New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1863-12-18

L uION VI S(&tCS
1xcIPlE nj ABOLITIeHIsM. AID ITS
., sEQUENCks.
Nearly twenty-five years ago the Ia.
mented Silas Wright in . Democratic
National Convention convened at Bal
tinore, distinctly fore seeing the evils
that .bolitionism would bring upon our
country, offered the following rcsolu
ton, which then had and has ever
since received the cordial endorsement
df the Democratic party.
"Resolrsd, That Congress has no
power under the Constitution to inter
;fcre with, Or control the domestic insti
tutions of the several States, and that
all such States are the sole ard proper
Judges Of everything appsrtaining to
their own affairs not prohibited by the
Constitution; that all efforts Of the Ab-
clitionists or others made to induce
Congress to interfere with questions Of
Slavery, or to take incipient steps in
relation thereto, sre calculated to lead
tos!he most alarming and dangerous
consequences, and that all such efforts
have an inevitable tendency to dimin-
ish the happiness of the psophs and
ehdanger the stability and perman ency
Of the Union, and ought not to be coun-
tenanced by any friend Of our political
institutions"
Even then, although the schemes and
Vaccinations of the Abolitionists were
<s~t fully developed. though in full
blast, the anti.slavery din fell upon the
ear of many apasriot, as dill that Of the
Missouri question in 1920, like fire.
bell in the night" upon the ear Of the
Sage Of Monticello. Abolitionism
emerging slowly and with measured
tread from odium and obscurity, then
began to attract attention, not as hith-
erto. ''by sound and fury signifying
nothing but retaining alIrhis, by ito
boldness 10 denouneing the Constitution
the Union and the laws, and by it,
rapidly increasing numbers and ,nAu-
ep:e. Unprinciplcd, ambitious and do.
signing mea readily comprehcnded the
fact that no other movement promised
so rich rewards as this, to him that
would organize and direct to semi
, polisieal--.religious goal, its desperate
and Wild erusading forces. Its false
religious zeal and fanaticism could cas-
lily be arraysd under the banners ofre-
ligious bigotry and sectional hatred In
l84s it'obtained responsibility in it,
E union with Free Soil, coupled a. it was
with such names as VanBuren and Dix
This last organization: unlike the first,
WAS not based upon principle, but up.
on the promptings Of sordid personal
revenge, and thus became q proper
ally for Abohtionism. This accession
- strengthened*his "unholy alliance"
that it now addressed itself to minds
isabued with hatred toward the people
IF the South and their ms titutions,
ready alike to reject the true mis-.
sion Of political party and the obliga-
tons Of the Constitution. I'm 1850 tn.
Union was seriously endangered by
their united agencies, when the North
and tho South rallied to rescue from
their parrisidal hands the grand expert
ment Representative, free governme Mt
Signed, rsaled and attested by the ma
mes Of Douglas, Webster, Clay ant
Calhoun, as , perpetual covenant o
peace, were the compromise mea.urs
!, Of that year. intended and believed t.
be . final adjustment Of this fearful
controversy. It was at this time, and
fol; the part taken by Webster in pro
curing tho passage of the compronis
Of 1850, that Charles Sumner, tn
leader Of tho present administration
assisted IN barring him out of Faueui