The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1860-12-27

""HS' tho O"~N VI tile certain. lDyaTiabIp
intrinsic disadvantages, that black hands
VIII forever hate work; that black !cg.
Will Continue 10 disport themselves, IN thil
amusement "of runnIug witt. their heels:
that they viii hide themselves. "tbtou1l
bush and through brisr3 that thieyish
confedsrates. white, black and yellow,
bond and free, will aid, foster and feed
them, in all countries; that "6ndinp mus,
always prccede catching,' and that no
laws on Earth, ever did, or will be able
to punish all offences, or 10 remedy ali
losses. Wherefore, it no more follows.
that all the cscaprd slaves are chargeable
against the Northern States as Govern.
men's. nor against the loyalty Of all the
orlhern psopie-nor eVen their MAORI
ties--nor of any large number among
l'hem-lhan that our own Southern S ate.
governments and societies shall LIE dis.
solvedcfor lEeir inefieiency, ia protecting
these ard similar rights and interests. Nor
IS this ali;-for | mus. continue TO tell ycu
these dissgreea' le truths;-tte States, that
lose fugitive slavesi in orby the free States
are exactly the only States, that do mol
c!ainor for dissolving ttisihyaluabIe North
ern government for the sake of the small
per cent. OF their runaway negroes. They
are. in the order Of their loss. 81 Ken.
lucky. Maryland. Virginia, Missouri and
Tennessee. While the States, which foam
at the mouth about fugitive slaves, lost BY
the action OF Northern Abolitionist, are
exactly the very States that suff-r least of
ali--almoFt uone--nOt one in thousand.
They are situated with hundreds of miles
OF other intervening slave States. They
are, South Carolina, Georgia. Alabama,
Mississippi. and Florida. The bo,der
SIates--losiug themselves, MyougA This
agency, very small per cent. Of fugitives
more than they would necessarily lose, if
there were not free S ate or Abolilison-
ISL on earh--do actually so lose hundreds
OF slaves to one lost by all these secession
States. This much then for this pretext
for disunion, and this real evil and inins-
tice Now, what is the remedy for it,
even if it were the proper affair of these
"kfng Cotton" States? For they seem re-
solved to monopolIze all the soyeleig,
States right exlant, even that Of sacrifc.
ing the whole of :her own peoples for.
tunes in vain pursuit after very small
shaving o the slaves belonging 10 the peo.
pie OF other States? Now if [coBsider.d
as unit al the Slave States do annually
lose many fugitive slaves, by the setuc
lions. coDnivance or concealment Of Ger.
tain Northern white men and free negroes,
what remedy do these politicians propose.
Why, disunion Of these States. That is,
they dtsign to make al, the Free States nj
once into For ign. if not an inmical coun-
Try. How gradually or how speedily til, Sc
grain. growing, "serviIe,' mot kiRg Cot
ton, but still Slave States along tie border,
will be complied, by the progress of dis
ss!rous & swift marching events, (amoL gst
the others. total depletion OF their slaves,
by the wholesale heg;ras, which must then
occur, to join this same fanatic, free
State Confed racY, they do not pause even
10 consider. | presume they may expect
the line Of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky,
Tennessee, aud Mississippi. 10 be main.
'ained, for the erclusice benefit ofhe King
Cotton Stotes. together with suffi lent
hunters Of these troublesome and expep
sive chattels, for this new nation Of enc
mics to practice slave stealing upon And
they may also itquire, Tin Il cir high ideas
OF their own State sovereignty, that these
border States shall also hold th il own
wIte throats in convenient readiness to
be cut in the civil bro,ls and intematon
al wars, waged Tor the dear sakes of HesSe
Carolina, HeSse Alabama, Schuartz Mis-
sissippi, G, orgia, CoJurg, and Sare Texas
If our German fellow cilizens" will.
take no umbrage at these uses of their
father lands, of the Germanic Coniederacy
Whist "border" for the future protection
to this interest. against agitalions and
slave stealing, will these wise Statesmen,
Davis, Yancey, Keirt & Co.-the success
soIs and assigns Of Washington, Jefferson,
Madison, Mason, etc,-interpose between
King Couo rs negroes and the then aboli.
tion nation? Other slave Sta,es-lke the
outside boy in bediull of frightened ur-
chins2 A free Desert? A 9. 500 mile line
of forts and arsenals? A regular army OF
one or two millions Of men2 1t seems to
my poor politico economical brains, that
all these are curious. il not expensive
modes of saving losses from fugitive
slaves, OF Of introducing slavery, as a po
Htical institution, into Northern Terrific
ries. However, pretend not to states.
manship.
THE NEXT EXCUSE.
The next excuse, which the gentleman
t formally and d liberately assigns for break
: ing up our government and society toc
, (as think is, that every petition pre-
sent'd Tor the abolition of slavery in the
District OF Columbia. 10y all the squads
: and chques OF old women in pautaioons
/ and peltcoats, has itself constituted sucl
$ viOlation of tie original compact as wii
e justify secession Can this BE- serious
I. proposition? Can whole section, State
or even neighborhood, be thus held re
r sponsibe, TO the desperate point of its dis
t organization, for whatsoever folly
J small portion of its fools may say or do
I, in a free, country of their own mere no
: tion or whm? t7 ..sf,
G TIE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA EXCfTEMENT-TH
d FOLLY OF SOUTHERN TANATIcisM.
When those petitions first came in, the,