The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-02-07

"a revolution the most unauthorized, tn,
Do-t unjusti6able and unpardonsble tha
the world bad ever looked ou-a rev
olution OF the no,t fearful couse que nee
to the wbole country. And yet they calm
ly looked on at the impending ruin tbt
precipitators threatened. He would
meet the issue raised by these precip
itaturs. fairly aud frankly. snd show
the madness and folly of attempting to
subvert this Government under which the
people of both sections had derived se
many blessings. 1t was a re enfar / able
fact that this revolution was not carried
on with reference to any thing in the past
but was solely carried on With reference
to some dangers to he appTehended in the
future. He would make one exception
the PersonsI Liberty bills which existed
in some of the Northern States; and in
dealing with them be would challenge any
man who was in favor of disunion to con.
trovert what be said. There vas a Per.
soual Liberty bill That was oue oau.e
of complaint. There was opposition to
the execution Of the Fugitive Slave law
That was another. They charged that it
vas Intended to exclude African Slavery
! from the Territories. That was another
i That the respective sections we're not ho
mogeneous, aud hated Que another, and
! aud that some OF the Northern States
we're for negro equality. These charges
constituted all the allegations in the bill
Of indictment which tbey had filed. As
! 10 the first, be confessed that Personal
| Liberty bills did exist, without extenua-
ton and without excess. But it was due
to truth to say that these obnoxious bills
would soon be swept of all the statute
| books Of the Free States. That was the
only charge that could be sustained. The
balance of the allegations they made out
we're all With reference to things which
ueVer happeDed. and which never could
have happened had the seeding States
representatives not stayed at home. And
uow as to the Personal Liberty bills, the
ouly charge on which they bad to rely
! He was assured that the Personal Liberty
WIS udu Uteu StIUth ltoU tuC
books OF all border Free Stste--from l.
owa, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Peunsylsa-
MIA, aud New Jersey To be sure. they
sere still retained 10 Vermont, where, he
was assured, fugitive slave had not been
| seen tor forty years. aud which was a. 10
accessible 10 >isse a. ws- the kips dom
OF South Carolupa to hin at th at u ONE ut
Now, be lived within days ride of three
! Free States. and he had never known of
a slave 10 haze been stolen from his dis
trict and retained He bad known of
one escaping aud passing through the
di.tr'ct represented By bis friend irom
Kentucky, wbo made his way into Iiliuois.
where be wa. arrested by the people and
returned to bis ow0er. But. bad the
South ever appe aIed 10 the North to re.
peal their Personal Liberty hilisl They
had done 90 such thins. But they said
that the North would lot execute the Fu-
! gitive Slave law But what was the iactl
The present Executive, in BIZ late Mes
sage. used this language: That the Fu-
! g,tive Slave law had been executed in ey-
/
They knew it wa 70 Every attempted
rescue hsd become a matter of public no
toriety; but it was not 30 sedulousiy N sde
! known that fugitive slaves were arrested
every day ID the Free States. and carried
/ back to their masters. Bu; the II srper s
| slaves, was the food which revolution ri
OF in and grows fat upon. But if it vas
ever all true, would they be an excuse
for dissolyiDg the Union Would they
have lsw and order, would they respect
! the Constitution, and live in feeling OF
brotherhood with their fellow. country
men! They would do nothing OF the
kind. Tennessee and Kentucky were
border States, and they would baVe to
bear the burden of the battle and the heat
of the day to protect to States all down
to the Gulf, whence a slave in escaping
would have to travel over six hundred
miles of slave territory before be could
find sanctuary 10 the Free States. Pre-
cipitate us. will you'll No; be would pre-,
fer any other kind OF 'prec' pitate TO that.
4 Uen tUcTt Wd- 10 iouit " Uc "bu
the Fugitive Slave Law. A United States
Com muissioner, appointed to carry out that
Law. resident of the present kingdo Il
OF South Carolina, bad assured him thai
the Law was as stringent ss human iDge
nuity could make it. And would you
dissolve the Union for that cause He
knew that the Northern people we're op.
posed to the slave trade. They always
had been. and always would be. The
Northern men. born and educated In the
Free States, knew nothing whatever o
Slavery except what they heard OF 1t frou
Garrison and others. But the stroDges
Pro. Slavery man South was the Ysnke'
who went down there and married wid
ow With a plantation we'll stocked will
negroes But they could DO more hop
to make the Northern people Pro Shaver.
than they could hope to make huogr.
politician run away from fat Office
daughter. These precipitators ga
that the NortherB people. in some time t
come. intend to abolish slavery In tn