The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-06-08

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harmony ono with another. Let Us Rephb- /
licaus do our part 20 have II so. Even though
much provoked, Ios us do nothing through
passion and M temper. Even though tho
Southern people will not so much as listGn
to us, let US calmly consider their demands,
and weld TO them If, in our deliberate view
/ Of our duty, we possibly can. Judging by |
all they say and do, and by the subject and
\ nature of their controversy with uR, lot us
! determine, II we can. what will satisfy them.
i Will they be satisfied II the Territories bo
Internationally surrendered to thom Wo
know thoy will not. In all thcir present
complaints against Us. the Territories are
scarcely mentioned. Invasions and insur-
rcclions are the rneo now. Will II satisfy
them IL, in the future, We have nothing to do
with invusions and Instructions: Wo
know it viii. not. We 30 know, because wo
know we never had anything to do with in.
vasioDs md Instructions; aud yet this total
absiaining does not exempt us from the
charge and the denunciation.
Tho question recurs. what will satisfy
them Simply this We must not only let
them alone. but we must. somehow convince
them that We do let thom alono. This. We
know by experience, 10 no easy task, We
havo teon so trying 10 convince thom, from
tho worry beginning of our organization, but
with no success. In all our platforms and
speeches We havo constantly protested our
purpose to lot them alone; hut this has had
no tendency to convince them. Alike un-
availing to convince them 10 tho fact that
they hnvo never detected a man of Us in any
t attempt to disturb them.
J, These natural, and apparently adequate
means ell failing, what will convince them
J This, and this only (: cease TO cnh slavery
,Orong aud join with them in calling it right
And this must be dnne thoroughly y---dono in
r acts as we'll Us in tcords Silence will not 90
tolerated. must place ourselves avow-
odly with them. Douglas new soditon law
, must DO enacted and enforced, suppressing
all declarations that slavery is wrong.
I. whether made in politics, in presses, in pul.
6 pits, or in private. We must arrest and re-
a turn their fugitive slaves with greedy ploas
i uro. We must pull down our Fioe State
Y Constitutions. Tho whole atmosphere must
i be disintected from all taint o. opposition to
If slavery before they will ceuse 10 believe that
i all their troubles proceed from US. .l....
0 am quite aware thoy do not state their
u case precisely in this way. Most of them
/ would probably say to us, Let us alone. do
. nothing to us, and say what you please
d about slavery"
d But wo do lot tbom alone--havs never
" disturbed them--so that, after all, IL 10 what
we soy, which dissa:isfes them. They will
" continue 10 accuse US of doing, until we
}. cease saying. r.... ....-f f..
am also aware that they have not,as yot,
in terms. demanded tho overthrow of our
!. Free State Constitutions. Yet those Con.
g stitutions declare tho wrong of slavery. with
u moro solemn emphasis than do all other
l, savings aguinst il I; and when all these other
savings shall have been silenccd, tho over
u throw of these Constitutions will DO de-
% mandod and nothing DO loft to resist the
8 demand 1t is nothing to tho contrary, 1bat
g. thoy do not demand tho whole of this Jus,
!, now. Demanding what thoy do and for the
10 renson they do, they can voluntarily stop no
v where short oftbis contamination Holding,
10 as they do, that slavery is morally right and
y socially elevating. they cannot cease to do
!. mand full national recognition OF. IL, as q
legal right, snd u social blessing. s.
u Nor can we jusiIfably withhold this,
70 on any ground save our conviction that
i slavery is wrong. II slavery is right. ali
9 words, acts, laws, and constitutions against
I" it, are themselves wrong, and should be
n silenced. and swept away. II it is right,
% we canno, justly object to its nationality,
!. its universally; il it is wrong. they cHn.
20 not jas,ly insist upon its extension-its
n enlargement. All they ask, We could
Is readily grant, il we thought slavery right ;
f' all we ask they could as readily grant, il
y they thought il wrong. Their thinking it
% right, and our thinking it wrong, is the
y precise fac, upon which depends the whole
a controversy. Thinking it right as they do.
i. they are not TO blame for desiring its full
s, recognition, as being right; but. thinking
D. it wrong, as we do, can we yield to them
IS Can we cast our votes with their view,
.. and agains: our own? 4? In view Of ouI
:, moral, social responsibilities, can We dc
in this -...-.... -....e...s
Wrong as we thifk slavery is. we can
p yet afford 10 let il alone where il is. be.
cause that much is due TO the necessity
u arising from lis actual presence in the
Is nation but can we, while our votes will
: prevent it. allow it to spread into the
u national Territories. and TO oyerrun us
% hero in these Free States. o. .er4 g..
:. II our sense of duty forbids this, thel
at let us stand by our duty. fearlessly and
Z. effectively. Let us be diverted by non,
II, of those sophislicsl con,rivances where
g. with we are industriousy piled and bella
=, bored coniriyances such as cropping fo
ba some middle ground between the righ
an and the wrong. vain as the search for
I'd man who should be neither living mai
no nor dead man--such asa policy OF "don'
N. care" on questions about which all tru'
to men do care. such as Union appeals be
or seechipg true Union men to yield 10 dis
70 unionisls, reversing the divine rule. an,
sd ~ calling. not The sinners, but the righteous
- to repentance-suca as invocations L
%. Washington. while imploring men 10 un
o. say what Washington said. and und'
,g what Washington did. .,. r
TO Never Jet US be slandered from our dui,
DO by false accusations against us. nor fright
10 ened from it by menaces of destruction t
the Government, nor OF dungeons 10 our
a, selves. Let us have faith that righ
OF makes might, and in that faith, let us, {,
lw the end. dare to do on. duty as We under
ho stand il. ~. ..,-.... .. ~ ~
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