Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-10

credited that less than a dozen men, trained
under these circumstances so alarmed q Penn
sylyania President us 10 induce him to recast
a message, violate the plighted faith upou
which he was el, C ed, disgrace his native State
and degrade the high Office to which nc ID
then but recently been elevated. And yet
not only this has been almost within Our pres
ence, but the representatives Of free consttu-
encies have been induced TO lend their aid to
: force servie labor into competition with that
OF the white man. and a Slave State into the
sisterhood Of indepenjencies to throw the bal
ance of power against their own people,
Some of these are now not only respectable
members of the Douglas church, but missioua-
ries among the unbeieving and outside bar
barians. / lave some of them very distinctly
in my recollection, and it would be quite re-
freshiDg to bear their remarks in laudation Of
popular sovereignty, such as they denied to
Kansas, and in denunciatjou of Southern de-
mands, to which they succumb as reluctantly
as a thrice seduced damse to her lover. l be-
lieve it was Airabeau who said ''the presents
Of despoti m are always dan & rous )" he should
have included in his remark, the threat of the
tyrant as well as his reward.
The allegation that Southern combinations
are formed for the purpose of counteracting
opposition extremists, is a slear false pretense,
resorted to as blind and a cheat. No fears
ever sprung from such parentage Slavery
doees not exist by legal enactment anywhere:
1t Is the child Of force and as the sentiment
Of the world is against it, it cannJt live with
out the sustaining hand of power. Surround
cd by an atmosphere Of freedom, it is necessa-
rIiy unsafe, aud statutory safeguards and de-
| lenses become necessary. Fassalage and SUBJ
Jectlon never impress themselves, without vic.
icnce, upon the natural man, whilst on the
| contrary the sentiment OF freedom must for
| ever disturb the subjects Of despotism. The
| South, to be safe, must, therefore, extend
| through and beyond al the ceautervailiDg In
/ fuepces to which have referred, and cobse-
| qaently our frontier poss .ssions must be cap
| tured. But as The inherent weakness Of the
South is not equal to this task, craft is resort
ed to to supply the needed assistance. Upon
whom can this be more adyantageousy brought
to bear than a President without courage, a
Judge without candor, or legislator without
integrity? We are sold or betrayed hourly,
and if we had not more forbearauce than dis
crction we would terrify traitors. Millions
OF acres of fertile lands, every now and then,
are filched from our industrial classes, who re-
qure them ior the support and education of
their families to be turned into barren wastes
by those who have already blasted more than
one-half of our soil as with an avalanche of
fire. Factories and werkships are tottering in
ruins and families and neighb0rhooos left star
wing aud Ill rags, because ioseered industry Is
not required III that region where the laboring
has no rights which the owner of men Is
bound 10 respect. And ships rot at our
wharvcS, and storehouses become but a rem
devious for ders and vagrants for the reason
that uucompeusated chattel snews yield fruits
more cheap than compensated skill aud re-
qnire no shield against the pauper products of
Europe. If a change OF tariff laws were re-
quircd by the South instead of the North,
they could not fail Of It's accomplishment In
that case the President would advocate it with
ard)r if not with sincerity, and our Senators
would again illustrate the fact of their truck.
ling subjcciioHs to those who secretly abhor
their baseness and in6delity. Our earnest
wishes are not only constantly disregarded,
but our prosperity is remorseessly paralyzed
by our servants, without an audible murmur
on our part ; and we are not much averse, as
we have often proven, TO comforting new leas-
es Of Office upon such as deceive us, to afford
them further opportunities for mischief Does
this seem unaccountable? / suggest no, in
view Of the truth have but just stated, that
the party selecting them has its heart and
brain in the South, and its obeying members
mcrely in the North. The remedy for this
shameless evil is as easy as it is SIMPLE. We
need but initiate the example set us by those
who have caused this condition of things--
Concord and inaeXibility of purpose will ac-
complisil all ne ask. Nothing else ever can
or ever will. We might as well expect di-
vided and discordant army, marshaled under
opposing generals to capture the powerful
and thoroughly disciplined and guarded city,
as for N0rthern honor to be sustained by men
in the pay and keeping of those who
would weaken aud reduce US. In the ordina-
ry business Of life We never trust the faithees
and dishonest can imagine no reason for
engaging such as sentinels over our entire for
tunes. Just so long as our Custom Houses,
Post Offices. Navy Yards and Mints shall
be stocked BY the thousands, selected virtually
by those who are in banded opposition to Us,
and whose principal business, we are instruct
to believe, is compoundng politics and perfdy,
it will be impossible to render our condition
better than it is. These leper-yards must be
cleansed. Their occupants load the air with
a contagious corruption. Throughout their
bodies and their souls, they bear the marks
of the distemper with which the aristocratic
pollutionist has touched them. / risk but
little in saying, that at this very hour, this
mighty phalanx, scattered throughout the
eighteen Northern States, having a common
and powerful bond of union, are devising
to despoil our industrial classes, by
coufning them in denseIy crowded fields of la
bor, or forcing lhem to enter into competition
and compauionShip with ignorant and brutal
zed bondmen. They all, yes all, have been
brought to believe that the doctrines Of the
Declaration of independence, are but stereo-
,yped lies that the founders of the nation
lad but a sorry conception Of iDalienable
lights; that the constitution which they franz
ID was intended as an instrument of cruelty
md crime and that the fairest feature Of free
epublican associations is a union of States
)oeped with the lowest grade of slaves Am
right? What is the trouble against which
We have TO contend Is Il not the steady in-
luence of what may with propriety be called
political conspiracies to miscad the public
,eart? ? Is it not an Administration blackened
With treachery, and crooked and tottering on
Ter the weight of its depravity, using all the
of Office aud all the facinations Of
position to utterly destroy us, by making the
Territories of the country is9s garrsons for
he enemies OF freedom. and the labor of white
nen degrading and fruitless, beyond the limits
f the present States? i'll am in error,
ghat is the Interpretation Of the political dis
ords of the last six years?