The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-01-18

Stnttd, Is indispensable, TO restore the smpI-
city and purity Of the government and 10 carry
cut toe great purposes Of the constitution, as
declared ia its preaHIble: ito form a more per-
feet union, 20 establish justice, insure domestic
tranquility. promote the general welfare and
secure the blessings Of liberty to ourselves and
our postsr'y."
Such are the judgments Of The people Of
Nhis, repeatedly expressed on the subject OF
slavery, as a social and political question. But
the do not conceal from themselves, that tho
practises Of The Federal Government have long
been apbosed to their cJnyictiors on tie sub
iect They know, that il has been administer
ed for many years in sutSeIyieucy TO the pur-
posesof the slavery extenSicnists OF the slave
Aolding States. The war 10 extend the boun-
Gary of slavery 20 the Rio Grande-the viola
iion Of the Missouri Compect--the war against
Kansas, to extend slavery 20 the Pacific, are all
sacrifices OF the public opinion, and The moral
sense OF the alaSses Of the country, BY ambi-
tlosfs ncumhcnts-in the federal administrator,
ia that comb mbinatioR in the South, which brings
the vote OF fifteen Slave States in rha'anx to
divide and conquer the Free, and TO continue
their triunphs in presidential elec IONS. This
coaIbination has long been absolute in its mas
terry over nominations, elections, adniuistra
fionS aul'svcn legislation, touching the main
tsinsnce and expansion OF the institution Of sia
verF' tc which it owes its political strength.
What is the result? Is the combination sat
isaodG Far from it. There is growing pow
eriniparted BY FREQ institutions in tic Anti
Slavery States--by their industrious economy
--iy their intellectual resources, which gradu-
SLY render abortlve all the acts Of intrigue that
pervert the organs Of the natioual will into in
ELruments OF sectional oligsrchy. The selfish
combination in vain subOrns northern aspiNnts
toits purposes, rendering all the corrHpt irfu
ence its consolidated 6rre can command, TO Sc.
siuce support m the north, TO carry the chief
nasistrscy, and threatening in case OF defeat,
the6rerihrew Of the Union, to cCercc patriot
lSuiitSelf to submit to the miner, to avert the
greater mischief. In vain its leaden Scepier
has stunned and swaved the nationsl function
ares--hroken the conciliating comp cts OF 1921
and l850-and interpolated slavery as o part Of
the nstion's Constitution. The Spontaneous
vigor Of free labor oyergrowS and heals all the
wounds inflicted by these blows OF its enemies
Freedom is q giant which while asleep, l. lljDu
tiaHs NAV bend to the earth with inuumelGble
fine spun cords, but aroused, he breaks with
case the meshes, and holds the pielnics in the
hollow OF his hand. Kansas, Neblaska, Cali
frnis and Oregon, show how Intellectual are the
ntrgues OF self seeking politicians, to dwarf
the growth Of free people. The prosperous
and populouS ee.soil sends forth its children
over the inviting territories, and the resistance
OF baIbarsm is overwhelmed.
The politicians of the oligarchy see this with
dismay and seem to be mcditating a change OF
their design, from that Of seeking perpetua-
ton of their control over the Union by multi
pIving slave States within 1t, to that Of a0an
t!onin.. it. and making vast acquisitions Of ter
Iitory beyond it, to fill by new mportations Of
Africans This must result in the subjection OF
the free laboring native class Of every complex
ion 10 common condition OF slavery, by the
glut following the influx cf myriads OF naked
Africans working like the OK under the goad,
aud fed only to support the yoke, reducing the
urice of labor to bare Subsistence. full sup
Ily q, negro strength will render the masters OF
lhe domain independent Of The POOR whites
holding neither lands nor slaves. They must
become slaves themselves to escape starving,
We have heard il announced, that league
has been formed to compass this plan-that its
r.mifcations cover all the slave Staes-that
the principle nullifers everywhere are in the
conspiracy, and that il is part Of the scheme
TO lsave Virginia and Maryland, Knntucky and
Tennessee and Missouri in the Union for a
time, to cover the invasion OF northern oice
to restore the government of the concdeIacy
over the iower Mississippi and the borders OF
the Gulf of Mexico. The policy OF leaving n
tier of slave States. in connection with the Tree
States, confding IN the perfect protection OF Inc
peculiar institution" under the wings OF the
latter, while the uulifyng States fly oil o open
the slave trade, and suhdue the en'ranchISed re
nnbl;cs OIL the south, to become the receptacle
Of The human spoils Of their piracy, is proof
that the nullihing leaders well understood,
that all the rights Of the Suuth 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 reyo-
iution in the bosom of their own communities
full of bloody issues, the least fatal of which
would be the instant overthrow OF the lnSulu
tior, for the extension Of which they put every
thing in ieopardv. If attended with success
st the threshold in dissolving the great conted-
Sracy srd creating small one, the introduction
oi standing armies to confront border war on
the slave and fsee frontiers and to push the
scheme Of southern conquests, and to MAINTAIN
them and keep down domestic lnsurrecton,
would be the succedaneum for the security con
lsrred by common government. But the way
to the success of the League cannot be opened
without assurance Of the conquest and en>la7c-
rent Of Mexics and Central America, the OBJ
stscles to which, seem not to have been conSld-
cred,
It certainly would not fll the measure Of the
ambition of those who first demanded the sur
render of California than Of kan' as, and all
South Of its Northern lire to the Pacific and
the Gulf to the slave States, as the price OF re-
manning in the Union, to throw OFF the Nor.
thsrn tier OF slave States as out posts to pro-
tect them from Northern aggression, and hud-
diet four millions Of slaves alonG the Gul
coast, making q string Of their coniederacy, be-
ginning with North Carolina and ending with
Texas, on the Rio Grande. Such Gordon o.
slave States, exposed to invasion and abduction
all a,ons shore by all the navies OF the powers
opposed to the institution and liable to be bro
ken by the. rush of the masses from the Wes-
tern States, resolved to assert their claim tc
New Orleans as their post and the whole re-
cion ss q part Of the Union, is certainly not
that grand and secure empire, to which the sla-
very extensionists look, to exalt them above
the eonfsderacy, in which they now enjoy their
fall share of power and glory. 1t is not this
sickly shred of Gulf States, though filed tc
oycr6owine with freshly imported Africans
that the aritators against the Union, look tC
for COMPENSATION for its abandonment. They
look to the conquests Of those masters in sa'
very prouagandism. who superseded the dech.
ming Romai, on the Eaxine and Mediterranean
and who still exhibit on the Bosphorous the
symbols of expiring sovereignty. Our aspiring
imitators, who would propagate their lath and
its peculiar institution by the sword, making
the Gull Of Mexico, as distinguished south
crl statesman called it, their Mare Clausum
and, as a consequence, its islands and surround
r., lie q,