Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-09-04

as an organic law, and observed as sacredly
as the Constitution itself.
MORE GRIEVANCES.
The effect of this measure was great and
rapid, and there can be but little doubt that
it was such as a majority Of its authors con-
templated. The result was the formation Of
a great party ut the North opposed to the fur
ther extension of slavery, and which party
nearly succeeded in electing their candidate
for the Presidency, Mr.. Fremont, in 1856
After the election, this party seemed to be on
the wane, until the anti slavery spirit of the
whole North was aroused to madness, by an
attempt on the part of Mr.. Buchanan's Adj
ministratiOn to force the Lecompton Consti-
tuition with slavery upon the people of Kan
sas, in opposition to the known and express
ed wish of three fourths of them. But for
this most unjustif .ble measure, the Republic
can party would undoubtedly have dwindied
down to moderate proportions; and even af-
ter this, it is doubtful If they could have sue
ceeded in the Presidential election Of 1860, if
the secessionists with Yancey at their head,
had not determined that they should succeed.
After Mr.. Yancey and his party had, against
their wishes, succeeded in getting their ulti
matum of non-interventlon incorporated into
the Cincinnati platform, they went to work
to coniure up another to present to the
Charleston Convention. Abandoning their
opposite extreme and demanded that the in
tervention of Congress for the protection OF
slavery in the territories should constitute a
part Of the Charleston platform. This de-
mand they well knew would not be complied
with, nor did they desire that it should be.
Their object was to procure the secession OF
the delegates of the cotton States from the
Convention, and thus by defeating the nomi-
nation of Mr.. Douglas, and rending asunder
the Democratic party, to insure the elect on
of Mr.. Lincoln, and thereby forge for them
selves gr,evanc, which would seem to justify
them in the execution of their long meditated
signs of destroying the Union. All Of
this they accomplished, and the ell ction Of
Mr.. Lincoln was perhaps hailed with greater
Joy at Charleston than at New York. l will
do them the Justice to state that they also
claimed to have some other grievances;
among them, that some Of the Northern States
by their statutes, ob>tructed the execution OF
The fugitive slave law, but the only States
that could complain much on that score, were
willing to remain in the Union, while South
Carolina, the State which set the ball IN mo-
ton, perhaps never lost ave. But it must
be boz ne in mind that NJ act of the national
Government constituted any part Of their
grievances. They did not pretend that any
the decisions Of the Supreme Court were
manly such as they would have made them
selves. Nay, even at the time of Mr.. Lin
coins inaugural on, if the cotton States had
alox we'd their Senators and Representatives tc
remain, they would have had decided ma
jority in DO h Houses o. Congress in favor OF
the extension of slavery, AMI in opposition TO
the policy Of the party which elected him.
Such is the impartial history written by
leading citizens of North Carolina, who have
been cured of rebellion by the false promises
of Southern fire eaters. These historians are
of The South, by birth, education and inter
est, and are supposed to give the North nc
more than it is entitled to. The letter is long
and contains no cant phrases about "tyranny
usurpations, violated Constitution and Abo
litionists," indeed, the latter term is not once
used by them. How striking is the contrast
between men, who, having discovered theil
fatal error, hasten to make reparation, with
the miserable political sycophants, who, upon
their Bonded knees, lick the very sores upon
the treason polluted limbs of Southern task
masters. They charge the responsibility
upon the South, and you, dirt-eaters of the
North, charge it upon your own neighbors.