The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-08-02

already blasted more than one.half {
our soil as with an avalanche of fire.
Factories and workshops are tottering
ruins, and families and neig ghborhood
left starving and in rags, because fostere
industry is not required in that regioI
where the iaboring man has no right
which the owner of men is bound to res
pect. And ships rot at our wharves, AN
storehouses become but rendezvous 70
idlers and vsgrants, for the reason tha
uncompensated obattel siDews yield fruit
more cheaply than compensated skill, an
require no shield against tho pauper pro
ducts of Europe. If change of tarii
laws were required by the South insteat
of the North, they could not fail of its 40
complishmcnt. In that case, the Presi
dent would advocate it with ardor, if no
with sincerity, and our Senators woult
again illustrate the fact Of their trucking
subsection to those who secretly abhol
their baseness and in6delity. Our earn
est wishes are not only constantly disre
garded, but our prosperity is remorseless
ly paralyzed by our servants, without ar
audible murmur on our part; and we are
not much averse, as We have often pro.
ven, to conferring new leases of Office up.
on such as deceive US, to afford them fur.
ther opportunities for mischief Does
this seem unaccountsble l suggest no,
in view of the truth I have but just stated
that the party selecting them bas its
heart and brain in the South, and its o.
beying members, merely, in the North
The remedy for this shameless evil is as
easy as it is simple. We need but imi.
tate the example set us BY those who have
caused this condition of things Concord
and iufezibility of purpose will accom-
plish all we ask. Nothing else ever can
or ever will. We might as we'll expect
adivided and discordant army, marshaled
under opposing generals, to capture the
powerful and thoroughly 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. 10 the ordinary
business of life we never trust the faith
less and dishonest; can imagine no rea.
son for engaging such as sentiuels over
our entire fortunes. just SO long as our
custom houses, post Offices. navy yards
and mints shall be stocked with thous.
ands, selected virtually by those who are
in banded opposition to us, and whose
principal business, We are instructed to
believe, is ccmpouDding policies with per-
6dy, it will be impossible to render our
condition better than it is. These leper-
yards must be cleaused. Their occupants
load the air with contagious corruption.
Throughout their bodies and their souls,
they bear the marks of the distemper
with which the aristocratic polutionists has
touched them. / risk but little in say
ing, that at this very hour, this mighty
phalaux, scattered throughout the eigh
teen Northern States, having q common
and powerful bond of union, are devising
measures to despoil our industrial classes,
BY conGning them in densely crowded
fields of labor, or forcing them to enter
into competition and conpanionship with
ignorant and brutalized bondmen. They
all, yes all, have been brought to believe
that the doctrines of the Declaration of
Independence are but steoreotyped lies;
that the founders of the nation had but a
sorry conception of inalienable rights;
that the Constitution which they framed
was intended as an instrument Of cruelty
and crime, and that the fairest feature of
free republican association is Union of
States peopled with the lowest grade Of
slaves. Am | rightl What is the trou-
Die against which we have to contend =
Is it not the steudy influence Of what may
with propriety be called political conspi-
racies to mislead the public mind and
taint the public hearth Is it not an Ad-
ministrstion blackened with treachery,
and crooked and tottering under the
weight of depravity, using all the patron
age Of Office, and oil the facinations of po-
sition, to utterly destroy US, by making
the Territories of the country but garri-
sons for the enemies of Freedom, and the
labor Of white men degrading and fruit
less, beyond the limits of the present
States If / am in error, what is the
correct Interpretation of the political dis
cords Of the last six years.
I anticipate fully that my suggested
mode Of redress for existing abuses will
be denounced as sectional; to which an
swer, if it be so, the antidote to.a bane
may be q bane itself, "similsa samilabus
curantur." But its liability to the charge
is denied. The real sectionalism is ar
rayed against US; do but counsel system
attic and persistent resistance. In studies
Of tho fundamental doctrines Of our COM
mon charter, and in the dispensations of
the fayors of Government, We should new
er know a North, South, an East, or q
West. My complaint is that others act
as if they thought differently. | trust
we shall always be able to command the
exercise of such patriotism and comfy
as to forever preclude us from aggression
upon a section inferior to ours in every
element of material strength and great
ness. 1t can never be otherwise than