The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer. (Bel Air, Md.) 1862-1864, 1862-12-20

ern virginia into the Union as State, was be-
fore the House of Representatives Mr.. Conway,
Of Kansas, in the course of his remarks in oppo-
sition to its passage, said he would be happy to
vote for the bill, if the application came in its
proper constitutional form; that the people are
thoroughly loyal; ''they are opposed to sla-
very"
Now, if opposition to slavery constitutes the
only proof of loyalty, as MIR. Conway and his
party appear to think, what becomes of the 10y
atty of Washington and Hancock-the former a
STAKEHOLDER all his life and the latter agreeing to
Constitution which recognizes the institution
of slavery Now, that we cannot follow the
teachings of the men of the Revolution and the
Aboitionists of the present day. is clear, because
they are at issue on a vital question of public
policy. The Revolutionary patriots made us
equal, when they made the government; that is,
they made each State equal to the other States,
and left to each the management and control of
its own affairs. And thus we stood, until Abo-
litionism and fanaticism became strong enough
to attempt change in our system of govern
ment. Why should we change the government
of our fathers? We certainly prospered and
grew great, while we adhered to the doctrines
taught by them and if we had continued to
profit by their WISDOM we would be a united
and prosperous nation to-day.
Now that we are under Abolition rule, com.
pare our present conditional it will bear COM
parison-with our condition previous to the
reign of fanaticism, which now governs us, and
we will see clearly the difference between
government of statesmen and government of
fanatics.
ton of our rulers, is loyalty, and the evidence of
the truth OF this assertion will be found in the fact
that of the many arrests for alleged disloyal prac-
tices, single instance of the arrest of an Abo-
litionist is known to anybody and this, too,
notwithstanding that about one year ago Wen
dell Phillips declared in the presence of those in
authority at Washington, that he had labored
for nineteen years to dissolve this Union. We
would like some one to tell us why this express
sion of Phillips is harmless when uttered by
him, when a like declaration would have con-
signed any Democrat in the land to some one of
the forts or prisons. But this ought not to be a
matter of surprise, when we reflect that this
Abolition party has warred on the Constitution
and the rights of the States, ever since it had an
existence.
1t is fashionable, we know, to say that seces-
sion is the offspring of South Carolina but this
is not the fact. Secession took its rise in Massa-
chusetts. On the 18th of January, 1911, when
the Louisiana Territorial question was under
consideration in the House of Representatives,
Josiah Quincy, of Massachusetts,, said eff this
bill p,sses, it is my deliberate opinion that it is
virtually dissolution of this Union; that it
will free the States from their moral obligation,
and, as it will be the right of all, so it will be
the duty of some definitely to prepare for sep
ara,ion, amicably if they can, violently if they
must'
More than fifty years ago, Massachusetts, de-
clared herself in favor of separation, and adhered
to the same doctrine when Texas was admitted
into the Union; and her orators declare her OPP
posed to-day to the reconstruction of the Union,
unless slavery is abolished, or in other words
unless one of the rights of the Slave States is
blotted from the Constitution Yet this State
endorsed the policy of the Administration at the
late election.
Every well-informed man in the country
knows, and every unprejudiced man will admit
that the doctrines taught by the Black Republic
can party are destruction to the State institu-
tons of the Slave States, ifcarred into practice.
1t was created by and composed of men who en-
tered into common crusade against the institu,
tons of the Slave States. The Wing party
south Of Mason and Dxon's line, at the height
fits power, and at the close of its career, held
sacred all the reserved rights Of the States. But
the Democratic party is, and always has been,
essentially the party to uphold and defend the
rights of the people, because its principles, each
and all, are directly derived from the Constitu-
ton, always conceding to the Federal govern
ment every privilege, and prerogative, and au.
thority to which it is justly entitled, but at the
same time rigidly guarding and protecting the
reserved rights Of the States. Having for its OBJ
jects the interest Of all sections, and the welfare
of the whole country, it was, therefore, from id
origin, and is still, essentially national party
behind the bulwarks of which all who love lib
erty and even-handed justice, must entrenct
themselves.
The LOSSES. According to state
ment in the New York Herald the divis
ion Of Gen. Franklin sustaineda loss on
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