The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1860-03-09

hear menacc of disunion, loudcr, more
distinct, moro emphatic than cs!f,. with the
condition annexed, that they shall bo exc
cuted tho moment TINT q Republican Ad-
lninistration, though constitutionally elected,
shall assume the. .Goycrpment. iHf.
do not certainly know that tho people
arc prepared to call such On Administration
to power. know only, that through o
succession Of floods whichnevcr greatly excite
and ebbs which never entirely discourage me,
the volume Of Republicanim rises continual
ly higher and higher. They are proably
wisc, whose approximations admonish them
that 1t is already strong enough for effect.
HAS IT PLrcx? ~
Hitherto the Republican party has been
content with ono neutrality-suspicious.
MANY votes Il can cast? These threats en-
force another-has it determination enough
to cast them? This latter question touches
its spirit and its pride. ! am quite sure,
however, that us Il has hitherto pracuccd
self-denial In 20 many olhpr i9rps, It VIII IN
this emergency lay aside oil impaticnee M oi
temper, together with all ambition, and will
consider these extraordinary declamations
seriously and with Just moderation. It
would be waste of words to demonstrate
that they are unconstitutional, and equally
idle TO show that tho responsibility for
disunion attempted or effected, must rest not
with those who in the exercise OF coustitu-
tional authority maintain the government,
but those who unconstitutionally engage in
che mad work of subverting It.
Al cnr IN
They resolve themselves into this, that the
Republican party in tho North is hostile to
the South. But it already is proved to be.a
majority in the North it is therefore practi-
caliy tho people Of tho North. Will 1t not
still be same North that has forbornc with
YOU SO long and conceded to yon so much :?
Can you Justly assume that affection which
has been 20 complying. can all at once change
to hatred intense and inexorablc?
You say that the Republican party is a
sectional one. Is the Democratic party less
sectional? Is il easier for us to bear your
sectional sway than for you to bear ours
Is il unreasonable that for once VIC should
alternate? But is tho Republican party
sectional? Not unless tho Democratic party
is. Tho Republican party prevails in the
House of Representatives. sometimes; the
Democratic party in the Senate always
Which of the two is the most prosicptive
Come, IL you will, into the free States, into
tho State of New York, anywhere from Lake
Eric to Sag Harbor, among my ncighbors IN
the Owasco valley, hold your conventions,
nominate your candidates, address the people
submit to them, fully, earnestly, eloquently,
all your complaint, and grievances OF
northern disloyalty, oppression. perildy |;
keep nothing hack, speak just as freely and
as loudly there as you do here !; you Will have
have hospitable welcomes, and approaching
audiences, with ballot-boxcs open for all the
votes YOU can win. Arc you less sectional
than this? Extend to us the same privileges,
and will engage that you will very soon
have in the South rs many Republicans rs we
have Democrats in the North. There IL,
however, q better test of nationality than
tho accidental location of parties. Our
policy of labor in the Territories was not
sectional IN the trst forty years of the Rc-
public. Its nature inheres. II will bc ma
tional again, during the third forty years,
and forever afterwards. 1t is not wise ana
benefcent for us alone or injurious to you
alone. Its effects are equal, and the same
flor us oil.
WHAT THE REPUBLICANS ARE ACCUSED OF.
You accuse the Republican party ofultcrior
and secret designs. How can party that
counts its votes in this land OF free speech
and FREQ press by tho hundreds of thousands,
have any secret designs? Who is tho con-
iurcr, and where arc the hidden springs by
which he can control it's uncongrcgatcd and
widely.disperscd MASSES and direct them to
objects unseen and purposes unayowed! but
what are these hidden purposes! You name
only one. That ono is to Introduce negro
equality among you. Suppose wc had the
power to change your social system; what
warrant have you for supposing that
We should carry negro equality among you?
We know, and we will show you, II you
will only give heed, that what our system OF
labor works out, wherever It works out any
thing, is the equality Of white men. Tie
laborer in tho free States, no matter how
humble his occupation, is q white men, and
he is politically the equal of his employer.
Eighteen of our thirty-thrco States and free
labor States. There they arcs Maine, New
Hampshire, Massachusetts,, Vermont, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New York, New jersey,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, In.
diania, Wisconsin, Iowa, California and
Oregon. do not nrray them in contrast
with tho capital States. am no assailant OF
States All of the States are parcels OF my
own country-thc best Of them not 50 wise
and great us a,n sure 1t will hereafter be ;
the State least developed and perfected
among them oil is wiser and and better than
any foreign State know. IL it then in any,
and in which of the States lhayo named that
negro equality offends tho white mans pride!
Throughout the wide world, where is the
State where class and caste are 10 utterly
cxtinguished as they are in each and every
one OF them? Let the European immigrant
who avoids the African Us il his skin exhalct
contagion, answer. You find him alway,
in the State where labor is ever free. Die
Washington, Jefferson, and Henry, when
they implored you to relinquish your system
and accept tho one We have adopted, propose
to sink YOU down to the level Of the African
or was il their desire to cxalt all white men
to a common political elevation?
A LITTLE rLAIN EALx.
But we do not seek to forcc, or even % III,
trude, our system on you. We excluded
Justly, wisely. and contcntedly. from nil
political power and responsibility In your OUT
capital States. You arc sovereign on 'ne
subject of slavery within your own borders, @
as we arc on the same subject wiihin oIi
borders. II is we'll and wisely so arranged.
IIse your authority to maintain what sys,
tenn Won plcase. We are not distrusuu' ~; "
tho result. We have wisely, Us we o.. 'n' 'n.n
exercised ours to protect ana pcr'Ses Co. s' The
hood of tho members oil the Sn". ..s LIZ
whole Sovereignty uPSn; P'r;acS sS%Ss between us bv