The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-17

circulation Of abolition matter In the soutb.
and justified their utter suppression. "The
misguided persons who have engaged in these
unconstitutional and wicked attempts" were
Ainons nio,s ms complimentary allusions to the
AbohtiOnists, and here Is the mode in which
he proposed to debate with them the main
question:
II would, therefore, call the special attention
ofCongress TO tue SUBJECT aud respeotfully sug-
gest the propriety OF passing such a Law as will
prohibit, under severe penaIties the clrcuIation
in the Southern States, through the malls OF
the slaves to insurreotion." :" y ~
Governor Marcy, in his Message Of January
s, 1886, reGchoed Jacl1son's notions and
affirmed the right of the Legislature to
"pass such penal laws as will have the effect of
preventing the citizens of this state and resi-
impunity, of the protection OF its sovereignty
aud laws, while they are actually employed in
State" -0T
These doctrines were asserted in other States;
it was so with the pro-slavery asoendancy, the
pro-slavery spirit everywhere. II never
dreamed of arguing; it cared only to silence,
to punish, and to kill. South Cardinals treat
ment of the Commissioner whom Massachu-
setts sent openly to Charleston to institute the
necessary legal proceedings designed to ascer-
tain whether the colored citizens of free States
had any rights under the Federal Constitution
which the slave States were bound to respect,
was fair sample of the manner and spirit of
pro-slavery dealings with the awakening spirit
of freedom. FH
There was nothing in the temper of our side
absolutely nothing-like "a determination
to hear no argument and have no compro-
mise" We deprecated war - we never
dreamed of fighting the South because she
chose to hold on to slavery. All that we asked
was that she should not compel us to aid her
in extending slavery over territories not
already cursed with its presence; and that she
would not allow. She made war upon us
not because she was not allowed to extend
slavery if she could, but because she insisted
that we should be consenting partner in that
iniquity. The Peace Conference of 1851 broke
up on that point and no other. We proposed
a Convention of the States-we offered i'm
portant concessions on various points-but
Kentucky, which had first proposed conven-
tion, joined in voting it down; and the Con-
servative South said to us, through such men
as William G.. Rives, "COnsent to the exten-
sion of slavery over all Federal territory
south of N. latitude 36 degrees 30 minutes,
or we dissolve the Union" We would not
consent, because we could not without dis
honor and crime; hence the war.
Just word, now, to the Times which now
COOS so lovingly; we propose to forget, so soon
as possible but that is not just yet, how for
years it reviled and DETAINED us after the
fashion OF this extract from its columns of July
2S, 1S62-not quite five years ago:- .I.
"The Federals their we nth is turned in
to poverty-their prosperity Into wretcnedness.
The power in which they gloried is effaced.
Law is trampled under foot, and the country is
fast falling into anarchy, the only refuge from
which is despotism; and we do not scruple to
say that we shall rejoice If the worst OF these be
realized"
Messieurs of the Times do you attribute
such ebullitions to ''the better side of human
nature ?' If so, allow us to dissent!