The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1861-06-20

her own heroic sons who perished. butcher
ed and scalped. upon the disastrous field o
Raisinl
The object of the revolution, as avowe,
by all who are pressing it forword. is th
permanent dismem bermens OF the Confed
eracy. The dream OF reconstruction-uses
during the last winter as lure TO draw tn,
hesitating of the hopeful into the movemen
has been formally abandoned. II Ken
tucky separate herself from the Union
It must be upon the basis that the separatio,
10 to be final and eternal Is there aush
ir the organization or administration Of th.
Government Of the United States to Justify
on her part. an act SO solemn and SO peril
Gus! Could the wisest of her lawyers, i
called upon. find material for an indictmen
IN sny or in all the pages of the history q
the Republicl Could the most leprous lip
ped OF its calumniators point to a single
State or Territory or community or citizen
that it has wronged or oppressed? 1t would
be impossibls.
/ So far IS the slave States are concerned
their protection has been complete; and il il
has not been. it has been the fault of thei,
statesmen, who have had the control of the
Government since its foundation
The census returns show, that during the
year 1860, the Fugitive Slave Law was en-
acted more faithfully and successfully than
It had been during the preceding ten years
Since the installation of President Lincoln.
not case has arisen in which the fugitive
has not been returned and tn It, too, without
any opposition from the people. Indeed.
the hdeiity with which it was understood to
be the policy of the present Administration
to enforce the provisions Of this law, has
caused perfect panic among the runaway
slaves In the free States, and they have been
escaping IN multitudes to Canada, unpur-
sued and unreclsimed by their masters. Is
there found in this, reason for a dissolution
Of the Union?
That the slave States are not recognized
as equals in the Confederscy, has, for several
years. been the cry of demagogues and con-
-pirators- But what is the truth? Not
only according to the theory, but the actual
practice of the Government, the slave States
have ever been, and still are in all respects
.he peers of the free. OF the fourteen
Presidents who have been elected. seven
were cltizeus Of the slave States, and of the
seven remaining. three represented Southern
principles. and received the votes of the
Southern people; so that, in our whole his.
tory. but tour Presidents have been chosen
~ho can be claimed as the special cham
pions of the policy and principles of the
free States. and even these SO ONLY in a
modified sense. Does this look as If the
South had ever been deprived of her equal
share OF the honors and powers of the Gov
ernmenti The Supreme Court has decided
that the citizens of the slave States can, at
wall. take their slaves into all the Territories
OF the United States; and this decision,
which has never been resisted or interferrd
pledge to en- force IT, that ft w,rf bs rukyaaJ
enforced by the present Administration.
entertain no doubt. A Republican Con-
gress, at the late session. organized three
new territories. and in the organic law Of
neither was there introduced, or attempted
to be introduced, the slightest restriction
upon the rights of the Southern efnigrant
to bring his slaves with him. At this mo
ment. therefore / state it without
qualification there is not a Territory be-
longing to the United States into which the
Southern people may not introduce their
slaves at pleasure. and enjoy their complete
protection. Kectucky should consider this
great and undeniable fact. before which all
the fro,hy rant of demagoyues and disunion
lists must disappear as a bank of fog before
the wind. But were it otherwise. and did q
practical administration OF the Government
in reference to the rights of Southern slave
holders in the Territories. still the questio,
would be a mere abstraction. since the law
of climate forbid the establishment OF SLAYER,
in such ATTITUDES: and to destroy such inst
tutions as ours for such a cause. instead o
patiently trying TO remove 1t, would be
little short Of national insanity. 1t woult
10 To burn the houSp doun ovar our he Il
merely because there was leak in the roof
to scuttle the ship in mid ocean merely be
cause there is a difference OF opinion smony
the crew as to the poi Mt of the compass t
which the vessel should be s,eeled; it wonl
be, in fact. to apply the knife to the throa
instead Of to the cancer of the patient.
But what remainsl Though, say the dis
unionists, the Fugitive Slave Law is homes,
" enforced. and though, under the shelte
Of the Supreme Court, we can take our slave
into the Territories, yet the Northern pee
pie will persist in discussing the institatio
of Slavery, and therefore we will breaL u
the Government. Ii is true that Slavery hs
been very Unexpectedly discussed in tn
North, and it is equally true that until "
have an Asiatic despotism crushing ont q
freedom Of speech and of the press, this di
cussion will probably continue. 10 this az
and couutry all Institutions. human aud d
vine. are discussed, and SO they ought to b
and all that cannot bear discussion must z
to the wall. where they ought to go. 1t
not pretended. however. that the discussic
of Slavery. which has been continued
our country for more than forty years. hi
in anv manner disturbed or weakened Il
. foundation Of the institution. On the CO.
fynrv va Iearn from the press of the sece
ed States that their slaves were never mo
, TRANQUIL or obedient. There are zealois
. happily few in number-bosh North a
{ South. whose language upon this question
. alike extravagans and alike deserving 0
{ condemnation. Those who assert tina, s
; very should be extirpated by the sword. q
1 those Who maintain that the grea, missi
: of the white man upon earth is to ensla
9 the black, are not far apart in the folly a
}, atrocity Of their sentiment.
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