Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1862-05-20

That close observer aud political pbilo-
sopber, Thomas Jefferson, thus described
the tendency Of slave domination 10 make
masters overbeariDe, petty ,yran's:
.sThe whole commerce between master and
slave is a perpetual exercise Of unremiIIIns
deSpotism on the one Land degrading sub
missions on the other.-The man musi be a
prodigy VINO can retain his manners and nor
ais undepraved by such circumstances"
Slavery makes no 'prOdigies" in these
days. For twenty years past, her Mem
bers of Congress we're mostly staggering,
brow-beating, bullying brutes, like Rust,
Brooks, Keitt, Branch, Wigfall, Pryor.
When these lords of their harems could
not BY their frowns stop or pass measure,
they held Southern Caucus" or meet
ing Of "Anti-Aboli,iou members" which
generally terrified enough doughfaces from
Free States to give Slavery its triumph.
But these dogs are now rarely sent to
COpgress-Freemen now send MEN
.st-rin- rn-n-vho know their rights,
And knowing dare nAintalr-'
Unable to crush them, the Tyrants have
gone-yet they seem to have left fit sue
cessors of the true O!igarchy breed.
Last week, Senator Dsvis-in the very
spirit of Breckenridge, bis predecessor
declared on the floor be would advise his
people to resist some proposed law in
every way iu their power! Wilson, Mass.
called him to order for his reasonable
uuerauce-when Davis modified by say
ing be meant only to test the constitution
aiity Of the measure.
About The same time, most Of the Dem
ocrafic and the Slave iristocratic House
Members had Conservative Conference
70 ''put down Abolition and Secession and
TO save the country" And how do you
think they started to "pu; down Seces-
sion ?" Why, BY Initiating the Secessio-
ns's of other days, and threatening divers
dire things if the legoi majority dared to
enact a certain measure not according to
the views Of the copspiring Lownesses and
Higtnesses, the Vallandigbams and the
Slaveocra,s. They resolved they must
defea, the Bill-sppoin,ed Committee
to keep themselves alive-and adjourned
Well. in due time, the Bill did rass-s7
to 50-tbe majority increased By the pus-
rile threa, of by-gone dark days. The
Act harms no true eitizen-is plain in its
langusge-and reads thus:
BE il enacted, &c, Thai slavery. or invol-
Uniary serviiude, in all cases whatsoever,
except IN punish nent for crime. (wbereof The
person shall be duly convicIed) shall hence
forth cease, and be prohibited for ever. in all
the Territories of the United States now
existing, or hereafter to Be formed or acquired
10 any way"
This is the proviso which kept Slavery
from the Ohio, and Northwest-xhich in
effect has been approved BY all the Prssi.
dents from Washington to Polk-which,
if let alone, will preven, more Kansas
tragedies, and uW settle for eper The .SlaU-
cry Question as TO the Territories, in Con.
gress. A measure, just in itself, and as a
matter of e1pediency fraught with such
promise Of good, should be carried out
and if a Second .S,areioliers' Rebellion is
intended, let it come now, while the Free
States are aroused, while the Volunteers
are we'll trained, and while the popular
feeling is rigb, for final crushing out Of
Treason and its inspiring cause.
EsDED.-One G. C. Evans, of Philad.,
for some time made great flourish With
"Gift Book" concern-akind of Lottery,
by which greenhorns we're led to believe
they might get two or three dollars for
every one invested. Knowing there must
be some cbea, in such pretensions, We iD-
yariably refused to aid them, and have
rejected columns Of Advts. from Evans
and other "en,erprising' chaps like him.
We are no. surprised to see the thing
''has come to q timely end" but are
little surprised to see the fault attributed
to "dishones. clerks" From plo,ter to
advertiser, how can there be any honesty
about . sham and a swindle illegal and
demoralizing iu its very nature! We pre-
sumo the "clerks" were as honest IS any
other link in the chain.
s~The James River region is where
Slavery vas first introduced into America,
and South Carolina where it is most uni
versal. Yet,bose two poiuts-eacb peopled