Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-12-19
&aftsman's Sournal.
). q. ROW. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
HOW IT SHOULD BE DONE.


HOW IT SHOULD BE DONE.
We hear great deal said just now about
concessions being made to the South. Demo-
cratic journals and politicians declare that the
Republicans must recede, (from what, does not
clearly APPEAR and that the Northern States
must repeal certain laws, or there is no hope
for a continuance of the Union. In their sub
servient zeal for the South, those who dictate
these terms, having once turned their backs to
their own section, seem to forget that some-
thing mas be due from those who are engaged
in ovetturning the United States Government,
cy, based solely upon Negro Slavery. When
1t comes to making concessions, it is not to be
expected that they will all come from one
side. The freemen of the North, whilst they
are ready to extend all just and constitutional
guarantees to the people of the South, should
gequire the enactment and enforcement of
such laws by the Southern States as willpro-
sect our citizens when travelling through, or
transacting business in those States; the re-
peal of all laws preventing the circulation OF
Northern newspapers, or any others calculated
to interfere with the rights of the citizens of
the North; and guarantee that full freedom
Of speech and of the press shall hereafter be
allowed in all the Slaveholding States of the
Union. Until our Southern brethren manifest
Willingness to make these just concessions,
and show fraternal and tolerant spirit to the
people Of the North, they cannot reasonably
expect that their demands will be received
with much favor by the latter. We believe
there are many persons in the South who feel
the necessity Of ssdoing unto others as they
would be done by," but through fear of bring
ing upon themselves the vengeance of the ul-
ira Disunionists, shrink from an expression Of
their opinions. Occasionally, however, there
Is brave man who steps forward and exhibits
the right sort OF temper. Hon. John NJ. Bolts,
Of Virginia, for instance, in speech at Rich
mond. on the 9th inst, having alluded to the
so-callcd Personal Liberty Bills, said: sc If a
"proper and judicious system be adopted, if
reason can be substituted for bulleyism and
sthreats, and persuasion for elimination and
" recrimination, there will be no great difficult
{" ty in having these obnoxious laws OF the
North repealed" Further on in his speech
he remarks that " The North has aggressed
and so, too, has the South :" And then again
after suggesting that the fugitive slave law
should be relieved by Congress OF the features
so odious to the North, and making it felony
of the highest grade to rescue or attempt to
rescue fugitive in the custody of an officer
he says he is " opposed to any discrimination
"being made between one State and another,
" because when yon do SO, you destroy the e.
equality of the States, to which you are
"pledged, and for which you are clamoring -
What a strong contrast there is between this
language of a honcst-minded Southern man
aud that of cringing doughfaces at the North
who are ever ready to give all and ask moth
ing! II the Northern States have Acts which
are clearly unconstitutional, they ought to re
peal them, not because the South demands it
but in order to put themselves right. If, how
ever, it comes to making concessions involv
ing vital, constitutional principles, and which
would amount to little less than proffering re-
wards for turbulence and giving bounties fol
treason. then more is asked than will ever bt
granted SO long as patriotism and valor have
not been entirely extinguished among our peo
pie. II our Southern brethren generally, anc
some at the North, too, would pursue th'
course Mr.. Bolts has taken, and advocate, al
he does, the " enforcing of the law, fairly ant
impartially, and simultaneously in the Nortl
sand in the South,'' it would do much to
wards adjusting differences, and until such
disposition is manifested, all talk is vain an(
but lily calculated to restore peace and har
mony between the two sections.
We TOLD You So.--It is the exultant boas
of Democratic politicians that they knew
Lincoln was elected the South would secede
and that they told the people SO We arr