Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-09-26

IS these are enough FOR this occasion. TIL,
:. teach too plainly for any one to doubt, tn
o the glittcring price Of treason was Confede
). acy living, moving, and having its being
slavery where, free from "incongruous al
e conflicting clements the aristocrats
a slavery might mature and execute schemes
e expansion and conquest, which should eclip
those of Cortez and PiZarro, and start SLAYER
forward in it's anticipated career of univers
!, dominion.
For, my friends, let no man deceive himse
: with the fancy that a Southern Confederae
/. meant only a Confederacy ofsuch slave STATE
. as could be wrenched from our Union. Ne
7 who had fiercely struggled in the Uniol
|. through long years, for the expansion of sla,
: cry here, were not the men to abide its r.
striction to the limits of those States out
the Union. For did they profess any sue
intention. Emboldened by the near approac
of the conSummation Of their wicked machir
atoms, they declared that to confne SLAYER
to that area would destroy it, and daringl
avowed the fixed purpose, at every hazard, t
f push it into adjacent regions, belonging to fol
eign nations in amty with the American Gov
eminent and people. Secession, then, wa
not the exodus of the South from the pres
cnce of the Pharaoh of Abolitionism, but tn
beginning If career Of buccaneering subju
CATION, in which the pillar of cloud by day
and of fire by night should lead on and OF
to the enslavemcnt Of contiguous non slave
holding nations, for the extension, establish
ment and pcrpetuation of African Slavery
Listen to some of their declarations of this all
dacous and internal purpose.
,enator Iver>on said
''ln confederate government of their own
the Southern States would enjoy sources o
wealth, prosperity, and power, unsurpassed
by any nation on earth. No neutrality laws
would restrain our adventurous sons, Our
expan ling cy would stretch far beyonc
present limits Central America would jor
h-r destiny to ours, and 80 would Cuba, nov
withheld from us by the voice and votes o.
| Ab ,tion en- ,ml,s''
Senator Brown, of Mississippi, eaid:
III want Cuba, want Tam,u'ipas, Pot,si,
and one or two other Mexican States; and I
want them all for the same "eason-for the
the plan ing and spreading of Slavery And
footing in Central Americ, will wonderfully
Alu Us III dCtiuIill tilOSC CNtlC! CtiNGS cS ,
want those countries for the spread of Sla-
very would spread the blessings ofSlave
nv. like the religion # our Divine Master, to
the uecrmcst ends Of the earth. Whether
we can obtain the territory while the C.ion
lasts, | do not know; | fear not. But |
would make an honest effort, and live fail
ed, would 60 out Of the Union, and try it
there y
Ex-G Call, of Florida, said
Slavery canrot b. stopped in it's career of
usefulness to the whole world. 1t cannot be
confined to its present limits. Dire and nm
comfortable necessity will compel the master
and the slave to cut their way through every
barrier which may be thrown around it, or
perish together in the attempt. 1t may be
in the Providence Of God that the American
Union, which has cheered the whole world
with its promises, like the star which stood
for a while over the cradle # Bethlehem, may
fall and lose its light forever. It may be in
His dispensation of human events. that the
great American family shall be divided into
many nations. But divided or united, the
path of sdetihy must lead the Anglo Saxon
race to lie mastery Of this continent And
if the whole column should not advance. this
division of race VIII, vi h the institution of
African Slavery, advance from the banks of
the Rio Grande t. the line under the sun, es
tablishipg the way marks Of progress, the
affairs of the reformed religion, tn, temples
Of a higher civilization, purer liberty, and
better system of human government
AID last, but very far from least, h 'ar the
words Of John S. Preston, secession Com
missioner from South Carolina, addressed to
the Virginia Convention, to induce that body
to pass an ordinance Of secession:
"Virgin'a will take her place in the front
ranks She will be as she has been for one
hundred years, the foremost in the world in
the cause of liberty She will stand here
with her uplIfted arm not only as barrier,
but the guiding star to an empire, stretching
from her feet to the tropics, from the Allan
tic to the Pacifc-gr4 nier in proportions,
stronger in power. freer in right, than any
which has preceded it; which will divide the
rule Of the Atlantic, be felt in the far heaving
waves of the Pacific, and will own the Gulf of
Mexico and the Caribbean Sea-"
Think you this is all? Far, verr far, from
it. With their "Save Republic z" once estab-
lished, and extended Southwark to "the line
under the sun" and with the Gulf Of Mexico,
the Caribbean Sea, and the mouth of the
Mississippi under ther control, will they r, st
here? Not for day, except to gather strength
for new forays for Slavery. San empire,
grander in proportions, stronger in power,
freer in right thsn any which has preceded it,
SIS the gorgeous prize, and they will not clutch
at it? CONQUEST FOB SLAVERY! is their slogan;
and how long will it be until, backed by na-
tons bound to them through their cotton, and
sympathlsing with their aristocratic impulses
and principles, they will turn northward, to
subugate the nation that failed when it might
to subjugate them? My friends, call this not
an idle apprehension groundless fear.
If this gigantic piracy be not exterminated
now, it will, at no distant day after establish
ing itself, aim at "the mastery Of the whole
continent and its consequent subsection to
the dominion of Slavery! Remember, Slavery
is not fighting to repel attack, but for ExrES-
TON AND PERrIrU 1rY: where vii! be its point
Of repose in the Western hemisphere? Just
where, like Alexander, it can sit down and
weep that there is no more to conquer. Great
as America is she is not equil to such com
bination as the South might form, and this
day expects to form, with European nations,
through promised commercial advantages, and
congeniality of hatred towards those free in
stitutions, whose life depends upon the fidelity
the bra rerv, nd the endurance Of her loyal
people in this conflict. Awake to the terrible
consciousness, that the success of this rebel
lion is derth to America Awake to the GER
tainty, that unless more mighty eff,rt than
has yet been put forth be made, there is,
danger Of its success! Awake to the convic.
ton that this nation must give itself up to
this conflict, or despair of triumph! Awake
to the stearn reality, that this destroying as
sault BY Slavery upon all that we hold dear
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