The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-01-05

Dut. notwithstanding Northern Cities out
weigh Southern States iu everything Tex.
cepting the Ualue OF human flesh the South
does not hesitate to assume airs of diota-
ton whenever the peculiar institution"
fails. or is like to fail in It's unjust de-
mands. The Richmond Wig says:
ave could only state that we firmly and
rellglously believe, that the Southern States
Will not submit to the Inauguration of Sew
ard as President Of the United States. We
gro further, and sag that the Southern States
i0,u not submit to The inauguration of ana
black Republican President ,0hateUer-thGt
as to any man elected by The Republican
party as such an us capacity Of a separate
and distinct political and sectional organi-
cation. In such an event, we believe all the
Gulf States. with one accord. aud at the sa.He
moment, will go out OF the Union, and set up
for themselves, and that the other Southern
States, Virginia included will ultimately, if
not immediately, take precisely the same
step"
"Will not submit" is phrase which
has been In vogue in the South ''lo these
many years; the rod held over the backs
of Nerthern dough faces to compel them
to do peDance to their Southern masters;
and the very threat which frightens the
tln11d men among thirteen millions of
free people G. and makes them give ut
terance to the cry of ''the Union forever,
though it be at the expense of our honor,
our rights, our freedom !" Thirteen mil
lions Of freemen VefSuS a squad of three
hundred aud fifty thousand slave holders!
Thus far the howl of dissolution" has
been pretty effectual in placing power in
the hands OF Southern men aud slavehol-
ders. 1t has placed Shareholders in the
Presidential chair as out of ~ years =
1t has given Justices OF the Supreme
Court to the Slave States and A to the
Free States 1t has given the Office OF
Secretary OF State to Southern men and
slave holders 40 years out Of 81 four
teen appointments from the Slave states,
eight from the Free 1t has furnished
the House of Representatives with IA
Speakers out of 25--43 years out of 6S
1t has furnished Is Attorney Generals
from the South out of 25-42 gears out
of 81 ! 1t has monopolized ihe control
of the Navy for the lat sixteen years with
an interval of two years 1t has kept
Northern men out of the post of Secreta-
ry of War for the last ten years 1t has
given slave holders so out Of l34 For
eign Ministers 1t hes given up North
ern Territory without a struggle, when
We had an 'iDdisputable right" to it; and
created an expensive and unjust war to
acquire Southern Territory to which We
had 20 right! 1t has repealed the Mis-
souri, Compromise, established the Dred
Scott decision, with the avowal by the
President that Kansas is as fully slave
territory as Georgia and South Carolina;
ID ade Northern men slave catchers, un-
der penalty of a fne and imprison e ut;
and, as If all these insults to Northern
intelligence were not enough; it demands
the purchase Of Cuba at tile cost Of one hun
dled and tacenty millions; Congressional
protection for HgUery IN tie IurltOrleS and
tie re- opening Of tie Aftican Stare Trade!
Great God how valuable this Union has
been-aDd is like to te-to the free North
working under such -ytem
We sincerely hope the time will never
come when the sun shall shine upon our
States lcsseDed BY single one, but, If
the only price of Union must be an eter-
nal yielding to the clam ors of Slave bold
ers, the continued disregard of all North
ern int rests when conflicting with the
demands OF the South, the revival Of a
traffic which even balf-oivilized nations
contemplate with horror, the Federal
protection 10 our territory of curse
which has blasted the energies, impover-
isbed the soil and rendered Infamous one
half OF the Republic. the perpetuaton of
laws which would compel meD Gf they
could) to stfe ali the nobler feelings of
the heart to minister to the demands Of
buyers aud sellers of flesh and blood, and
which prohibit the expression of though hts
aud gag the press-it, again say We. u
nion is to be purchased at such price
in the name Of all tha; is jn-t and holy
let the South get out of the Union with
out delay and let tie day be celebrated up
on achich dascnS a nO6}er aui healthier
freedom }or the North
We think the North would be found
self-sustaining. As late writer has
said:
''She has no niggers to run away, that can
be caught only by means OF the Union, no
Instructions that can be quelled only by the
armies of the Union, no mails 10 be supported
out of the purse Of the Union no first lam-
lies that would starve TO death ~ they had not
the offices and purse of the UnoiH to fall
back on. If the South, which Is supported
by the Union and lives on the Union, aud
fattens on the Union, as a worm tattens on
an apple core, To It's own great comfort but
to the great detrIment OF the fruit, chooses tC
dissolve the Union. let her do 80. Ii would
be like pauper dissolvlng the uniOn between
himself and the poor house; but II the North
is peopled with men let Us not be frightened
from our proprety and be orIven 10 folly ana
wickeduess by such ridiculous threats"
This "irrepressble conflict" will 20 OF
in spite of such threats, and in the year
1860. glorious victory aclH be gained bJ
the free North Let it move on Tc