The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-03-08

| will te damned If l do ~ Why, gen.
tlemen, you ask al! Of Us none-slavebol-
I ders of the whole Union who have borne
all the oppression, to sacrifice all the lib
erty we have, to return to those rules and
regulations of despo,isn. against which
We rose up in arms in 1916.
What do you propose to give ue in lieu
OF this great Union as protectionl Why,
The Charleston Mercury and Tie Rich
mond Eequirer say, ave will send to Lou
is Napoleon, and ve will ask him to lend
US some troops to defend us!"-Oh, shamel
shsmel Are you going to bring us to this!
Is this the reward that you offer u, that
you will call on Louis Napoleon, the de.-
pot of France, and bis troops. and be
will defend US against these Northern
traitors and fanatics. Are yon ready for
that, Democrats! We have been led so
long by Democratic leadersl Is this the
feast to which you have invited US. that
after you can no longer be preserved, that
they will get Louis Napoleon, they can I
trust Victoria; she has too many notions
Of freedom shout her) to preserve US
What does it meant 1t means going alb
soluteIy back into French despotism.--
Are you ready for tbstl
The Vice. President Is unfortunate In
his allusion to the great Athenian orator.
lit is we who defend the liberties of the
people, and they who propose to call in
Philip of Mscedon-Loui- Nopoleon. is
it notl The battles in Kansas, which
wero fought for the common liberty, is
the reproach of Escbinesl Not only
these, but all the glory of the illustrious
dead is in vain. if the Democrrtic party
consum mate the subjecting US to foreign
alien despotisml | would that | could
evoke the genius of the iilustrous defend
er of Grecian liberty, that my voice, like
his, could touch the hearts of my coun-
trymen with the divine fire OF my own as
pirations, till they would be again ready
to cry out With one voice, "Let us march
against Philip"
No, gentlemen. That is the reason |
came here tonight, becnuse | heard this
thing is talked of-because it is threaten
ed. come to tell you as, | live. as We
all live. there is not single true Repub-
lican but will shed his last drop of blood
before be will submit to this; they will
fight you for thousand years ere they
will submit; they will not relapse into
French seryitude.
We preach no new doetrine, We invoke
no new God, but standing by the old doc
tripe of '76, upon which our fathers
fought and died, we say with Crittenden
that "that which is good to stand upon is
good ground to fall upon" We invoke
the people of the North and South to
stand By the Constitution of the United
States, and viudicate it beyond the pos
sibiIity of doubt. Who are the men
tha. bave avowed the intention to dis
solve the Unionl Look at the record
Not single county meeting. nor district
conve ntion. nor State assembly. nor Da-
tioDal convention of the Republican par.
ty has ever declared that. in any emer.
geney, will they dissolve the Union. No
sirs. We cay all the time that We submit
to Democratic rule while you slavehold
ers rule Us, and we submit because We
know of no other policy, no other alter
native, except it be force, and when thai
is used all law is silent, aud the Govern
ment becomes despotism; whenever you
resort to violence you have an anarchy
as has Mexico, which is continually al
war becsuse it does not stand by any
Constitution or law. All our pledges and
antecedents prove that We are bound to
be loyal to the union OF these States; and
therefore, / say, we can safely claim your
suffrages, not taking US by our avowals,
but taking US by our acts. If We have
submitted for eighty years. We are will
ing to submit for eighty years more, un'
less we can persuade you to take hold oI
those glorious privileges which We hold
to be right.
Helpers Crisis.
There is q man 10 Carolina whose faith
er vas born, it is said, upon North Caro-
lima soil, and we know not how many
centuries before bis ancestors lived there
and it SO happened that he belonged t.
that large class of North Carolina tha
may be called the working class, the non
Shareholders. He saw the influence o
Slavery upon the interests of that class
OF men, and he broke away from the
tramels of that party and published
! book, and be tells Us, that hov
ever good thing slave labor is for tb'
STAKEHOLDER, free lator is better for th'
non-slavehoder. He takes up the censu
of the United States and he complies a
all uuque.tioned, and shows how the in
sttution of the South affects the mass
He appeals to these masses and asks then
to see for themselves and act upon thei
knowledge thus obtained, if this thing i
not according to the doctrine OF Jefferson
this which believe was pretty good De
mooracy once!
Now about this book am going t.
be frank. | did recommend this book
say | hsve read this book carefully
and there is not a single incendiary doc
trine 10 it--there is not single aPpea