The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-01-31

SINK uoWn VOlCelesS 10 It's despair lie
would refer them to the words of LLOYD
Garrison, and demand what answer would
be given to theml Mr. Clemens then re-
ferred to an article 10 The Lt6erat0r,
which appeared few days after the Sc
cession Of South Carolina, in which Gar
rison said that "The last covenant with
death was annulled, and the agreement
with hell broken by the action of South
Carolina herself" closing with an appeal
to Massachusetts, ending with the words,
"How stands Massachusetts, at this hour,
in reference to the Union-in an attitude
of hostility"
Mr.. Clemens then quoted from speech
of Wendell Philips, delivered in the Mu-
sic Hall. at Boston, few days ago, in
which Phillips declared, "We are dsuu.
ionists, not for any love OF separate con.
federacies." &C., ending with reference
to South Carolina. "and Egypt will re-
joice that she has departed" The peo-
fple had, therefore, arrayed against them
these knights of new crusade. The
Constitution of the United States was the
sancti6ed Jerusalem against which their
deluded cohorts battled. They conten-
ded that the only mode to overthrow Sla-
very was to overthrow the Constitution.
These men claimed that their allegiance
was only due to the States wherein they
lived. They claimed to be State rights
men of the strietest sect, and they would
WELD the legislative power of the State
for the extinction of Slavery. as South
Carolina professed to WELD it for the per-
petuation of Slavery. In this crisis it
was meet that Massachusetts, so largely
psrtaking of the common glory in the
past-M Massachusetts, where the first blood
for American liberty had been she'd
should rise superior to the convulsiops of
the hour, and give an earnest at least
that the spirit of conoliation, of inter
state comfy, Of fraternal affection, was
not yet wholly lost. AS the worn trav-
eler, in the midst of the SHOWS Of the
Alps, fingered with delighted gaze upon
the friendly light which peered from the
windows OF the convent where from the
desoIation of the storm around him he
might at last find repose, so did be hail
the little CLEAN OF hope 10 the future
Mr.. Clemens gave statistics of population
and Slavery in the Border States and in
the Gulf States, for the purpose of show
ing. as be said, that there was an irrever-
. si5le law of population governing the
, question, and that the South wanted pop
, uIation and capital rather than territory.
Ii secession were allowed to be carried
out, be would show them Southern Con-
| federacy from which every man would
turn back sffrig hted and pale, because it
, would be on the bloody hand that his
rights of property would have to depend.
!, Slavery cannot expand rapidly. either
! within the Union or without the Union,
SO long as slaves remained at their pre-
sent high prices. The only mode BY
which Slavery could ever expand was to
0 reduce the price. and have new source
Y of supply. That was, in fact, the real
4 design of the coast States. Mr.. Glenn rs
j.. in proof of this, referred to all the South
) ern Conventions of late years, and cited
0 the admissions of Messrs, Miles. Bonh IN
d McRae, and Crawford, in the House tc
: show that the object was the reopenlng
a OF the slave-trade. Suppose, SAID he
!. that they do not get, out of the Union
IS this equality which they now claim!--
J. That is a little problem in the rule OF three
D which will be ciphered out if these events
!. are much longer pending. The border
o Slave states might as yell be prepared frs
,t AS last for the realization of the truth Bu
!. where was Slavery to expandl If tn
!. South lett the Union she would never &c
1, as much of the present territory as b
n could grasp in bis hand. A war of thir
e. ty years would never get it back, no
ss could there ever be extorted from th
,e North treaty giving the same guaran
d tees to Slavery that it now had. Wher
ID was Slavery to expsndl Not to CeDtra
8. America. for England exercised soser
ID eighty oger half of ber domain. Not t
ID Mexico, for England had caused the ab
,e olitiou of Slavery there also. Their re
X firing confederates ought not to forge
xe the events of 1894. when George ThomF
Id son, the English Aboltiouist, vas sent
in enlig hten the dead conscience of the A
:, merican people. In this connection h
- oiled letter from Thompson to Mnrre
q. of Tennessee, in which was this sentence
20 "Tbe dissolution oil the Union Is the OF
a ject to be kept steadily in view" In th
tb event of Southern Confederacy ther
.e. will be, beside the African slave TRADE
n. other elemouts of discord and agitation
ed Slavery was the great ruling interest {
b. the extreme States, while the other State
y, had other great interests which could NJ
- be lightly abandoned, 1t would be for II
ZEE interest of the Coast States to have ire
bis trade in manufactured gods; but 30
I'D would that operate on the mechanical an
ID, manufacturing industry of Missouri, he'
oy tuOky, Virginia, Maryland, d Delaware
he There would be, therefore, in the propo
lis ed Union, an antagonism quite az gre
ck as there ever has been in this But
ie- manufactures were to be protected al
ily encouraged in the border Slave State
i.b their white population would increase