The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-01-20
VOLUME XI. NO. 3.

Oregon, show how Intellectual are Che in.
irigues of self-seeking politicians, to dwarf
the growth OF free people. The prosper
ous and populous free.soil sends lo,th is
children ovor inviting territories, and thc
resistance Of barbarsm is ovei whelmed.
The politicians of tho oligarchy SEQ this
with dismay, and seem to DO mUdltatiug n
change of their design from that Of seeking
n porpetuation of thor control over tho
Union by multiplying slave States within il,
10 that of abandoning it, and making vast
ACQUISITIONS of territory beyond it, TO ill by
new importatons Of Africans. This must
result in the suhjccton Of tho free laborng
native class of every complexion to a com
mon condition of slavery, by the glut fol .
lowing tho influx of myrads of naked Afr. .
cans, working like the OK under tho goad,
and fed only to support tho yoke. reducing
the price of labor to bare subsistence. A
full supply ol negro strength will rondcr the
masters Of the domain independent of tire
poor whites holding nothor lands nor slaves.
They must become slaves themselves to
escape starving.
We have heard it announced, that n
League has been formed to compass this
plan-tbnt its ram,hcations cover all the
slave States--that tho principle nullifcrs
everywhere arc in tho conspiracy, and that
it is part of the scheme to leave Virginia
and Maryland, Koutucky and Tennessee
md Missouri in tho Union for a time, 10
cover the invasion OF a northern force to ro-
store the government Of tho Conicdcracy
over tho lower Mississippi and the borders
of tho Gulf of Mexico The policy of loav.
ing tior of slaves States, in connection
with the FREQ Statos, confiding in the perfect
protection of the peculiar institution under
Ihc wings of the latter, whilc the uulIi rying
States fly oft to open tho slave trade, and
subduo the onfranchiscd republics OF tho
south. to become tho receptacle of the hu.
man spoi,s of their piracy, is proof tidt the
nullifying leaders woi understand, that all
tho rights of tho South recognized in the
constitution arc safe in .hc Union. 1t makes
manifest, too their fears, that in abandon
ing it, and entering upon n piratica career
against the liberty of two homisphores, thoy
hazard q revolution in tho bosom of their
own communities, full Of bloody issues, the
least fatal Of which would be tho instant
overthrow of tho institution, for tho CxtCn-
sion of which they put everything else thoy
hold dear in jeopardy. If attended with
success at tho threshold in dissoIying tho
great confodcracy and creating q small ono.
tho introduction OF standing armies to con
front border war on tho slave aud FREQ front
iers, and to push tho sChcmo Of southern
conquosts, and to maintain them and keep
down dOplCstc insurroCtion, would DO the
succedaneum for tho security conferred by
a common government. But the way to tho
success of the League cannot DO opened
without assurance of tho conquest and en-
slavoment of Mexico and Central America
the obstacles to which scom not to have
boon considered.
1t certainly would not fill tho measures OF
tho ambition of those who first demanded
the surrender of California, thon Of Kansas
and all South OF its Northern limo to the
Pacific and tho Gulf, to tho slave Stalos, as
tho price of remaining in tho Union, t.
throw oil tho Northorn tier OF slave States
as out-p posts to protect thom from Northoru
aggression, and huddio tho four millions o.
slaves along the Gulf coast. making Il striDu
of thoir conlodoracy, beginning with North
Carolina and ending with Texas, on tho Rio
Grandc Such Gordon of slave sstalcs cx
posed to invasion and abduction all along
shore by all tho uayCs Of tho powers opposed
to the institution. aud liablo to ho broker
by tho rush of tho masses from tho Western
States, resolved to assert thoir claim to New
Orleans as their post and tho whole rogioI
us a part of tho Union, is certainly not tina
grand and secure empire, to which III,
slavery extcntionists look, to cxalt then
above tho Confectionery in which they nov
onjoy thoir full share Of power and glory
1t is not this sickly shrcd of Gulf Statcf
though filed to OyorflIwing with freshly in,
ported Africans, that the agitatUrs against tn
Union. look To for compensation for il
abandonment. They look to the conquos,
of those masters in slavery propagnndisI
who superseded tho declining Roman on tn
Euxine and Mediterranean. and who st
exhibit on tho BOsphorus, tho symbols {
expiring sovereignty. Our aspiring imita
tors, who would propagate their faith aud il
peculiar institution by tho sword. maxim
tho Gulf Of Mexico, as n distinguished SontI
orn statesman callod il, their Marc CIausuu
and, as u consequence, its Islands and SUI
rounding States now free, its yassals. hav
hitherto too successfully usod, in this drCC
tion, tho power of tho Contudoracy wit
which they arc still connected, to abando
it hastily.
The prco Of Cuba, whether it is to b
acquired by tho purse, or by tho purse an
tho sword, would cost moro treasure and t.
blood than an infant Southern CCniodorao
could afford. So tho conquest of Moxi,
and Central America, with all tho ponpio
resist impending slavery, to say nothing
tho allies that might bo brought to MD rcsis
ance in such cause, presents difficult!
that mako ambition pause,
Hence, as long as tho Southern cOmbin
tlOu Chu ulCNulO - ANpI tlbtH ltSUlbul WI
their Southern principles, tho Federal pow
will be usod to promote tho schomo Of {,
eign conquest in their bohaf. 1t will
contont to got Mexco by piece meal, and
wait on intrigue and tho chances of fIlbr
tering for Cuba. And now, to bring in
new President to be under control of Il
Combination, wo hcar it announced that II
election of Republican Cnci Magistra
by tho voice OF majority of tho pooplO,
defiance Of tho dictatiou thus procIaim'
dissolyes tho Union; but yield tho Pre-
don't to the Combination, and for tho pr
ont, tho Union may stand.
In my opinion, acquiesccnce in ,
mands thus made, tends to produce I
state of things which can alone tempt a
portion OF the South into secession.
Northern wealth and power can be driv
TO hand over Cuba, Central America n
Mexico, in manacles, to the slave Stat
they would then have capital TO set
for themselves, on the principles Of CO
stantinope. The seceders from the 81
lime Porte-Egypt, Tunis, Tripol a
Algicrs--might afford examples m,
suitable than the Grand Seignor's enI
rum, to direct the enterprise of our rcr