The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-09-18

turned against the lives OF her owl
citizens; her exchequer robbed, he
dag insulted, her loyal people deridet
as Yankee peddlers and preachers
pimps, tinkors, and tailors; her au
ihority dcfed, her territory dismem
bered ,land many loyal men murdered
and the false tongue of Democrac,
said-"Yea, so let it be-" Thes,
men are our brethren! Mr.. Pendletol
goes on: "If these Southern State
cannot be conciliated, and if you gen
tlemen cannot find it in your hearts t.
grant their demands; if they mus
leave the family mansion. I woult
signalize their departure byltokens o
love. | would bid them farewell s,
tenderly that they would be foreve
touched by the recollection of it,
And if, in the vicissitudes OF thei
separate existence, they should desir,
to come together with us again, in ou
common Government, there should bt
no pride to be humbled-there should
be no wound inflicted by any hand t.
be healed. They should come and b'
welcomed to the places they nov
occupy
Yes, Mr.. Pendleton, the pathway
of their departing footsteps you shoe
have strewn with flowers. The virgin
beauty of the land should have dane
ed before them to the music of til,
timbrel and the harp, "and all wen
merrily as marriage bell.' Sucl
men as you should have kissed then
hands and blacked their boots befor,
they started. But have quoted the
language of the man on whom the
mantle of Douglas should have fallen
Tho weak and truculent, he is, never.
theless, to-day, as in 1861, a represen-
tatiye man of his party, and rs such
his sayings and doings are public
property.
Whilst the South had no cause fol
disunion, to the North there was
ground of complaint. Sectional com.
blnatiOn and Legislation had almost
robbed her of her voice in the Gov.
ernment. Her Representatives were
aSsailed, and it shames me to say were
often silenced by menaccs of the
pistol and the bludgeon.
In 1903, the first Emperor of the
French, sorely pressed by the allied
powers, and feeling that Louisiana
might he snatched from him at any
time, offered it TO the United States
for SI5, 100000. In the vacation OF
Congress, Mr. Jefferson made the
purchase, saving in his forthcoming
message that he had no power to do
so, but justified his course by the plea
of public necessity.
In 1919, Mr.. Monroe's administra
ton secured the cession of Florida
from Spain. In 1911 the province OF
Texas, involved in war with Mexico,
offered itself to the United States.--
Mr. Clay, the acknowledged leader OF
the Wing party, and already regarded
rs It's candidate for President, wrote
his "Milledgeville Letter. opposing
annexation because of its tendency to
involve us in war with MexicO.-
This was to the old Wing States the
objectionable sin, and they punished
il by wheeling out of line and defeating
Mr.. Clay's election.
Mr.. Van Burcn, General Jackson's
iavoritc protege, was the free-ordain-
ed candidate of the Democracy. He
carried his opposition to the annexa-
ton scheme a little further than Mr..
Clay had done. This gave Mr.. Cal
houn the opportunity of avenging on
him all the wrongs and injuries of the
-" Kitchen Cabinet and the Demo
cratic party soon taught Mr.. Van
Buren,, as it afterwards taught Walker,
Reader, and Douglas, that opposition
to slavery was enmity to the Demo-
cratic party.
James X. Polk was elected Prosi
dent. Tyler stole a march upon him
and annexed Texas before he was
inaugurated. In 1850 we got the
Fugitive Slave Law, which might
have been mistaken for chapter from
the code of Draco-had it not been
infinitely more mean, if not more
bloody. In 1857 the Missouri Com
promise was repealed. In 1857 the
Supreme Court resolved itself into
political junto and gave us the Dred
Scott decision. Our troubles with
Spain, our two wars with the Seminole
Indians, our war with Mexico, our
border war with Kansas, were all for
slavery. To extend its area we pur-
chased Louisiana and Florida, and
stole Texas, California and New
Mexico. ..
The North complained not that her
blood and treasure were thus expend-
ed. I'm 1920, on the Missouri ques-
tion in 1882, on nullilication, and in
1850, on the Omnibus Bill, they
threatened us with war and disunion.
They attempted the subjugation OF
Kansas in 1875, by war upon peace
able settlements of men whose only
offenso was opposition to slavery,
Talk not to the man who has read
the history of his country, of South
eln grievances-of want of fidelity
on the part of the North to all her
duties and all her contracts. The
was therefore without cause,
and the man who imbued himself in
its guilt was without excuse. Could
the statesmen of the South-the great
old commoner of Kentucky, Charles
Coatsworth Pickney and William
Lowndes William Pickney of Mary
land, and Thomas III. Benton, rise
from their tombs to day, they would
Justify what have said. But in the
place of Cato and Cicero, stood Cata-
line, Lentulus, Sethgus and Lecca.
..Men who thought TO overcome in battle,
And subdue nations,
And bring home spoils
With infinite manslaughter.
1t has been charged that uninst
determinations were made against the
South in the Revenue law. Yet the
fact is notorious that every tariff law
from the organization of the Govern
ment to the period of the rebellion,
was carried through Congress by
Southern votes. Some have said that
Abolition irritation provoked the re
bellion, and those who falsely assign
this cause make 1T against the whole
Republican party; yet, l believe l
would be safe in saying that of more
than million and quarter of men
who cast their suffrage for Fremont,
not one hundred had ever questioned
the right of the South to hold its
slaves in peace. Opposition to extern