Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-09-07
Correspondence.

there is a reply to my notes on the Bacl
Township Correspondent. We will tax
up his arguments as they appear in hi
communication. First, the signature
Jefforsonian Republican is an anomaly.
10 connect the name of jefferson, tn,
apostal of Democracy, with Modern Re
publioaniSm, which is anti.slayery, ant
Jefferson a slave-holder," &c.
Was Jefferson slave holder? If so
then he had q good chance to observe it.
practical workings and nature, having
given him mind of superior greatness
bcautifed with practical education-witl
a soul as pure as the driven snow--flled
to the brim with love of country and de.
votion to justice.
We will take his own words and see il
the signature is not Homogeneous Here
let me remind you when the party of JEFF
fcrson first started, they were celled Re-
publicans. Then all that remains for me
to do, is to quote his own language on the
subject of slavery. 10 quote all would
make this article so long that it would take
perhaps dozen issues of your paper; that
would be taxing your generosity to much !;
so must content myself with but few
but they will suffice, as he had but one
opinion on that subject. Before We quote
his own words, we will remind the gentle
man that Jefferson drafted the ordinance
of l7S4, of which the ordinance of 1887
is copy so far as the slavery question is
conserncd; which prohibited slavery from
all the territories the United States then
had; and when Indiana afterwards per.
titioned Congress to allow them to hold
slaves with W. II. Harrison governor of
the territory at the head he opposed it; as
did John Randolph of Roanoke another
slave holder, and Indanna would be pros
porous and happy this day in consequence
of their noble deeds; if traitors were not
countcracting the noble sentiments of these
Patriots.
So far you will SEQ that Jefferson is
with the Republicans on the territorial
question. l will use no farther argument
on the territories unless Mr.. Backtown.
ship should cndeavcr to show that Jeffer.
son, Randolph and the great Washington
were wrong, who were all slave holders
and certainly had better chance to know
than Mr.. Back Township. On the 80
and 4Oth pages in his notes on Virginia,
he assumed the position that slavery is a
great evil and that it should be abolished
that it makes tirants of the masters and
INEQUALITIES them for our form of govern.
ment. The whole article is to lengthy to
quote but l will quote few words. "In-
decd, Trcmble for my country when I
reflect that god is just; that considering
numbers, nature and natural means only
a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an
exchange of situation is among possible
events; that it may become probable by
Interference! the almighty
has no attribute that can take sides with
Is in such contest"
Again he says, while Virginia was yet
colony in l776, " the abolition of do.
nestle slavery is the greatest object of
lesiro in these colonies" GS Republi.
ans endorsed the Helper book" which
e stiles an Infamous book. I have read
hat book and know something of its con-
ents. In that book | have found nothing
'rittcn that the author had not a perfect
ight to publish. The book is a contrast
etwccn slavery and freedom and shows
lat the free states have far outstripcd the
lave states although the slave states had
atural advantages in climate aud soil
ith an appeal to the people of the slave
ates to abolish slavery. Let it be born I
| mind that the author of this book like S
cfferson Il Washington was a southern
an raised with slavery and he had, after I
ayeling through the free states, an OPP c
'rtunity Of knowing the effects of slavery. f
lie came to the same conclusion as DR.. I
rankin did in Pennsylvania, who said r
IDLY and fearlessly slavery should be Y
'olished. Was Franklin driven cut of fl
state for saying the same thing that o
elper said in his own state The en-. r,
rsement spoken Of does not appear on jc
c book. When men endorse paper their S;
mes are mostly on the back; but here Al
do not find on the back nor yet in b
Ie an endorsement; an Enforcement I
this kind would not 60 in bank; but IL
opose we agree that they did endorse m
IN some way that it was a book that IL
ght be read with out violatino onv nr;n h,