The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1860-09-28

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What other inch Of free territory ht
been converted into slave territor
on the American continent since Ill
Revolution, except in New Mexic
and Virginia, under the principle {
non-intervention affirmed at Charles
toni II 1t be true that this principl
Iof non-intervention has protecte
slavery in that comparatively North
ern and cold region, where you di
not expect it to 20, cannot you trus
the same principle further South
when you come to acquire additiona
territory from Mexicol Will not tn
same principle protect it in tn
Northern states OF Mexico when the
are acquired, since they are nov
surrounded by slave territoryp
Oh, Douglas men, what lessol
is this! Did you not tell US tha
when the Nebraska bill was enacted
that this law was the most efficien
way OF Introducing free labor int
the territories9 Have you not sol
emnly assured us every day since
1884 that the principle Of popular
sovereignty, as expouuded by Mr.
Douglas, would most certainly save
all the territories from the grasp o.
slaveryl And now look here! You,
own master aud prophet admits
acknowledges, and boasts OF it-thal
this same principle gave to slavery
one and hal! degrees of latitude
more than it ever claimed, and that
since the organization Of the Amer
lean Republic not a square foot oI
free territory was ever converted into
slave territory, but by the same
measure which you represented to
us as the greatest and most reliable
engine Of tree labor.
Your own master and prophet tells
you to your own faces, and in the
face of all mankind, and in tho face
Of posterity, that you have been
lying most atrociously-lying every
day for the last six years. This il
unkind--was it not, Douglasites OF
the North!
No, am not joking. 1t WAS ter.
ribly unkind. All he said was most
certainly. most undoubtedly. most
nncontrover,ibly truc-but, | declare
that if he ha4 the least regard for tho
ceilings OF his friends - the least
sympathy for them in their awkward
rmbarrassments-he, lie ought to
have been the last op earth to make
that statement. Oh, that was un
generous! 1t was mean - very
IN " -..-..-ananiJ meal. IL your
self sacrificing friendship has ava.
kened the least echo in his heart, he
ought to have been the last man TO
10 so. But that heart seems to be
so filled with calloused selfishness-.
so destitute of the generous impulses
Of human nature--that il his friends.
like Broderick, die for him, he coolly
1isowns them; and il they lie for him
he promptly puts them to shame -
Disowns them and puts them to
shame! And for what! For the
purpose OF retrieving the lost favors
Of the South; regaining the lost
smiles Of the slave power, to be sa.
crificed to them. Was that the re.
ward you had deserved at his hands!
Look at it again. See he stands
before the slave holders in the Sen.
ate ofthe United States busy bargain.
ing away your honor for thoir lavors.
''Who has ever served you more
faithfully than | with my great prin
ciplel' he asks them. "Why not LOT
my friends in the North preach NJ
that principle as the pioneer of free
dom? The fools, perhaps, believing
in what they say, but we know bet
ter. DO you not see the resultl"
"Why not permit me the innocen,
Joke OF bamboozllng the people o.
the North into believing that am
the great champion OF freedOml'-
Ah, Douglas men, what sight is
thisl He has prosituted you, and
now proclaims your disgrace. How
do You like the attitude in which he
has placed you? Low do you like
the pillory to which, with his owI
hand, he has nailed your earsa An(
you are willing TO stand there--stanC
there quietly in the hands Of man
kind! Do you not sometimes heal
an earnest voice speaking withir
corresponding of a seli-respect ant
the natural dignity Of manl Doc,
it never tell you that the faires
blush of shame would be an orna
ment to your cheeks! My friends
| love to esteem all that bears tn,
attributes of human n .ture; but
sometimes, at an ungarded moment
a cloud of contempt arises in m,
soul, it is at the aspect Of this gratu
itous self degradation, for which ig
norance and errors can hardly serv'
as an excuse.
See there your master and proph
ct, prostrating himself before tn
slave power-in the dust, befor
your proud opponents! You can n
longer say you stand by him, 70
since that day he does not stand u
himself. II you are with him sti
there, at the loot OF the slave powel
where he lies, you lie with him. =
And what did the Shareholders d
after bo h.J - ~s-.ly Luuiiii aLo
his friends? Did they smile upo
him? Aye, they did, with scorl
and said, "We love thy treason we
enough, but we spurn with contem
the traitor" and there he still lies
j THERE was thought by the o
heathers to be the grandest thil
they could say Of a man that