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

eucu d UaD ne desired TO see hun. Sust
; nan would deserve the exeeration o
bis colleagues. and the execration of eve
~ man who respected the Constitution
aud yet that declsr alton to abolish slave.
ry vas made by those precipta.ors iu the
teeth OF the most solemn assurances tha;
could be given by a political party. He
asserted that no political party that had
ever risen IN the country bad giseu such
"troog and solemn guarantees to respect
slavery within the States. But this fact
vas suppressed By the politicians and
newspapers of the country, aud the oppo.
site doctrine zealously inculcated into the
public mind. What more bad the Re
pnblicsn party donel That what no
other party in the country had formally
donc-they had denounced, 10 the sever
est aud strongest terms, that such raids
as that of John Brown iuto Virginia
we're tho grsvest Of all crimes. They
would not take the word of that party,
and to appesse them the Republicans ex.
press their readiness to vote for an amend.
meBt in the Con.tituton which would
bind them never to Interfere With slavery
in the States. 1t would, 10 fact. be no
amend dmeDt. but would merely declare
what the Con-ttution now was; and no
man believed for moment In their pow
er to interfere with Slavery uuder the
Constitution as it was. They declared
that the people in the respective sections
we're not homogeneous. and that they ba-
ted one another. That might be so, but
that would pass away as they became bet
ter known.
But be asserted that they did not hate
each other more than they had seen the
old Wing and Democratic parties hate
each other after each succeeding political
contest. But would they love one anoth-
er more after they we're separated That
was the question. They we're going to
separate, were tbeyl Aud where would
be the boundariesl The river Ohio,
which, it was said, was dry one-balf of
the year and frozen over the other half,
was the only barrier that would separate
these hostile sections. Iitbey hated each
other now. would they be found in fra
terpal embrace when they had separated
into rival and hostile eonfederaciesl-
They hate each otberl Not bit of it.
II their constituents could see how the
Free Sellers of the North and the radi-
Gals OF the South lived here together,
they would not believe q word of it
They hate esch otherl No, only when
the ,'ins" had to give way to the outs
Laugbtvrl Yes. when the army of Of.
iceholder. were seen clearing out. bag
aud baggage. and making way for their
triumphant successors. For his own
part. if any sacrlice be could IL axe would
save the country, be would be glad to
make it. But separation il they did
separate, would breed that hate which
would lead to feDds aud contests as
bloody and protrseted a. was the var be-
tween the bouses OF York and Lancaster
Separate, break up tie GovernGle eDt, and
let the central States he precipltated into
this resolution against the will of the 2eo-
pie ana ten years would Got 90 by until
the two sections would be harrassed by
risalries leading to bo.tilities aud finally
TO the subversloD OF the weaker party
Ii this would not prove go, then all hi-to
rs aud it, teachings we're falsehood -
With regard to the fear excited in the
| Southern uiud, with regard to deter
mlnation on the part of the North TO give
equality 10 every respect to the negro, be
proceeded to show bow untounded the
/ nh nnfiaad that in fha Stata
of New York at the last election that is
sue bad been submitted to the people, who
refused. by a majority of twenty to one,
to extend universal suffrage to the negro,
and continued: 1t was charged against
the North that it was from their pidrt
that the Johu Brown raid came; but he
would ask his seeding friends. that, 10
case of disunion, would South Carolina
be better able to protect herself against
raids then than she had been 10 the pa-t
Now, when every man was true to the
i Constitution, when every man was q jud sc
and executioner of the law, and every
convenient tree was gallows upon which
to hang every man who violated the Con
sttution in the manner John Brown end
bis followers bad, who should teach eve
ry man that they bad a code for the pun
ishment of traitors, as stringent as it
could be made. 1t was a matter Of his
tory that it wa. the men of Pennsylvania
who were the 6r-t to vindicate the out
ragged laws, and to offer support and sue
cor to Virginia against the attack of John
Brown; and when the followers OF thaI
man had escaped from Virginia. it ough
to be remembered that they were arrested
in Pennsylvania, brought back to Vir
ginia BY their captors, and handed ovel
to the authorities, by whom they were
tried. aud being adjudged guilty, paid thu
penalty of their invasion by their own
death The people of either sectien bad
been estrangod and provoked by misreP
, resentations and calumnies, and thus per
versions and falsehoods bad done thei
work. He would accept their charges II
. the most aggrieved form, and yet be woulc
, tell them that they we're all false. He
, had said that be would % axe any sacrifice
. to save the country. He would even aeoep