American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1860-03-22


ofthe Chesapeake, the bulk of the peo.
pie will approve it in theory, and it will
tnd respectable minority ready to a.
dopt it in practice; minority, which, foI
weight. and worth of CT taracter, prepon-
derates against the greater number who
have not the courage to divest their fam
lilies of a property which, however, keeps
their conscience uuquie!. Northward Of
the Chesapeake you may fnd here and
there an opponent to your doctrine, as
you may Sha here and there robber or
a murderer; but ie no great number. -
4 "This Virginia. is the
nexs State TO which We may tarn our
eyes FOR the interesting spectacle Of jus.
tice in conflict with averice and oppres-
si0n--a-oepaict where tbs sacred side is
gaining daily new recrdits from the in
GlK into Office Of young men. grown aud
growing apn "Be moi, then,
discouraged What you have written
, viii do a great deal Of good; and could
you still trouble youHelf about our vel.
fare, no man is more able to help the la.
boring SIDE"
You soc, 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 cur
rents; but we, whose nativity, reokened
under the North Star, has rendeled us
somewhat saperstitious, must be excus.
ed fer constancy in ,f1llowing the gud.
ance OF those who framed the national
ship and gave US tue chart for its noble
voyage.
A profound respect and friendly re-
gard for the Vice President Of The Unit
ed States has induced me to weigh care
fully the testimony he has given On thu
subject Of the hostility against tIre Soutl
imputed to the Republican party, as de
rived from the relations Of the represen
tatives Of the two parties at this capital
He says that he has seen here in tn
representatives o. the lower SoutherI
States. most resolute and earnest splri
Of resistance to the Republican party
that he perceives a sensible loss Of tina
spirit Of brotherhood and that feeling o
loyalty, together with that love for
common country, which are a. last tn
surest cement Of the Union; so that, Il
the present unhappy condition of affairs
he is almost tempted to exclaim that W
arc dissolving week by week, and mont
by month; that the threads are gradual
frettiug themselves asunder; and stran
ger might suppose that the Executive O
the United States was the President q
two hostile Republics. l. lis not for m
to raise doubt upon the correctness {
this dark picture, SO far as the Souther
groups upon the canvass are concerned
but I must be lndulged in the opinio
that can pronounce as accurately con
cerning the Northern or Republica
representatives, hare as any one. kno
their public haunls and their pr:vat
ways. We are not hostile Republic
or representatives Of one We confer Il
cether, buE only as the organs oi ever
party do. aud must do in political sy'
lem which obliges us TO act sometime
as partisans, while it requires US alwa,
TO be patriots and statesmen. Dihel
ences ofopinion, even on the subjec.
Slavery, with us are political, not socl
,or personal differences. There is n
one disunionist or disloyalist among
al. We are altogether unconscious
aly process of dissolution going on
nonp or around us. We have nev'
been more patient. and never loved d
representatives Of other sections MOI
than now. We bear the same testmon
for the people around us here. who tn
in the very center where the bolt of di'
union must fall e rst and he most fear
in its effects, seem never less disturbt
than now. We bear the same testimor
for all the districts and States we repr
sent The people of the North are n
enemies. but friends and brethrea Oft
South, faithful and true as in the da
when death has dealt his arrows proml
cuously among them on common ba'tl
fields OF freedom.
We will not suffer ourselves here
dwell on any evidences OF d,tfere
temper in the South; but We shall
content with expressing our belief u
hostility that is not designedly provoke
and tina. cannot provoke retaliation, is
anomaly that must be traced to cas-
sreitements, which cannot porpeluale
iena,ion.
A canvass for Presidential elect
in some respects more important. P
haps. than any since 1900, has recen
begun. The House Of Representa-
was to be orgnuised by a majority, wi
no party could cast moro than pur
" Of votes. Tho gloom Of the late tr
usdy in Virginia rested on tho Cap
from tho day when Congress assemb
While the two grea. politician par
we're peacefully, lawfully and cons'
tionally. though zealously conduct
the great national issue between free
bor and capital labor for tho Terrific
10 its proper solution, through the u
Of the ballot, operating directly or \
fectly on the various departments OF
10 0oyernment, band Of exceptional
contemptuous equally Of that great q
.sstion and Of the parties to the con'ro
.a .rGy, and impatient Of the constilu'i
. ~ system which confines the ciIiSeI
a.is every State to political action BY 'utl
10 organized parties within their
&, borders, inspired by an enthusiasm
ouliar 70 themselves, and eIasperate
grievances and wrongs that some oi
had suffered by inroAds Of armed pr
Qandists of Slavery in Kansas. unlA
Al their own retaliation was, atiem