The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-01-31
SLAVERY AND TN 49,

Qua Democratic cotempo ...,..ooo,in.I
Ieiiy charging The war TO ..oo,,, of IN.
Northern agitation OF 8 -. IA o,on IN.
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1t has been fasl ...,,. ,o, many vea,s TO
'' - o'' political troubles TO this
~, ..,,,., ANY people really believe III
~, ~ ,h, ismore unfoundtd. The ag'ta'
-, slavery question was not com
Is at the North. From the day that
fsiuia planters discovered that II was
profitable TO breed negroes than IL was
faise corn for export, and that every new
,.v. stat. added to the Union INCREASED the
value of their human chattles by making
new m,rkets--from that day slavery has 'o'i-
cd and lsbored to get sole control OF the
Federal government that 1t might use ~
for its own advantage. IL coionizeu anu
annexed Texos for that reason, ana piuhseu
the country into o bloody war; and IN every
,o,;,ieal movement has been the bold and
shameless aggressor.
70 90 back no farther than 1853. The
slavery agitation had ceased. by humil'a-
ting concessions on the part OF the North-
Inv surrendering everything that The most
brszen.tsced Of them could claim, the coun'
try was at peace on this question: ana the
two pntties went into the campaign OF io'|
with no difference in their p'auoiWs'-
p;.,c. WAS elected, aud when he TOOK MS
sent in 1858 there wos every prospect tha'
this p.ace would continue. The NoIth was
,uly content; but was the SOUTH moi a'
all. The Nebraska bill, designed to throw
ali ,h. territories open TO slavery, was IN
troduced aud carried. Was this Northern
aset.ssioni Thi. falling, then came the
I..compton measure, which actually es'ao-
iished the curse everywhere. This' we sup
nose. was Northern aggression' Nkew'se'-
And finally, when the pemoctauc party
solit at Charleston, because the wing 10
which brother Giessner belongs would not
.ubmi, 10 rabid pro. slavery minority we
.,,,ose. of course, that brother Glessner
and his coadjutors were the agsressors' ana
,hat Yancey, Rhett, and Toombs were the
injured parties.
All this talk Of Northern aggression is the
tb;nn.st kind of twaddle, and no full grown
man is justified in using il. The history o'
the government for years has been Tecoiu
of efforts, on the part OF slavery, to eAa'l u
self and control the government; ana OF Tree
labor ,acri hcing for the sake OF peace, poih'
by po,nt, everything that it once claimed
There never was q stand made against II hii
1850, and no successful one till le6O; ana
at that time slavery had got almost every
thing 1t wanted, lfby "Northern aggress'
ion'' they mean the little manhood that was
infused into the Northern people by The Ne
braska bill and the outrages that followed
md the heinous sin Of electing President
without the vote OF South Carolina, we
plead guilty.
We might have gone on giving and giving
until negro labor occupied not only all The
territories, but the fields and shops OF the
entire North, and thereby probably avoided
this war; but, SO far as we are concerned
we would prefer to such dIshonor-to such
a bartering of our national birthright, war
Of several times the magnitude OF this one.
And, while we are on the subject lii II
will do our tender brethren any good)' we
have no objections to saying. that We hope
aud pray that this war will wipe out the
curse utterly and completely. Slavery has
raised its hand against the goyernmeni-il
has assailed the Constitution--it has raised
armies to tear down the citadel OF feedomi
and we shall shed no tears if, by the natural
operation of war. it is eKtinguishedf 1t has
drawn the sword, and who shall say nay, ii
it perishes by the sword.
But, be this as 1t may, let our Locoioco
brethren say no more OF Northern aggression
Let them rather repent in sack cloth and
ashes. for having by their miserable truck
ling 10 tue slave power, and their officiating
in general, given the Southerners encour'
ngernrnt to make demands for whatever they
wanted, aud thereby causing the war, and
hus atone for portion o! thelrguilt.