, 1860-03-07

no matter how humble his occupation is \ wbite
man, aud be is politically The equal Of bis em-
plpysr; Eighteen out OF thirty three States are
New- Hampshire, Massachusetts. Vermont,
khode Island, Connecticut, New Ynrh, New
Jersey, Pennsy1yania, Ohio, Michigan. Illinois.
Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Califor.
n!a and Oregon. am no assailant Of States.
az OF ne stutes are parcels Of my own country
the best Of them not so .sise snd great US I
am sure it will hereafter be; tile State least
developed and perfected among then, ull, is
wiser aud better than ans Furei:n State know.
Is 1t then in any, aud in wl,ich.of the States | |
have named that Tegro equality oGeuds the
where is the State where class aud caste are so |
utterly extingu'shed as they arc in each and |
every. one Of them? Let the Europeau 1mru;-
grant, who avoids the African Us If his skin
e1haled contaRlon, answer. You Gnd him a1-
Washington, Jefferson and Henry, when theT
implored yen to relinquish your system and ac-
cept the one We have adopted, propose to sink
you down to the level Of the African, or was it
their desire to exalt all white men to u COM
mon political elevation?
But We do not seek to forcc or eren tn M
ttudc, our system on you We are excluded
justly, wisely and consentel,y from MI political
power and responsibility in your capital States.
1ou are soscreigns on the subject Of ;5lavery
within your own borders, as we are on the same
oAcJ1~s "SAil! oAt UoIQeIS4 IL Is We'll anu w1sc-
IT. so arranged Use your authority to u,aintair,
what system you please We are not distrust-
full Of the result. We hare wisely, as We think,
exercised ours to protect and perfect the man
hood Of the members Of the State The whole
sovereignty upon domestic coucerns within tie
boundaries. You have. your fifteen distinct
parts; We eighteen parts, equally distinct. Each
| must be maintained in order that the whole may
| be preserved. If ours shall be assailcd, within
or WITHOUT, By any. enemy, OF fur my cause, and
Ee shall have necd. We shall expect you to de-
fend it. If yours shall be 50 assailed, in the
emergency, no matter what the cause or
the prctext, or who the foe, We shall
defend your sovereignty as the equivalent ct
our own. We cannot, indeed, accept your sys-
TEN OF capital or its ethics. That would be 10
| surrender and sutrert our own, which We es-
tecul to be better. Besides, it we could, what
need for eoy division into States at all! You
are ut liberty to reject 81 stem and its ethics,
and to maintain the superiority Of your own bv
all the forces Of persuasion and argument. We
| must, Indeed. mutually discuss both systems,
| All the world discusses all systems. Especially
| must VIC discuss then, since we hare to decide
as nation which Of the two We ought to inyraft
| on the new and future States growing up in the
public domain. Discussion, then. bcins una-
voidable, what could be more wise than to con-
duct it with mutual liberation and in = fraternal
spirit. -,
You complain that Republicans discourse too
boldly and directly, when they express with
confidence their belief that the system of labor
will in tue end, be universally accepted By the
capital States, acting for themselves and in cou-
fbrulity with their own Constitutions, while
they sanction too unreservedly books designed
to advocate emancipation. But surely you can
hardly expect the Federal Government or the
political parties Of the nation to maintain GEN.
sorship Of the Press or of debate. The theory
of our system is that error Of opinion mas in uil
1 .ft~ ko <<1n~ .tn+t- En4o 1uf4
free to combat it. VIII it be clairnet that more
Of moderation aud tenderness in debate are ex-
h,bitcd on your side of the great argument thau
our own2 We all learned our polemics, Us well
as our principles, from ii common master. We
are sure that VIC do not, on our side, exceed his
lessons and example. Thomas Jefferson ad-
dressed DR.. Price, an EDglishman, concerning
his treatise On emancipation in America, in this
fashion:
Of tss ~ ha4 hu:
slavery Eson tas 70 u: 1s4 ( he
a!nssy Which for weIsk: aa wcr,h u stetoa.
u r:I aee eais
eysr. kee?s their seasseafss un4nle Sehwad 4 lie
reur ieetrns q yoa nay ID hee sna t!eTe .osr
ss ie e1t ssais T. re =: ay .un our s1e,
the Interesting peet,ee 81 justice In cana's, wih res
sals ,sx ;ss!,s fts u, insa; iI.e once 4
] :.
man morr a5!c to heip IL. laborins Side" 'S' -
You see, sir, that whether we 60 fer CT
Southern saiies. You nay change I'm e. YOU. ioito po's
with the winds or the currents but re, whose
nativity, reckoned under the North Star, has
rendered US somewhat superstitious, must be
| excused Tor constaucy Il toilowing the guild.
auec Of those who framed the national slip and
gave US the chart for its noble voyage
! 4 nrn(nrnh roSrncf anil frir,,.}t4- r.,
tue Eicc-Frcsidcot Of the United States sas in.
duced me to weigl. carefully the testimony l..
has giyen on thc ssbicot OF the hostility against
the South imputed to the Republican parry, ~
derived from the relations OF the representa-.
| tiycs Of the two parties Mt this Capital lie
says that chas seen ltcre in the representative:
t CT tic lower Southern Stats MOS: re$olu.e aud
earnest spirit OF resistance to the nepublicai,
, party; that lie perceiyes u sensible io>s Of thai
spirit Of brotherhood and that feeling OF oy atty
together with that lore for IL common country
| which arc at last the sure.t ceneut If Tie I'm.
ion; 50 that, in the present. unhappy condition
Of atfnirs, he is nlLiost tempted to exciain thal
| We are. .dlasolviny week by weck, and month by
. month; that the threads arc gradually frct,r
T themselves assunicr; anda stranger might su,.
pose that thc Executive Of the Erted States
was the President Of t.;o hostile Republics. Il
is not Tor the to raise 3 doubt upan the corrcc.
ness Of this dark picture SO far as the Southern
| groups upon tile canvas ara concerned, bul
. ! must ee :Edu'sed in the opinion tha1
eau pronounce as accurately cou
cerning the Northern or the Republican
representatives here as any o1e: knuw thei1
| public Launts and their pEiyute ways. We art
, | Eat n hostile Republic, or representatives O
ene- W" confer together, but only as the or
gans Of every party do, and must DO in 1:olii
c4l >ysteul w..ich ob.es us to ast something's a
/ pa1tizaus, ws;lo i, requires US always to Lc pa
/ ltiu1s aud statesmen. Differences of opinion
: eveu on the subject of Slavery, with us are po
litica not social or personal differences. Ibet,
is no. one disuui iouist or tl:sloyalist among I'll
t oil. We are alto ,etber unconscious Of en-. p,o
cess Of dissolution going u: among or arount
; us. We Ease nerer been more patient. aut
never loved tue representatives ct other sec
tons more, than now, VIC bear the same testi
nlonT Tor the people around us here, who
though IN the very centre where the bolt of dis
: union must fall irst and be most fearful in it
effects, seem never less disturbed than now
We bear the same testimony for all the dis
tr'ots aud States VIC represent. The people u
the North are not enemies but friends and brett,
!, ren Of the South, faithful and true as in ,h,
. days whom taa;h has dealt his arrows promis
cuously among them on the common battle
/ fields Of freedom.
We will not su.Ier ourselves here to dwell O,
, | any evidence Of IL different temper in the South
but We shall be contcut with expressing our b.
lief that hostility that is not designcaly provo
| cd, and that cannot provoke retaliation, is al
I anomaly 1nat WuSI De LFaced 10 casual excite
ments, which cannot pcrpetuate alienation.
, 4 canvass for Presidential election, in som,
respects more important, perhaps, than Sd,
+ since $500, has recently begun. The House Q
3 Representatives WAS ID be organized by a ma
9 jor1ty, while no party cou.d cast more than
! plurality Of votes. The gloom of.he late trase
: tiy in Virginia rested on the Capitol from. til:
. dag when Congress assembled While the twt
great political parties ars peacefully, lawfully
sud dconstitutonly ,thoagh zealously ,cunductin;
the great national issue between free 1nbor a1,t
capital labor for the Territories TO its prope
solution, through the trials Of the ballot, opera
!. ting directly or Indirectly on the various de-
. pat1meats Of the Government, band Of cSccp
tonal men, couteMptuous equally CT that grea
E question and Of the parties to the controversy
l and impatient Of the constitutional srsteu
which confines the citizens Of every State to po
! | liticai action by suffrage in. organized rariie
r within their own borders, inspired by IN en-
: tbusiasm peculiar to themselves, End c1aspera
1 ted by grievances aud wrongs that some OF then
e had suffered by iuroads Ct armed propogandist
D Of Slavery IN Kansas, unlawful as their own re
: {aliation was, attempted to subvert Slavery il
- Virginia by conspiracy, ambush, invasion, mt
force. The method no hare adopted, Of ap
. pcalipg to the reason and judgment Of tho peo
pie, to be pronounced by suffrage, is The onl.
c one by which free government can be main
= tanned anywhere, and the only one as yet de
r Tised which is in harmony with the spirit O
c Christian religion. While generous and chazi