Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1860-12-20
Stand mp for the Union and for the
Right.

Stand ND for the Union and for the
Right
The people of this country everywhere are
now asking s'What of the Union p Is South
Carolina to issue her mandates to the whole
counry2 Are we, the freemeu of Penn
rylyania, TO sacrifice our honor and man
hood by bowing down to the Southern mig
ger drivers and aristocrats Are we any
body? Are we freemen or are we slaves
Shall we speak our own sentiments peace
ful,v through the ballot box. or shall We bow
down and eat dirt in order to keep South Car
elina ia the Union? No. Two millions Of
Sighting, intrepid freemen in the North say
no. Let us be jnst. Let us give to the South,
10 the slave States, all their rights under the
Constitution but if they ask for the reopen
ing Of the African slave trade or the further
extension of slavery into Territory now free,
let us like men tell them they cannot be ac-
commodated, that they have had things their
ewn way sufficiently long, and if they do not
them to understand that they will be, like
a spoiled baby, spanked and brought back
again. They cannot 90 out Of the Union. =
No State has a right to secede. This doc
trine ras advocated by Jefferson, Madison,
Monroe, J,cRsor, Webster, Clay. and by all
the great S.ate5:Den cf this country. and Of
course they were righs. Secession, peacea-
BILE secession It is an anomoly Such~a
thing can not be. And the sooner the North
ern and Union loving papers and speakers OF
the country, give the South to understand
that we are in earnest, determined and reso>
lutte on this question, the better.
The freemen of the North entered into the
last campaign with their eyes open, and with
a calmness and fxedness of purpose that we
have never before witnessed, and which we
think is without parallel in the history of
the world. They advocated the election of
Abraham Lincoln, not because he was Abra-
ham Lincoln, but for the reason that be was
selected as the representative man, of great
party. advocating the doctrines of the Decla-
ration of Independence of Liberty and JUS
tice 10 all mankind. The doctrine of his
party, land his election proves that it was
the doctrine Of the people of the free States
was that slavery should not be extended into
Territory dedicated, by the fathers. to free
dom and free white labor; but in the mean
time that we would not meddle with it in
any of the States where it now exists.
With these Jcfersoniaa and patriotic doc
trines we entered the contest, the people rail-
lied to our standard, and we gained glori"
ous triumph. But South Carolina is dissat-
is6ed. President Buchanan has proved him
sell weak and puerile, unequal to the pres
eat emergency. Some Of the leading papers
in the country have tecome 9 weak in the
knees" and say, let South Carolina % peace
ably and without fight. Let her have her
own way, and rather than let her go, rather
than have scar, or any trouble with her, they
urge eonciliation, and backing down on the
part of the great Republican party from
its liberiy-lovipg, and Union sustaining sem
tentiments. In short they urge that the ke-
publicans, or the Union men Of the free States
should cease to advocate, or insist upon, IN
any way, their doctrines. They say restore
the Missouri Compromise and extend it to
the Pacific, thus giving millions of acres OF
our Territory to the slave power
The Democratic party repealed the Mis-
seuri Compromise. and when they learned to
their sorrow, that they had been guilty Of
great bluuder, and OF again opening up the
agitation of she slavery question, they patch,
cd 10 the bred Scott case and had the uni
ted States Supreme Court decide in that no.
torious case that the Missouri Compromise
was unconstitutional, and it's repeal, there
fo,e. right. Now, Notwithstanding their own
fnm.r opinions and the d. e Ssn't Decision,
they ask that 1t be restored and rendered to
tie South as a boon, as the angle of peace
and mercy, that will heal the troubled wa
fers OF d,sr,rd. confusion and secession.
Freennon OF Pennsylvania, Republicans Of
,hs while Union. are Jon wiling 30 thus
conuromise your honor and your dignity by
Welding al you have gained inthe late cleo
rion, or b7 yielding one jot OF title of the
great principles embodied iu the Chicago
platform! Why should strong, victori-
ous party. yield or sLccnmp to minority, to
a parts of men who have lost the confidence
OF th3 people, and whose leaders are now
preaching, oa the one part, mastery 1nactivi-
IN. and on the other. Secession and civil
war;
But they say will you do nothing to save
the Union Yes We will concede to the
South all her rights under the Constitution,
as the sold men," the Fathers of the Govern
ment construed it, and as we eonstrue 1t,
nothing more nothing less. We will in all
things respect the rights Of the minority-of
the whole South. but they must be content
70 keep their negroes where they have them,