Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1861-01-10
TRUTH FITLY SPOKEN.

The Cambridge (Md.) Intelligeucer Of
the 7th December, contains the following
sensible and truthful statement in regard
to the present condition Of the country. -
We stated, some weeks ago, that the true
danger to the South from Aboltionism,
was not at all owing to the efforts and fury
Of fanatics in the North, but to the false
statements and misrepresentation made
in the presence and hearing Of The ncgrocs,
by Democratic orators in regard to the
views, policy and intention Of the Repub-
lican party. 1t is gratifying to end the
proof of this in the evidence of our cotem-
porary, who speaks from knowledge, and
in view of the fact:
Tie true Cause Of oil our frouIh-
President Buchanan thinks he points ont
the true cause of all our present political
troubles at the South when he holds the
following language in his Message:
The immediate peril arises from the fact
that the incessant and violent agitation If the
slavery question throughout the North for
the last quarter Of century has at length
produced its malign influence on the slaves
aud inspired them with vague notions Of free
dom. Hence sense Of security no longer
exists around the family altar. The feeling
of peace at home has given place to apprehan
sions of servile insurrcction."
The picture of insecurity is correct, bnt
he signally fails in his discrimination of
the cause 1t is not the agitation at the
North which excites our slaves and alarms
our citizens. 1t is the agitation of the
subject in the South which we have cause
to dread. The Democratic party is the true
source Of our present troubles. 1t is the
Democratic speeches and papers which have
excited our negroes. They never hearany-
thing from the Northern Abolitionists.-
Their notions Of freedom have been gained
through Democratic sources. They hear
the Democratic speeches, they read Demo
cratic papers. These TEEN with incendiarv
assertions about negro suffrage and equal
ity which the success of the Republicans
would bring about. We know that in
this county the Democrats have repeatedly
declared, upon the stump aud in the pres
ence of negroes, that i the Republicans
were elected the negroes would be set at
liberty, ;be permitted to vote, and would
marry our daughters 1t is only a few days
since that we heard the very leader of the
party in this county declare in our public
streets and in the presence of some ne
groes, who were standing by, that the Re-
publicans intended to let the negroes vote.
Those who hear the incenGiary declara-
ticns Ct those men communicate them to
the rest of their color, and when their ex
peotations are so excited that they become
aroused to violence, we are told that the
Republicans have done it---hdt the North
ern agitation is the true source of our
trouble. Let the responsibility rest where
1t belongs. The Northern agitators have
had no hand in the matter. The agita-
ton might go on at the North until dooms-
day without any injury to our slaves. Our
negroes never read the Northern papers,
nor hear the Northern orators They read
these things from Democratic papers, and
hear them from Democratic speakers We
fasten on them, therefore, the charge of be-
ing the authors of our caiamities. Letthe
Uuion men, all over the country, hold them
for their crime at the bar of
public opinion