Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-01-04

ting the importation of slaves into her
State from those States, and thereby OBJ
struct the slave trade among the States,
and throw the institution back upon the
border States, SO that they will be COM
PEELED to emancipate their slaves upon
the principle laid down by the Abolition
party, That is the rod held over US
Itell our sisters in the South that so far
as Tennessee is concerned, she will not
be dragged into Southern or any other
confederacy until she has had time to
consider; aud then she will 60 when she
believes it to be her interest, and not
before.
SECESSION THE DOOM OF SLAVERY.
There are many ideas ahoat about this
threatened dissolution, and it is time to
speak out. The question arises in refer
ence to the protection and preservation
of the institution Of slavery-whether
dissolution is remedy or will give to it
protection. avow here today, that if !
we're an abolitionist, and wanted to &C
complish the overthrow and abolition OF
the institution of slavery in the Southern
States, the first step that | would take
would. be to break the bonds of this
Union and dissolve this government. |
believe the continuance of slavery de-
ponds upon the preservation of this
Union and a compliance with all the
guarantees Of the Constitution. / be-
lieve an interference with it will break
up the Union; and | believe dissolu
ton Of the Union will, in the end
though it may be some time to come
overthrow the institution of slavery.
Hence we find so many in the North
who desire the dissolution of these States
as the most certain and direct and effec-
tual means of overthrowing the institu-
ton of slavery.
What protection would it be to us to
dissolve this Union? What protection
would it be to US to convert this nation
into two hostile powers, the one warning
with the other Whose property is n
stake !? Whose interest is endangered !
Is it not the property Of the border
States2 Suppose Canada were moved
down upon our border, and the two sep
Grated sections, then different nations,
were hostile; what would the institution
Of slavery be worth on the border? Ev-
cry man who has common sense will
see that the institution would take up its
march and retreat, as certainly and as
unerringy as general laws can operate.
Yes, it would commence to retreat the
very moment this government was con-
verted into hostile powers, and you made
the line between the slaveholding States
the line of division.
WHAT is TO BIB THE NEW GOVERNMENT
But, Mr.. President, will it not be well
before we break up this great Govern
ment, to inquire what kind of a govern
ment this new government; in the South is
tobe, with we are which threatened unless
we involve our destinies with this rash
and preeipitate movement. What init
nation is there in reference to its char
aeter' Before my State and those States
of which | have been speaking, 90 in
to a Southern or Northern Confederacy,
ought they not to save some idea of the
kind of government that is to be formed?
The language of some speakersis that
they want a Southern Government
obiterating all State lines-a govern
ment Of consolidation. 1t is alarming
and distressing to entertain the PROPOSE
ton here. What ruin and disaster would
| follow, if we are TO have a consolidated
government here But the idea is
afoat and current in the South that a
Southern government is to be established
in the language of some of the speakers
in the State of Georgia, " obliterating
all State lines" and is that the kind of
entertainment to which the people are to
be invited? Is that the kind of govern
ment under which we are to pass and
are we to be forced to emancipate
our slaves unless we 60 into it? An
other suggestion in reference to a South
ern government is, that we will have a
Southern Confederacy of great strength
and power, with constitutional provis-
ion preventing any State from changing
its domestic institutions without the con-
sent of three-fourths, or some great num-
Der to be fixed upon. Is that the kind
of government under which we want to
pass? l avow here, that so far as l ain
concerned, will never enter, with my
consent, any government, North or South,
less republican, less democratic than the
one under which we now live.
LINCoLN's ELECTION NO CAUSE OF
DIsUNIoN.