The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1860-11-30
Where TIE Blame ReslS-Tbe SOrlh Drives
tbe South 10 secession,

tbe South 10 secession,
The Albany Euening Journal, a high Lin
coin authority, says, "hothiag has 5sen done
TO anj4re 0, wroag tie South, aad nothing hos
Tile as eUsn oPpfeteadsd." So says the lead
ing Black Republican organ OF this city and,
indeed, 50 say all the organs of that party eve
rywbere. They say the South is excited about
nothing, and they rdicue, mock and laugh at
her.
Let US see how the case stands. Let Us see
if the North has been true TO her constitutional
obligations and if the great stir IL the South de-
serves to be characterized as "much ado about
nothing"
When the tbirteen original States formed tile
Union under which We lave 10 day, out may
not live Tomorrow, twelve Of them were slave
holding States, They inserted Ia the C0nsi-
luton clause ProvialHg for the rendition of
fugitive slaves 10 their masters. They even
went 50 taT q to !egalIze tie African slave
trade, PROHIBITING all interference with it before
the year 1908.
The Aorihern slave-owners, finding that slave
labor was not sufficiently remQnerative in that
region, sold iheir slaves to the Citizens OF the
Southern States. Thus pro6tably nd OF their
E-
an evil eye. They began to talk and write
aoou. slavery as immoral and wrong. They
next got 10 deaouncing #, and TO proposing
Congressional legislation for arresting ITS exten-
sion and for cGnhning 1t to the States in which
At exists. From this they proceeded 10 devise
measures for ITS abolition everywhere. Nor
thern emiSsaTIes, under various pretexts, have
gone South and made it theiE business to atir up
seryile Insurrections, and it Is but a year siuce
one of the States, Virginia, was invaded by an
armed force OF these fanatics, whose object Tas
to lberate all the slaves. But the antl-slaverr
party at the North get over these iawl4ss acts
49, Ins 'i.y ~aJy tha ,r,.l,--:I.aa-z-
10" Iet Us see What taa recognized authorities
Of the Northern States have done.
Inc States OF Maine, New Hampshire. YER
mont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island. Connect /
cut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ichi- !
gan aud Wisconsin have auilfed that clause OF
the Constitution whicn proglQes for the return |
OF fugitive slaves to their owners, thus criminal
ly breaking faith with the South. This fbev |
have done through their legislatures. with the /
approval OF their Governors ami with the ac-
qGlesoence OF their people. Some Of these States
through iAelr Legislatures, declare the master, /
VINO, uader the Constitution, endeayors 10 re- /
clam and recover MS property, a maleactor
WAC sha!I be punished with -hne and inpris- +
onment- Sonic punish their cIlizens. who in /
obedience 10 the Fugitive Slave law. and the
master IN such efforts. A of them have adop-I
ted legislation alike hostile and hurtfl! 10 the
South, and IN violation OF the Constitution and /
the Fugitive Slave law. They have followed t
up thI8.by the election, by the Free States alone,
OF Abraham Lincoln as President. who is their
chosen leader TO carry on the war against sla-
very, against the South, and against the eouali-
ty OF the States
The South has submitted to all this until. A.
laFmed and disgusted by sthe growth and The
late signal success OF the pestient sectionaljsm
which promises her nothing and threatens her
with unmlXed evil, she declares that she viii
submit no longer. She asks the Northern
States to 60 back to nuIIlied Constitution. n
desst from wrong, 10 repeal hostile leo;slation
and TO keep faith with her. If the North shall
DO this the South will be satisfied. Iflbe North
shall refuse, then the South will not remain IN
me Unlon 10 be oppressed, outraged and degra-
led. The crisis is on US, and now is the ,;rs
or action. AsW have before ssurgested IL,
itePS be taken by means OF public meetings to
,ail on the Governors OF the free States TO CON-
'ene their several Legislatures, that it NAV ha
iecided whether they will repeal obnoxious and
unconstitutional laws and give satisfactory as
ufahces and guarantees to the South, or wbetb-
r The crusade against the South shall be D4r-
listed ID. The responsibility Is on the North.
When the crash comes when the R,,Ls
freak when merchants and manufacturers sbrt
iP 'nelr establishments; when Northern labor
rs Shaii De thrown out of employment, and hun
iFeds OF thousands of unemployed and hungry
people ID the North shall clamor for work and
'read, and clamor in vain, then will the people
ePent, when repentance will be unavailinc oFl
he grea: error they have committed, and IN
'ead OF cuFsns the South, they will curse the
ienagogueS and office seekers who have De- !
'eived ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.