The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-03-29

conservatism which saw, unmoyed, Hber
ty cloyen down in a distant Territory and
heard the ioploring appeals for protection
of free men, whose sacked and burning
cabins illumed the midnig Ltskies, shrank
appalled, when it heard this cry of disu-
MON, opened its long purse, and continued
the destinies of the country 10 The keep
ing of men who svowed their intentions
to ruin Of they could not rule it.
Sir, when that uncertain contest was
going on. when the election of Fremont
zee ncd to the leaders of the Democracy
not only possible bat probable, the Sens-
tor from Louisiana, (Mr Slidell,) one of
the most skiful leaders of the slave Dem
ocraoy-the acknowledged friend and
champion of Mr.. Buebanan-declared to
the country that, eff Fremon should be
elected, the Union would be dissolved"
Mr.. Butler, of South Carolina, then a
leading member of the body which placed
him at the head of the important Com nit
tee on the judiciary, said:
"When Fremont is elected, We must
rely upon what we haye-a good State
government. Every Governor of the
South should call the Legislature Of his
State together, and have measures of the
South decided upon. If they did not,
aud submitted to the degradation, they
would deserve the fate OF slaves. would
advise my Legislature to 60 at the tap of
the drum"
Mr.. Keitt, in fiery and vement speech
to the people of Lynchburg, Virginia, ex-
claimed, in view of the spprehsDded cleo
ton of Fremont:
"I tell you now. that if Fremont is e.
lected, adherence to the Union is treason
to liberty. Loud oheers.) I tell you
now, that the Southern man who will sub
init to his election is traitor and a cow
ard. Enthusiastic cheers.)
This speech, SO contemptuous, so def
ant towards the people of the North, 80
emphatic in its svowals of disunioD, was
promptly indorsed as "sound doctrine
by John B. Floyd, now Mr.. Buchanan's
Secretary of War-a gentleman whom
the Boston Post the leading Admipistra-
ton organ in New England, in 1850 said
"Henceforth he must he treated as dis
unionist, and the most dangerous of them
ALL" In the autumn of l656, Mr. Brooks
from South Carolina. received from the
people of bis district an ovation. Sena-
tor Butler and the Senator from Georgia,
(Mr. Toombs. attended, and other South.
| ern Democratic leaders sent applauding
letters to the assem- bled people of bis dis
trict Mr.. Brooks said
ave have the issue upon us now; and
how are VIC to meet It'll tell you, fell
low citizens, from the bottom of my heart,
that the only mode which [ think availa :
bic for meeting it is just to tear the Con.
-titution of the United States, trample it
under foot, and form Southern Confed-
eracy, every State of which will be a
sIaveholdiDg State. Loud and prolong-
ed cheers) | believe it, as | stand in
the face of my Maker; believe it, on a.
responsibility to you as your honoFed
Representative, that the only hope Of the
South is in the South, aud the only agail.
able means of making that hope effective
is to cut asunder the bonds that tie Us to-
gether, and take our seperate position in
the fanily of nations These are my O.
pinions. They have always been ny
opinions. | haze been disunionist from
the tine could think"