Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-23

81 southern ucH1ahtS, 10 winch theN
succumbed as reluctantly as thrice
seduced damsel to her lover. | be-
lievc il was Mirabeau who said "the
presents of despotism are always dan
gerous;" he should have included in
his remark, the threat of the tyrant as
we'll as his reward.
The allegation that Southern com
binations are formed for the purpose
of counteracting opposition extremists,
is sheer false pretcnse, resorted to as
blind and cheat. No fears ever
sprung from such parentage. sIa-
very does not exist by legal enactment
any where: it is the child of force; and
as the sentiment of the world is against
it, it can not live without the sustain
ing hand of power. Surrounded by
an atmosphere of freedom, it is neces-
sarily unsafe. and statutory safeguards
and defenses become necessary. Vas
salage and subjection never impress
themselves without violence, upon the
natural man, whilst, on the contrary,
the sentiment of freedom must for ever
disturb the subjects of despotism. The
South, to be safe, must, therefore, ex-
tend through and beyond all the coun-
tervailing influences to which L have
referred, and, consequently, our from
tier possessions must be captured.-
But as the inherent weakness of the
South is not equal to this task. craft
is rcsorted to to supply the neede,.. as
sistance. Upon whom can this be
more advantageously brought to bear
than a President without courage, a
Judge without candor, or legislator
without integrity? We are sold or
betrayed hourly. and if we had not
more forbearance than discretion we
would terrily traitors. Millions of
acres of fertile lands, every now and
then, are filched from our industrial
classes. who require them for the sup
port and education of their families to
be turned into barren wastes by those
who have already blasted more than
one half Of our soil as with an ava
lanchc of fire. Factories and work
shops are tottering in ruins, and fami-
lies and neighborhoods left starving
and in rags, because fostcred industry
is not required in that region where
the laboring man has no rights wlnch
the owner of men is bound to respect
And ships rot at our wharves, and
storehouscs become but a rendezvous
for idlers and yagrantS for the reason
that uncompensated chattcl sinews
yield fruits cheaper than compcn.
sated skill, and require no shield
against the pauper products of Eu-
rope. Ii a change of tariff laws were
required by the South instead of the
North, they could not fail in It's ac
complishment. In that case the Pres
ident would advocate it with ardor, i
not with sincerity, and our Senators
would again illustrate the fact in th'
trucking subjection to those who Sc
cretly abhor their baseness and infdel
ity. Our earnest wishes are not onl,
constantly disregarded, but. our pros
perity is remorselessly paralvzed b,
our servants, without an audible muir
mur on our part; and we are not mucl
averse, as we have often proven, t,
conferring new leases of office upol
such as deceive us, to afford them fur
ther opportunities for mischief. Doe
this seem unaccountable? | sugges
no, In view of the truth | have bu
Just stated, that the party selectin:
them has its hear. and brain in tn
South, ard its obeying members
merely, in the North. The remedy
for this shameless evil is easy as it i
simple. We need but initiate the cx
ample set us by those who have caused
this condition of things. Concord an,
iniiexibillty ofpurpose will accomplish
all we ask. Nothing else ever can o
will. We might as well expect di
vided and discordant army, marshale'
under opposing generals. to captur
the powerful and thoroughly disci
plined and guarded city, as for North
crn rights and honor to be sustaine'
by men III the pay anil keeping O
those who weaken and reduce us. IL
the ordinary business of life we ncve
trust the faithless and dishonest; | cal
imagine no reason for engaging sucl
as sentinels over our entire fortunes
Just SO long as our Custom Houses
Post Offices, Navy Yards and Mint
shall be stocked virtually by those VIII
are in opposition to us, and who's
principal business, we are instructe
to believe. is compounding polite
with peridy. it will be impossible t
render our condition better than it i.
These leperyards must be cleansed.-
Their occupants load the air with
contagious corruption. Throughou
their bodies and their souls, they bea
the marks of the distemper with whic
the aristocratic pollutionist h as touch
ed them. | risk but little in saying
that at this very hour, this might
phalanx. scattered throughout I'll
eighteen Northern States, having
common and powerful bond of uniol
are devisIng measures to despoil OF
industrial classes. by confining thel
in densely crowded fields of labor. {
, forcing to enter into competition an
champicnfhip with ignorant and brl
talizei bondsmen. They all. yes, al
have been brought to believe that Il
, doctrines of the Declaration of Ind
pendence are but stereotyped lies; tn
the founders OF the nation had but
sorry conception of inalienablc right
n that the Constitution which the
framed was intended as an instrumel
@ of cruelty and crime; and the faire
!. feature of free republican associate