Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-09-22
The black republican prophet dates. the beginning of the dissatisfaction manifested from the compromise of 1920:

" But, although statesmen qualified for the crisis appeared, TO party stood forth to support them with constancv, and the country, after temporary glow of free-soil excitement, subsided into cold inder- ence-and so a compromise was made, which divid- ed the newly acquired domain between free labor and capital in slaves, between freedom and slavery, a memorable compromise, which after trial of GnMy % M to r9Esh f9 M hs sGE a nly antees of freedom were found unavailing and worth less History says that the compromise of 1920 was necessary to save the Union from disruption. do not dispute history. nor debate the settled moral questions of the past. 1 only lament that it was necessary, findeed it was so. History tells us that the course then adopted wise. l do not controvert it. I only mourn the occurrence of even one case most certainly the only one that ever did happen, in which the way of wisdom has failed to be also the way of pleasantness and the path of peace It was in 1920. therefore, that the national deviation began. We have continued ever since the divergent course then inconsider ately entered, until at last we have reached point, where amid coniu sion, bewilderment and mutual recriminations, it s,ems alike impossible to go for ward or to return We have added territory after territory, and region after region with the cusoma " boldness of feeby resisted conquerors, not mere ly neglectng to keep slavery out of our new pos sessions, but actually removing all the barriers against it which ft und standing at the times of conquest In doing this we have defed the moral opinions of mankind, overturned the laws and sys tems of our fathers, and dshonored their memories by declaring that the unequaed and glorious consti- tuition which they gave us. carries with It, as It at tends our eagles, not freedom and personal rights to the oppressed but slavery and hateful and bale fu commerce in slaves, wherever we win con quest by sea land the whole habitable globe
 It is the determination of the republicans to admit no more slave territory-this IS II ( f,oo Inf South off from the territories, whether pos sessed or to be acquired hereafter, and when girdled by abolitionism, in her 'pent up Utica'' she can fret forever against the prl son walls, or sink into unprogresslve stag nancy and imbeciity. It is the duty of the southern statesman to anticipate and guard | against the great ocean currents that bear | down upon the South, to look to the future and weigh we'll the value of a Union which may easily become an instrument of oppres- sion instead of the shield of freedom. The revolution was fought for our advantage, and we are recreant to the bright examples and glorious prestige of noble ancestry if we neglect to fight the battles of the South for future generations Unless we are guld- ed by wise statesmanship the limits of slave territory are fixed now and forever we do not believe in the delusive doctrine that slavery will go wherever it is advantageous. This is Douglas sophism, in ended to Hull us into an unwise security, and to drift us onward to our ill-starred destiny. ltis the sum total of the Bell philosophy. To hug error is the way to sooth and destroy--lt IS the flattering poison administered as 1 narcotic by the Union -shriekers. Ii any one doubts that the masterly inactivity
 of the Union party is little better thar black republicanism and identical wl'l Douglasism, let him examine the sendencs of the three programmes. and they lead te the same memorable destiny. A sin omission is not unfrequently more fata than a sin of commission. Here IS thu doctrine of the black republicans, and tn doctrine of Bell and Douglasis IS the same Il disguise. We will make good the state ment with any one who takes up the gaunt let:
 .While we must now, in reference to history excuse the first divergence, it is manifest that ou subseouent persistence in the same course has nee | entirely unnecessary and uniustihable- New Bruns wick. Nova Scotia and Canada, what remains Q Mexico, all the West Indies and Central America are doubtless very desirable, but have patienti
 waited for them, and are now hkefy to wait un.
 fhcy can be acquired without receiving slavery wit
 them, or extending it over them<v
 To the Union -shriekers We recommen , the following substantistion of an assertio
 which we have often made in reply to th
 charge of disunion. We have said and W : repeat it that the southern cry against d's r unioa;sm is only the bugie blast of fh ....i.t rn,rroang the enemy into ou