The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-04-12

the federal power although they bad re-
poaled the law prohibitingslavory there,
and supposed they had cfectually open.
ed the territories to It, They now look
| to Cuba, Mexico and the Gulf regions,
and TO importations from Africa, 10 AZ
ricanize these regions aud TO maintain
their power.
Whether the government shall be
again yielded TO them, that its powers
may be applied TO the accomplishment Of
their schemes, lest they should attempt
to dissolve the Union If they are de-
prived Of their a5cendancy is the ques-
| ton Of the day.
/ Of the disposition Of tho controlling
politicians in the Gulf states to dissolve
the Union, Governor Dennison enter
tains no doubt The fact that the
southern league, embracing the politi-
clans Of the Hancey school, whose
views have generally been approved by
/ the recent conventions iu those states,
| openly avows itself for disunion, leaves
no room for doubt either as TO the pres
cnt power Of these politicians in that
region or Of their purposes They do
not contemplate or desire that the
northern tier Of slave states should
form a part Of the southern confedera-
| cy. The programme is that these states
should remain, with their rights pro-
tected by the guarantees Of the consti-
tuition, which the proposition itself con-
cedes to be ample, aud 80 give safety
to the borders Of the southern confede-
raoy, leaving it free to subject and AZ
ricanizo the Gulf region But "tho
price Of Cuba, whether it is to be &C.
quired by the purse, or by the purse
and the sword, would cost more Of treas
uro and Of blood than an infant south
orn cOnfederacy could afford So the
conquest Of Mexico, with all the people
to resist impending slavery, to say
nothing Of the allies that might DO
brought to aid resistance in such a
cause, presents difficulties that make
ambition pause" Hence the only dan
ger to the Union lies in their succeus
in the approaching elections, by which
they may be able to apply the power Of
this government to make those Ocquisi-
tions which are indispensable to the
cOnsummation Of their plans.
The views Of Governor Dennison are
/, those Of a statesman who looks through
the false issues and small politics by
which skillful adversaries engage the
public mind, to their real objects. The
fact that the Helper book, the John
Brown raid, the Fugitive Slave law, &c,
&C., matters Of little moment to the
Gulf regions, where no Helper book or
. John Brown goes, and whence no slaves
escape, are the ostcnsible grounds Of the
widest vchemeuce by the Gulf repre-
sontativcs in Congress, while those
whose constituents are alone affected
arc comparatively moderate points the
eye ofthe statesman to their real object.
They want no harmony. No candid
man can deny that the North is dispos
ed not only to respect the just rights Of
. the South, but to tolerate much that IS
! wrong for the sake of harmony. The
general acquiosc0nce by the North in
the compromise measures Of 1850, some
Of which were so Objectionable in them
2 selves, is conclusive evidence Of this
f The renewal of the agitation as soon as
t the oligarchy came into power by the
D election of Pierce-au agitation which
] their success in 1856 has enabled them
t to continue, results from their thirst for
dominion, and can be ropressed only
j by showing them that they cannot win
or maintain power by it. To do this
C efectually, and secure the government
p against the danger that would result
r. from the conquest by them of the Gulf
a region, it is indispensable that those
O fertile regions should be made produc-
. tive by free labor, We have already
i half a million Of free blacks well fitted
5 to this purpose, by whose instrumen-
b tality we can at once secure freedom to
= the tropics and stability to the North
t American Union.