The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-09-03

to complain? challenge the answer!
While, on the other hand, let me show
the facts, (and believe me gentlemen, |
am not here the advocate of the North;
but | am here the friend, the firm
friend and lover Of heSouth & her in
stitutions, and for this reason ! speak
thus plainly and faithly for yours, mine,
and every other mans interest, the
words Of truth and soberness,) of which
l wish you to judge, and will only
state facts which are clear and undeni-
able, and which now stand as records
authentic in the history Of our coun-
try. ~
"When we of the South demanded
the slave trade, or the importation of
Africans for the cultivation of our
lands, did they not yield the right for
twenty years? When we asked a
three-ffths representation in Congress
for our slaves, was it not granted?-
When we asked and demanded the re-
turn of any fugitive from justice, or
the recovery of those persons owing
labor or allegiance, was it not incor
porated in the Constitution? and again
ratified and strengthened in the Fugi-
tive Slave Law of 1850?
"But do you reply that in many in
stances they have violated this COM
pact, and have not been faithful to
their engagements? AS individuals
and local communities they may have
done so; but not by sanction Of gov
ernment; for that has always been
true to Southern interests? ? Again.
gentlemen, look at another fact: when
we asked that more territory should
be added, that we might spread the
institution of slavery, have they not
yielded to our demands in giving us
Louisiana, Florida, and Texas, out Of
which four States have been carved,
and ample territory for four more to
be added in due time, if you by this
unwise and impolitic act do not de-
stroy this hope, and perhaps, by it lose
all, and have your last slave wrenched
from you by stern military rule, as
South America and Mexico were; or
by the vindictive decree of universal
emancipation, which may reasonably
be expected to follow.
'But, again, gentlemen, what have
we to gain by this proposed change OF
our relations to the general govern
mcnt? We have always had the con-
troll OF it, and can yet, if we remain in
it, and are as united as we have becn.-
We have had majority ofthe Prcsi,
dents chosen from the South as wei
as the control and management ofmost
of those chosen from the North.--WC
have had sixty years ofSouthern Pres
idents to their twenty -four, thus con
trolling the Executive department.
So ofthc Judges of the Supreme Court
we have eighteen from the South, anC
but eleven from the North; although
nearly four r-fiiths Of the judicial bust
ness had arisen in the Free States, ye
a majority ofthc Court has always beer
from the South. This we have requir
cd so as TO guard against any interprc
tation of the Constitution unfavorabl
to us. In like manner we have beel
equally watchlul to guard our interest
in the Legislative branch of Govern
ment. In choosing the presiding Pres
idents (PrO. 1em.) Of the Senate W
: have had twcnty-four to their eleven
Speakers of the House, we have ha
Y twenty three, and they twelve. Will
tho majority OF the Representative
, from their greater population, have al
I ways been from the North, yet we hav
: generally secured the Speaker be
= cause he, to u great extent, shapes an
controls the legislation Of the country
= Nor have we had less control in ever
) other department Of the General Gov
: crnmcnt. Attorney Generals we hav
c had fourteen, while the North lave ha
@ but five. Foreign ministers we hav
! had cighty-siX, and they but fifty-fou
: While three -fourths of the bushes
S which demands diplomatic agents ;
S broad is clearly from the FREQ State
: from their greater commercial interest
@ yet we have had the principle cmbassiC
+, so as to secure the world-markots tC
= our cotton, tobacco, and sugar on I'll
best possible terms. We havo had
Il vast majority of the higher Offices
Il both army and navy, while larger pr
It portion Of the soldiers and sailors wei
n drawn from the North. Equally !
D. with Clerks, Auditors and Comptrolle,
r filing the Executive department, Il
If records show for the last fifty yea
b. that Of the three thousand thus cmplo'
II ed, we have had moro than two-thirc
&c Of the same, while we have but on
/ third of the white population of Il
II Republic.
&c again, look at another item, an
J. one, be assured, in which we have
is great and vita! interest; it is that
II revenue, or means Of supporting go
70 ernmeht. From official documents, v
l. learn that fraction over thrce-fourtl
d of the revenue collected for the suppo
IT of the government has uniformly bee
l. raised from the North.
c. "Pause now whitley you can gentlcme
e, and contemplate carefully and candi
ut ly these important items. Look at a
to other necessary branch of governmc
and learn from stern statistical fac
er how matters stand in that departmer
IN L mean the mail and post office priv
cs cges that we now enjoy under the gel
IN eral government as it has been for yea
10 past. The expenses for the transpo
= tation Of the mail in the Free Stat