Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1861-01-10
For the Bradford Reporter.
OUGHT THE NORTH TO MAKE CONCESSIONS.

This subject is now agitating the minds OF
many faint hearted Republicans. There is no
difficulty in coming to a conclusion on this
subject. Patriotism is not simply noble
virtue, but an absolute duty that every sub
iect owes to his country and to his fellow be-
ings Without patriotism lamentable and
debased mnst be the condition of people :;
vet it does not consist in concessions and for
bearance forever There may be n time when
blind devotion 20 our country and her nsti-
tutionS ceases to be a virtue, duty When
tie laws and institutions of a country become
odious in the eyes of her people, or a large
majority of them, then a devotion that knows
nothing but country becomes fanatical and
bgoted. Are the circumstances surrounding
the people of the United States, such as de-
mand concessions on the part of the Free
States to that hydra demon Slavery Human
bondage is the cause of contention Slavery
is an artificial condition of man,-nature has
made him free and he is slave only by the
subversion and destruction of bis natural and
God-given rights. Mans very instincts, un-
perverted, revolt at the idea of bondage
That the American slaves are human beings.
does not admit of an argument When the
dog, the horse, yea every brute in Creation
fail to recognize them as human, to the same
extent as they the Caucasian class of merl.
then it will be time to argue their humanity
There is no true system OF moral reasoning,
that will not condemn our system of slavery
Wicked, beyond description in its inception,
atrocious beyond comparison in its detail and
workings, it stands the most damnable ipstitu-
tions that curses the earth-violatng every
heaven-born right of man, and existing only
by positive statutes and municipal regulations.
These statutes and regulations, by every prin-
ciple of law and equity, must be most strictly
construed and nothing be presumed in its favor
but all against. For the last thirty years ev.
cry political influence, the National Treasury.
the National armies and the federal influence
have been used for the further spread of this
cursed institution. Territory has been pur-
chased, a war provoked and territory conquer
ed and then purchased to feed this voracious
demon. Compromise after compromise have
been made to quiet its insatiate maw,-stll
exaction after exacton is made, still its vorac-
ity increases. The programme is to reopen
the slave trade, obtain federal protection in
the territories, secure the right of sojourn and
transit in fact, nationalist the nefarious insti-
tuition, and make not only the slave holder
himself, but the freemen of the North who
loathe and abhor it, the direct means and
cause of its perpetuation but more still to
acknowledge it to be righteous and christian
institution These, all of these, the South say
they will have granted or they will break
asunder that Union that so much noble blood
was shed to FORM The question is, Shall con,
cessions be made? Shall freedoms great victory
be surrendered and the black monster hugged
to our bosom? Shall we get down on our
knees and beg them for Gods sake to abide in
the Union, and with penitential tears assure
them that all they ask shall be granted p
Never so long as a principle of manhood re-
mains.
CANTON, Dec. 1860. W.