Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1861-01-18

shelter from the winds and the storms.
Such were the cold blooded and brutal
crimes committed on the early settlers Of
that territory. The usual tolls, hardships
and privntions of the pioneers of new
country is quite suficient-then add all that
has taken place and all that has been inHict-
ed on the early settlers of Kansas, with the
horrors OF the assassin, and you have inhu-
manity without cause, together with it a
long catalogue of crimes that would equal il
not outstrip the pirates, and | can conjec-
ture something of the manner in which
they wreak out their vengeance on those
that have never harmed them for have had
u contend with them, and now bear upon
my person marks of their violence
What was the occasion for all the crimes
and destruction of property in that terrific
ry? Simply to establish Slavery there and
nothing else.
Establish Slavery throughout the terrific
ries of tue United States, and you have a
country with no safety in the future En-
shaved men whether white or black, when
their numbers become sufficient, when their
Physical force is adequate to the task, will
loosen their shackles and throw off the
chains that bind them. The secret of St
Domingo might give some clue. Spread
Slavery throughout the territories of the
United States and the inhabitants Of those
territories may have occasion some time in
the history of the world to say that it would
have been better for the human race, or for
t em at least, If the wo ldman $ a. had nev-
cr been heard in this country-better that
the gresn pastures. with their floeks and
herds skipping over hill and dale, and the
cultivated fields ladened with the rich har-
vest had renamed wilderness, batter by
far that those mighty rivers extending far
into e interior Of the country, and capa-
bic Of bearing forth upon their bosoms sus-
tenance for tceming llions, had rolled their
waters In sullen silence and eternal solitude
to the deep.
The all-abs5rbing question now is the e1-
tension oil slavery throughout the territories,
or the seyering OF the Union Of these States.
While the people Of the North will do all
they can h9nprably. to prevent the spread oil
Slavery throughout the territories they will
d equally as much to prevent the scpara-
ton of these confeleratcd States
Tae people Of the North area union abd-
ing and conservative people, the union OF
these States is valuable to til m, and if valu-
able to the ptople Of the North it is doubly
50 u the South They know and feel the
value Of their own personal safety, they
know and feel 1t tJo sensibly to rush madly
into such u Wild and dislsterous scheme
without cause, although South Carolina by
her convention has declared her separation
still their interest. their sa'cty and their
happiness, will in the sober, second thought,
prep1ndtrate in favor of their remaining
quietly within the circle Of the union OF
these States.
Although slavery is 50 abhorrent TO a ma
iorlty Of the people Of the free States, still |
would not touch 50 much as the hem of its
garment to interfere with 1t IN the States
where il now exists The people of the old
) juthcrn States found the institution with
them at the close Of the Revolution and
adnnted Il as their own offspring, it now ex-
lists there BY force of local law, and can only
be removed by the same process unless they
have instruction, and that is more revolving
than Slavery itself.
1t never was intended or expected by those
that brought together the materials for our
government that Slavery should spread
throughout the entire dJmain-it was ex-
pected that the limits it then had was the fl
nal extent of its boundaries.
Is the union of these States to be broken
up, the walls and bulwarks that have sur
rounded US and protected us, the arches
through which we have safely passed and the
canopy that has oyershndowed Us and shell
tered US from the wind and the storms of the
enemies of freedom? Are all these to be
broken down and demolished with the bat
terinr rams of slavery
Is that which cost the blood and treasure
of our ancestors, that which outweighs all
other events and all other considerations and
mocks the loitest flight of human eulogy
Is it all to be laid aside and forgotten in the
struggle of the tasknaster for more power
Nav we not hope notwithstanding all we
hear from time to time that the sure and aw-
ful calamity will take place, that the storm
that has been gathering will not burst upon
us to the destruction of our Union, but that
the clouds that have been SO ominous OF evil
will clear away, the fine blue sky will soon
appear an the sun with his midday splen-
dor will send forth has rays of life aud beau
ty. and with the use Of our scxtants, Will re-
veal to us our true positinn,an the good old
Ship Of State with Abraham Lincoln at the
helm, will sail maj j4tically on towards her
o TT Of destination, which is the union OF
these States now and forever
Very Respectfully
WILLIAM HoPKISs.