The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-01-19
ARE WE TWO NATIONS 2
RK HoRAcE eKEELEY.


The public mind of the Free States is
slowly realizing the possibility-lt IS not
yet accepted As probability-of the sew
erancs of these United States into two dis
tinct and rival confederacies. Alarmists
query, eff two, why not a dozen 2" and
talk Of Republic on the Pacific, an indie
pendent New England. a federation of the
Middle States. of the Northwest, etc.-but
all this is fantastic and absurd. Every
thing tends to perpetuate and maintain the
Union-everything but one-Slavery. If
we are divided, that divides su-nothing else.
New York, PennsylvaLia, Ohio, the North
west the yet unsettled Missouri region, the
Pacific States, are diverse in their eharsc
teristics but their several pecuiiarities
provoke no antagonism they rather prove
that
'All natures difference makes all Nat ure's
peace
They are more valuable to each other
than though their pursuits and products
were strictly homogeneous they benefit
each other by their reciprocal wants and
supplies California is the complement of
New England, and each is blest alike in what
the other takes and what it spares
So it might be as between the Slave States
and them also it would be but for Slave
~. They produce what the Free States
need-they need what the latter pr oduce
in excess. Every staple of the South is
largely consumed at the North where
the demand for each of them is steadily in
creasing. It is difficult even yet for the
people of the Free States to conceive that
The South is intent on breaking away from
them. Though in the South it is every day
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stroy her, there still prevails an almost uni
form and fervent good will for the South at
the North. It is because Slavery burdens
the South, cripples the South, scourges the
South, perverts the moral sense of the
South, that the North wishes it for ever
banished from that sunny cline. No sur
geon ever removed Lumor or a wen with
a more sincere goodwill to patient than the
North, ifallowed, would aid the South to rid
herself of the fearful anomaly in a Chris tian
Republic which she hugs to her bosomas
though it were her richest blessing. And
if blind perVerseness. headstrong mad
ness, shall induce the South to cherish this
vampire until it shall have drained her of
her life blood, nowhere will her infatuation
the Anti Slavery men of the North.
And we call all parties and classes in the
Free States to witness that the grounds
wherein the South now proposes to break
up the Union are hardly comprehensive by
| the North. They seem so flimsy, so un-
real that very few of TuSs,tf Gsr at its next
not this day believe that the South "ru 81
fly the Federal authority, mainly because
they can conceive nothing like a reason for
so doing. Only very few of the most in
durated Democratic politicians at the North
now pretend that the South has any valid
excuse for seeding. And Europe, the
Canadas, the civilized world. in fact.-re-
gard the matter as we do. Nowhere, out
side of the Slave States, is it really believed
that even the Cotton States will actually Sc
| cede, because it is everywhere felt that it
would be madness on their part to do so.
For, in fact, all their complaints and
grievances resolve themselves into this ::
1--WE of the South cherish Slavery and love
| it; therefore you of the North have no right
to condemn and oppose it," The arraign-
ment of the Free States for their resistance
to Slavery Extension, their deficient alacrity
in slave catching, their repugnance to guar
anteeing the safe return of slaves brought
into Free States by their masters, etc., etc.,
rest clearly on this assumption. care we
not brethren 90 asks the South of the North !;
''and if We are, why do you object to our
Slavery 90 Yea" replies the North,
I'VE are brethren I; therefore dare not be
indifferent to your faults, nor partner in
your sins Then retorts the South,
''since you aCW intermeddle with what does
not concern you, leave you" Hence State
! Conventions. Secession Ordinances, and a
keen demand for Mimic rifles and reyolvers.
The Southern requirement is in essence
! this "Since we are Shareholders, and we
form with the Free States one nation, that
must be a slayeholding nation" Mr. Cal
houn's dispatch of Aug 12, 1914, to Hon.
! VIM. R. King, our EN- bassador to the French
Court. justifying in advance the Annexa-
ton of Texas, proceeds throughout on the
assumption that Slavery is not a sectional
but National interest, to be advanced and
fortified by the diplomacy, the prestige. and
| if need he the arms, of the United States.
Gov. Wise took the same ground in his pre-
sentation speech to the Emperor of Brazil,
aud was answered by a most expressive 81
| lence. Messrs, Buchanan, Mason, and
Soule, in their famous Ostend Manifesto.
not only held this ground, but advanced be-
yond it. We were therein not merely
committed, as nation, to the support and
diffusion of Slavery we were held to be
! justified, by our interest in the peculiar
institution in seizing and annex;ng Cuba
whenever Spain should evince purpose to
abolish Slavery therein ! The doctrine
| thus proclaimed to a shocked, astonished
world, was SO monstrous that the American
Minister at European Court publicly pro-
nounced the Ostend Manifesto forgery
when it first reached him in newspaper.
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ambassadors could have thus committed
their Government to doctrines that better
befitted the quar- terdeck of pirate than the
| diplomacy of q Christian State.
are we, then, essentially two nations
Yes. we are. if Slavery Extension Is to be
the avowed aud paramount object of one /;
for that is not the nation which Adams and
Jefferson founded, which Washington de-
Tended. Warren. Montgomery. and Mercer
died 60 make free. If that is the American
Union. there must aud will be another as
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