Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-08-15

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= lieve, is compOunding politics with per
fdity. it will be impossible to render ou
condition better than it is. These lep
er-yards must be cleansed Their Occu
pants load the air with a contagious cor
ruptiOn. Throughout their bodies an,
, their souls they bear the marks of distem
per with which the aristocratic pollution
ist has touched them. l risk but little il
saying that at this very hOu-, this mighty
phalanx, scattered through the eiehteeI
Northern States, having common anC
powerful bond of union, are devising meas
ures to despoil our labOring classes, by con
fining them in densely-crowded fields of Ia
Dor, or forcing them to enter into competi
ton and cOmpanionship with ignorant and
brutalizcd bOndmen. They all, yes all
have been brought to believe that the doc
trines Of the Declaration of Independence
are but stcreotyped lines; that the founders
of the nation had but sorry conception Of
/ inalienable rights; that the Constitution
which they framed was intended as an IN
strument of cruelty and crime; and that
the fairest feature of free republican asso-
citation is union of States peopled with
the lowest grade of slaves?. Am | right?
What is the trouble against which we have
to contend? Is it not the steady influence
of what may with propriety be called pO-
Etical cOnspiracies to mislead the public
mind and taint the public heart? Is it
not an Administration blackened with
treachery, and crooked and tottering under
the weight of its depravity, using all the
patronage of Office, and all the fascination
of position to utterly destroy us, by ma
king the territories of the country but gar
risOns for the enemies of freedom; and the
labor of white men degrading and frmtless
beyond the limits of the present States?-
If am in error, what is the correct inter-
probation of the political discords of the
last six years?
l anticipate fully that ny suggested
mode of redress for existing abuses will be
denounced as sectional; to which answer,
If 1t be SO, the antidote to 4 bane may lie
bane itself, Simili1 Simili6uS cira,tlir,
But its liability to the charge is denied
The real sectionalism is arrayed against
us; | do but counsel systematic and persis-
tent resistance. In studies of the funda-
mental doctrines of our common charter.
and IN the dispensation of the favors of
Government, we should never know a
Aorth, South. an East or West My
complaint is that others act as if they tho't
LtsRSt we shall always be
ab-c --coInmdnu Jiie eXcIcISc or such a
patriotism and comfy as to preclude us
from aggression upon a section inferior to
ours in every element of material strength
and greatness. 1t can never be otherwise
than dastardly to press upon the weak and
sickly.
1t will be noticed that I have spoken of
the Democratic party without reference to
its P esent distractions Ny reason for so
doing is found in the opinion l entertain
that these discussions do not effect issues;
as neither branch indicates disposition to
meet tairl J and openly, the great political
problem of the times. In casting the votes
We should be accurately informed as tc
their effect upon the policy we desire to see
We should not be made In
strumcnts in the hands of any ambitious
man, or in the hands of any combination
Of reckless and nscrupulous men, to force
an unnatural growth of slavery in the
couEtry, and to blast the hopes of our own
people, contrary to what has heretofore
been the understanding of the Constitution
IF the United States, and in palpable viO-
lation Of what has been regarded ! settled
policy. 1t should be matter of
singing regret to US. if from our bearing
IN the present contest. We could be fairly
charged hereafter with a violation of the
principles we have long professed to cher
sh. or with having imposed any, the
slightest, impediment in the pathway of a
well grounded, and progressive
liberty. II
The all absorbing question now present Z
ID to the American citizen. for what will
prove to he his ultimate decision, l have {
watched narrowly as it has risen into i'm
'ortance from year to year, and l think l
know the opinions of the several Presiden-
lal candidates respecting it 4
L am not aware that the supporters Of
hr Breckenridge attempt any cOncealment
IS to his designs in case Of his success. If
hey should desire to resort to prevarica-
ion, th:y have placed it entirely without
heir power by the frankness and boldness,
md | had almost said the recklessness, of
heir declarations He has been brought 4;
orth prominently, alike in speech and plat :
orm, as the Achilles of the armies of the '
south, and as the determined foe of free soil,
rec speech, and free men. He stands up
N no single Democratic sentiment, unless,
indeed, what were regarded by all states
nen within the last fifteen years as the
hercsies of John c. Calhoun ;
an be so regarded. He so reads the {
of the sages of the past and their s
as to make it fruitless to at
empt an exclusion of his peculiar and IA
'Orite institution from the organized Ter !
itOrieS, and so as to make it indispensable
hat Congress, Courts, and Presidents
hould exercise all their ingenuity, and all 5
heir powers, to fortify and sustain it there.
legislative action IS to be invoked, judicial
ecrees had, executive fats pronounced,
iavies equipped. and armies marsbaled. to c
xcludc forever every settler thercfrom who {
viii not bow down before the black god of !
lis idolatrous worship. | appeal to you, s
reemen, to know whether this is the Dem t
eracy of jefferson, Madison, Monroe and {
Jackson. appeal to you to know whethssa
+ you have ever found anything in Il sve,1 sa.i
Ials of parties 50 insulting to
erstanding until within the liET; p,insi5,l. in in,
he youth who has not reache1
ty. Iappeal to you to k9aaEROY
honesty, intelligence, and CI,roI,uJ n
f the offspring of Nort@, Ose'eiahu V
yer accept an excuse GRAY & CO. Dun
ndeavor to fasten 81 other First Glass Pianos an
}ut we may COM D@rr,r.d ,s to ,roye that Sc
ven Official zeah asy letier west OF SeF horf,
lr. BreckinrI inner Of doing business have iiri