The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-08-17

Nothing olso over can or ever will We
might us we'll expect divided and discord.
ant army, marshalod under opposing gen.
erals, to capture the powerful and thor.
oughly disciplined and guarded city, as for
Northern rights and Northern honor to be
sustained by men in the pay and keeping of
those who would weaken and reduce us.
In the ordinary business of life wo never
trust tho faithless aud dishonest | can i'm
agine no reason for engaging such as sonti.
nols over our entire fortunes. Just so long
as our custom. houses. post Offices, navy
yards, and mints shall be stocked with thou |
sands, virtually by those rho arc in banded |
opposition to us, and whose principal busi- |
ness, We arc instructed to believe, is com
pounding politics with porfidiiy. it will be
impossible to render our condition better
than il Is These leperyards must be
cloansod Their occupants load the air
with q contagious corruption. Throughout
their bodies and thoir souls, thoy boar the
marks of tho dstemper with which tho ar.
istocratic polIutionist has touched them.
risk bot little in saying, that at this very
hour, this mighty phalanx. throughout the
eighteen Northern states. having a common
and powerful bond of Union, arc devsitg
measures to despoil our industrial classes,
| by coDfning them in dense, crowded fields
of labor. or forcing them to enter into com.
petition and companonship with ignorant
and brutRlized boDdnien. Tboy all, yes all.
have boon brought to boliove that the doc.
trines of tho Declaration of Independence
arc stercotvped lies that tho founders OF
tho nation had but sorry conception of in.
alionsbIe lights that the Constitution which
they framed was intended as an instrument
of cruelty and crime; and that tho tairest
feature OF FREQ republican association is u
union of states poopled with the lowest
grade Of slaves. Am right What is tho
trouble against which VIC to. contend Is it
not tho steady influence Of what may with
proprety DO callod political conspiracies to
mislead tho public mind, and taint the pub.
lie heart Is it not an administration black.
eDed with treachery, and crooked and
tottering under the weight of its depravity
using all the patronage Of Office, aud all the
fascinations OF position, to utterly destroy
us, by making the Territories of the country
but garrisons for the enemies of freedom,
and the labor of whto men degrading and
: fruitlcss bey ond tho limits of tho present
States? II / am in error, what is tho correct
Interpretation of the political discords OF
the last six years
l anticipate fully that my suggested mode
of redress for existing abuses will bp do.
nouDccd as sectional to which answer il
it bo so the antdote to a bane may be a
bane itself, "simiiid simiHbus cHrantsr."-
But its liability to the charge Is, denied
The real sectionalism is arrsyed against us
/, do but counsel systematic and persistent
resistance. In studies of tho fundamental
doctrines of our common charter, and 10 the
, ! despensatIons of tho favors of Governn,e mt
we should nevor know North, u South az
East or West. My complaint is shat 9th.
= crs act as if they thought differently.
trust that VIC shall always be able to com
mand tho exercise of such patriotism anC
. comfy as to forever preclude US from ag
erosion upon section inferior to ours il
. every element of material strength anc
= greatness. Ii can never be otherwise tina,
- dastardly to press upon the weak and th,
! sickly.
1t will be noticed that have spoken o
, the Dem ocratic party without reference t
'f its present distractions. My reason for 8
= doing is found in tho opinion l entertaine
~ " that these dissensions 10 not affect issues
" as neither branch indicates a disposition I
=. meet fairly and openly the great politics
4 problem of the times. In casting our vote
- wo should be accurately informed as to tho
, effect upon tho policy we desire to see @.
:. tablished. We should not be mado instru
10 ments in the hands of any ambitious mar
or in the hands of any combination of reck
D. less and INSCRIPTIONS men, to force an uu
r natural growth Of Slavery in tho countr,
20 and to blast tho hopes of her own people
T. contrary to what has heretofore been th
understanding of tho Constitution of tn
n' United States, and in pal pable violation @
as what has been regarded u settled nations
IL policy. 1t should be matter of stingin
OF regret to Us if from our bearing in the pre-
oi ent contest,we could DO fairly charged her
u aftcr with violation of tho principles "
's- have long professed TO cherish, or with ha
n ing imposed any. tho slightest impedimeI
nc in tho pathway of Il rational, well-groundt
ll,e 10 and progressive liberty.
~ Tho all-absorbing question now presente
N to the American citizen, for what will prov
). to 30 his ultimate decision, / have watche
v narrowly as il has risen into importanc
! from yoar to year, and think / know ii
IN opinions of the several Presidential cand
m dates respecting II.
On am not aware that the supporters I
ly Mr.. Breckinridge attempt any concoalmei
NJ US to his designs in case of his success.
is thoy should design to resort to provaric
or tion, thoy have placed it entirely witho
re- their power by the fraDkness and bOldnos
fy and / had almost said the recklessnoss
"a. their declarations. He has been put for
ur prominently, alike in speech and platiorl
he as tho Achilles of tho armies of the Sout
10 and as the determined foe Of free soil, fr'
no speech and FREQ mon. lilo stands upon
alTl single Democratic sentiment, unless indee
= what were regarded by all statesmen with
in the last fifteen years as tho pretentiOus he
eCt esies OF John G, Calhoun. can be so regarde
in He so reads the teachings of the sages
,re tho past, and their primary law, as TO mai
he IL frnitloss 10 attempt an exclusion OF his p
lbs culiar and favorite institution from tho O
me- ganized Territories; and so ne to make
-or indispensable that Congress, Courts al
in. Presidents should exercise all their
an genuity and all their powers 10 fortify Al
he sustain it there. Legislative action is to
of invoked, judicial decrees had, executive hi
in. pronounced, navios equipped and arm
its marshaled, to exclude every settler ther
si from who will not bow down before I
not black god of his idolAtrous worship. l q
ain peal to you freem0n. to know whether q
&C. is the Democracy Of Jefferson, AadisC
Sc. Mouroo and Jackson. appeal to you
are know whether you have ever found anyt thi
,ur in the annals of parties SO insulting to
our understanding until within the lifetime
BUR tho youth who has reached his majority.
we appeal to you to know whether the homes
SOS intelligence and unmiXed blood OF tho
ord spring of Northern mothers can ever aoct
10 | an nycusa for thoae who would endeavOr