The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-02-07
sTRoUDsBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA FEBRUARY 7, 1854.


been offered, let them accept the rest -
He would go for the report Of the Com
mittee OF Thirty Three rather than 20 our
of the Union; but. failing in all be would
60 home, and would there meet disuuioD
with a torch in one band aud sword iu
the other; and, 80 help bim God. so loux
as the stars aud stripes foated over him
and his State. be would never yield TO
disuoion. General applause from the
densely crowded gslerie- He asserted.
what was matter OF history, that esery
solitary act of the Constitution vas or.
dalnea after public discussion, and was
voted for by statesmen Of the South, and
either passed BY them or received the
sanction and approval oftbeir States; and
the very policy under which Lincoln
should be insugurated was the very policy
of the Democratic party Of the South. aud
which they gave to the country, and de.
manded and received their approval
The House knew thar when the Govern
meDt was ordained. when the Declsrs-
tion of Independence Was proclaimed,
tha, our Western boundary was the Mis-
sissippi River, and he asserted that from
that very day, at the instance of the South,
at the instance Of slave holders, the area
of the Government had been enlarged
and expanded. Every foot OF soil that
had been acquired at the instance of the
South, the North, with its numerical pow
er and strength oyershadowing ibe South,
has willingly yielded Florida and Leu
| isiana had been thus purchased at the
instance of the South Florida had been
purchased at cost of $4,000, 900, and
at a cost OF $50 900, 900 more to remove
the savages. millions more to tuiId forti-
6cations and towns along the deep to
guard SoatherD commerce. And after
all this, little Florida, with less than bali
the population be represented. goes out Of
the Union, with the Notifications, with
the public lands, with untold millions,
and. worse than all, carries with her the
prestige of the unity OF those States.--
Little Florida secedes, which could not
at this moment protect herself from the
alligators without the aid of the Federal
troops Laug hter this very Florida,
purchased at the instance of the South,
with Northern money and Northern blood.
He then noticed the annexation of Texas,
also at the instance of the South, aud
paid enogy to Gov. Houston of that
State. In 1850 the South demanded q
Fugitive Slave law. They had got that.
They first dem aDded the Missouri Com
promise. They got it. They then de-
maDded its repeal. They got that
They had demanded nothing which they
bad not got. But now they DEF and that
SIavery should be protected in every inch
of the Territories Of the United States
But that question was decided against
them, in a u ost unmIstaksble n amer, at
the ballot box; and even the Southern
States themselves had pronounced against
that demand. The Government had been
in operation nearly eighty years, and up
to this time no Member of Congress had
even so much as introduced bill to pro.
tect Slavery in the Territories. But now
they proposed to dissolve the Union be-
cause vast majority of the people had
replied to their aud for protection of
slaves in the Territories that all they
should ever have was noD.interventioD.-
And that was all they eser would obtain
Oue disuuioDist said that be wanted pro-
lection for Slavery for the purpose ofex.
pan-ion, that Slavery was increasing, aud
that in City years they would have tWeD
t. millions Of nes roes, and consequently
they must have room to expand. But
the truth was that they needed no expan-
sion. and if they did even, they could not
get it But, as be said before, Congress
should adjourn the quarrel to the people,
and if they failed 10 DO so. IN less than
eighteen months it will adjourn itself -
He, for one, was not afraid to trust the
people, and that appeal must be made
In answer to Mr.. Vallandig ham. be said
that, so persistent bad been the misrepre.
resentations and Interpretations Of
men throughout the UuioD, With regard
to Northern men and the principles ofshe
Republican party, that the people Of the
South were willing to believe a lie and
be damned 1t was matter of history
that few weeks ago gentlemao (Coi.
Mem mminger) proclaimed from the steps
of the Capitol Of Milledgeville to gentle
men, lawyers, doctores, shortboys, and
everybody that stood around, that Han
nibal Hamlin. or, as be is called there,
"Cannibal" Hamlin, va. a mulatto; that
the North bad elected an Aboltlonist to
be president, and fhulatto to be Vice
President.