The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-01-31

should properly esti "a ate the immense val
ne of their pational Union-that they
should cherish a cordial. haSitual, and
im movable attachment to it-that they
should watch its preservation with jealous
anxiety, discountenance whatever might
suggest suspicion that it could in any
event be aband doned and Indignantly frowu
down the first dawning attempt to aleui-
ate any portion Of the country from the
rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which
linked together its various parts. Wash
iDgton saw into the future. and discover
ed that disastrous period in our history
against which he warned his countrymen
when betold them to o"bewsre of geograph-
ical parties" These extreme parties
North aud South had at last met Their
differences had been created aud carried
on by syste n attic perversions Of each 9th
era aims and objects. In the North it
had been represe nted that the South de-
sired and intended to monopolize with
slave territory all the public lands, and
to drive therefrom free labor, to convert
every Free State into common ground for
the recspture of coored persons as slaves
who were free, and to put the Federal
Government in all its departments under
the control of slave oligsrchy. These
and all other stratagems that could be re-
sorted to arouse antagonistic feelings,
which were welded with turbulent pas
sions As they planted, so they resped.
Now that victory had been won BY the
Republican party, and Government must
be administered upon a national policy;
the assures in the ground occupied by
them became apparent, and hence there
would necessarily be large detection in
its ranks among the more ultra of its ad.
hereuts. who were, as a general thing, i
deal, speculative and not practical men.
Out of actual power party was apt to
be radical Vest it with power, and it be.
came conservative This was the ordeal
through which the Republican. like all
other parties was now passing. and be
hoped for the peace of the country, and
the trinDph of practical rather than ideal
policy and measures. Herein consisted
the almost insuPerable difficulty of com-
ing to any feasible adjustment upon the
existing di-coDtents The bulk of politi-
clans. North and South, we're bound by
a past record and past professions. They
were, in fact, thinking all the while "wh at
Mrs Grundy would say The people
the selves understood the cause OF difficult
ty. and if they but once interfered, tbt
country would be saved. What was the
difficulty now! He appealed whether il
vas not that in the hands of ultras Nortt
and South the lavehoder had been useo
a. shutledore, who. for purposes utter
y dissimilar. had been banded from Soutl
Carolina to Massachusetts,, and from Nj
-achusetts back again to South Carolina
until now the last point of endurance ba'
been reached Every violent word ut
tered North had been sent South. and th
South bad respoDded in the spirit Tn
Abolitionst himself had been granted al
audience in every Southern city, at ever.
Southern political meeting, and the pos
! violent, insulting, agrarlan speeches, re
De ated even in the hearing of the slaves
themselves Was it not humiiating t.
confess that the very people who woul
burn in effgy, if not at the stake, Post
master who would dare to distribute
copy of Abolition speeches, honor as a
moug their chief defenders the candidate
who could quote the most obnoxious pas
sages from all who had made Souther
politics a vast hot-bed for the propaga
ton of Abolition sentiments. The tw
great sections OF the nation stood at tht
moment toward each other like two er
! camped armies waiting the orders to Ell
e gage The patriot planned. deplore'
!, aud appealed, but found little succor
:. the only quarter where succor could com
> The Abolitionist reveled in the madnes
of the hour. He saw the cracks in ii
:. iceberg at last. To him the desert an
the battle field was alike welcome. He ha
:, kuelt down in the desert with the camel
le for speck in the far distance Shove
that the sim oon was coming. He locke
!" into the future as into dark cloud in tt
;, morning, when nothing but the early lal
= was on the wing. But soon history, iii
Tue lIEUL OI IUS uOtiAOuy WV
Y curtain back that cloud, and paint
blood's ruddiest tints field and fore'
ID hamlet and city, the very mountains
ID their pine tops, and the great
~ cean itself, as an ensanguined food whe
st brother contended brother should God
=, nameless sepulchre. No anaconda, wi
\ his filthy folds around the banyan tre
ar threw outthe venomous tongue and year
10 ed with fereer passion for the crush'
;. bone and the pulpy flesh than be. the A
ns olitionis., DOW expectant of his pre-
es yearned for this long proposed repast
in Well might be cry that the day Of jGsi'
Of had come Well might be marshal
=, hosts to the last great war of sections
=, of races. Defeated. stig U aliaed, insultt
.. scotfed at, ostracised, and gihbetted
he bis countrymen, he now Rloated over
=. most fearful Of all retributions.
"a deadIicst foes in the South had now stru
N hands in a soleDn leage of kindred
Iul signs, and With exultant tramp. stolit
lika Roman