Year: 1860

bled to govern the Democratic Party, and,
thus far, to govern the country through the
agency of that party. The vital force of that
organization being in the South, and Slavery
propagandism regarded there as necessity,
it Cannot be considered strange that the in.
fuence of the party should be 50 directed as
to fortify doctrines most congenial to the sup
posed welfare of those who direct its machine
ry. To many it has seemed unaccouutable
that executive action and legislative and Judi
cal proceedings should be so shaped, from
year to year, as to strengthen the few at the
expense of the great mass of our people, Let
it no longer be regarded as marvel or a mys-
terry the responsibility of it rests with those
Northern men in whom we have repoSed our
confidence and clothed with the garments of
authority. Examine the recorded votes in
your National Congress, and there learn why
it is that Northern capital and labor are con-
stantly borne down by the enormous weight
of Southern exaction. When your reasonable
requests are denied, tell you with earnest
ness and emphasis, it is because eight millions
of men control eighteen millions through our
representatives elected by party pledged to
Interests adverse to ours. Slavery educates
lis statesmen in high school under able pro-
fesSors 1t teaches that the Northern men
are cowardly, aud that their ambition is link
ed with avarice and unfortunately for US,
it has arguments to fortify its faith In half
a century it may not be credited that less than
dozen men, trained under these clrumstun-
ces, so alarmed Pennsylvania President as
to induce him to recast message, violate the
plighted faith upon which he was elected, dis
grace his native State, and degrade the high
office to which he had then but recently been
elevated And yet not only this has been
done almost within our presence but the rep
| reseutatives of free constituencies have been
induced to lend their aid to force servile la
Dor into competition with that of the white
man, and a Slave State into the sisterhood of
independencies, to throw the balance of pow


er against their own people. Some of these
are now not only respectable members of the
Douglas church. bat missionaries among the
unbepving and outside barbarans. | have
some of them very distinctly in my recollec-
ton, and 1t would be quite refreshing to hear
their remarks in laudation of Popular Sover-
eighty, such as they denied to Kansas, and in
denuDciaton of Southern demands, to which
they succumbed as reluctantly as a thricese-
duced damsel to her lover. | believe it was
Mirabeau who said the presents of deSpo-
llSIH are III |S udlIBtIDuS HC sHOulu udhG


included, in his remark, the threat Of the ty


rant as we'll as bis reward.


The allegations that Southern combinations
are formed for the purpose of counteracting
opposition extremists, is q sheer false pretense,
resorted to as blind and cheat No fears
ever sprung from such parentage. Slavery
does not exist by legal enactment anywhere
it is the child OF force. and as the sentiment
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out the sustaining hand Of power Surround


ed by an atmosphere Of freedom it is necessa-
| rily unsafe, and statutory safeguards and defen-
ces become necessary. Vassalage and subjec-
ton never impress themselves, without vic.
lence, upon the natural man, whilst, on the
contrary, the sentiment Of freedom must forev


er disturb the subjects of a deSpotsm. The
South, to be safe, must therefore, extend
Though and beyond all the countervaling in
fuences to which | have referred, and couse-
quently, our frontier possessions must be cap
tured. But az the inherent weakness OF the
South IS not equal to this task, craft is resort
ed to to supply the needed assistance. Upon
whom can this be more advantageously
brought to bear than q President without
courage, a Judge without candor, or legisla-
tor without integrity We are sold or be-
trayed hourly, and if we had not more for
bearance than discretion we would terrify trai-
tors. Millions of acres of fertile lands, every
now and then are fched from our industrial
classes, who require them for the support and
education of their families, to be turned into
barren wastes, by those whose who have al
ready blasted more than one-half of our soil
as with an avalanche Of fire. Factories and
workshops are tottering in ruins, and families
and neighborhoods left starving and in rags,
because fostered industry is not required in
that region where the laborng man has no
rights which the owner of men is bound to re-
spect. And ships rot at our wharves, and
storehouses become but rendezvous for ldlers
and vagrants for the reason that uncompensa-
ted chattel sinews yield fruits more cheaply
than compensated skill, and require no shield
against the panper products of Europe. IT
change of tariff laws were required by the
South instead OF the North, they could not
fail of its accomplishment. In that case the
President would advocate it with ardor, if not
with sincerity, and our Senators would again
illustrate the fact of their trucking subjec-
tion to those who secretly abhor their base
ness and infdeIity Our earnest wishes are
not only constantly disregarded, but our pros
perity is remorselessly paraIyzed by our SER
wants without all audible murmur on our part
and we are not much averse, as we have often
proven, to comforting new leases of office upon
such as deceive US, to afford them further op-
portunties for mischief. Does this seem un-
accountable? | suggest no, In view OF the
truth | have but just stated, that the party
selecting them has its heart and brain In the
South, and its obeying members, merely, ID
the North. The remedy for this shameless
evil is as easy as it is simple. We need but
;,,;,oto Tho oyomnla sot ne nv those who have