Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1860-12-07
E" A Northern Democrat"

will the Republican party. Neither is there
any good cause for looking so dcspondingly on
the present phase of the somewhat chronic
complaint with which our Southern brethren
are periodically affected. This game has
been played about out and they had few
er synpathisers at the North and man at the
head Of the Government at Washington, i'm
bued with the straish t-forward purpose,
eai nest spirit, love of country, and the Ro-
man firmnes of jackson, we should see no
spec OF war south of Mason and Dixon line,
half as big as mans hand. TTre fact OF
finding sympathisers at Washington, among
those whose business it is TO see all
the laws of the Nation respected. and who
have sworn to support the constitution OF
their Common country, clearly accounts for
the present insane attempt to oyerturn this
glorious Union, unless it can be coerecd into
yielding up everything to them.
The fact of the citizens Of the South being
from the Cavalier stock, and the Northern
men Of the Roandhead, may account for slave
ry being iostered and propagated by the one
class while it has died out with the other but
we need not 20 so far back as Charles the
LIST to find out the origin OF our present
difficulties 1t should not be charged to the
account Of dissimilar physical and mental
organism, but it is clearly traceable TO the
customs, modes of thought, manners, per-
sonal bearing. and dwarfed idea Of the
meaning Of the word liberty, and of the spr-
it, scope, purposes and plans, of the founders
of this government legitimately spring
ing from the institution Of slavery. L" Can
the stream rise higher than the fountain ,
Should we not therefore expect in our South
Elm brethren, from the fact that slavery does
exist there and as the fruits Of this seeming
ly cursed fungus on the body polite, all
that irritation even under the mild restrain
ing force on all of the citizens Of the Union,
which we now witness This uneasiness,
and unnatural susceptibility Of the Southern
mind, we repeat, is but the Legitimate fruit
OF slavery. 1t would seem that nation,
or the smaller political division of state,
and clear down to the family. are, or must
sooner or later be visited, if tolcratlng this
evil, with all of its entailing curses. This
controversy, and the present difficulties, have
their origin in the attempt to interpolate the
creed of parties, mis-interpret the meaning
C.l. i,
of the government, SO far as it has, or can
have reference to the slave question. From
having inausurated the policy Of establish
ing free and independent states, or Of making
all of the then territory in the Union free by
positive enactment, as did the makers Of this
government, aud its best friends and truest
interpreters, these "new lights which
have shot athwart the political horizon since
the days of Calhoun, have preached the bold
and unteuable doctrine that the South can
carry her slaves into the territories Of the
Union, just as Northern men can carry their
horses aud oxen +: and that this government
was not instituted to establish freedom, but
to protect and extend slavery. The fallacy
OF this argume nt, if it be an argument, con-
ssts in supposing that the people of slave
state can not only carry colored persons into
territory, but can take along with them
the municipal laws which makes these per-
sons things. This is asking too much and
evidences the bad influence which slavery is
exercising over the minds of those surround
ed by it,
1t is little surprising how easily one can
pass from being an ardent and thorough paced
Union man, to that opposite extreme almost,
of discussing the prospective advantages of
dis union. We do not care to discuss this
matter at present. 1t will be time enough
when our government shall be administered
by men wicked enough TO precipitate such a
crisis upon US, or by those weak enough to
permit mob in Charleston or any other city,
to do the same thing. But an unprejudiced
person can not we'll look the matter full in the
face, without arriving at about the same
conclusions as are taken by Southern paper
and which are appended herewith;
What is the remedy Democracy proposes
-Disunion. 1t is the only one.
We are opposed TO that remedy.
First Because resistance is treason, and
no interior issue can be presented-according
TO Mr.. Yancey
Second: Because secession is unconstitution-
al according to Hon. sam 5 Boyd.
Third Because resistance To the result o.
en- election is cheat. Those who & into an
election are bound fly the result. There i,
no morality or justice in the principle Of play
ing u game Of - Heads win, tails tou lose. y
Fourth Because, when we 20 out of the
Union, we loose every one of the consttu.
tional guarantees that the present Union con
firms
We bring the Canadian line down to the
Tennessee line, and throw away the bonds
slight as they now are, which connects US
with our Northern brethren.
/ We abandon every right and title to the
present Territories OF the United States, fol
which we are now making an internecint
war. Like the dog in the fable, growing at
the shadow we drop the piece of meat We al
ready hold, and jump into the water, with
out the least hope OF altering our condition
except for the worst
We give up every safeguard, every guaran
ty, every constitutional right now voucbs II
ed to US, to depend upon the protection tba
war will give us that is, we give up an alb
soute certainty for a miserable doubt.
And now, what do we conservative men
nropose To do? We va for the wagon