kansas. And as to the alternative of Sc
ces'ion. or Of new guarantees assenled to
BY the North;-in all sincerity l must say
that, though ! would gladly cling to any
The most desperate hopc for reconciliation
of this terrible fend, | greatly fear, that
when fresh guarantees are demanded Of
the other party they will bitterly remind
US, CT the fate OF the former compromises.
And thus has the South been continu
ally and uselessly compelled by her po.
litcians, to diminish The number of her
own friends In the North and 10 increase
those Of her enemies.
Is this forever to be So? Must the
true. permanent, invaluable interests Of
the Southern people. their lands, their
slaves, all their properly personal and
public; their peace, their patriotism, he
forever made s sacrifice to mere politics.
i,r The sole benefit OF merest politicians ?
viii our Southern Sialesman--for we have
yet few Statesman left us--lhus always
continue TO devote all their high faculties
10 the single end of propags ting the faith
Of slavery, for its diffusion simply as a
political institution. and in soils and eli
mates where neither King Cotton nor
Queen Sugar can ever reign2 Or else,
must they ever in dumb and coward ST.
lence, bend like wiIlowwauds. not sand
like our sturdy Live Oaks, resistant to
the storm OF political excitement, which
thty see our demagpgues have raised by
horrid pintures of Northern aggression
part true aud part false. and which they
ceaseIessly parade before the Southern
people? Are private, personal interests
the daily business--of the aggregate
men, the millions of planters, farmers,
merchants ard m chanics, who make up
the people Of the South, actually worthless
in the scale against the salaries and pe,
diem and milesge-slIowance Of few dog
en- members of CoUg ess? Shall We
wholly forget the millions of slaves, wortl
thousands Ct millions of dollars, held le
gally. safely anquestioned IN the States
10 go full moon mad after black wet
nurse in Kansas, or a Kentucky runaway
at Niagara? ,-a
\ MrsANDERsoN referred to the repeal o.
the Missouri Compromise, after the repost
given by the Compromise measures G
1850, as matter in which the Sou,l
was not blameless AS TO the right o
secession Mr.. ANDERSON referred to tn,
experiment of confederation, and III
establishment Of "a more perfect Union
under the Constitution was a
Gen. Jackson had called it-Reyolution
-'He PERoRATIoN.
| caunot-I have not the heart, if yor
had the patiencs--to discuss this ques
t ton of the ability or inability of our grea
little army TO reduce the revolving Stale
, ouai,, tn thair nroner snheta oi dntv an,