The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-04-25

ren IN Africa. That, III true, was neither In
tended nor desired BY the master. IL ia !,
, opposition 10 his wish, and in spite of hi
thost persistent efforts to The CONTRARY. III
has dono all in his power to prevent It /; for
just in proportion as the slave rises in th,
sca'o OF manhood, he siUks in tho scale o
servitude. The master Furnishes with i'm
prisonment woman, for learning slave Il
read, and tho crude notions Of Christianit,
mat he permits them to imbibo, are warpet
by diabolsm that makes them tho NOR,
submissive to bis will, and hence the NOR,
abasod.
l can, to somo extont, understand and
mako allowance for the position and views
OF gentlemen on this subject, whose birth
and education. whose habits of life and
thought aud culture were in the ,bick, un.
natural, hot and stimulating atmosphere
and surroundings of this institution. It's
rude, barbaric phase of lifo, with its unnatu
raj sights and sounds, its troops OF half
naked ahject, covering, minstering forms
and its voices and strange language, half sad
bali ju5iant, and all wall aud hvmn OF
despair, were the first iulages and sound.
that met their baby senses. To them il
always was, and for them always must be
an unquestonod, seeming positive good
Its images run through all the memories and
tho traditions of thoir families; it is part
aud parcel of all they arc and have; and, in
its absense, thoy can imagine no future
Something of this can understand and al
low for; aud these gentlemen, for these
views, do not reproacb.
But cannot understand, and will make
no allowance for, those men who draw their
being and life and growth from another
source, in the midst of another atmosphere
and other surroundings, wbere this thing is
banned and branded outlaw and felon-
who. on any pretext. for any purpose, not
only excuse and palliate, but justify and
sustain Slavery; who violate all tho instincts
OF their nature, trample on all the traditions
of their fathers, and scoff at all the teachings
OF their mothers, and willingly submit
themselves to tho yoke aud scourge. and do
the behests Of these task. masters, for such
hire as thov can give.
| Oh il will forever remain to me one of
the most incomprehensible of the inscruta-
BILE ways OF Providence, hog-upon the soil
aud IN the atmosphere of tho Nortb-bow
or why matter should ever be permitted to
| crawl into the similitudo of abasOd humanity,
and become impregnated with life so grove
ing as to allay and link itself to this slavery,
and turn, and with beslavered hands tear
opon new ways whereby this thing might
march TO new coDquests and increased
power. And yet that such mon have ex-
isted, AID did SO grovel and so ally them
selves, is emblazoned on the page of already
written history. Aud it was under the con-
secrated banner of that 'holy alliance"
that marched the fearful events that con.
Quoted US to the present catastrophe. The
party rorishod, utterly and completely, in a
single day, that the country might i've
Tho party porshed, and most men found
their man ood again.
And vet, although this slavery is shaking
a hemisphere in its death agonies, and al
though the great party lies in dead and
scarcely seen fragments in tho land, having
passed through that damnation that pre-.
cedes death, few scattered and battered
survivors of It's old host. whom no judgments
can convert aud no calamities instruct, still
dream of the resurrection of tho party, of
| the restoration of slavery. of a reconstruc,
tion of the old alliance, aud return of the
| old joint power and glory. Were ever even
dreams SO provocative of sarcasm and ridi
culo Tho very bones of their party are
| too dead to exfoliate even, and decent
charity cries for earth to cover them from
tho gaze of scofiiug mon. As well might a
brood OF obscene insects, warmed into life
in rotten carcass, dream of restored life
and strength to the dead monster in whose
corrupted flesh they riot.
And yet here and there are runnings 10
and fro, and there is a fearful putting to.
gether of soft, added heads. and terrible
plOttiDgs and arrangiDgs and re.nrrangings
Of rickety, WORKOUT, obsolete party ma
chinory. Oh, it is an absurdly idle and
| ian M, u farra-thio Ir,,
ton of the party. The great old leaders,
whero are they Ono prematurely slum-
bers where the translucent waters of his
magnificent lake break in lispiug wavolets
at his feet; and the rest, in the grand pro-
portions of patriots and heroes. march at
the huad of countless millions, whose armed
tread tramples alike on tho shackles Of tho
slave and on the shackles of the party.
1t is here alone that puny hands are
raised, and piping, petuont voices cry out
and excIaim against the progress of events,
and propose to reconstruct the party. Nv
colleague. Mr.. Vallandigham. said well in
the declaration that none of these men
"made his mark !" and the aside that none
of tbem ever will, was still better.
With me, this measure is one of power.
and there can be no question of that. ]
read in the Constitution of our fathers that
tho Congress shall exercise exclusive leg.
islation 10 all cases whatsoever" over this
District. Not merely that Congress has
! legislative power, but Exclusive" power
not merely in few specified cases, but in
"all cases whatsoever" Where is the room
for doubt, the ground for argument, or tho
excuse for cavil, in tho presence of this OK.
plicit declaration! But we are told that the
cession of this territory and people to the
United States, was accompanied by certain
conditions, that hodge in and fence around
this slavery, and wall us away from oil in
reference with ir, except to aiG it. perhaps,
Conditions What conditions Where are
they set down, and in what terms
1t is said they were not written, but i'm.
piled. Implied When, how, where. and
! by whom Were the parties who made that
| solemn cesslon, fools Had they intended
that the grant should have been acoompan-
led by conditions, think you they would
have left their existence TO implication
Mover. They would have beeu solemDly
written down and placed beyond cavil. and
yet il is in this very fact that no conditions
were written, and that not single cotem-
poraneous word was uttered of any coudi-
tions, that evidence only is found that oOn-
ditions were implied. II conditions had
been written, or could as clearly be implied,
they arc limit upon the exercise Of the
"exclusive legislation ia all cases Whatso-
ever" and therefore void. g q
But, aside from this plenary power OF the
Constitution, the argument upon tho facts
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