T7ii okkgon akoub.
uv p. w. tiuiu.
"7. u vfnei'UIPTiriX
. iira. iUhtJuriht4 at Thru Vollan
,um, if l""d '" dll,"'rt-
n,U,tl V"1.. .. ...A t lh, v,ar.
,.ired tut a If ntriutl.
'J. Jiirontinued until all arrraragei
i' . FLi... .1 Ik, oiitian of Ikt iiuhlithtr.
miiIi "' '
" ' . :..i,,iitu-ftreceiitt.
Smg" c"l""
TUe Tbrea ttraon.
lwlh woald marry a maiden,
'Lfciraiidfoail w:wliS
BJi .1.. - rich, l. lr,
Amlioitn.ieliin.Hb.-.
A Indy navel e""1" wear
IIr tnollier l.eld it lirtti
,owa iliatcama uf un Indian plant,
' iiieaiUfu Indian worm !
Ami truel word Wa" lM'''e". '
And to it wa la'o hourta were brukea.
A,,hHoulJnMiryam.iilcn,
Ko,fairaud fund aJwt
Bail'1 ttfi uJ ' waelow,
And it m ghi "''"
A mM l,a l orii aiur.
In Miiciint buttle won,
II, 1. 1 nulililo" with ureal renown,
TugouJ hi future aun !
Awl w the orut-l word wa pok.-n (
And it wa two lrle were broken.
A routh wuulJ marry a maiden,
tr fair end fmiclwaeahe;
But Ihrir :w dipiitl a'""' "'
Audioitiiiilitn"lbe.
Acayle of wicked k.HB,
Three hundred year nj.'iiu,
(lad plnvcj at a tin ul Rume ofchraa,
Andiiicrliiiri li had been tlio puwu!
And Mtlie cruel wold wu !en
And (0 it two lieiuls w-re bmken.
Jukn U. Suxe.
srnBCH
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1I0X,
AVM. II. SKWAKD,
lit the V. H. Hrle,
OX THE KEtmiARV, I860.
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A Weekly Newspaper, devoted to the Interests of the laboring Classes, and advocating the aide of Truth in every issue.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, APRIL 2 1, 1 800. No. 2.
Vol. VI.
prescriptive? Coiim, if you will, into tlio
free States, into the Stntc of New York,
anywhere from Luke Krie to Shu Harbor,
among my neighbors in (lie Owusco Val
ley. Hold your conventions, nominnte
your candidates, address the people, submit
to them, fully, cumcst ly, eloquently, till
your complaints and grievances of North-
crn disloyalty, oppression, prrliily; keep
ceod hit lessons end exumplo. Thomas
Jefferson addressed Dr. Price, an English
man, concerning his treutise on emuueipa
tion in Amcrieu, in this fashion:
"Southward of the Chesapoako, your
book will find but few readers concurring
with it in sentiment on the subject of slavery
From the mouth to the head of the Chesa
peake, the bulk of tlio people will niprnve
nothing back, speak just us freely and ns it in theory, ami it will Dud a respectable
otidly there ns you do hero. You will minority ready to adopt it In practice; a
havo hospitable welcomes, and appreciating minority which, for weight and worth or
audiences, with ballot boxes open for all j character, preponderates against the great
the votes you can win. Are you less sec- er number who have not the cottrago to
tiouiiltlinn this? Extend to us the same divest their families of a property which,
privileges, and I will engage that you will however, keeps their conscience unquiet.
very soon nuve in inu fouin as many lie- Northward of the Chesapeake, you may
though futully erroneous convictions, yet all loyalty to the Union, nil it advantages will
good citizens will nevertheless agree that, be unavailing; ami then obnoxious as,
this attempt to execute nu unlawful pur- j through long-cherished ami obstiuato pro
pose in Virginia by Invasion, Involving ser-j (tidier, tlio ltepitblican party is in the cap-
vile war, was un uct ot sedition ami i reft- j uni Males, yei even incro it will advance
son, and criminal to just tlio extent that it 'like nn army with bnunvrs, winning the fa
affected the public peitco, und was ilcstruc-Ivor of the whole people, and it will be
tivoof human linppiuess and liuiimn life, tinned with tlio national confidence and
It is a painful reflection that, ufter so long supiiort, when it shall be found the only
nn exjicrifuce of the beneficent working of; party that defends and uinintuius the iutrg.
our system ns wo Imvn cnioveil. wo huvu 1 ritv of tlio Union.
had these new illustrations in Kansas and I 'Those who seek to awaken the terrors of
Virginia of tlio existence among us of a disunion sewn to me to have too hastily
(Conch'lcil.)
Tlio choice of the intion is now liclwcen
Oic D.iu'H-r ttic party and tlio l'epubiicun
imriy. Its principles and policy are, there
fore, justly unit even necessarily cAiimiucd.
kaow of only on; policy which it has
adopted or avowed, namely: the saving of
tin? Territories of the United States, if
jin-siMe, by constitutional and lawful
in, fio.u being homes lor Slavery and
lVvgnmy. Wlio, that considers where
this' nation exists, of what races it is eom
khoi1, in what age of the world it acts its
irt on t!i!' public stage, and what are its
irvilimiinuut instil ntions, customs, habits,
ami sentiments, ihubts timt the Republi
can parly can an I will, if unwaveringly
faithful to that policy, and just and loyal
in all hesid-', carry it into triumphal suc
cess? To doubt, is to be uncertain whether
civifeitio.i can improve or Christianity
jive mankind. .
I nuy, perhaps, infer, from I lie necessity
of tlieeW', that it w'il, in all courts and
places, stand by the freedom of speech and
of the press, mid tlio constitutional rights
of froenvn every wlr.-rnj tint it will favor
the speedy improvcm-'iit of the public do
wiiii by lionivstead laws, and will encour
age miiuV, m iMufaeture, nnd Internal com
niifce, wiiii nec"u! ::.".r.:;;icr.: l c'wcen
the Atl.:ntic a:i.l Pacific States for nil
t!i:. nrs important interests of Freedom,
For all the rest, the national emergencies,
not individual isiliu 'ticcs, must determine,
ns society goes o i, t!i? policy and character
; the I't'imblican party. Already bearing
its part in legislation and in treaties, it
feels tlio necessity of being practical in its
rare uf the national health and life, while
it leaves metaphys'cil speculat'oii to those
whose duly it is to citltivulu the cnuo'ding
K'ieneeof political philosophy.
But in tliu midst of these subjeets, or,
rather, before fully reaching them, the He
publican party encounters unexpectedly n
new ami potential issue ono prior, mid
therefore paramnnnt, to all others, ono of
national life and death. .last as if so much
liad not been already conceded; nuy. just
ns if nothing at all had ever been conceded
1o the interest of capital invested in men,
we hear menaces of Disunion, louder, more
distinct, more emphatic than ever, with the
condition annexed, that tliev shall be ex
wilted the moment that u Kopubliean Ad
ministration, though constitutionally elect
1, shall assume the Government.
I do not certainly know that the people
rc prepared to call such an Administra
tion to power. I know only that through a
succession of floods which never greatly ex
cite, and ebbs which never entirely discour
jc me, the volume of Republicanism rises
luuiinnaiiy ingiier and higher. They are
prooawy wise, whoso apprehensions ndmon
Is" tllein that it is already strong enough
lor effect.
Hitherto the Republican pnrty has been
"-una wuii one sett-interrogatory liow
imny votes it can cast? These threats en
force another has it determination enough
Jo cast them? This hitter question touches
"s spirit and pride. I am quite sure, how-
Y .' lU!lli as it 'wa hitherto practiced self
cnial in so many other forms, it will in
tins emergency lay aside nil impatience of
ir, logeuier with all ambition, nnd
'H consider these extraordinary de
clamations seriously, and with a just mod
eratiou. It would' be a waste of words to
aemonstrato that they ore unconstitutional,
M equally idle to show that the responsi
Il.ty for disunion, attempted or effected,
'"just rest not with those who in the exer
'if ' Constitutional outiiority maintain
m 'Government, but with those who un
oiwtitirtionally engage in the mad work of
nhrertiug it.
M hat are the excuses for these menoces?
JL'iey resolve themselves into this, that the
Kepabhcan party of the Morth is hostile to
we South. Cut it already is proved to be
njjonty in the Xorth; it is, therefore,
Pfwically the people of the Xorth. Will
still be the same North that has for
with too so long and conceded to
JJW much? Can you justly assume that
,, Ttl0n w";ch has been so complying can
' ,,n?' c,l:,"i'e to hatred intense and io
'lorable? Yoa say tj,at l!ie Kepnblican party is a
iZ . on'- the Democratic party
WeclMM,? ' !t ea,ier for U9 t0 ,ear
sectional sway than for too to bear
, Is it unreasonable that for once we
alternate? Dat is the Republican
.? sectional? Xot unless the Dcmo-
Ttlie rurtr U T!l0 T......l.t:,.o
l" "he House of Representatives
mes; the Dc
. -j. 1 lu'ii nr I j !irn u fifwl 1 am nri
publicans as we have Democrats in the
North. There is, however, a better test
of nationality than the accidental location
of parties. Our policy of labor in the Ter
ritories was not sectional in the first forty
years of the Republic. Its nature inheres.
It will bo national again, during the third
forty years, and forever ufterwnrd. It is
not wise nnd beneficent for us ulone or in-
jurio.is to you alone. I is effects are cquul,
nnd the same for us all.
You accuse the Republican party of ul
terior nnd secret designs. How can a par
ty that counts its votes in this land of free
speech and free press by the hundreds of
thousands, have any secret designs? Who
is the conjuror, and where are the hidden
springs by which he can control its uncon-
gregatcd and widely-dispersed musses and
direct them to objects unseen and purposes
uuavowed.' lint what are these hidden
purposes? ion name only one. Jlint
ouo is to introduce negro equality among
you. Supposo we had the power to change
your social system, what warrant have you
for supposing that we should carry negro
class of men so misguided and so desiieratu , considered the conditions under which they
us to seek to enforco their peculiar priuci- nro to make their attempt. Who believes
pies by the sword, drawing after It a need that a Republican Administration and
for tlio further illustration hr their punish- Congress could practice tvrunny under a
llllll llAM miil H.I.M W1I.I...H n.l..,lnMI.' I .1 ll...t . -..I . !.. II .. ......! t ... ! ..I.I..I. t...
iiuuMviuuiiuiinicaii'inAi vi n mm uvi vi , , mi'llli ul llllll gmib llllirul 11 111 II, C!evillll J j I'ilMII UIIUI1 w 1111:11 IIIU'I jruneit 111U
but in no grcut number." "This applicable inu Republic, thut they who, checks as ours? Yet thut tyranny un
r 1-! !..; . 1 :.. .1.. c... ......... .I.!,. .r. .i " . . .. i. ..... ... . .
iuko up too sworn us a weapon oi couiro- noi uc practiced, out musi no iiuoicruiiie,
versy shall perish by the sword. In the and there must lie no remaining liopo for
Virginia is the next State to which we
may turn our eyes for the interesting siec
taclc of justice in conflict with avarice unci
oppression a conflict where the sacred
side is gaining daily new recruits from the
Influx into omce of young men, gruwu und
growing up." " Re not then dis
couraged. What you have written will
do a good deal of good; and, could you
still trouble yourself about our welfare, no
man is more able to help the laboring
side."
You gee, Sir, that whether we go for or
against slavery anywhere, we must follow
Southern guides. You may change your
pilots with tlio winds or the currents; but
we, whoso nativity, reckoned under the
North Star, has rendered us somewhat su
perstitious, must be excused for constancy
in following tlio guidance of those who
framed the nutionul ship and gave us tlio
chart for its noble voyage
A profound respect and friendly regard
for the Vice President of the United Stores
CHiiniity among your e Know, ana we .ns tut need mo to wenrli cnrclullv the tcs-
will show you, if you will only give heed, tjuiouy on the subject of tlio hostility
thut whut our system of labor works out, I nguinst the South imputed to the Republi
wherever it works out anything, is the j can party, ns derived from the relations of
equality of the white tifii. The laborer in the representatives of the two parties ut
i -VIM l.mi. . n K .o .1! II. 1. 1...,.
the free States, no matter how humble his
occupation, is u white man, and he is polit
ically the equal of Ins employer, hightcen
this capital. Ho says that he has seen
here in the representatives of the lower
Southern Stutes a most earnest and roso-
of our thirty-three States are free labor lute spirit of rcsistunco to the Republican
States. There they tire: Maine, New party; that he perceives a sensible loss of
Hampshire., Massachusetts, ermoiit, j that spirit of brotherhood and tliut feeling
Massachusetts, Vermont,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Xew i oik,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michi
gan, Illinois ludiuna, Wisconsin, Minucso-
of loyalty, together with that love for a
common couutry, which ure at last the sur
est cement of the Union; so that, in the
to, Iowa, California, nnd Oregon. I do i present unhappy condition of affairs, he is
not array them in contrast with the capitul i ntnin.it tempted to exclaim that we are dis-
States. All of these States are parcels of solving week by week, and month by
my own country the h-st of them nut so .month; that the threads nro gradually
and great as 1 am sure it win ncre-, frettuig themselves asunder; ana a stranger
latter case, the lamented deaths of so iiianv
citizens slain from an ambush and surprise
all tlio more lumetitablo becnuso they
wcro innocent victims of n frenzy kindled
without their agency, in fur distant lires
tlio deaths even of tiic offenders themselves,
pitiable, although necessary and just, be
causo they acted under a delirium, which
blinded their judgments to tlio real motive
of their criminal enterprise; the alarm and
consternation naturally awakened through
out the couutry, exciting for tlio moment
the fear that our whole system, with nil its
securities for life and liberty was coming to
an end a four nono tho more endurable
because continually aggravated by new chi
meras to which the great leading event lent
nnnirof probability; surely all these con
stituted a sum of public misery which ought
to have satisfied tho most morbid appetite
(or sociul horrors. Rut, ns in tho case of
the gunpowder plot, nnd the Salem witch'
craft, and the Xcw lock colonial negro
plot, so now; tho original uctors were
swiftly followed by another und kindred
class, who sought to prolong and widen (lie
public distress by attempting to ibrcct the
indignation which it had excited against
parties guiltless equally of complicity and
ofsvmpnthy with the offenders.
Posterity must decide in nil the recent
cases where political responsibility for puli
lic disasters must fall; mid posterity will
civc little heed to our instructions. It was
not until the gloomy r ign of Romitiun hud
ended, and liberty und virtue had found as
sured rcfugo under the sway of the milder
Ncrva, that tho historian nrose whose nar
ative of that period of tyranny and terror
has been accepted by m uikiiid.
The Republican party being thus vindi
cated against the charge of hostility to tlio
after be; the State least developed aud , mieht suppose that the Executive of the
perfect among them ull is wiser and better United States was the President of two j South, which has been offered in excuse for
than tiny foreign State 1 know. Is it thin hostile Republics. It is not for me to raise j the menaces of unconstitutional resistance
in any, an 1 iu which, of tho States I have a doubt upon the correct ncss of this dark in the event of its success, I feel well ns-
nsr.yd that negro equality offends the picture, Eofurnsthe Southern groups on surcd that it will sustain me iu meeting
while man's pride? Throughout the wido,tc canvass nro coucemcd, but 1 muit bo
indulged in tlio 011:1110:1 tnat I can pro
nounce as accurately ccnscrnlng the North
ern Representatives hero as anv one. I
them In the spirit of the defender of the
English Coairuomwuliu:
" Surely they that shall boast as wo do
to be a free nation, nnd, having the power,
Throughout the wide.
world, where is tho State where class and
caste are so utterly extinguished as they
are iu crcli und every one of thcml Let
the European immigrant, who avoids the
African as if his skin exhaled contagion, an
swer. You find him always in the State
where labor is free. Did Washington, Jef
f. ts in, and Henry, wlun tlcy imp'orcd
you to relinquish your system nnd accept
the one way we have adopted, propose to
sink voa down to the level of the African? nien. Differences of opinion, even on the source of all liberty, to d spos? of and econ
or was it their des're to exult ull white 1 subject of slavery, with ns are political, omize In tlio land which God hutii given
know their public haunts and their private shall not also have tho courage to remove
ways. We are not a hostile Republic, or 'constitutionally every Governor, w belli. r
representatives of one. Wo confer togeth- ho be tho supreme or subordinate, may
er; but only as the organs of every party pleaso their fancy with a ridiculous and
do, and must do in a political system which I painted freedom, fit to cozen babies, but
obliges us to act somctiinei ns partisans while 6re, indeed, itneler tyranny nnd servitude, as
it requires nsulways tube patriots nndstntcs-j wanting that power, which is the root and
men to a common political elevation?
But we do not seek to force, or even in
trude, oar system on you. Wo are exclu
ded justly, wisely, and contentedly, from all
political "power and responsibility iu your
capital States. You are sovereigns on the
subject of slavery within your own borders,
as we are on tlio sumo subject within our
borders. It is well and wisely so arranged.
Use your authority to maintain what sys
tem you please. We are not distrustful of
the result. We have wisely, as we think,
exercised ours to protect and perfect the
manhood of the members of the State.
The whole sovereignty upon domestic con
cerns within tho Union is divided between
us by unmistakable boundaries. You have
your fifteen distinct parts; wo eighteen
parts, equally distinct. Each must be
maintained in order that the whole may be
preserved. If ours shall be assailed, with
in or without, by any enemy, or for any
cause, and we shall have need, we shall e.v
np,.t vnn to defend it. If vours shall Ik
j "- j -- . 1
SO BSsaiieu, 111 mo dutiful j, nu
what the cause or the pretext, or who the
foe. we shall defend your sovereignty as the
equivaleut of our own. e cannot,
not social or personal diffTenccs. There is 1 them, as members of family in their own
not one disuniouist or disloyalist among us home nnd free inheritance; without which
all. We arc altogether unconscious of any I natural ami essential power of ufivoua
process of dissolution going on among or ' tion, though hearing high their heads, they
around us. Wo have never been more pa-1 can, in due esteem, bo thought no better
tient, nnd never loved the representatives 1 than slaves nnd vnssals born in the tenure
of other sections more than now. We bear and occupation of another inheriting lord
the same testimony for the people around whose government, though not illegal or
ns here, who, though in the very center j intolerable, hangs on them as a lordly
where the bolt of disuniou must full first 1 scourgo, not as a freo Government."
and bo most fearful in its effects, seem never
less disturbed than uow. Wo bear the
samo testimony for all the districts and
States we represent. Tho people of tho
Xorth arc not enemies but friends and breth
ren of the South, faithful aud trae as iu the
days when death has dealt his arrows
promiscuously uniong them 011 common battle-fields
of Freedom.
Wo will not suffer ourselves here to
dwell on any evidences of a different tem
per in the South; but we shall be content
with expressing our belter thut liostility
If yours shall be ! that is not designedly provoked, and thut
cannot provoke retaliation, is au auumoiy
that must be traced to casual excitements,
which cannot perpetuate alienation.
A canvass for a Presidential election, in
The Republican parly knows, ns the
whole country will ultimately como to un
derstand, that the noblest objects of nation
al life must perish, if thut life itself shall be
lost, and therefore it will accept tho issue
tendered. It will take up the word Union,
which others are so willing to renounce,
nnd combining it with that glorious thought,
Liberty, which has been its inspiration so
long, it will move firmly onward, with the
motto inscribed npon its banner, " Union
and LtiiKitTV, come what may, iu victory
ns in defeat, in power us out of power, now
and forever."
If the Republican pnrty maintain the
Union, who nnd what party is to assail it?
Only the Democratic party, for there is no
other. Will the Democratic party take
deed, accept your system of capital or its gom9 resnects more important, perhaps, nn the assault? Tho menaces of d'sunion
: - ... . 1 1' . . - - .
einics.
subvert
Constitutional relief, before forcible resist
ance can Gnd ground to stand on anywhere.
The people of the Uuited States, acting
in conformity with the Constitution, arc
the supremo tribunal to try and determine
all political issues. They ure as competent
to decide the issue of to-morrow ns they
have been heretofore to decide the issues
of other dnys. They can reconsider here
after and reverse, if need be, the judgment
they ahull pronounco to-elny, as they have
more than once reconsidered and reversed
their judgments iu former times. It needs
no revolution to correct any error, or pre
vent any danger, under any circumstances.
Nor is any new or speciul cause for revo
lution likely to occur under a Republican
Administration. e ure engaged in no
new transaction, not even iu a new dispute.
Our fathers undertook ft great work leir
themselves, for us, and for our successors
to erect a free and Federal empire, whose
arches shall span the North American con
tinent, nnd reflect tho rays of tho sun
throughout his whole passage from one to
the other of the grent oceans. They erect
ed thirteen of its columns all at once.
Thcso are standing now, the admiration of
mankind. Their successors added twenty
more; even wo who ure here have shaped
and elevated three of that twenty, nnd till
these are ns firm and as steadfast as the
first thirteen; and more will yet be neces
sary w hen we shall have rested from our
labors. Some among us prefer for these
columns a composite material; others the
pure white marble. Our fathers and our
predecessors diffend in the same way, and
on tho smio point. What execrations
should we not ull unite In pronouncing on
any statesman who heretofore, from mere
disuppo'ntmrnt nnd disgust at being over
ruled in his choice of materials for nuy new
column then to be quarried, should have
laid violent hands on the imperfect struc
ture, nnd brought it down to the earth,
there to remain a wreck, instead of a cita
del of a world's best hopes!
I remain now iu the opinion I have uni
formly expressed hero and elsewhere, that
thcso hasty threats of Disunion nro so un
natural that they will find no hand to ex
ecute them. We ure of one race, language',
liberty, and faith; engaged, indeed, in va
ried industry; but even that industry, so
diversified, brings ns into mora intimate re
lations with each other than any other peo
ple, however homogeneous, and though
living under a consolidated Government,
ever maintained. Wo languish through
out, if one jo'nt of our Federal frame is
smitten; while it is certain that a part dis
severed must rish. You may refiim as
you please about the structure of the Gov
ernment, und say that it is a compact, and
that a breach, by ouo of the States, or by
Congress, of any ono article, absolves all
the members from ullegiance, and that the
State's may separate when thry have, or
fancy they have, cause for war. Rut once
try to subvert it, und you will find that it
is a tioverr.mci.t of the whole people as in
dividuals, as well as a compact of States;
that every individual member of the body
politic is conscious or Ins interest nud jxiwer
in it, and knows that he will be helpless,
powerless, hopeless, when it shall have gone
down. Mankind liavo a natural right, a
natural instinct, and a nnturul capacity for
self-government; and when, as here, they
arc sufficiently ripened by culture, they will
and must have self-government, und no
other. Tho framers of our Constitution,
with a wisdom that surpassed till previous
understanding among men, ndapted it to
these inherent elements of human nature.
Ho strangely, blindly misunderstands the
anatomy of the great system, who thinks
that its only bonds, or even Its strongest
ligaments, nro the written compact, or the
That would be to surrendor and . tian . sjnco 1800, has recently begun, are maelo, though not in its name, yet in its
our own. wlrch we esteem to be , ti.. House of Renrcscntatives was to be behalf. It mast avow or disavow them.
better. Besides, if we could, wliat need ot ; organized by a majority, wlulo no party j Its silence, thus far, is portentous, but is multiplied und thoroughly Minified roads
any division into States at ail? You are ; cou$ cist more than a plurality of totes, not alarming. The effect of the intimation, Und thoroughfares of trade, commerce, nnd
erpially ut liberty to reject our system and , fhe ghwm of the late tragedy in Virginia if successful, would bjto continue the social intercourse. These are strong, in
its ethics, and to maintain the superiority re3ted on the Capitol from the day when j rule of tho Democratic party, though a eleed, but its chicfest instruments of coho
of vour own by all the forces of persuasion Congress assembled. While the two great minority, by terror. It certainly ought to ! sion those which render it inseparable and
and argument. We must, indeed, mutually I political parties were peacefully, lawfully, ' need no more than this to secure the sue-1 indivisible arc the millions of fibers of
discuss both systems. All the world dis-1 nnj constitutionally, though zealously, con-1 cess of the Republican party. If, indeed, j millions of contented, happy human hearts,
cusses nil systems. Especially must we j ducting' the great national issue between the time has come when the Democratic , binding by their affections, their ambitions,
discuss them since we have to decide as a free iu,or anj capital lalor for the Terri-! party must rule by terror, instead of ruling I and their best hopes, equally the high and
nation which of the two we ought to en-1 toriee to its projicr solution, through the I through conceded public confidence, then ; the low, the rich end the poor, the wise and
graft on the new and future States growing trials of the ballot, operating directly or J it is quite certain that it cannot be dis the unwise, the learned and the untutored,
lip into the great public domain. Discos- j indirectly on the various departments of the missed from power too soon. Ruling 011 even the good and the bad, to a Govern
sion then being unavoidable, what could be , Government, a band of exceptional men, I that odious principle, it ewildnot long save meut, the first, the last, and the only such
more wise than to conduct it with mutual j contemptuous equally of that great ques-! either tho Constitution or public liberty. ono that has ever existed, which takes
toleration and in a fraternal spirit? tion and of the parties to the controversy, But I shall not believe the Democratic equal heed always of their wanta, their
You complain that Republicans discourse 'and impatient of the constitutional system j party will consent to stand in this position, wishes, and their opinions; and appeals to
too bolelly and directly, when they express ! which confines the citizens of every State though it eloes, through the action of its them ull, individually, once in a year, or iu
with-
where
with
own Constitutions, while they sanction too; wrongs that some of them had suffered by know a possible disnuionist among mem coiiiiiiiks oim tor your lutul service 111 one
nnrpsrrveellv books designed to advocate i inroafls 01 armeei propaganuisea 01 Slavery 1 an. 1 oeuevo 11117 iiiuo.i mmnm i- imuci, ami your uouuiy euunn ii i,j 111c nun-
einane-ipation. lint snrely you can nardiy j in jvansas, unmwim un w uii niiuir un umi huj bus m mi t inm ut uu u m iihi i
Ull, HUSH h.i.i. iuiihi mi" mil, urn. uimi .Villl.1, a liiwunu IIU ItniniVII 1.H, I im. iij. i".
with confidence tiie-ir Denei inai meir svs- 10 poiiut-ai un vj raw uc m juimu nncuuui , nwu ... - ..-, - ,., ...... .....r.
f.m .r iw rill in Hip purl tw Dniversullv narties within their own borders, and in- those who threaten disunion. I know the , their expressed consent and renewal,
, tl, '-.nitnl Stati urtinrr ftwlatiired by an enthusiasm peculiar to them- Democracy of tho North. I know them out which it must cease. No, go
.i ' . oh in "nnfnrm'ir with their ' selves, aad exasperated by trrievances and ! now in their waning strength. I do not yon will, and to what class you may,
expect the Federal Government or the po-1 tion was, attempted to subvert slavery in
litical narties of the nation to maintain a Virginia by conspiracy, amnnsii, mvu- challenge 10 me cornoai was always wie , every rccruii you can engage, un ine
-Munrsliinof the Press or or debate. The sion, and force. The method we have war-cry or victory. I5ut.it it snail prove banks equally ot the fct. Lawrence ami me
J -i ' J A.J t An.r.iu.K 4a fl.A mo run an1 . Attiunpica fKun t rid irrtrlrl u.' ill oil tlirt .Ann. ' 1; n-.. An tit A ft'liitm Blifl tl. I'll.
. l. -.r mT'str.m is t nor. prrfir ni nnin- linnnLtf oi o niF-aiiuu. w mo i t-wu win wniri n uv. nv , jviv vji t n'j';. vn tuv iim.nm-
. : .n" '.-fotr r inUnteA imlment of the nconle. to be pronounced ef know that every party in this country cific coasts, on the shores of the Gulf of
where reaon is left free to combat it. Will by suffrage, is the only one by which froe must stand on Uniou ground; that the; Mexico, and in the dells of the Rocky
it be claimed that more of moderation and government can be maintained anywhere, American people will sustain no party that Mountains, among the fishermen of the
tenderness in debate are exhibited oo four and the only one as yet devised which is io is not capable of making a sacrifice of its banks of Newfoundland, the weavers aud
iit of th- rnat arirumcnt than our own? harmony with the spirit of the Christian re-1 ambition on the alUr or the country; that, ' spinners or .Massachnsclts, me sicveaores
wuew uicrr.i .i(umi . ' ., .1. -..il,. ... 1 .i,k L . ... ... .... u1, .. nl, ' J v.. V,l minor, nf T'-nnnrtrnnin
We all learned oar polemics, as wen as oar i ngion. nue p nerous nwi" .is y v " : --v -
nrinciidea. from a common master. We turrt will proiia'iiy concede mai jomi ,01 preside, nu ue.cr wen uwuuvnu ui-.-i-: 1 i.e. .,
that we uo not, on our eiue, tx-i urowa ana ijj iawa's m u j, v ... ... uv ,
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sugar planters on the Mississippi, among
the voluntary citizens from every other laud
not less than the iiutlve-borii, the Christian
and the Jew, mixing the Indians on tho
prairies, the contumacious Mormons in tho
Discrct, the Al'ricuns free, the Africans in
bondage, the inmates of hospitals und
almshouses, und even the criminals in tho
H'tiitentiurles, rchcursc tho story of your
wrongs and their own neve r so eloquently
and never so mournfully, and appeal to
them to rise. They will n.-k you, " Is this
nil ?'' " A re you more just thuu Washing
ton, wiser than Hamilton, more humane
than Jeff r.-on? "Whut new form of
government or of union have you the power
to establish, or even tho cunning to devise,
that will be more just, more safe, more free,
more gentle, more beneficent, or more glo
rious than this?' And by these simple
interrogatories you will be silenced nud
confounded.
Mr. President, wo nro perpetually for
getting this subtle nnd complex, yet obvi
ous and natural, mechanism of our Consti
tution; and because we tlo forget it, wo
arc continually wondering how it is thut a
confederacy of thirty nnd more States, cov
ering regions so vast, and regulating inter
ests so various of so ninny millions of men,
constituted and conditioned so diversely,
works right on. We ure continually look
ing to see it stop and stand still, nud fall
suddenly into pieces. But, iu truth, it will
not stop; it cannot stop; it was made not
to stop, hut to keep iu motion in motion
always, aud without force. For my own
part, ns this wonderful machine, when it
had newly comu from the hands or its al
most divine inventors, was the admiration
of my earlier years, although it was then
but imperfectly known abroad, so now,
when it forms the central figure in the
economy of the world's civilization, and the
best sympathies of mankind lavor its con
tinuance, I expect thut it will stand aud
work right on until men shall fear its fail
ure no more than we now apprehend that
the sun will cease to hold its eternal pluco
iu tlio heavens.
Nevertheless, I do not exiicct to see this
purely popular, though majestic, system
always working on unattended by the pres
ence and exhibition of human temper and
human passions. That would be to expect
to enjoy rewards, benefits, and ble-ssings
without labor, care, and watchfulness an
expectation contrary to Divine appoint
ment. Thcso uro the discipline of the
American citizen, and lie must inure him
self to it. When, ns now, a great policy,
fastened upon the country through its
doubts anil fears, confirmed bv its habits,
nud strengthened by personal interests and
ambitious, is to bo relaxed and changed,
in order that the nation may have its just,
nnd nnturnl, and freo development, then,
indeed, all tho winds of controversy are let
loose upon us from all points of the politi
cal compass, wo sec objects aim men only
through political hazes, mists, und doubt
ful nnd lurid lights. Tho earth seems to
be heaving under our feet, and the pillars
of the noble fabric that protects us to lo
trembling before our eyes. But tho op
pointed end of nil this agitation comes nt
last, and always seasonably; the tumults of
the peoplo subside; tho country becomes
calm onco more; and then we find that
only our senses have been disturbed, and
thut they havo betrayed us. The earth is
firm as always before, and tho wonderful
structuro, for whose safety we have reared
so anxiously, now more firmly fixed than
ever, still stands unmoved, enduring, and .
Immovable.
LiTKit.inv Mauiiia(ii:s. Are old maids'
prejudices against marriages with poets
and novelists, and writers generally, built
on any ground of reason? You remember
how unhappy was Byron's marriage. Shel
ley's was no, be tier. Milton's three mar
riages wero all unhappy. Campbell was
wretched every way. What nu angelic
patience Tom Moore's wife possessed; how
often must her heart have been wrung by
her husband as well as chil 'feu; you know
how unfortunately ull turned out. Sir Ed
ward Bnlwcr Lyttun is separated from his
wife. Mr. Charles Dickens has parted
from his wife. Mrs. Norton bns quitted
her husband. Mrs. Funny Kcinble has
fled hers. Rogers, Pope, Mncuulay, Hume,
Gibbon, nil rcmuined bachelors most
wisely. Coleridge left his wife to starve.
Charles Lamb kept out of the noose. Ad
dison got married and found consolation
only iu the bottle; and by b at range coinci
dence, Lowell Stowell (so closely resem
bling Addison in many particulars) lived
happily until lute iu life bo married a lady
licaring the same title as the woman who
poisoned Addison's last years. Swift nev
er married. Boliugbroko quarreled and
parted with his wife. Pitt ne ver married.
Washington Irving was unmarried. Hoth
of Sh'Tidiin's marriages were unhappy.
Shnkspeare's will is supposed to exhibit ev
idence of an unhappy marriage.
tfr " Pink," of the Charleston Courie r,
who is by no means a pink of politeness,
writes from New York that there is a grent
and growing evil iu New York, one of u
delicate nature the ladies get drunk!
B&T " We see," said Swift in one of his
most sarcastic moods, "what God Al
mighty thinks of riches, by the ople to
whom he gives them."
SHr Oliver Goldsmith once r'varkce
that true merit consisted, not iu a man's
never falling, but in riitj 94 oflcu as bo
falls.
$3T " To-morrow" is the day on which,
l.lry folk' work, and fools reform