Year: 1860

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Kansas y ebraska act was passed and good
men from North and South united in pcau
OF Joy over the adjustment Of all matters OF
controversy and subjects Of dispute; there
were men who, finding no other objection,
growled aud complained because they were
opposed 10 compromises. such men seem to
thluk that there can be DO free government
without unanimity, not only OF action, but OF
sentiment Our anti compromise friends
ought to remember that all representative
governments are ly their very institution a
compromises 1t is because of theimpossibility
Of all men thinking alike, that they are COM
PEELED to select, from among themselves, ref
erees 10y whom their difficulties may be set
lied. The history of the world contuius no
such compromise as the Constitution of the
United states From the record of its de-
bates, it is evident that DO two men Of the
convention which recommended it to the
people, agreed exactly upon the form OF
Constitutional Union. Even after it was
submitted several States held reluctantly
back for while, and eventually came into the
Union in a spirit Of compromise. There can
be little doubt that the men of that day were
as firm in their faith, as determined to uphold
/ principle as any men of this orany other age,
and these men compromised; the result OF


their compromise was the Federal Constitu-


ton.


1t is a fact worth remembering that the


men who have made the country illustrious,


while they wtre earning for themselves lau-


rels that will not fade, were those who,
despisiug technicalities and qaibbles, never
cumbering themselves with the burden OF
contingencies; took fast hold OF the Constitu-
ton Of the United States, and defed the
world and the devil One Of these men-a
relr,sentative an,put his army and navy in
readiness to crush the first demonstration Of
resistance to the laws of the United States.
whether it should come in the form of seces-
sion or nulidcation Would to God we had
Jackson now


But there seems TO he determined purpose
to put the Constitution of the United States
to an unnecessary test. We speak not of that
sectional ism which is tanaticism in its worst
form, and which would compel the Govern
ment to do that for which it was not institu-
ted and which has desecrated the word Re
publican Theirs is a madness which listens
to no reason, is deaf to argument We must
submit to ovations and grander triumphs oyer
the tomb Of the martyr John Brown. We
must permit Senator'S and printers to distrib
ute the poison Of Summers envenomed
speeches. and we try to smile over the friend
ly and familiar letters Of Gerritt Smith and
Fred. Douglass. As we have said the mis-
named abominably misnamed Republicans"
are deaf to argument. We have heretofore
called them "disloyal" We know no better
name to give them. That they are mad we
are compelled to believe, that there is meth
Cd in their madness is equally true. Their
purpose is disunion, and they have set them
selves to tear down and overthrow.


Bat We would fain address ourselves to
patriots, TO Democrats-th words are synon
ymous-and We ask why do we differ? on
what do we differ? what possible good can
come Of our difference No one can 90 far
ther than we go in our faith, hope and trust
in the American Union. No one shrinks with
a holier horror than we from the prospect of
its dismemberment Bat is threatened and
there are those who assert that it shall be
dissolved unless what? unless the Congress
of the United States declare their right to 30
what they Will never attempt to do and what
they never ought to do except under circum-
stances that would render their action unnec-
essary. The Supreme Court of the United
States has wisely decided that all citizens Of
the United States, with all their property,
may go upon any territory of the United
States, and that the law will protect their
persons and property. 1t is very certain that
if any portion of the territories should be
peopled 10y persons owning slaves they would
avail themselves of this protection and in
their territorial organization give such aid
to the home government as would be cousi,t
ent with the Constitution and the law of the
whole land. It is also true, that while in
their dependent State they may not pass any
laws conflicting with that Constitution. The
question about which men seem ready to 90
into very battle is at what moment, what
precise pm,etun temporis inhabitants of
territory may determine the one particular
question, shall slavery be allowed or not
We have no patience with the madmen who
insist that slavery should be compelled to
follow the flag of our Union, whether it hangs
by its staff a the hot tropical calm or is torn
from it 6y Arctic blasts These are as wild
and as dis as their kindred fanatics of
the North.


The extremists will never agree. We
claim that both are wrong. On principle we
think there can be no doubt of this truth
Practically, no possible good can result to
the Union 10y the recognition or denial OF
the right of Congress to interfere with the
question Of slavery in the territories. Slavery
will go where not only slave labor is prof.
table but necessary. 1t will 60 no where else.
What chen have we to gain by efforts to con
troll a current whose natural course is quiet
and healthful2


The flow Of emigration into the wild lands
Of the United States is as a great river: our
idea is that nothing should be done to inter.
rupt obstruet or turn back Its current.


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