Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-07-15

proved also. Not that eue,y man VIII,
voted Tor the successful nominees mean
aiflrm, that Il trustee for several co-euua
! parties has a right, in law or reason. Il
exclude the property of some and admit
that OF others of the parties for whom he
holds-but so is the record And whilst
1t Is not to be taken as expressing the
u|'ce''sH sense of the voters, it does un-
doubtedly, imply that vast masses Of
Northern people do heartily approve, both
OF the proposition to make ali the States
tree, and OF beginning by excluding slavery
from the territories.
The South seems inclined so TO accent
the Judgment. She holds the property
that is to be shut out of the territories.
that is TO be restricted, cribbed, and con-
fined, more and more, until it is finally
eNtinguished. Everywhere in the South
the people are beginning to look out for
the means Of self-defence. Could il he
expected that they would be Indifferent TO
such events us have occurred That they
would stand idle and see measures con-
certed and carried forward for the ami
hllatlon, sooner or later, Of her property
III slaves! Such expectations, if INDUCED,
were not reasonable. The law of self
defence includes right Of property as well
as OF person; and it appears to me, that
there must be time, in the progress of
tbs conflict, if 1t b. indeed irrrpressibIe.
when shareholders may lawfully fall back
on their natural rights, and employ, in
defence OF their property whatever means
OF protection they possess or can COM
mand. l do not agree with them that
the time has arrived yet; but it would be
well for those who push en- this conflict.
IN whatever form, to consider that they
are Fastening on that time, and that they
have convinced one or more Southern
States that it has already come
Several States propose to retire from the
Coniederacy, and that justly alarms us.
We come together to consider what may
be done TO prevent il, and we are bound,
IN fidelity to ourselves and others, to take
the measure of the whole magnitude of
the danger.
This irrcprcssible conflict has grown out
Of the Anglo-Saxon love of freedom
What that passion is, and how il was Of
Tended by the introduction of negro slaves,
may be read in the chronicles of the
American Provinces, and especially in the
earnest, the eloquent, and repeated re
monstranccs addressed by The Colony Of
Virginia to the Crown and Parliament of
Great Britain against thcir introduction.
But if the Anglo-Saxon loves liberty
above all other men, he is not Indifferent
TO gain and thrift, and Is remarkable for
his capacity of adaptation, whereby lie
takes advantage Of any circumstances in
which he finds himself placed. And, ac-
coIdingly, by the time the Colonies were
prepared to throw of the British yoke,
and assume among the powers of the
earth the separate and equal station to
which the laws OF nature and of natures
God cniitle them, ii had been discovered
that the unwclcome workers, against
whose introduction such earnest protests
had been made, could be turned to prof
table account III the Southern States-that
the African constitution was well adapted
10 labor in ATTITUDES which alone could
produce some of the greatest staples of life
and that the North, which could not
employ them profitably, would be bcne-
fitted by such employment as the South
could afford. Considerations Of humanity,
also, rs well as the rights Of private pro-
pcrty, entered into the discussions of that
day What was best for an inferior race
thrust unwillingly upon a superior
That both should be free, or that the in
ferior should serve the superior, and the
superior be bound by the law Of the rela-
ton to protect the inferior
II best for both races that the existing
slavery should continue, then what was to
be It's relation to the General Govern
ment How should it be represented in
the Councils of the Nation? How far
protected or discouraged by the power of
the new Government Should .jurisdic
ton to abolish it be granted TO the Go
vernment, or reserved to the States and
the people of the States These were
great questions, and, like all the questions
of that day, were wisely settled.
The Northern States abolished their
slavery, and SO CRAFTY their innate love of
freedom-but they did it gradually, and
50 did not wound their love of gain. They
sold out slavery to the South, and they
received Il full equivalent, not only in the
price paid down, but i'll the manufactur-
ing and commercial prosperity which
grew up from the productions of slave
labor,
When the Constitution came to be
formed, some OF the Northern States still
held slaves, but several had abolished the
institution, and ii must have been appa