The Van Buren press., 1861-01-04
The Irreprcssiblo Conflict.

your followers proclaimed in the pulpit
worked with persevering as;n;eneSss from
the lower strait. OF a population you des-
pisc; launched forth. ike papal thunder.
on the South galvanized 10y your willy
passions-The irrcpressible conflict has
risen mp from your very hearths and facto-
ries, from your lanes and garrets. from your
white slaves in their rags, and from the
emaciated women. who tod by day and by
night, in dirty corners, to swell little more
the tide OF your commerce flowing south
ward. The monster mas come, with fam
ished eye and revengeful mien it is in
youE midst; the rough, toiling hand which
you had charmed by the hypocritical wall
ings on Airica's children, bes5s for its bread
and now besceches you for the sake Of star
wing little ones, to strike off the pitiless,
miserable shackles OF pcnury and distress
which your fanatical actions have brought
on Labor. in the shape of dcsti:ution and
sloth, of famine and want of employment
is at the door Of northern homes, once
peaceful and plentiful
The monster you called forth has arisen
from its sioth and you will be. the first to
feel its Shiny coils gathering around you,
and the first to feel the effects Of its sting
as the deadly poison courses through your
veins.
1t is enough. The irrepressible conflict
has begun. Sec ession is inevitable. 1t
will come. 1t must come with logic severe
but merciless It would be an easy task,
comparatively speaking, to lift up to their
proper place with John Browns rope the
Greeleys and Summers, the Stewards and
G,ddiugs, the leaders of the abolition move
ment. but the efforts OF generations cannot
possibly drive away from the lisping babe,
from the aged parent, from the boy, from
the man. from the toilifg husbandmen. from
tho professional men. lawyers. preachers,
politicians, their sociul, moral and religious
opposition to slavery You might well
trv to turn at once Chinese into an Amer
lean. or mould thorough John Bull into
o Frenchman; abolitionism is part OF
the very nature of those men; a moral, a
social. religious revolution is alone capa-
BILE of transforming such natures into bro
theirs of southern men.
Can the South expect to compromise the
matter with such men at the very moment
when triumph crowns their pcrseyering et-
forts Ii appalled, for a moment by the
threatening cloud Of disunion. If for Il mo-
ment horror at the numbcrless calam-
tiles surging on every side as the effects ol
! their own treacherous designs, will the com
promise be sincere? Will the old feeling
of anti-slavery be rooted ont where it has
! been so warmly cherished As well fol
leopard to change his skin as we'll for ouI
broad grinning darkey to become the white
dandy of New York.
Ii even the South accepts a compromise,
will not the next presidential election again
call forth the same parties in battle array
Secession is inevitable. The best plan
for every rational man is to prepare for il
calmly. with sorrow at heart that his father
Isnd shnnla BE- in Picox.. but firmly,
perseveringly, avoiding cautiously, words
of angry strife, even if passions Justly NOV
ell are yelling forth in the Southern heart
so long ignored and despised-
Secession is inevitable. The sooner done
the better. Every man then viii know
what to do Trade will fall into its newly
ordained channels. and property will not be
as it is now, as a tumbling house, keeping
the proprietor in the state Of suspense more
awful than the ruin itself.
t y feeling of insecurity. as regarded thcii
property, their institutions, their govern
ment has long prevailed amongst all class
| es in all sections of the country aud that
feeling due in part to the newness Of the
country. to the trial of republican govern
ment to the vast extent OF land TO be set
tied. and which facilitated and induced mo.
tivn and change. This feeling, [ say, in
stead of clinging like vine -tendrils to prop
er supports. to substantial form OF gov
crnmen;. to laws clearly defined. rapidly
enforced and truthfuily maintained. has run
riot and appauded each change. each new
coner. each Aattcring scheme, each popular
demagogue hence the influx of quackery
hence the dissatisfaction with what is some
what old but conservative ; the fillibustcr-
ing tendencies the Barnums in every de-
pArtmcnt Of life the time serving polite
ians and the little respect for authority
thus that feeling. instead of subduing its
own energies. has fed them with impassion-
ed desires of novelty AMI change. until the
time has come to return to the old, for the
old is better.
| 1t has too much been ignored in these
United States that all forms of government,
are imperfect. The factious crowd swayed
by impulse. now pulls down Bastile, now
crowns Robespiere with power. Thus i,
ever was, and to say the plain truth. tyran,s
are formed at the image of the people they
govern governments become the expires
sion of people, until a re action takes
place !; the government no more snits it is
ragged, it has no more the true fit, and it is
cast away.
There arc few evils without cure. The bes,
remedy to our knowledge is to proceed from
each individual heart and mind. it is to ahdi
cate that spirit of thirst for novelties. and
in ., acefnl satisfaction become a law -abid
ing citizen. 1t is to be led neither by party
opinion, nor by designing politicians, but
to love. defend and practice the truth a,
home and II, the forum it is calmly, de-
libera,ely to sacrifice much Of our own per
sonal rights to the strong theory of the cen
trail power. That is the first prescription
| The second is at once to be at work. fra.
ming government. strong because healthy
moderate because powerful obeyed by the
good, feared by the wicked. and upheld by
all. And If the Southern States, in sacred