The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-01-18
WHOLE NUMBER 615.

The politicians of the oligarchy zee this
with dismay, and seem to be- meditaiinga
change of their design, from that Of seeking
a perpetuOton of their control over the Un-
ion by multiplying Slave States within it,tO
that OF abandoning it, and making vast ac-
quisitions OF territory beyond it, to fill BY
new importatiODs of Africans. This must
result in the subsection Of the free laboring
native class Of every complexion to COM
mon condition of slavery, by the glut follow
ing the influx of myriads Of naked negroes,
working like the OK under the goad, and fed
only to support the yoke, reducing the price
of labor to bare subsistence. A full supply
of negro strength will render the masters OF
the domain Independent of the poor whites
holding neither lands nor slaves. They
must become slaves themselves to escape
starving.
We have heard il announced that League
has been formed to compass this plan-that
it's ramfcatons cover all the Slave States
that the principal nulIiGers everywhere are
in the conspiracy, and that it is part Of the
scheme to leave Virginia and Maryland,
Kentucky and Tennessee and Missouri in
the Union for a time, to cover the seeding
States from the Invasion Of northern force to
restore the government of the Confederscy
over the lower Mississippi and the borders of
the Gulf of Mexico. The policy of leaving
a tier of Slave States, in connection with the
Free States, confding in the perfect protec-
I ti1n of the "peculiar institution" under the
wings of the latter, while the nullifying
States fly of to open the slave trade, and
subdue the enfranchiSed republics of the
south, to become the receptacle of the hu.
man srols Of their piracy, is proof that the
multiplying leaders we'll understand, that all
the rights Of the South recognized in the
). Constitution are safe in the Union. 1t makes
manifest, too, their fears, that in abandoning
it, and entering upon a piratical career
against the liberty Of two hemispheres, they
hazard revolution in the bosom Of their
own communities, full Of bloody Issues, the
least fatal of which would be the instant
overthrow Of the institution, for the extern
sion of which they put everything else they
Y hold dear in jeopardy. If attended with
= success at the threshold in dissolving the
J, great confederacy and creating small one,
# the introduction of standing armies to con-
/, front border war on the slave and free from
= tiers and to push the scheme of southern (,
e conquests, and to msntsin them and keep
d down domestic insurrection, would be the
l. succedaneum for the security conferred by
, common government. But the way to the
j. success of the League cannot be opened
= without assurance OF the conquest and en-
,e slavement of Mexico and Central America
y. the obstacles to which seem not to have
to been considered.
j. 1t certainly would not fill the measure of
10 the ambition of those who first demanded the
T. surrender OF California, then oil Kansas, and
te all south of its Northern line to the Pacific
us and the Gulf, to the slave States, as the
) price of remaining in the Union, to throw
=. off the Northern tier Of slave States as out.
80 posts TO protect them from Northern aggres.
sion, aud huIdle the four millions of slaves
=, along the Gulf coast, making string OF
=, their confederacy, beginning with North
=, Carolina, and ending with Texas, on the
-. Rio Grande. Such Gordon Of slave Statess
49, exposed to invasion and abduction all along
=. shore by all the naves Of The powers oppos-
., ed to the institution, and liable to be broken
:, by the rush of the masses from the Western
=, States, resolved to assert their claim to New
"a Orleans as their port, and the whole regior
-, os part of the Union, is certainly not tina
of grand aud secure empire, 10 which the sav
!, cry extensionists look, to exalt them above
% the Confederacy in which they now enj "
.rs their full share of power and glory.
nix 1t is not this sickIy shred OF Gulf States
IN. though filled to overfowing with freshly i'm
&c ported Africans, that the agitators agains
,b the Uaion look for compensation for it
&C. abandonment. They look TO the conquest
on, of those masters in slavery propagandism
Of who superseded the declining Roman on th'
vas Euxine aud Mediterranean, aod who still
exhibit on the Bosphorus, the symbols Q
ioo expiring sovereignty. Our aspiring imita
inn tors. who would propagate their faith an'
tho its peculiar institutions by the sword, max
~. ing the Gulf of Mexico, as distinguishes
.os ISouthern statesman called it, their Mare
~, Clausum, and, as consequence, its islandi
m and surrounding States no" free, its vassOls
no, have hitherto too successfully used, in tn
,.;n direction, the power Of the Confederacy will
80. which they are still connected, to abandon
or hastily. . .
49, The price Of Cuba, whether it 10 to be &C
,,s quired by the purse, or by the purse aud tn
Tho sword, would cost more of treasure and O.
=, blood than an infant Southern Contederacy
,o,, could afford. So the conquest of Mexico
-. and Central America, with all the people 4
~ resist impending slavery, to cay nothing 0
-, the slIies which might be brought to aid re-
,od sistance in such cause, presents dincnitle'
., that make ambition pause.
bor Hence, as long as the Southern comblna'
ted ton can dictate q Northrn President with
, is their Southern principles, the Federaipowe
ans will be used to promote the scheme OF for
=, ~.o.A in their hehs1f II will ht