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

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cry propagandism regarded there as a nC
ceSsity. it cannot be considered strange tha
the influence of the party should be so di
srected as to fortify doctrines most congen
ial to the supposed welfare of those who di
reefs its machinery.
To many it has seemed unaccountabl
that executive action and legislative an,
Judicial proceedings should be 50 shaped
from year to year, as to strengthen the fey
at the expense Of the great mass of our peo
pie. Let it no longer be regarded as mar
vel or a mystery; the responsibility Of
rests with those Northern men in whom W
have repOsed our confidence, and clotheC
with the garments of authority. Examin
{ the recorded votes in your National Con
gress, and there learn why it is that North
ern capital and labor are constantly bont
down by the enormous weight of SoutherI
exaction. When your reasonable request:
are denied, l tell you, with earnestncss arc
emphasis, it is because eight million o
men control eighteen million, through oul
Representatives elected by party pledged
to interests adverse to ours. Slavery edu,
Gates its statesmen in a high school, under
able professors.
1t teaches that the Northern men are
cOwardly, and that their ambition is link
ell with avarice; and unfortunately for us,
it has arguments to fortify Its faith. In
half a century it may not be credited that
less than dozen men, trained under these
circumstances, so alarmed a Pennsylvania
President as to induce him to recast a mes
sage, violate the plighted faith upon which
he was elected, disgrace his native State.
and degrade the high Office to which he had
then but recently been elevated. And yet
not only this has been done almost within
our presence, but the Representatives OF
free cons ituencies have been induced to
lend their aid to force servile labor into
competition with that of the white man.
and a slave State into the sisterhood of in
dependencies to throw the balance of power
against their own people. Some of these
are now not only respectable members of
the Douglas church. but missionaries among
the unbelicviug and outside barbarians-
| have scme Of them very distinctly in my
recollection, and it would be quite refresh
inc to hear their remarks of laudation of
popular sovereignty. such as they denied to
Kansas, and in denunciation of Southern
demands, to which they succumbed as re-
luctantly as a thrice seduced damsel to her
lover. | believe it was Mirabeau who said
.'the presents of despotism- are always dan.
gcrous;' he sli6uld hayo ii.c1c..te'-l. = his
remarks, the threat of the tyrant as well
as his reward.
The allegation that Southern combina-
tions are formed for the purpose of coun-
teracting opposition extremists, is sheer
false pretence. resorted to as a blind and Il
cheat. No fears ever sprung from such
parentage. Slavery does not exist by le-
gal enactment anywhere, it is the child of
force and as the sentiment Of the world
is against it, it cannot live without the sus-
taining hand of power. Surrounded by an
atmosphere of freedom, it is necessarily un-
safe, and statutory safeguards and defences
become necessary. Vassalage and subjec-
tion never impress themselves, without VI
olence, upon the natural man, whilst, on
the contrary, the sentiments of freedom
must forever disturb the subjects of des>
potism. The South, to be safe, must, there
fore, extend through and beyond all the
influences to which l have
and, consequently, our frontier
possessions must be captured But as the
inherent weakness of the South is not equal /
to this task, craft is resorted to to supply (
the needed assistance. Upon whom can
this be more advantageOusly brought to
bear than President without courage,
Judge without candor, or a legislator with
out integrity? We are sold or betrayed .
lourl V, and if we had not more forbearance .
than discretion we would terrify traitors
Millions of acres of fertile lands, every now .
md then, are filched from our industrial
classes, who require them for the support
md education of their families, to be turn
ID into barren wastes, by those who have
already blasted more than one half of the
soil as with an avalanche of fire. Facto-
les and workshops are tottering in ruins,
md families and neighborhoods left starry
ng and in gs, because fostered industry
S not required in that region where the
abOring man has no rights which the own
n of men is bound to respect. And ships
tot at our wharves, and storehouSes become
1ut a rendezvous for idlers and vagrants
or the reason that uncompenSated chattel
,inews yield fruits more eheaply than COM
1ensated skill, and require no shield against
he panper products Of Europe. If "a change
# tariff laws were required by the South
instead of the North, they could not fail of
IS accomplishment. In that case the
resident would advocate it with ardor, if
lot with sincerity, AMI our Senators would
gain illustrate the fact of their trucking
uljection to those who secretly abhor their
,aseness and infidelity. Cur earnest wish /
s are not only constantly disregarded, but
'ur prosperity Is remorselessly paralyzed
" our servants, without an audible muir
nur on our part; and We are not much a.
'erSe, as we have often proven, to confer
ing new leases of Office upon such as de-
Give US, to afford them further opportuni-
les for mischief Does this seem unac-
ountable? l suggest no. in view of the
ruth | have but just stated, that the par
y selecting them has its heart and brain
IL the South, and its obeying members
merely in the North. The remedy for this
hameless evil is as easy as it is simple
Ne need but initiate the example set us by
hose who have caused this condition of
hings- Concord and infexibility of pur-
'ose will accomplish all VIC ask Nothing
Use ever can or ever will We might as
veil expect divided and discordant army,
under opposing generals to
apture the powerful and thoroughly disci-
,lined and guarded city. as for Northern
lights and Northern honor to be sustained
y men in the pay and keeping of those
Who would weaken and reduce us. In the
ordinary business of life we never trust
he faithless and dishOpest; l can imagine
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