The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-06-27

ml00slteb. 10 Cialm Lnab OOiUOV, UT dU!
given number, less .hao a majority o!
the citizens Of the United States have
the right to do that which initiates a.
gsinst and strikes down the rights Of 30,-
900, 900 Of whom they form apart. is sim
ply preposterous. To admit that South
Carol ma may resist and nulfy law Of the
federal government because in the Judg-
meht ol her people il is unconstitutional,
is to abandon all ideas OF government and
embrace all the vices OF higher. er.lawIsm.-
Revolution means force, resistance to as
coutradistiuguishod from obedience the
constituted authorities. If the citizens Of
the South have a right to take up arms to
secure their rights, certainly upon the
same principle We have to take up arms in
defense of ours. You will hardly con.
tend that tho overtorow Of the Union
would not seriously effect our rights. that
the establishment of two governments
within tho now U. S. would not fearlully
iujure the whole; that II would moi dimiu-
ish the now perfect security enjoyed Of
life, liberty and property, that itwould
not deprsciate our property, paralIze our
business and ruin our commerce, Admit
ing this. you have admitted our right 10
prosecute this war and your duty to aid in
its prosecution.
HAVE THE SOUTH MADE OUT THE CASE.
But let us go beyond this. Having
disposed of the question Of peaceable sep
aration, let US look 10 that Of forcible
revolution. Having admitted the right
in cases Of great grievance and intolerable
oppression. and Laving reduced it to a
question of force. lat US see whether OF
not the South have made out their case
You admit that The Constitutional election OF
q TresideM of Tie U. S. Is no cause
That the passage and execution of laws
under the Constitution, is no grievance
Mr.. Lincoln ,oas thus elected, and Me Re
publican party ncrcr passed a iaw good
bad or indifferent, prior TO tic rebellion
Ifany Of the laws of tho Federal govern
meni initiate against tho interests o
the South, thoy have themselves alone
TO blanc, because, through The agency oI
the Demccrs:ic party, they have controlled
tho Government from Is inception. and
dictated the laws OF the country, without
scarcely an exception. They cannot.
therefore, complain of the laws, no mat
ter how harsh. There would be ss much
reason in mans finding fault with his
right hand for tho misdeeds Of his left
But the fact is, the legislation Of the
country has uni formly favored the South.
The interest Of the East demanded high
tarif-the South protected and rebelled,
aud II was stricken down, slavery needed
new territory-Texas WAS annexed over
the protest of the North, and the wal
with Mexico fought.
The South demanded the Missouri
Compromise because its adoption would
give them q slave State. They got it,
and having reaped its advantages. cast il
aside, that slavery might swallow up
Kansas. Not satisfied with the laws oI
'93 respecting fugiivss from labor. law
male by slave owners, and signed by
Washington. they demanded the slave
law Of 80, aud got it at the expense oi
tho pockets and honor Of tho North. In
short, for seventy years they have ruled
the Government. dictated its laws, and
tyrannizcd over our people as they tyr.
anze over their own slaves.
FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW NOT EXECUTED.
you say the Fugitive Slave Law was
not executed" Has not the government
been in your hands ever since the pass
aga Of that law. Conld you not call out
it's ertirc power in yom aid. and if you
failed to do this. are We 10 bs censured
with your neglect But you did not
fail You executed il terribly and with
certainty The earlier seced States never
lost slave by reason Of its non exeou.
tion. You ground its insulting provis.
ions into our very hearts.
EQUAL RIoHrs IN THE TERRITORIES.
You say they are denied equal rights
in the territories; "the right to carry
their slaves into tho territories and hold
them there as such" They have no such
right. Slavery is local institution, a
creature OF state law, having no existence
except by virtue Of municipal regulation,
and to say to the Southern people that
they may carry the local laws Of their
States with them into territories and fix
'h"m ther". against the interests aud with.
nut the consent Of tho Northern settlers
Is to grant them right which we deny
nursC|ves. But they have this privilege, un
just as II is. 7hn day BY virtue fan act Of
Congress, passed BY Rsp2Olicdn LeSisld.
tUr',ths sldpe holder may take his slavs por
per'y into any and srsry foot Of territory
belonging 10 the government and hold him
tAerejaa as tie Northensr may take his
horse, Ep'ry foot of our Territory is or