The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-17

sectional? Is il easier for rs G0 bear Son.,
sectional sway than for yCu 10 bear ours 8
| Is It unreasonable that for once We sbonri C.
alternate? But is the r publican bartt
sectional? Not unless the Democratic rstt,
il. The Republican party prevails in III.
House of r representatives. sometimes ,hs
Democratic party is in the Senate alwavs
Which of the two is the most proscriptivs1
Come If you will. into the Free States. int
the State of Now York, anywhere from LaEs
Erie to Sag Harbor, among my neighbors in
The Owasco Valley. Hold your conventions
! nominate your candidates, address, IN.
people, submit to them. fully. earnestly. 81.
"quently, all your complaints and grievances
of Northern dislnyaliv. oppression, perEdv.
keep nothing back. speak Just as freely and
! as loudly there as you do here. You will
have hospitable welcomes. and appreciatipo
| audiences, with ballat boxes open for al
the votes you can win Are YOU less SEE.
tional than this Extend to US the sam.
privileges. and / will engage that you will
very soon have in the South as MANY Re-.
publicans as we have D .mocrats in III.
North. There is however. better test Of
nationality than the accidental location of
parties. Our policy of labor in the Terrific.
ries was not sectional in the first forty years
of the Republic. lis nature inheres. It
will be NATIONAL again. during the third forty
years. and forever afterWard Il is not wis.
and b~nef cent far US alone or injurious TO
you alone. It's effects are equal, and the
same for US ALL
You accuse The Republican party of ul--
terror and secret designs. H Nv can a par
~ that counts its votes in this land of free,
speech and free press by the hundreds of
ou>ands. have any secret design? VINO
! is the con uror, and where are the hidden
| springs by which he can control is uneon..
gregated and ely-dispersed masses and
direct them t" objects unseen and purposes
| unavowed But what are these hidden DUR
poses You name only one That one is
{" introduce negro equality among you.
Suppose we had the power 10 change your
social system. what warrant have YOU for
surprising that we should carry negro equal
ity among you? We know, and We will
show you. if yoa will only give heed. that
what our system of labor works ouI, wher-
ever it works anything, is Il e equality of
white men. The laborer in the fee States.
70 matter how humble his occupation is a
white man. and t1r IS politically the equal of
his employer. Eighteen of thirty three
States are Free L ,bDr States. There they
Vermont. Rh"d Il land, c ,nnerticut, N-w.
York. New Jersey. P-nnsvlvania, OHIO,
Michigan, Illinois, Indiana Wisconsin Min
nesota, IVA. California. and Oregon
do n"r array them in contrast with the cap.
ilal SAFES. am nn assailant of States. All
of the States pa, cells of my own coun.
| trv-thp best Of them not SD visa and great
Is l am -ur- it will hereafter be tile State
least developed and perfect among them all
Is wiser and better than any foreign State
know. Is it then in any, and in which, of
of the States l have named The negro equal
ity "tfends the lite mans pride :? Through
out the wide world. where is The SAFE where
class and caste are utterly ex.inguished
~ they in each and every one of them ?
Let the European immigrant. who avoids
tie "A Trican If his ~ktu xaisd couIagion,
answer. You fnd him always in The Stale
where labor is ever free Did Washington,
Jefferson and Henry, when they employed
you to reiu9uish your system and accept
The one We have adopted. propose TO sink you
down to the level of the African or was it
their desire ro exalt al white men to COM
mon political elevation? ~ s4
But we do NOT seek to force, or even to
inttude. our system on sy"u. We are ex.
,u.led Justly. wisely and conIeniedly, from
all political power and responsibility in your
capital States. You are scvereigns on the
>ut ct of Slavery within your own borders,
rs We are on the same subject within our Dor.
ier>. II is we'll and wisely so arranged.
Use your authority to maintain what system
you please. We are not distrustful Of the
result. We have wisely. as we think. eyer
cise.i ours TO protect and perfect the man.
hood of the members of the State. The
whole sovereignty upon domestic concerns
within the Union Is divided be,ween US by
unmis,akabe boundaries. You have your
fifteen distinct parts we eight en- parts equ.
ally distinct Each must be maintained in
:, rider Ilat tie wlie,le mas be preserved. If
ours shall be assailed, within or without. by
any enemy or for any cause, and we snail
have need. we shall expect you 10 defend it.
Ii yours shall BE- So assail4d. IN the emergen-
cy. no matter what thecause or the prelrxt,
or who the foe, we shall defend your soyer-
eighty as the equivalent Of our OWN. We
cannot, inded. accept your system of capital
or its ethics. That would be 10 surrender
and subYert our own which we esseem 10 be
better. Bes Ides. If we could. swhaI need for
any division into Sales at all You are
equally at liberty TO, reject our system and
lis ethics. and 10 retain the superiority OF
your own by all the forces of persuasion
and argument. We must indeed. discuss
both systemssE All the world discusses all
systems. respectfully must we discuss them
since we have to decide as nation which
of the two we ought to engrafG on the new
and future States growing up In the great
public domain Discussion { en-. being an,
avoidabIe, what could be mare wise than 70
conduct It with mutual toIeraeian and ina
frateFnal spirit? ai1ess : - tsss 81 - sas5el
You complain that Republicans discourse
too boldly and directly. when they express
with confidence their belief that their sys'