Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-05-18

how humble his occupation, is a white
man, and he is politically the equal of bis
employer. Eighteen Of our thirty y-three
States are free labor States. They
are 4: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachu-
ss:tf, Vermont, Rhode lslaud, Connecticut,
New York, New jersey, Pennsy lvaDia,
Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wiscon.
sin, Minnesota, Iowa, California, and Ore
gon. do not array them in contrast with
the capital States. am DO assailaut Of
States. All Of the States are parcels Of
my own country-ihe best Of them no. SO
wise aud great as am sure it will here.
after be; the State least developed and
perfected among them all, is wiser aud
better than any foreign State know. Is
it, then, in any, and in which, Of the States
have named, that negro equality offends
the white mans pride? Throughout the
wide world, where is the State where class
aud caste are so utterly ex,iDguished as
they are in each and every one Of them?
Let the European immigrant, who avoids
the African as if his skin exhaled cop.a-
gion, answer. You fud him always in tho
State where labor is free. Did Washing
ton, Jefferson, and Henry, when they i'm
plored you to reiiuquish your system, and
acceTt the one We have adopted: propose
to sill K you down to the level Of the Afr
can, or was it their desire to exalt all white
men to common political elevation!
But we do not seek to force or even to
iDtrude, our system on you. We are ex-
cluded wisely, justly, aud contentedly,
from all political power and responsibility
in your capital States. You are sovereign
on the subject of slavery within your own
borders, as We are on the same subject
within our borders. 1t is well and wisely
so arranged. Use your authority to main
tain what system you please. We are not
} not distrustfnl OF the result. We have
wisely, as we think, exercised ours to pro-
tect aud perfect the manhood Of the men,
bers of the State. The whole sovreignty
upon domestic concerns within the Unioa
is divided between US by unmistakeablo
boundaries. You have your fifteen dis
/ tinct parts; We, eighteen parts, equally
/ distinct. Each must be maintained in or
der that the whole may be preserved. II
ours shall be assailed, within or without,
BY any enemy, or for any cause, and We
shall have need, We shall expect you to
defend it. Ii yours shall be so assailed,
IN the emergency, no matter what the
cause or the pretext, or who the foe, We
shall defend your sovereignty as the equiv
alent of our own. We can not, indeed,
accept your system Of capital, or its ethics.
That would be to surrender and subvert
our own, which we esteem to be better.
Besides, if We could, What need for any
division into States at all? You are
equally at liberty 10 rejec, our system and
lis ethics, and to maintain the superiority
of your own by all the forces of persuasion
and argument. We must, indeed, mutu-
ally discuss both systems. All the wsrld
discusses all systems. Especially must
We discuss them, since We have to decide
as nation which Of the two We ought to
eDgraft on the rew ard future States
growing up in the great public domain.
Discussion, then, being unavoidable, what
could be more wise than to conduct it
with mutual tOIeratiou aud in a fraternal
spirit!
You complain that Republicans discourse
too boldly and directly, when they express
with colhience their belief that their sys-
TEN Of labor will, in the end, be uniyer-
sally accepted By the c1pital States, acting
for themselves and in conformity with
their own CONSTITUTIONS, while they sane
tion too unreseryedly books designed to
advocate emaneipation. But surely YOU
can hardly expect the Federal Government
or the political parties Of the nation to
maintain censorship of the press or of
debate. The theory Of our system is, that
error of opinion may in all cases safely be
tolerated, where reason ia !eft free to COM
bat it. VIII it be claimed that more of
moderation and tenderness in debate arc
exhibited on your side of the great argu.
ment, than Oh our owny We all learned
our polemics, as well as our principles,
from common master We are sure that
we do not, on our side, exceed his lessons
and example Thomas JeifersOn address.
ed DR.. Price, an Engiishman, concerning
his treatise on emancipation 10 America,
in this fashion:
"Sou,hward of the Chesapeake. your book
Will uuu uul Win u
in sentmenIon the subject of slavery. From
the mouth to the head of the Chesapeake the
bulk OF the people will approve 1t IN theory.
and II will ind respectable minority ready
10 adopt II II praciice-a minority which, for
weight. and worth of character, pre1ondsr-
ates against the greater number who have not
the courage 10 dIyeSt their families of prop
eTty which. however. keeps their consciences
uHquiet. Northward of the Chesapeake. you
may fad here and there an opponent 10 yoHr
doctrine, as you may find here and there
robber or murderer; but in no greater num-
ber." This (NIrglnIs) Is the
next State TO which We may turn cur eyes for
he interesting spectacle Of justice IN conflict
with avarice and oPpressIun-a conaictwhers
he sacred side is gaining daily new recTuits
rom the influx into Office of young men,
yrovn and GROWING m" BE
not, then. discouraged. What you have writ
EN- will do great deal Of goodi and could
you still trouble yourself about our welfare.
10 man is more able TO help the laboring
,ide."
You see, sir, that whether We 60 for or
,gainst slavery anywhere, We must follow
southern guides. You may change your
,ilots with tie winds or the currents; but
se, whose nativity, reekoncd under the
Z ,.,h S,,r I,s r.pIaral ne uameuhat