The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1861-01-31
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oi' 4 republic The policy OF the State
should faithfully reflect that majority
convictions. Government by concession
implies a sort of medium OF muddle which
is neither one thing nor the other. under
which experience ceases to teach, ard
wherein no party either feels or can be
held responsible for whatever may be the
effect on the National or public weIl-being.
Such rule is Of all most Improbable,
and would prove in the end least toler-
! able.
In the present case, those who arc call
ing on the Republicans for concessions,
and cursing their oLstinacy as melting
! civil war, claim to be large majority of
/ the American People Having accord
! ding to their theory quarrellod among
/ themselves and thrown away the Federal
| Executive, they now insist that those into
| whose hands it has lapsed shall exercise
the power thus entrusted to them, not
according to their own principles and
/ convictions, but as it would be exercised
by those who lost it. The Republicans
may hold the helm, provided they will
/ steer by the Democratic chart-not other
wise
| Concessions have usually been demand
| ed by minoritieS for the protection Of their
( endangered rights-Inajo ajorities cannot need
! them. Yet here are three-hfths { so they
| claim of the American People asking the
other two-ffths TO bind themselves over to
/ keep the peace toward the affrighted ma
| jority.
! Tom Moore, in his "Orator Puff" sings
! of dispenser of eloqucnce who had "two
| tones to his voice" of marked diversity,
and who, having fallen into and become
| fast stuck in the mIrc, called Justify, but
! equivocally for help:
He cried Help me OUT in his he and she
| tones;
Help me out Help me out! have broken
! my bones!
Help you outY cried a Paddy who passed,
What a pother:
! Why there's taco Of yOu tAere-canf you help
| one another?
For the vaunted majority to call on the
minority to make concessions, or they
will break up the Union, is rather more
absurd than Orator Puff even seemed
| to be.
If there be indeed a majority Of the
/ People in favor of Mr.. Crittenden's or
any other Compromise, little patience
only is needed to give effect to that Dla-
; =
! can voters want the Territories, wholly or
or IN part, opened or left open to Slavery
| they can attain that end without asking
any odds of the Two Millions who believe
in Slavery Restriction. No compromise,
no bargain, is needed to induce light gas
es to ascend or water to run down hill,
and it is equally superfuous to dicker or
| contriye to give effect to the will Of a ma
! jority in republic. If it had no hold on
power, it could easily make one, as was
shown in the election and admin stration
! Of Jefferson but q majority having the
/ Supreme Court and both Houses of the
next Congress already secured only makes
! itself ridiculous by demanding guarantees
| that the minority shall not encroach on its
/ constitutional rights.
And in fact what the great mass of our
opponents seek by Compromise is to
divest the Republicans Of moral rather
than material power. Many Of them are
apostates from loud-mouthcd professions
| Of Free Soil, who are mortified and stung
! by the reflection that they have abiured
their principles without securing the Gov
eted reward Of their recreancy The
| thought that they have wounded their
own selfrespect by an apostacy that has
not even the poor consolation of the ''thir-
ty pieces of silver gangrenes their souls
and they can never be at peace until those
they deserted for place shall have been
brought down to their present level
They could endure the possession Of pow
I er by the Republicans if they could only
feel that 1t had oeen purchased, as they
sought to clutch it, by betrayal of prin-
ciple But to see Mordecai sitting at the
Kings gate. and reflect that they might
have sat there also if they had been
simply faithful to their convictions, is
the black drop that renders their mis-
cry intoerable.
All that the Republicans ask is liberty
to be faithful to the cardinal principle of
! their anization-uncompr promising hos
| tility to the Extension Of Slavery TO
any concession which contravenes this
| principle they are, they must be, inflexi-
bly, opposed 'Take any shape but that
and they will be found as conciliatorv and
placable as could reasonably be asked:
! but if our adversaries want to consecrate
new regions to slaveholding, they must do
| it by their own votes, not ours.-N. Y.
TriJune.
The ARMS TRAFFIC. SToppED-The
! Southern secessionists have for some time
been receiving supplies of arms from
Northern factories. The charge of Judge
| Smaliey. of New York, in relation to treas
on, has however, awakened public atten-
ton to the subject, and the shipping of
arms South is likely to be suspended