Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-08-19

should not he extended north of the
Ohio, was another compromise.
NORTHERN FAITH.
Who have most faithfully kept these
promises? We had not only maintained
the authority of the fugitive slave clause,
but in 1850 we gave them blank sleet
of paper and asked them to write out
their own act. which they did, and
which we adopted We have also steadi-
ly upheld the apportionment clause, and
without a murmur have conceded TO
them full third more of proportioned
political power by this representation of
their slave property. In no respect have
we fallen short in our constitutional obli-
cations to the South.
PUNIc FAITH OF THE SOUTH.
But how have they kept their part of
the agreement? Have they for five con-
secutive years quietly submitted to the
compromises of the Constitution As
early rs 1916 they insisted that a free
State should not be admitted without IA
slave State to match it, They were de-
termined that free labor should not adj
vance in political power beyond slave la
Dor.
Then in 1920 they threatened to dis
solve the Union and we compromised on
the parallel of 5000. They remained
awhile in tolerable quietude under this
compromise, but in few years again,
they threatened and demanded its re-
peal so as to give the privilege of extend
ing slavery north of that line. You re-
pealed the compromise, regret to say,
but it Was done to prevent trouble from
these faif IA less men
PALMETTO MULTIPLICATION.
Then in 1882 South Carolina stepped
forth to nullify a law of Congress because
she did not like it. But they came in
BAD time. jackson then put his foot on
Secession and put it out as you would
put out candle. | only regret that
John Calhoun did not commit the act
that Old Hickory might have hung him
FURTHER DEMANDS.
At last they demanded that Slavery
should be permitted to go where it pleas
ed, should be protected IN tranSil through
the free States and should everywhere
be guarded by the American flag. They
thus urged on those demands upon the
Northern Democracy, until we lost all
political power in Ohio They knew that
all their demands. They saw that they
could no longer impose upon the nation |
the doctrine that free States should be |
kept out until slave States could come in
to match them. We have told them all |
the time, that we would adhere to the
compromises of the Constitution that |
we would do anything for them, but keep |
your hands off our free territory; that we |
would protect Slavery as far as our fathers |
provided for its protection, but at the |
same time you must not make it the su-
preme element in our Government.
ALMOST DONE IN 1856.
This brings us down to 1856. Many Dem
ocrats saw the crisis approaching at the
Cincinnati Convention. They did not
then hate the Northern people one parti- \
Gle less than in 1860. They were deter
mined 10 rebel, but could not do so with
out pretext. They dared not openly de-
clare their object to be to destroy the ma
jority principle. Some pretext they must |
have in order to unite their people in the |
bloody work. Accordingly they raised |
the cry that if the North should elect a |
sectional President they would secede.-l
They came to the Convention ut Cincin- |
natl with a scheme to insure the election /
of a sectional candidate. But when they /
found that the candidate of the Conven-
ton would give them seven out of the
nine members of the Cabinet, they con-
siderably modified their platform, conclu-
ding to improve the term of the next /
Presidency in preparing for a vigorous
blow, and to more certainly insure sue
cess. During the administration of James
Buchanan, we had trouble enough in Kan
sas, by the desperate and bloody efforts of
the shareholders to impose Slavery upon
that State against the will of the people.
Amid the noise and confusion about Kan
sas, they were the better enabled to sub
ordinate every arm of the Government |
TO the terrible purpose they contempla-
ted
WHAT 1860 HArcHED.
Then, in 1860, they met at Charleston,
and brought forward another platform,
that Slavery should be protected wherev-
er the flag should wave-that slaves might
be passed through the free States at their
pleasure; or in other words, and in short
that Slavery should become the platform
of the country. You must take the plat
form and elect the men we place upon it,
or we will secede. We will have no I'm
ion, except that in which the minority
can rule.
BITTER PILLS BEFORE.
The Democracy had been presented
with a good many bitter pills before, and
swallowed them. In IS48 we had resolV- /
ed that Slavery was an evil and we would
get rid of it as soon as possible; but we
were compelled to abandon that plank or
drown, for we could not swim on it.
HOW THE YOUNG MAN STOOD UP.
A young man stood up in the Charles
ton Convention and bravely told them
that the Northern Democracy would not
place their hands on their mouths and
their mouths in the dust. Others spoke
TO a similar effect, but that young man
took the lead. But OH how has he fall
en-! George E. Pugh is now licking the
dust from their very feet, and furnishes
another melancholy example of one who
does not ''run well the race that was set
before him."
THERE, YOU HAVE DONE IT"
Those shareholders then and there cool
Iy and deliberately planned for the cleo
ton of a sectional candidate. They sup
posed it would be Seward, but they were
mistaken. They succeeded in their prime
object in breaking up the Democratic par
ty, procured thereby the election of
Northern candidate, and then cried out,
''You have done it, and we will secedep'
NO SUDDEN IMPULSE IN THE WORK.
Had this been an act of sudden i'm
pulse, of men smarting gunder wrongs real
or imaginary, there would be some ex-
cuse for it. But no; you had kept all
your compromises; you had put Slavery
in peril; they held a clear working major
ity in Congress; they controlled both the
purse and the sword, and the Admins
tration of Lincoln could do nothing {
against them. They had seven out of {
nine Judges of the Supreme Court to
the Constitution for them as '
they understood it, and therefore there !
was no where to be found the least ex-
cuse or palliation for the rebellion, for no {