Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1861-01-03

simple system of interstate connections
Break them to pieces, they must Of necessity
reunite in effect if not in form. The age
compels it. Civilization demands it. Ger
many has her Diet, and all the European gov
ernments hold their Conventional Congresses
almost as frequently as our constitutional
one By their very wars they are fighting
themselves into national unity. We may and
will quarrel over our differences, for it is our
habit as well as our nature, to be constantly
lntermeddling with each others affairs, but
to permanently divide We cannot. The worst
quarrel that we can get up will bring about
the best and most permanent adjustment, and
this is why | before have said you must not
stop secession yet. TO do so n0.c pould be q
precedent against the govcrRaeat both at home
and abroad.
Let South Carolina, and such of the Gulf
states as threaten to stand by her, begin the
work of separate government. Such con
federacy must provide an army, a navy, a
postal service, and all the apparatus of ma
ton. To raise the means, she must either
tax imports so high that our smugglers along
the border will disappoint them Of revenue,
or her direct taxes must be laid ON so severe
ly that every man will know within year
how little the old Union oppressed them, even
when they thought they were giving forty
bales of cotton cut 0f every hundred to sup
port the Northern manufacturers" Their
territorial expansion will be at once arrested,
for their system repels alike European and
Northern immigration, and emigration from
their own territory will 60 on as it never Lad
| done, for the same and greater inducements
remain to tempt, and they will have added a
! proiectile force to them which viii occasion
! an exodus Of terribieimagnitu Cuba Will
| be out of her reach either by conquest or
purchase, and Mexico viii ba delivered of
| her objection to proteetorate or union with
| the free States, whose policy and interest have
not threatened or injured her. The seced-
/ ing States know nov, and they know still
better when they have tried their indepen
dence little while, that their past union with
the north and west we're not all burden and
grievance that it has been worth something
! to them in their foreign affairs 10 be integral
parts of a great nationality, aud they will
| learn that q great corporation bears its ex-
penses and enjoys It's benefits better than
| little one. But what is most TO the purpose,
they will have time q foreSee al! this and un-
derstand it before tley are done constructing
their Southern Confvderacy. 4 people who
cannot live in sucha Union as ours, are the
last people to form one for themselves and
to enlighten them sga;n | say, let them Sc
cede. They will discover that our govern
r1ent is a far wiser mi better cne than they
IN their egotisnl anq vanity found themselves
| capable Of constructing. The prodigal son
received his portion ind left his fathers house,
but only to return d sorrow 70 again partake
! of his fathers blessings and bounty. It is
not northern oppression nor the election OF
Mr. Lincoln, bur simply the sentiment be
represents that you resist Truly analysed
and stated, is it notthe census which most Of
al disturbs you? And what sort of remedy
for the popuation'of the free States Will Sc
cession be? The guarantee OF the Consttu
ton and laws Of be Union as they exist, or
Of such amendments as y0a might ask, CT
which might lie gr.nted, is surely better Sc
curity for your peculiar interest than indie
will see all this in good time, and you viii
see, Glso, that you are only in reality seeding
from the benefits Of the Union, without secur-
ing any compasa!ing advantage.
, The record shows that the Union has new
er refused theSoath war, purchase fter
ritory, or anyl Law for their protection, which
they asked nor have the people once refus
ed you a President until now that you could
not agree amng yourselves upon candidate
any better than YOU could consent to accept
one at our HI; ds. Nay more, the President
himself inforns Us =
"It is q emarkable fact in our history
that, notwithstanding the repeated efforts of
the anti slavTy party, no single act has ever
passed Congess unless we may possibly ex-
cept the Missouri Compromise, impairng, in
the shghtes degree, the rights of the South
to their property in slaves. And it may also
be observed. hdging from present indications,
that no probability ex SITS of the passage Of
such an act by majority of Congress-
Surely. unde: these circumstances, we ought
to be restrained from present action by the
precept of Tim who spako as never man
spake, that sufficient unto the day is the
evil thereof The day of evil may never
come, unles we shall rashly bring it upon
ourselves"
In conclusion, permit ne to remind you of
the iaaguase used by distinguished states
man in th, French provisional council =
THAT is rot practicable which is not even
presentabla' We shall have difficulty and
suffering, aId much to be repented of, but no
dissolution. The thicker the troubles are
mixed up, tie sooner and safer it will settle.
The clillab and the .iarring institutions Of
the nation mn east and vest, bat ouR monn-
tains, our valleys and our rivers run across
them FROM porth to south, and these cross
ties will hdd the sections together, for see
tionalisn cannot in the end overrule physical
geography, commercial necessity, love of
country, and Christianity in the last half of
the nineteenth century. No but when par
ty strife shall have ended, and reason again
assumed h=r ss-As= when tho ultraism of the
north and of the south shall again give way
to cooler arguments-as give way it must
our Union and our government will still be
found, as they now stand, and as God in
his good providence designed they should
stand, alike beacon light to the faithful and
mocking Tebuke to the ambition and fool
ishness of desperate demagogues.
But | must not forget to ansU er the lead
ing question you put to ne will Pennsyl-
vania repeal her personal liberty bills, which
are plain and pelpable violations of the Con-
stitutionr No! not at present; and why !?
Because we no not find it anywhere stipula