Year: 1859

world are controlled by righteous, moral G over.
nor. is seen in the fact that every wrong system
contains the power which will work its ruin, and
every wrong doer is seen weaving with his own
bands the net by which be is shared at length. In
the preparation and rendering of re,ributions
which belong to earth, two things are often SO
plain to attract general attention a fatuity OF
mind in tho workers of iniquty. by which in all
their schemes they to choose tho very means
best fitted for their defeat, and the manifestation
Of an overruling intelligence in the ordering of
events which makes destruction sure.


The solemn interest which we feel in tracing the
history of some great crime, is caused mainl, by
the consciousness that an unseen hand is spread,
ing the tolls in which the perpetrator will be GER.
taiDly;taken at last. The great dread which some
times overmasters the soul of the murderer, is not
50 much fear of mere human skill or effort, as an
apprehension that God himself is arraying oil .
agencies against him, that his best devised plans
for conceanert and escape will prove the very
means of exposure and punishment. These prin,
ciples are as applicable to wrong political actions
as to individuals, and the history of the attempts
Of the slave power to subdue the North and bring
the whole country into subjection to its own per |
petual dictatorship, shows in the most conclusive
manner, that lie who rules the destinies of nations
has sealed it for ruin, and is guiding it surely to
Its end and that its Chief supporters in selecting
the means of its defence, have chosen precisely
those best adapted to render its downfall certain.


The lesson which this history in some of its main
features presents may be profably studied both
by the North and South, for it foreshadows the en-
OF our national controversy too clearly admit Of
mistake If we looS 1.-The main events of the !
struggle, we cannot resist the conclusion that not
only is the seal set, but that the leaders of the |
slave power have been, and still are, the chosen
instruments of its ruin,


Az the time when John Quincy Adams under
took to vindicate the right of petition the country
was com mparatively peace in regard to the inst
tutious and policy of the South. The people Of
the North knew little of the character of slavery
Of the spirit and designs of the Southern leaders
Had the southern statesmen Of that day. combined
th~,r wisdom to devise the best method of laying
bare to all the world, the true character of their
system, to arract attention to the offensive spirit of
their policy and make it the universal subject of
thought and discussion, they could have con
J btrved nothing So Sadmirably fitted to produce these
results, as the very method which they adopted to
shut out the light and render discussion imposs
ble


The Atherton gag, and the assault upon Mr.
Adams rendered it inevitable that the whole in
huence of Congress, and Of parties should be
thenceforth used TO and emil ght n the peo
pie, and now every schuolboy Of the North is fn
miliar with the character of Slavery and the de
signs of its leaders and beyond all other topics
il has been since the suhjecs OF Congressional de
bate.


The statements which haze been made in regard
to the secret history of ths Foote Resolution which
gave rise to the debate between Mr.. Webster, and
Mr. Hayne, present another instance in which
Southern leaders to have been guided on to
ruin by an unseen hand while they thought them.
selves most wise. The double Object of that keso.
luton has been said, was to separate the West
from the East and by an nfiaton Of the South
and the West, and a suitable system Of internal
improvements, direct the commerce of the Missis.
sippi valley up the Southern seaboard, Hence
the fierce attack upon Eastern character, institu.
tions and policy and hence, also, the proposed
liberal policy toward the West,n regard to the
public ands.


The result is known The South was most sig
nay defeated, and the very measure by which she
proposed to cripple the Northern cities bound the
West and the East together by ins parable connec
tions, and has built up empires in the Great Vail
aley which pour their whole wealth into the cities
Of the North.


Again, to remedy this mistake, and contract
this Northwestern development the South deemed
it necessary provide new territory for the expan.
sion of the slave system, forgetting that living
thing only can grow, and that slavery is only a
dcath and decay. Texas was, therefore, forced
upon the North the raw material, as was thought,
out of which to manufacture at leisure and 70 or
der at least four slave States The fatal nature of
this acquisition begins now to appear. Whether
now to divide Texas in order to save one slave
State. or run the risk of yielding all to free labor
is the question which the Sluth has on it's hands
at present-a very pretty subject which to exer.
else her skill. g..


Before the present could be foreseen, however
the South, intoxicated with supposed success, and
with visions of new born slave States, brough, on
the further dismemberment of Mexico, by which
she secured at once the whole Pacific slope for
frsedom-and has also rendered inevitable the for
nation of more free states in what Northern
Mexico. in the time the Northern mind
needed to be agitated and embttered anew, in pre-.
paration for coming events, and Southern states'
men seem again to have been stirred by some pow.
or above themselves, to forge another instrument
for the destruction of their power They con.
triyed and mady insisted upon the Fugitive Slave
Bill, than which nothing could have been thought
Of better fitted to goad the North, and arouse a
spirit of hostility and retaliation and Just when
the Northern people were thoroughly stirred and it
needed but another act Of aggression and injustice
to prepare them for action, then the Missouri
Compromise was destroyed in the absurd expecta-
tion that the slave system could extend itself