New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1860-08-24

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This certainly is the exclusive ri ight o,
Iany State, which nothing ir the consti
tuition has taken from it and given to the
General Government. Could Congress
for example, say that the non.:reemcn
of Connecticut shall be free-,nen, or tina.
they shall not e;nigrate into any other
State? c,.. ,.-..
/ regret that I am now to die in the
elief that the glorious sacrifice Of thes
selves by the generation Of 1776, to ac-
quire self government and happiness t.
their country, is to be thrown away by
the un.-ise and unworthy passions Of
their sons, and that my only cons 'lation
is, that l live not to weep over it! L
they but dispassionasely weigh the Llcs
sings they will throw away, against al
abstract principle more likely to be el-
fcctel by union than by session, they
would never perpetrate this act of sui
eide on thmsclves and of treason against
the hopes Of the rid "a. u--
Ina letter writteu by M. Jefferson.
to John Adams, datei Dec. 10th, 1919,
he says: .e-f q IDS. 1883
Ihave to acknowledge the receipto:
your favor of November 23rd. The
banks, bankrupt law manufactures,
Spanish Treaty are nothing. These
are occurrences which, like waves in a
storm, will pass under the ship. But
the Mi souri, question is breaker on
which We lose the Missouri country by
revolt, ana what more G,,d only knows.
From the battle of Bunker Hill to the
!; eaty Of Paris, we never had SO omin
ousa Question. II even da,nps the joy
with which Ihcar Of your high health,
and welcomes to me the consequences Of
nay want of it. thank G,d that l
shall not live to witness its issue.
To VIM. Short, dated April 18th. he
says:
Although Ihad laii down as Law to
myself, never to write, talk, or even
think Of politics, to know nothing OF
public affairs, and therefore had ceased
to read newspapers, yet the Missouri
question aroused and filled me with
alarm. The old schism of Federal and
Republican threatened moth ,ng, becau-e
it existed in every State and united
item together by the frsternism Of
purity. ...... ...sr>a .s..
But the coincidence of a marked
principle, moral and political, with Il
c,grsphical line once conceived, would
never more be obliteratei from the min i;
that it would be recurring on every oc-
casion, and renewing irritati"ns until i,
would kinlle such mutual and moral
hatred is to render separation pretera-
bic to eternal discorl. I have. been
among the m pst ssngu'ne in believing
that our Union woull be Of long dura-
ton. I now doubt it much, and see the
event at no great distance and the
direct consequence Of this gu ,stion but
not by the line whic, has been 50 con-
fdently countel on. The laws of ma
III control this, but by the P,touac.
Ohio aud Missouri, or probably the
Mississippi, upwards to our northern
boundary, my only c'mfort and conf.
den - is, that I shall not live to see
ti,;s, aud I envy not the present gene
ration the glory Of throwing away the
fruits Of their fathers sacrifices of life
and FIR une, AMI Of rendering desperate
the experiment. which was to de-
ci !e ut safely W. ether man Is
capable Of self government. This. .trca-
8 n against human hope will signalizc
their epoch in future history as the
counterpart Of the modal Of their pre-
.iecessors. ,. s.a
In letter addressed to John A lams.
dated January 22i. 1921. Mr.. Jeffer-
son says: -
aOur anxieties in this quarter are all
concentra ed in the question, what does
the hly alliance in anil ont Of C4n-
gress mean to do with US on the Mis-
soari nnestian Z And this lly the hv ia