, 1860-12-01

cd and defended by all the power Of tho
! government in all its branches; TINT NIL
attempts to restrict and circumscribe 1t are
reasonable; that all lines Of policy Fhich
lead to future emancipation are wrong anu
unsound; that it must not be examined anu
discussed; that freedom of6pcec1l and free:
dom Of tue press shall be destroyed for its
benefit: tint tho PostO Ofice shall bel its minis
ter: that lynch law, whichit must invoke,
must be sanctioned without lnurmur, no
matter what atrocities it may intlict that re-
lision shall approve, and all church and PHI
lantlropic organizations sha1l everywhere
uphold and defend il. This is Il fearful de-
calcncc; hut VIC do nut cxaggcratc while
We state il. Who docs not know that We
speak the words Of truth and sobcrness?
While this dcbauchinS and corrupting
work las been going Oh in the national
mind, great material results have been nj
timed BY the Slave Power. It has subju-
gated and cnslaved vast territories upon
which all Empire may rise, and which
ought 10 have been devoted u freedom. 1t
]sas wagcd two or three Indian wars and
ono foreign war, tho last Of which cost MI
hundred millions Of money, and the lives
Of more than twenty-five thousand men,
solely tl.at its arca might bc extended, and
That its influence in the government might
be strengthened and preserved. 1t has con-
trolled every national Administration since
jackson went out Of power; and it has
given form TO every act Of Congressional
Legislation i'll all that time. 1t has gat]1-
cred IL itself all the benefits Of govern
mcnt, and has ruled with an iron hand
Always, it has put and held the North i'll
the position Of :: suppliant for what she
might have demanded as a right. During
nj the years since tile organization Of tue
government it has not paid 4 dollar, on ac-
count Of its chnttcls, into the common trca-
slty, though il has drawn hundreds Of
millions thcrefron. that it might be made
more secure. Is not all this truee Who
will point out the item in which VIC err?
Yet if VIC may believe the complaints
which come up TO us from the South, the
North Als al the srtile been a2gressire! She
has given up point after point, rcccdcd
from position to position, protesting always
and always surrendcring,Euntil, at last, VIC
find that 4 revolution more comprehensive
tllan any hostile arms could have effected,
has been accomplished. The entire policy
ot the government has been reversed The
national conscience has been thoroughly
deaauchcd, and Slavery instead Of being
an accident Of cur national life, to be re-
paired by labor and sacrifice, has become
its controlling power. 1t is the master oil
the Republic, ruling it with the airs of IN
autocrut
It is difficult to sec where in this recital
Of our national recreancy and disgrace;
the aggrcssions Of the North md the losses
Of slavery come in-upon what the oppres-
sion and injustice Of which the South COM
plains ll;.rg. Has she been robbed Of Ter
ritory? Has sue been denied llcr voice in
tue national legislature: Has she been
saltllc1 with unjust cnactinents: Has size
been the victim Of sectional hate. The
record tells us what she has lost and what
she has gained; but where in it shall NC
find tic wrongs which are the burden Of
llcr ccascless complaint: We ask those
who are secessionists in the North, or apo!-
ogists for contemplated treason in the
South, 10 take the history as it is, cease
their gabb1ing III gencra1itics, estimate
slavery rs il was in 1900, and compare it
with what it is now. Let them tell what
victories it 1las gained, what territories it
has conquered, what legislation it has
forced, what new power it has acquired;
and then say 'eherc the oagressions cf tie
North dcgin AID srhat IN sixty years Ncyhau
effected
3fr: Lincoln in his New York speech,
struck the key note Of all. The North BE-
lieycs that slavery is a wrong-tl,at man
selling is Atheism in concrete form. That
IS the ollcncc-thc aggression which bal
anccs all the vast conqucsts in legislation,
opinion, morals and religion which the
Slave Power has made. Until that belief
shall be rooted out, and tho Nortl. not only
yields 10 Slavery in material things, hui
abandons the moral ground upon which on
position is wont 10 bo made, the fight will
20 on. Ill else will be vain. Until VIC can
say that to sell men is the highest develop
'nent Of Christianity and Democracy, We
shall be aggrcssors. Are our readers ready
for that sacrifice? It will cost them no,h-
ing but the religion Of the Savior, pure anu
the traditions and axioms of
Democracy; tho guarantees upon which
eacli enjoys freedom now and hopes 10
hand it down to Ills children by and by.
The "Cnion is in danger" viii they no,