Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-07-11

from the common terrltores, which the |
Government holds in trust for the people
of all the States, is natural and direct
step towards the grand result of extin |
gushing slave property altogether, and
was one Of the record issues of the late ,
election. This policy must be consider.
ed as approved also. Not that cUcyy man
who voted for the successful nominees
meant 10 affirm, that trustee for several
co.cqual parties has right, in law or rca-
son, to exclude the property of some and
admit that of others Of the parties for
whom he holds-but so is the record.
And whilst it is not to be taken as express
ing the 'nicerS0I sense of the voters, it
docs, undoubtedly, imply that vast masses
Of Northern people do heartily approve,
both Of the proposition to make all the
States free, and Of beginning by oXclu-
ding slavery from the territories.
The south seems inclined so to accept
the judgement. She holds the property
that is to be shut out of the territories, that
is to be restricted, cribbod, and confined,
more and more until it is finally cxtin.
guishcd. Everywhere in the South the
people are beginning to look out for the
means Of scll-dcfcnce. Could it be ex-
poctod that they would be indifferent to
such events as have occurred That they
would stand idle AMI see measures con-
certed and carried forward for the ami
hiation, sooner or later, Of her property
in slaves Such expectations, if indulgcd
were not reasonable. The law of seil-de-
fence includes right of propcTty as well as
of person; and it appears to me, that
there must be a time, in the progress of
this conflict, if it be indeed irrepressible,
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 command.
t do not agree with them that the time has
t arrived yet but it would be well for
!, those who push on this conflict, in what
y ever form, 10 consider that they are hast
: cning on that time, and that they have
. convinced one or more Southern States
c that it has already come.
i Several States propose to retire from tho
f Conledcracy, and that justly alarms U.S.
/. We come together to consider what may
C be done to prevent it, and we are bound
: in fiedlity to ourselves and others, to t?kt
= the measure of the whole magnitude of thu
danger.
This irrepressiblc conflict has grow
out of the Anglo-Saxon love of freedom. =
II What tLat passion is, and how it was of
= Tended by the introduction Of negro slave
It may be read in the chronicles OF the Amer
~ lean Provinces, and especially in the ear
Is nest, the eloquent, and repeated rcmon
t; stranccs addressed by the Colony of Viz
al gina to the Grown and Parliament {
,r Great Britain against their Introduction.
But if the AngIo-SaXon loves libcrt
at above all other men, he is not indiiferon
is to gain and thrift, and is remarkable TO
as his capacity Of adaptation, whereby h
st takes advantage Of any circumstances
es which he finds himself placed, And, az
We cordingIy, by the time the Colonies wcr
prepared to throw off the British yoli
at and to assume among the powers Of Il
oil earth the separate and equal station
,es which the laws of nature an d Of natul
n God cntitlc them, it had been discoverc
a. that the unwolcome workers, against who's
is, introduction such earnest protests ha
he been made, could be turned to proftab
lr- account in the Southern Statcs--that Il
ri- African constitution was well adapted
labor in ATTITUDES which alone could pr
n duce some Of the great staples Of lile-aI
he that The North, which could not cmplC
of them proftably, would be benefited
i've such employment as the South could {
uc ford. Considerations Of humanity, ais
nd as well as the rights Of private propert
oil CntCrCu luIO tue ulSCuSSlCnS ol lnuI uu
rs, What was best for an inferior race thru
csc uuwillingly upon superior? That bo
tu- should be free, or that the inferior shou
lu- serve the superior, and the superior
bound by the law of the relation to pl
an tect the inferior
If If best for both races that the exist
tes slavery should continue, then what was
an. be its relation 10 the General Goyernmel
of How should it be represented in the Coz
loir ellis of the Nation? How far project
, to or discouraged by the power of the n
non Government Should jurisdiction to alb
ish it be granted to the Government,
nul. reserved 10 the States and the people
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