Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-12-14

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IOr u cheat II I-c.c csi-..'
Uurrsr for pucI4nani
Ou- truth tr has It'd,
An1 Il lays Al Nalfgvm
Uu: sperch.-ss and cold.
Ths Message.
Letus dcvontly thank God that, for
the ensuing four years at least, the
People of the United States are relic
we'd from the annual visitation of q
long Presidential lecture wherein Rea-
son is insultcd, Humanity outraged,
History traycs'icd and Common
Sense dctied, in the interest Of uauan
Slavery and for the GraliE-ation OF
its upholiers. Whatever evils the
future may have in store for Us, this
one, at least, is FOR a season iutermit-
tel if not forever put away.
The man Who in this day talks Of
ihc opponents ot slavery as blind, be-
sottcd fanatics, aEl foprcscats the cur
rent agitation as utterly unproyohcd
and gra:Uitous, Is simply dishonest.
Mr. Buchanan knows better. He
knows that the means whereby Texas
was thrust into or Union were emf
ucntr calculated to arouse any latent
AHti-SllrcrE conviction that slambcr-
cd in the breast Of our non-..4ychol-
ding citizens. He knows that. when
the War On NaNjco was made 10 re-
salt il the transfer oC vast and thinIv
pcoplel regions from that RrpaJ,ic
TO our Union, it was iaeYitahle either
that Slavery should be cxciudeI from
those Territories, Or that the People
OF the United States as a whole, and
not those of the South exclusively.
should take upon their souls the re-
SpousiO.!ity of extending the pccnli-
ar institution over a region half as
large as Europc-lar larger than the
United States east Of the Mississippi.
Mr.. Buchanan himself expressly af-
iirm-, and quotes the supreme Couy;
a his authority, that every foot Of
Federal territory Is necessarily slave.
holding ;erri,ory-that is. territory
-uljrCt TO the law Of SiaVury-fru;n
The moment that it passes under the
sway OF our Union. lie knows that
the kansas-Nebrasha bill was express
Is and ayowcdly introduced TO re.
move legal obstacles TO the diffusion
OF Slavery, and that the bil. owed all
its Importance and general interest to
that fact. How is it possible, then,
for publicist, with the eyes Of tie
world .ull upon him, to say that The
long continued au! ia:emprratc inter
ference of The Northern people with
the question G: Slavery IL TIE SOUTH
ERN STATES has at length produced
lis natural effects p Is the prcsi-
dents brow brass that i; should not
crimson with the consciousness that
the whole world will know this to be
a lie? Does he not know right well
that the children in olr public schools
vii, point the liager Of shame at the
author of = ch assertions, who fingers
on Ia brink o. ;ue grave to libel and
tr4,,urc .ac most Intelligent and con-
7cieu;iou, portion Of III people about
10 hc relieved from the iUcaJus of his
rGlc?
That this man should 20 back a
quarter Of century ana rake up from
tie very kennels Of oblivion 50 foolish
an untruth rs that In lS3j, pictorial
haudbills and inhammatory appeals
were circulated extensively through
out the South, of Il character to excite
the passions OF the slaves can excite
no additional wonder still, the false
hood is a most insane one. WEo
'c;rcnlaied' such appeals and hand
bills? If this thing was done 'eXtcn-
,ivcly,' many must have been caaght
1t it. II these pictorial handbiils'
imaginary outragcs and
,ruellieS inflicted on slaves, who could
90 readily detect the misrcpresenia-
ions as the slaves themselves ? If
Try truly depicted scenes with which
dawes were familiar. how should they
,c excited by pictorial representa-
ions any more tI,an by the actual oc-
thus depicted? Why is it
hat !aischool must always be expo :
ing itself by absurdiIes /
Mr.. Buchanan asserts that it would
&c easy for the American people to
ctllc the Slavery question for ever"
nd this simply hy letting the Slave
;tatcs alone, aud permitting them TO
their domestic institutions in
heir own way" Yet in this very
lcSsagc he proposes TO force Slavery
own the throlls of the Northern pco-
lc, and compel them 10 take upon
lcir consclcuccS the responsibility of
protecting, and extending
;, by five or six distinct and Impor-
mt acts-as follows:
]. By amending the Federal Con /
tuition so as TO embOdy IN 1t "an
lprcss recognition Of the right OF :
roperty in slaves in the States where d
how exists OR MAY HEREAFTER EZ-
IT,
,. By further amending the Con
tuition so as to affirm therein the =,
luty Of protecting this right in ALL