Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-01-18

Government have long been opposed to
. their convictions on the subject. They
know that it has been administered for
many years in subserviency to the purpos-
, es of the slavery. extensiOnists of the slave
J holding States. The war to extend the
boundary of slavery to the Rio Grande-the
violation Of the Missouri Compact-the war
against Kansas, to extend slavery to the
Pacific, are all sacrifices of the public opin-
: ion, and the moral sense Of the masses of
the country, by ambitious incumbents in
the federal administration, to that combina-
ton in the South. which brings the vote of
, fifteen Slave States in phalanx to divide and
conquer the Free, and so continue their
: triumphs in Presidential elections. This
combination has long been absolute in its
mastery over nominations, elections. ad-
ministrations, and even legislation, touch
ing the maintenance and expansion Of the
institution of slavery, to which it owes its
political strength.
What is the result? Is the combination
satisfied? Far from it There is a grow
ing power impaired by free institutions in
the anti-slavery States-by their industri-
Gus eeonomy-by their intellectual resour-
ces, which gradually render abortive all the
acts of intrigue that pervert the organs Of
the national will into instruments of sec
tional Oligarchy. The selfish combination
in vain suborns northern aspirants to its
purposes, rendering all the corrupt inau-
enee its consolidated force can command, to
seduce support in the North, to carry the
Chief Magistracy, and threatening. in case
of defeat, the overthrow of the Union, to
coerce patriotism itself to submit to the
minor, to avert the great mischief In vain
its leaden seeptre has stunned and swayed
the national functiOnaries-broken the con-
ciliating compaets of 1920 and lS5O-and
interpOlated Slavery as a part of the nations
Constitution. The spontaneous vigor of
free labor overgrows and heals all the
wounds inflicted by these blows of its en-
emies. Freedom is 4 giant which, while
asleep, Lilliputians may bend to the earth
with innumerable ine-spun cords, but
aroused, he breaks with ease the meshes,
and holds the pigmies in the hollow of his
hand. Kansas. Nebraska. California and
Oregan, show how Intellectual are the In
trigues of sclfsecking politicians to dwarf
the growth of free people The prosper
Gus and pOpulOus free-soil sends forth its
children over the inviting territories. and
the resistance Of barbariSm is overwhelmed.
The politicians of the oligarchy see this
with dismay and seem to be meditating a
change of their design. from that of SCI king
q perpetuation of their control over the
Union by multiplying Slave States within
it, to that of abandoning it. and making
vast acquisitions of territory beyond it. to
Gil by new impOrtations of Africans. This
must result i'll the srbjection of the free Ia
boring native class of every complexion to
a common condition of slavery. by the glut
following the influx of myriads of naked
negroes, working Ike the OK under the
goad, and fed only to support the yoke. re-
ducing the price of labor to bare subsist-
enoe. A full supply of negro strength viii
render the masters of the domain indepen-
dent of the poor whites holding neither lands
nor slaves. They must become slaves them
selves to escape starving.
We have heard it announced that a
League has been formed to compass this
plan-that its ramiications cover all the
Slave States-that the principal nuIlifers
everywhere are in the conspiracy. and that
it is part of the scheme to leave virginia
and Maryland. Kentucky and Tennessee
and Missouri in the Union for a time, to
cover the seeding States from the invasion
Of northern forces to restore the government |
of the Confederacy over the lower Mississip-
pi and the borders Of the Gulf of Mexico /
The policy of leaving tier of Slave States, |
in connection with the Free States, eonid- /
ing in the perfect protection of the '.pecu-
liar institution under the wings of tie
latter, while the nullifyirg States fly /
off to open the slave trade, and subdue the
enfranchised republics of the south, to be-
come the receptacle of the human spoils OF 4
their piracy, is proof that the nullifying
leaders well understand. that all the rights
of the South recognized in the Constitution
are safe in the Union. 1t makes manifest.
too, their fears, that in abandoning it, and
entering upon piratical career against the
liberty of two hemispheres, they hazard a
revolution in the bosom of their own COM
munities, full of bloody issues, the least
fatal of which would be the instant over
throw of the institution, for the extension
of which they put everything else they
hold dear in jeopardy. If attended with
success at the threshold in dissolying the
great confedracy and creating a small one,
the introduction of standing armies to con-
front border war on the slave and free from
tiers, and to push the scheme of southern
conquests. and to maintain them and keep
down domestic insurrection would be the
succcdaneum for the security conferred by
common government But the way to the
success of the League cannot be opened
without assurance of the conquest and en-
slavement OF Mexico and Central America,
the Obstacles to which seem not to have been
considered.
1t certainly would not I'll the measure
Of the ambition Of those who first demand
ed the surrender OF California. then Of Kan
sas, and all south of its northern line to
the Pacific and the Gulf to the Slave
States, as the price Of remaining in the {
Union, to throw off the northern tier of
Slave States as out-posts to protect them
rom Northern aggression. and huddle the '
four millions of slaves along the Gulf coast,
making string of their coufederacy, be- ..
ginning with North Carolina, and ending I
With Texas, on the Rio Grande. Such l
,crdon of Slave States, exposed to invasion c
md abduction all along the shore by all :,
The navies of the power opposed to the in- !
,sitution, and liable to be broken by the q
rush of the masses from the Western States.
resolved to assert their claim to New Or .
eans as their post. and the whole region :
IS a part of the Union, is certainly not
that grand and secure empire, to which :
the slavery extcntionists look; to exalt !
above the COnfederacy in which they now d
enjoy their full share of power and glory.
1t is not this siekly shred Of Gulf States,
though filed to everhOwing with freshly !
imported Africans, that the agitatOrs against