Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1861-02-01
Rem ember the End!

terror. panic and force, to compass a
result which it could not legally or
fairly reach while the people act dis
passionately and intelligently, 1t Is
we'll to PAUSE AND REFLECT.
Do any men elected to Congress or
Legislature by Republican votes, feel
inclined to desert their standard, and
to sustain Acts TO allow Slavery to
spread over the L. S. Territories, or
to permit kidnapping and slave hold
ing for any time in the Free States :!
We will not offend them by referring
to the crime and the penalty of an
Iscariot or an Arnold. They would
start from such extreme examples OF
faithlessne5s. But let them be ad-
monished of the fate Of many modern
men, who have failed to be true TO
their trusts in an exciting emergency.
These. too. are - times that try men ;
souls" and millions are looking to see
how their delegates endure the shock.
Remember. first, that-while there
are many honorable slave-owners who
do not desire its extcnsiOn-the Pro-
pacandists rule where Slavery exists.
They have no honor, no conscience,
no regard for anything but their own
imperious will. When a law favorS
them, they hold you strictly to it ;
when it does not, they defy and repu-
date it. They regard a " compro-
mise only 50 long asit benefits them.
Their faith is Puuic. Whose trusts
them, is deceived. Law, backed by
Power, is the only restraint upon their
leech-lil,e. Internal lust for domina-
ton cruel as the grave and relentless
as the most iron deSpOtism. Fraud,
violation Of the most sacred oaths,
and robbery, are lis chosen means, as
lust illustrated before you at Wash
ington by Cobb, Floyd, and other
honorable dictators Of lis devilish
designs. These are the natural, incv-
liable fruits Of q system which denies
al human rights and dethrones the
common Father Of mankind.
Recall the downfall Of the Free
State men who in 1920 voted TO give
Missouri up 20 Slavery on the word of
men who solcmnly covcnantcd ever
lasting freedom north Of 3G' 80.
These latter broke their pledge as
soon as they thought themselves strong
enough to force Slavery into Kansas
by the Blue Lodge and Border RU!lian
codes, backed by the L. :. arms.
Reflect upon the after failures Of
Henry Clay for his dcsertion of the
Tariff in 1882 TO pacify Notification,
and for his refusal TO oppose TexasiSm
on account OF its Pro-Slavery aspect.
Those two weaknesses, lost him his
Election in lS44. The same year,
Slavery shclved Van Buren because
he ceased to serve It's purposes in the
Texas plot, although he had previous
ly been its most obsequious tool.
Remember the doom Of Webster,
Fillmore, and other Wings and Free
Soil Democrats, who deserted Gen.
Taylor and the Wilmot Proviso in
1850, opening the New Mexico region
10 Slavery. and enactiDg the detested
Fugitive Slave Bill. In 1852, Cass,
after his Nicholson Letter, was sacri-
feed for Pierce, by the Slave Power.
The South would not give Webster
even a complimentary vote for Presi-
dent, and he died broken hearted.
The same year, the fatal and fu-
tile kindness Of "acquiescing" in
the Compromise Of 1850, killed both
Scott and the Wing party. Fillmore
and the American party next net the
same fate for their submission to the
demands Of Slavery.
Call to mind the detection of Doug
las, who, when he had annulled the
Missouri Compromise, and thus initla-
ted all the trouble under which we
now labor. claimed the Presidency as
his reward, but-even with his two
thirds vote-was cast like a worth
less weed away" He, with the Dem
ocratic party, was destroyed for the
sake of Breckenridge and his Slave
Code for the Territories, which the
People have just rejected by major,
ity Of Three Millions of votes. Slave,
~ now requires you to enact that
Code, against the VIII Of the People
expressed only three months ago.!
1t is very important TO recolicct,
also, that the failures of these men
however embarrassing, for the time,
and however blasting to THEM-was
not the humiliation Of THE CAUSE
of which they had been friends, and
by profcssed devotion to which they
obtained power TO wrong it. Doubt
less, too, all or most Of them THOUGHT
they had good reasons for the deser-
ton OF their colors, and for eating
their own words. There was mo
hope" or an unexpected crisis" or
"a lesser evil, or some other alarm,
Or threat, or seduction. where corrupt
Or cowardly motives did not combine
10 throw them into a fatal error. But
righteous principles must progress,
even tho the bones of myriads OF weak
friends or deserters strew their paths
"FsfrDoNs BlrTrF. once besun
ft.lcath-l f.ou bleeding ire 10 son,
IhcCIH BAttLED OFT, l, ESLR NoS!-
Remember all these things. when
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