LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DDDD174DDflfl >^- ^^'\ '■■ ^'-.-^^o .^*\.^^>^^ c°^:^^^^°o ^/V^^,% J <^ *'TV .^^ * V ^y i^ ,.«•'-•♦ 'O C^ V .^ _^°-;^.. V •y \'^--\/ v^-^'/ \'^-'\/.. "' "^' <r oK ;♦ ^y ^"-^ THE SOUTH DEMOCRATIC PARTY. A SPEECH BY D. A. ROBERTSON :::^ DELIVERED IN ST. PAUL, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30. SAINT PAUL: GOODRICH, SOMERS, & CO., PRINTERS. PIONEBR AND DEMOCRAT OFFICE. 1857. \m SPEECH OF D. A. ROBERTSON, IN DEFENCE OF THE SOUTH AND THE NATIONAL DEMOCRACY AGAINST rHE ASSAULTS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. DELIVERED BEFORE THE CENTRAL DEMOCF.ATIC CLUB AT ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA TERRITORY, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 30, 1857. Fellow-Citizens: We are here tonight to invoke you as citizens of Minnesota, to stand by the con- ttitution of our common country ; and to call upon you as patriotic and intelligent freemen to pursue a course of political ac- tion that will promote the best interests of our embryo State. WHAT ARE THE PRINCIPLES AND POLICY OF THE REPUBLICANS ? From this same rostrum you have been harangued by gentlemen of the Republican party .^ What has been their declaration of principles ? what their avowal of public policy ? What have been their appeals to the people ? Nothing, absolutely nothing but hostility to the South. And why in- dulge they in constant and increasing vitu- peration of the South ? Because to obtain political power, they must first prostrate the Democratic party, which is national ; and to accomplish this preliminary object, therG is no other way than to alarm and infuriate the voters of Minnesota against the slaves holders of the Southern States, and then to charge upon the Democrats of Minnesota, that they are in league with the South against the rights and interests of the whole North. In pursuance of this preconcerted policy do they labor day and night in the public forum, in then- newspapers, in the street, and in the households ; to falsify his- tory, to distort political facts, and to misre- present the principles, the actions and the aims of the Democratic party. THE REPUBLICANS SECTIONAL AXD SOUTH- HATING. The unity and fraternity of the States — an all-embracing, an all-cherishing nation- ality, (such as we maintain,) — would be fatal to their fanatical designs and base am- bitions; therefore, must they be sectional, to excite the people against the slaveholders of the South, as our most dangerous ene- mies, whose only aim and policy is to crush the people of the North, and to make slavery everywhere victorious over free speech, free soil and free laborl By such appeals to ignorance, prejudice, misappre- hension, fanaticism, misguided sympathy, and honest error of judgment, they expect to foment between you and the people of the South an implacable and irreconcilable enmity. By such traitorous means have these Republican leaders already succeeded in creating throughout the country a most formidable and alarming negro-mania. Al- ready, by such means, have they provoked between themselves and the men of the South a more violent and rancorous hatred — destroying all hereditary hospitality-*-thaa exists between the people of any two civil- ized nations upon the face of the earth. THEIR HIGHER LAW AND WARFARE UPON THE SOUTH. By this wild and unre^isoniug warfare apon the South, have they ahvady succeed- and ride into office over a defeated Demo- 3d in placing several powerful Northern cratic party. States in a position of open hostility to the I am here to-night, fellow citizens, to de- compacts of the Constitution, and to the fend the States of the South, against the. executive, judicial, and administrative action malicious and slanderous assaults of these of the General Government. They have, Black Republicans of the North. It is meet 30 far as was in their power, repudiated the that this should be done plainly, openly, American Constitution and nullified the fearlessly and immediately. Permit me, fel- Union. This they have done under the as- low Democrats, to utter this defence in my sumed authority of a higher law of their own way. neither you nor the Democratic own creating — an assumed higher law, which party being responsible for any mistake I may over rides the Constitution. A higher law make, real, or imaginary, or for anything I which authorizes, nay, commands, negro say in attempting what I esteem to be a just, stealing, rai^ine, and murder, instigated and a true and an honorable vindication of the carried on against the South, by mad- South. brained zealots, and wicked fanatics of Would the honest and patriotic people — the North, who are the pioneers and and of such are the great mass of our vanguard, the sappers and miners of the opponents — who have been deluded by the Black Republican party. These are the Republican leaders, but pause calmly and men who band together to foment slave in- without prejudice, think you they would be- surrection, to entice negro slaves from their lieve there is danger immediate or remote, owners, and to mob and assail with violence, to be apprehended from southern slave- any officers of the Federal Government who holders ? Would they then believe, think may attempt to perform their duty for the you, that the much-abused South, has in return of fugitive slaves. These are the any way assailed our public rights, or pri- howlers and mourners of Black Republican- vate interests? Would they then believe ism, who split their throats in cries for Free that the South has been faithless to the Kansas, free labor, free soil, and free speech ! Constitution ? Would they then believe These are the shriekers of the Republican that there is in the negro slavery of the party, who would publicly rejoice over the South, something inherently inconsistent with news of a Southern slave revolt, with all its the glory and liberties of the Republic? — appalling horrors, fiendish savagery, and re- Would they then believe that the South is suiting destruction of the white man a burthen, a tax, an incubus upon the North? as well as inevitable vagrancy and barbar- Would they then maintain that a southron ism of the negi'O. Can fanatical furor go and a slaveholder cannot be as pure a further than this ? christian, and as patriotic a citizen as he What apology to their own consciences do would be, were he not a slaveholder ? those of the Republican leaders, who know how democrats must meet the republicans. this warfare upon the South is dangerous and wicked; — what I ask. do honest, intelli- gent Republicans, (not underground negro stealers) apply to their own consciences as a salvo, a soothing balm for the aches and Let us go, Fellow-Democrats, into the strongholds of the Republican party, with plain arguments upon pending issues ; and an honest, manly appeal to the good sense 1 • n- i Vi ii • i -i. i-^- 1 and patriotism of the people I do be- wounds inflicted by their traitorous polit.ca ^.^^^ l,^ ^^-^^ j^^^ .^ ^^^ ^, J ^^'^j. ^^ ^^ action? It IS ihm-m]y t\us, party pohaj ! thousands of our fellow-citizens, who have party expediena^J and a ravenov.s hankering been deluded by Republican leaders, that for the spoils and dignities of office THE DEMOCRACY NATIONAL THE SOUTH VIN- DICATED. Like the fathers of the Repuljlic, the Dein ocrats»are national, regarding the slavehold ers of the South, as men and brethren.— their whole political superstructure rests upon a sandy foundation of error and falsehood. Ho who would grap])le successfully with popular faLsehodd, must, as we say in homely phrase, '-take the bull by the horns." No Therefore, it is that these " Republicans'" thing short of this will enable us to over- seize upon the abolition furor to raise a come the rampant fanaticism of our oppon- whirlwind of passion against the South, with ents. We must force them to a sclf-examin- the hope of being able to guide the storm, ation of their opinions and prejudices. To do this we mnst ourselves be able to discern Clay. Was not he too a Southrou and a .the truth in all its comprehensiveness. By slavehorder ? granting, or timidly evading half their fal- Why then, in the name of all that is be- lacies, we yield to them at the outset, more coming in a man and a christian, I ask you, than half a triumph. gentlemen of the Republican party, why Let us go, then, fellow citizens, to the very have you joined tht old abolitionists in a foundation of this sectional, this geograph- ferocious war-cry against Southern slave- ical party. Let us but do our whole duty holders, as if they were dangerous enemies in this canvass, and we may never again be of the Republic ? — As if they were so base called upon to cut o3' the ever-renewing and so wicked, that a party, or a public heads of that hydra monster, Abolition. Let man, who refuses to join in your crusade us do our duty now, by defeating, with over- against them, is denounced by you as a re- whelming majorities, this party of civil dis- creant, as a •' doughface," as a pro-slavery cord, and national dissolution, and then the enemy who merits only the hatred and exe- whole body of the abolition beast of Minnes- cration of the Xorth ! Ota, will lose its vitality, and never more will ^vhat grievance h.we you agaixst the it have power to disturb the repose, or men- . , ace the honor and prosperity of our infant soixii. State Men of Minnesota! wh^it urievauce have ARE THE REPUBLICANS JUSTIFIED IN RAISING T'' ^^^'T !"' ^''''^^- ' ^^J,^-^^^ ^"^^ A FUROR AGAINST SOUTHRONS AND SLAVE- ^f^'T.f f i^'' '''^ impatient prockim '? Mmnesota to the world, an abolition State r ^. , -r, °,',. What revenge have you to gratify against li there are any Republicans present, I slaveholders ? call upon them to answer to their own judg- "Who, let me ask vou, have been among ments and their own consciences, if m truth your best friends in Congress? Southrons and tuere are good reasons why any man should slaveholders; ves. I repeat it. and remember labor to raise among the people of Minnes- the fact, they have been southrons and slave- ota a furor of excitement against our holders I It vou doubt this, review the countrymen of the South ? Is it, in this records of Couo-ress. year of iSoT, a disgrace and a crime to be Xo the influence of what eminent states- a Southron and a slaveholder? Have South- man, co-operatin? with your deletrate in ron men and ^slaveholders been the bane of CongTess, have you been more indebted the Republic . than to any other man, for our late munifi- Was not the Father of our Country, he cent grant of lands for railroad purposes ? who was the first in war, first in peace, This statesman to whom the people of Min- and first in the hearts of his country- nesota owe so large a debt of gratitude men — he who bequeathed to us as his was Senator Toombs of Georgia — a richest legacy, a love for the whole Union, southron and a slaveholder. Yes, I aga'n, and a warning against geographical parties repeat, prominent among the best friends — he whom God appointed to lead our ar- of Minnesota in Congress, have been mies triumphant through the Revolution — southron men and slaveholders. They was not he a Southron and a slaveholder ? most cheerfully gave you all, naj And the hero of the second war, Andrew more than you a.sked, to build up here a Jackson, was not [he |too a Southron andja giant State of free white men. ;When- slaveholder ? And the dauntless Rough- ever you wanted an Indian title extin- and- Ready, the approved hero of the last guished, to make ample homes for free white war, was not he also a Southron and a men of the Xorth, for free M'hite men of the slaveholder? Xot only in the field but also old world as well as the new; for these very in the National Executive, have not many declaimers against the South themselves, of our most revered patriots been Southrons what were the responses of these abused and slaveholders ? In the Xational Coun- southrons and slaveholders? Quick votes to cils have not our most able and brilliant gratify your highest hopes, which then re- statesmen embraced many Southrons and ceived the applauding thanks of all men of slaveholders ? Who has been adjudged by Minnesota. And then to hasten the settle- all men as the most brilliant and bewitching raent of Minnesota by free white men, the orator of the Senate Chamber? Henry South was united in giving the right of pre- emption over unsurveved lands to our peo- ple. Munificent have been the Congres- sional grants to Minnesota, for public im- provements, roads, schools, and public buildings, all. all, cheerfully, nay, zealously supported by these now maligned sonturons and slaveholders . At the last session of Congress all the soTithern men of the Senate united in voting an appropriation of §150,- 000 for a Custom House and Post Office for St; Paul, which appropriation was defeated in committee of conference by Xorthern men. These, citizens of Minnesota, are facts, unan- swerable facts, M-hich demonstrate the ingrat- itude, and perfidy of the attempt now so in- dustriously made by the Republican orators and editors, to infuriate the people of Min- nesota against the South. WHY SHALL MINNESOTA CFIANGE THE NATION- AL POLICY UNDER WHICH SHE HAS PROS- PERED ? Thus far, Minnesota has been national in her sympathies, and avowed politics. Thus far the men of the South have been esteem- ed our" countrymen, our friends, our breth- ren. Thus far our Representatives in Con- gress have been National Democrats. Such has been our policy in our pupilage. Is there any sound or patriotic reason why we should change it now on attaining maturity? Shall we change the policy which has work- ed so well, thus far, in order to send Morton S. Wilkinson, who glories in his rampant Abolitionism, to Congress I Shall we repu- diate our good old National policy to make Alexander Ramsey, a leader of Black Re- publicanism, Governor of our new State ? "What has he or any man done to merit so great a sacrifice ? Shall we cast aside our friends, disregard our immediate interests, public and private, to bestow office and emoluments upon the leaders of a sectional party? Make all our State officers Aboli- tion, bestow public patronage upon the Ab- olition press ; send Abolitionists doing bat- tle under Mrs. Stowe and Mr. Sumner, as "Republicans" to Congress, and then contem- plate fur a moment, the effect upon yourselves and upon the future of Minnesota I WHY NATIONAL DEMOCRATS ARE THE liE.ST I'OR US TO SEND TO CONGRESS. Our Delegates in Congress, the lion. II. n. Sibley and lion. H. M. Rice, have been National Democrats, and to this fact, united with their capacity, theii' character as gen- tlemen, and their energy and dei,'otion to the public weal, are we indebted for much of the amazing Territorial progress and prosperity which so distinguish Minnesota. Had they been such mad-brained Aboli- tionists as Morton S. Wilkinson and his compeers, think you they would have been entitled to any thing but cold official court- esy, from national men, either of the South or the North? ' If you deliver over our new State to sectional agitators, where can they look for fi-iends, save among the limp- ing abortions of Abolitionism, who are as obnoxious, and as impotent for good, as themselves! If you make a sectional war upon the South, think you the men of tho South are so weak, so craven, that they will make haste to conciliate your malice ? Republicans of Minnesota! before you determine to vote for the howling dervishes of your party, pause and reflect upon the cost! If after a candid review of the whole subject, you deem it your duty to make Min- nesota Republican, do so at whatever sacri- fice. In that case, though I may regard your judgment as bewildered or insane, I cannot but respect your courage and your motives ; yet, as your fellow-citizen, permit me to implore you by every interest, public and private, not to throw our new State away, for the sake of electing any man to office, or to gratify mere habitual hostility to the Democratic party — aye, that would be worse than throwing the State away, it would l^e to fling it as an insult into the teeth of our Southern friends, and then to hang it up in the National Capitol as the Diackened star of the Northwest — a humili- ation to the national men of the whole Re- public 1 SHALL WE DRIVE BACK THE VISITORS AND MONEY OF THE SOUTH ? St. Paul and the whole territory are now safTering the pangs of a wide-spread panic. If any of our citizens wish to increase our fu- ture embarrassments, let them join the Re- publican hunt, started up here, to run down the South— let them increase the howl of ex- ecration against our Soutiiern friends, whose sons arc here, whose money is here, whose hearts have thus far been here- let them continue to be anathematized by our Repub- lican orators, our Republican editors, and the whole Republican community, as wicived men, as dangerous men, as man-stealers, be- caus:^ they are Southrons, and slaveholders ! Do this, and the Sou'herners, who are pecu- ^liar for holding men responsible for what ship with them, aal deal with them as equals they say, will soon understand that they are aud friends. not considered respectable and cannot feel let the southrons come and build their comfortable in this community, and they summer homes among us. will therefore seek some other Northern tu- --n -j jji* *- v>ui Luciciui^ ^c K^iu;^. ;-. .,^f +I10 I be leve in Providence, and doubt not — State, where rampant abohtiot is not the , t <• 1 • 1 + +1 ^ ^-, u t ^^„k+ ,. ' . , .' 4. 4.1 „• „„„„+„.,+!„;„ vet I feel anxious about the result. 1 doubt rulin'>" passion, to invest their constantly in- ■' , .^ u ^ ii xt +• 1 r\„ ^«„ « 9 1 ,11 1 +„i f„„,„ not, I say, but the National Democracy creasing surplus of cash, accij^aiulated f 0^^^ wil carry the State, and that our fraternal the proceeds of slave grown cotton and slave ^^i^^ions with the people of the South will grown sugai. go on increasing till manv more millions of MINNESOTA THE SUMMER HOME OF SOUTHERN ^j^g-j. capital shall bc iuvestcd iu the state *i^*^- to employ our free labor, and beautify town This, our noble river, which I now look and country. I hope to see their summer down upon, freighted with its floating pal- villas by thousands, mingled with those of aces, runs through the heart of Minnesota our own people, to improve the enchanting and the heart of the South, and seems to be views spread in such rich profusion about a bond of affectionate union between them, our lakes, rivers, bluffs and prairies. Providence seems to have designed it as a This has long been a cherished hope with highway of commercial and social inter- me. To it have I looked as one of the rich course between the Nort'i and the South — resources of our future. The men of the and Minnesota seems to have been preor- South have already invested, I believe, in dained, above all other regions of our broad this vicinity, a larger amount of money than continent, as the summer home of the non-resident capitalists of the North — aud I wealthy classes of the South. It seems to know the fact that numerous Southron peo- have been appointed by the Almighty, that pie contemplate making improvements as in the season when fever and pestilence investments, and in building summer resideu- reigns in the South, her sons and daughters ces among us — and the same will be the case should leave there, and come up here to Min- throughout the Territory, unless we drive nesota, to our busy cities, our thriving them away, by making Minnesota another towns, our cheerful hamlets — and to our Massachusetts, with abolitionism inaugu- prairies, our beautiful lakes, and sparkling rated in the capitol. waterfalls to_ breathe a bracin- atmos- ^^ ^^ ^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ op ^^^ ^^^^.^ ^^ ^^, phere, and to inhale for a few months every ^.^^^ money here ? ycijr, invigorating power, to enable them to ' - " . continue the mastery and fruitful possessiori At this moment and for some time to of their own land of the sugar cane, the come, whither can our people look for mon- cotton plant, the fig, and the palm tree, etaryhelp? Whither shall many of us seek Why shall we drive them back fi-om our for purchasers for a portion of our real es- hotels and pleasant retreats ? Why shall tate, to save us from bankruptcy ? Is it not we say to them, here in Minnesota, there is to the rich slaveholders— the cott:^n and no longer a summer retreat for you, save sugar planters and monied men of the South? among the howling fanatics of abolitionism ? They alone, as communities, have cash to Shall we send them this word on the second spare. The abolition prints all over the Tuesday of October next ?— that here in abolition States have been spearing at them this, their pet Territory, is another abolition after some " nigger under^ the wood pile," Massachusetts, where they can no longer because these men of the South have been come without the risk of contumely and in- investing large amounts of their money suit ? among our citizens. A cry of_ alarm has No ! no ! fellow-citizens, let not this be been raised among the abolitionists of Mas- our herald to the good people of the South, sachusetts, because Vice President Breck- Rather let us at the ballot-box proclaim to enridge, Col. Orr, and Governor Aiken, of them and the world, that all white men. South Carolina, and a host of other South- whether ot the South or the North, whether ron slaveholders, have been up here to leave of native or foreign birth, may be equals their money among us. A cry of alarm has among us— that we will eat with them, been raised and passed along from Massa- drink^with them, intermarry with them, wor- chusetts to the British line, that Minnesota 8 must be saved to the Black Republic now, or be lost forever ! THE EXECRABLE LIES OF THE ABOLITIONISTS. It seems to be a grievance to these men of the Black Republic, that a Southerner should come up here even to help us. Large Southron investments, as you know, have been made here, enabling us to employ a greater number of laboring men ; and yet, our own abolition Republicans have been so shameless and so dishonest — could anything be more execrable ?— as to go about among laboring men, who are thus kept at work, and teirthem that it is the fixed purpose of the Democrats to get these Southron slave- holders to come here with their negroes, to compete with free white labor ! And these abolitionists have circulated broadcast among the laboring men little red republican tickets which they give to them and drop about the streets, designed to make ignorant people believe that if they do not vote for Alexander Ramsey and the whole Black Republican ticket, they will be thrown out of work by the competition of negro slaves I Perfidious falsehood ! and they know it^ — perfidious falsehood. I say, and none but knaves or fools are its authors, publishers, and circulators. THE STVPIDITT OF THIS ABOLITION LIE EX- POSED. Negro slavery in Minnesota to compete with white labor? "What man, be he native born. Irishman or German, is there so igno- rant that he can be made to believe a false- hood so stupid as this? Go to the cities of the East, and there you will learn that, many years ago. nu- merous employments of common labor, were filled by free negroes, who have been com- pletely supplanted by the superior skill and energy of the poor white men, increased in numbers by immi^-ratiun. The fact is, that negro slavery never can be made to pay in any climate where the white man can work without degenerating. It is only in tropical or semi-tropical climates, that negro slavery can be made profitable, and that, for the only reason that in such climates, the negro may work and thrive, while men of the * white race, if re(|uired to labor, soon decay and disappear. It is not tlie abolition party, or any other party, or human power, that prescribes tlie boundaries of free soil, but climate. These red ticket falsifiers know that our State Constitution as it came from the hands of the Democratic Convention, and as it is, prohibits the existence of invol- untary servitude in Minnesota. Yet thus they lie. wilfully lie, to make Alexander Ramsey Governor, and Morton S. Wilkinson, member of Congress ! WHO ARE THE FRIENDS OF FREE LABOR ? Who, in fact, are the best friends of the free white labor of the North I main- tain, and will undertake to demonstrate to every intelligent and reflecting man, that they are the National Domocrats, including the slaveholders of the South. Is it npt enough, my friends, to incense a Democrat, and almost cause him to forego the pleasant relations of neighborhood courtesy, when he sees how these, the Republican politicians in our very midst, wilfully, and with malice aforethought, whisper the ba.sest lies into the ears of confiding Germans and Irish laborers' who of right would revolt if thrown out of employment by imported slaves from the South. What adds to the malignity of this falsehood, is the fact, that many of those who utter it, know full well that Southern slaveholders have, in these hard times, when money was not to be had else- where, freely supplied it, at low rates, to keep the laboring people of Minnesota employed. Do you know why it is that so many Southern slaveholders have come to invest their money in Minnesota? They are public men and private gentlemen, who have friendly and social relations with citizens, who are now laboring so zealously to keep Minnesota Democratic. Prominent among these, as you all know, has been our Dele- gate in Congress, Henry M. Rice. His politics and urbanity ]ilease the Southern men. He told them about Minnesota — as- sured them, as he believes that it will be, a National Democratic State. He inter- ested them in our behalf, not only in Con- gress, but here in our midst. They came to see , and to wonder, and to be delighted. I hope that gentleman, and the other whose name will be mentioned, will pardon me for lilting the curtain of privacy, and show- ing to you the movements of a Southern slaveholder among our free white laboring men. It was not long since, that Gov. Aiken) formerly Governor of South Carolina, and fur many years a distinguished member of Congress from that State, made a visit to Minnesota. Mr. Rice took him up to see the University buildings, and the Gov- ernor was exceedingly gratified to witness the progress of that work. But just then there was no money in the University Treas- ury ; impending dismissal threatened the men working on the building. The sym- pathies of this southron slaveholder were excited, his public spirit was evoked. He had a large amount of money here to invest ; he could get for it three per cent a month, but he preferred lending it to Minnesota at twelve per cent per annum, to keep these free white laboring men employed, and to hasten to completion an edifice, wherein their sons may receive the highest education without cost. And this gentleman is one of the largest slaveholders in the South — cue of those against whom the Republican leaders labor so hard to prejudice the people of Minnesota. I could tell you other in- stances of tJie same state of facts, but this will sufi^ce for illustration. THE SOUTH, THE EL DORADO OF THE NORTH. Do you not know that the planting States of the South are to the North, the veritable El Dorado of the Republic ? Do you not know that by the industry of the South, the merchants of the North grow rich, and rise to the dignity of commercial princes ? Do you not know that among the slave mas- ters of the South, the mechanics and free producers of the North, find their best pay- ing customers ? 0.\E HALF OUR EXPORTS FROM TEE SOUTH. Of the large exports from the United States to foreign countries, (in all upwards of $300,000,000 per annum.) about one half goes from Southern ports, of which slave grown cotton is the principal staple; and our home trade witS the South is immense. OUR SLAVE GROWN COTTOX LS KIXG OF THE WORLD. Cotton has ia this century almost sup- planted the use of wool throughout the civ- ilized world ; but when in the 17th century wool was the great staple of England,the lord chancellor, the presiding officer of the Brit- ish Senate, was seated upon a wool-sack, to keep constantly before British patriots and statesmen the great fact, that upon the growth and manufacture of wool, rested the agricultural, manufacturing and commercial prosperity of their country. The cotton bag has become our wool sack, and all well informed men look upon it as an essential element of our commercial pros- perity. Not only was it our bulwark against the British at New Orleans, on the 8th of January, lbl.5, but since then, cotton bags have been our treaty of peace with the British nation, and have saved us the neces- sity of costly navies and armies, and corres- ponding sacrifice of men and money. Thus the South, the abused and maligned South, has been, and now is, the safeguard and protector of the North, against foreign aggression, for England and France must have our slave grown cotton. Without it, revolution among their own laborers be- comes inevitable. OUR SLAVE GROWN COTTON, kc, THE BEST SUPPORTERS OF THE CAPITAL AND INDUSTRY OF THE NORTH. Our slave grown cotton, and other pro- ducts of the South double the demand which would otherwise exist for northern ships and northern navigation. These pro- ducts and their values pass through the hands of northern shipowners, merchants', bankers, brokers, mechanics and labor- ers, all sharing and enriching themselves from the products of slave labor. These products then go to foreign nations to keep our national balance of trade about even. They pay for about half the goods imported into our northern ports, upon which all classes of northern men, handling the goods or their value, get a per centage. And then cur northern merchants sell these same goods to the South, at a profit ; and thus the commercial engine works on from year to year, produc ng national results that as- tonish the world, and enriching the North lieyond all precedent. And yet, these aboli- tionists around us, would have the people believe that the South is a burthen and a tax upon the North ! But for the fact of a South — as our rich, back, planting, agricultural country, having every year 8150,000,000 of marketing which the world wants — these shingle-whittling abolitionists, would, with their sharp-visaged bargains, soon skin each other to death; and lose both time and opportunity to go about, declaiming against the aristocracy and the ])0verty (for they charge both in the same breath*) of the South. The fact is, that without the South, the North could not be prosperous and powerful. 10 PROVrDEN.;E ON OUR SIDE. When I contemplate this subject in all its bearings, ami see how easily dissolved are apparent difficulties and dangers, I feel like exclaiming with fervent emotion — How wonderful are the harmonies of Providence ! Surely, we must be the chosen people of God, commissioned to work out the salva- tion of mankind ! A GREAT HISTORICAL FACT I.V FAVOR OF OUR HAVING A SOUTH, AS WELL AS A NORTH. There is an important historical fact, bearing upon the question before us, which I would commend to the candid considera- tion of educated men, among our oppo- nents> It is this: that from the beginning of history, all nations which have held rank as leading commercial powers, have had their tropical or semi-tropical colonies or possessions, the labor whereof was servile, and the laborers an inferior dark race, di- rected and controlled by the will and mind of white men. To fiill up the circle of commercial prosperity, it seems there must be this variety in unity, combining north, south, east and west, consisting of free white labor where it flourishes in temperate climes, and forced dark labor in the tropics. If we would continue to grow in power, as a commercial nation, we must accept the teachings of all history, and the conditions of all experience, as our law — our rule of action To convince yourselves that I have stated a great political fact, you have only to look into the commercial history of the world. WhcH was the period of Athenian glory and power? History answers, it was when the ^gean, semi-tropical colonies, with those of Sicily and Asia Minor, were indisputa- bly Grrecian possessions. When were the Carthagenians in the height of their commercial grandeur? His- tory answers again, it was when they held undisputed possession of their semi-tropical Lybian and slave-v/orked possessions of Africa and the Mediterranean. And com- ing to the commercial nations of modern times, and taking them in the order of their supremacy, does not this law apply to them also? History answers in the affirmative and cites the commercial experience of the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the French and the English; and asserts, the fact that just in proportion as these nations have gained or lost tropical or semi-tropical possessions, worked by the servile labor of a dark and inferior race — ^^just in that propor- tion have they risen or fallen in comraericial importance among the nations of the earth. This is no theory, no doctrine, but histori- cal fact. THIS HLSTORICAL FACT AND OUR SOUTH. This law of commercial power, is just as applicable to our own country as any other. The Southern States are our semi-tropical possessions. There, the labor of the inferior negro race, is directed by the superior intel- lect of the white man, on a better system of servile labor, a more humane system, than has ever existed in any other commercial nation. Of course, 1 admit, that there are gross abuses in southern slavery — that there are reforms which ought to be made in the system. Let good men everywhere, Xorth and South, work for reform, but not for de- struction of a great necessity, because of incidental wrong. The good man will everywhere do his work in accordance with conscience, humanity and the Law of God. Fanatics only, attempt to rise superior to Divine Law, to build up for themselves a tower of Babel, with all its bewilderment of thought and confusion of tongues. INDIA IS ENGL.\ND'S SOUTH. At this moment England is threatened with the loss of her tropical and semi-tropi- cal India, the rich Koohinoor jewel of her crown. India is her " South." India is her rich slaveholding country, containing 150,- 000,000 of servile laborers, whom, by an in- nocent fiction of philology, Englishmen call " free." It is conceded on all sides that the loss of India, will sink that great nation to the rank of an inferior power. Therefore it is, that we of America, warmly sympathize v/ith England, and pray for her safe deliver- anca from the present terrible Sepoy rebel- lion. This is not a war of England against Russia, or any other friendly nation of our own original blood, in which we might be against her, but it is a war of races in which our only natural place is on her side. — By the time she comes out of this servile war, may we not hope that loyal English- men will learn thencetbrth to withhold their interference in our political afliiirs, and cease their cohabitation with our abo- litionists, wham they have so long been nurs- ing and fattening for a sacrifice, in the war of dissolution, expected by them, to take place between the North "and the South! 11 From which all national men pray " Good Lord deliver us." WHY CALL SLAVEHOLDESS WICKED ? Why, is it our duty to denounce Southern slavery as an institution in its very essence evil and wiched ? Did the holding of ne- gro slaves make Washington, Jeffersuii, or Jackson wicked men ? "But I am not an abolitionist," says a Republican. Then, why join in the clamor against the South? — If the experience of the last quarter of ^ a century, in the AVest India Islands — in St. Domingo and Jamaica shows the madness of abolition, why keep up th clamor against Southern slaveholders? The slave emanci- pation party used to be almost exclusively made up of Southern slaveholders — of the Statesmen and Christians of the South. — They were ready to make any sacrifice for the sake of a principle, as they did in the days of the Revolution; They emancipated as an experiment, from 1830 to 18.50, 200, 000 negro slaves. They sent some to Libe- ria, some to Hayti, others to the free States, provided with guardians, outfits, lands and money. Thus have the slaveholders silent money enough in the work cf negro slave emancipation to buy up the whole Black Republic of the North, including its strong- minded women,, and free-loving Atheists, and to pay besides the cost of shipping ofi" the whole party to Africa. SACRIFICES MADE BY SLAVEHOLDERS FROM A SENSE OF DUTY', TO TEST THE EXPERIMEXT OF EMANCIPATION. All this sacrifice made by the South, to test a theory of negro capacity for free work and self-government, has met no other reward but bitter disappointment- The Li- berian colony languishes, even with all their help. The negroes sent among their affec- tionate, mouthing friends of the free States become, with few exceptions, lazy, worth- less and vagrant, and soon disappear in an unnatural conflict with free white labor. — Therefore it is, that Southern men, origi- nally hoping, like Jefferson, for the emanci- pation and elevation of the negro race, and ready to make any sacrifice for it, have been compelled to abandon all such theories, and make the best of their necessities. This is the moment seized upon by the Black Republicans to make a forlorn on- slought towards the South, not on the South in fact, but at the National Democracy, who stand in the gap of union between the North and the South. THE SOUTH, SAY THE REPUBLICANS, HAS BEEN GROWING TOO FAST — IS IT nO ? The hybrid class of Republican politi- cians,after their yelling charge on the South, invariably fall back in confusion, the mo- ment we turn our batteries upon them. Af- ter a few shots from our good old gun, Con- stitution, they oifer to surrender upon the whole question of negro slavery in the States. It is then, to slaveholders coming into free States,to catch their fugitives, that they are opposed. When in reply, we show that this right is one of the compacts of the Constitution, they surrender again, but have a new plea for their political action. The South, say they, is growing too fast ; it is getting too powerful, and they drape more than half the map of the United Statesin mourning, making it as black as the prin- ciples -of their own party, to convince the people of the -North that the Southern slaveholders have cheated and wronged them. Yes, say they, the South has been grow- ing too fast — too much new territory has been added to the South— thereby increas- ing too rapidly southron power. Is not this an increase in the power and prosperity of the whole Union ? Would they, to spite the South, sell back Louisiana and its slavery to France ? And remember, fellow-citizens, that all there is of Minnesota, west of the Mississippi — all there is of Iowa and of Kansas, and all the country westward, to the Rocky Mountains, with all its free soil, was, when purchased, part of the slave Territory of Louisiana. Would they give Texas back to Mexico, or give it to England, or dis-annex it, to build up on our borders a rival republic of our own kindred? I ask, what harm have Louisiana, and Texas, and Florida, (all acquired in accordance with Democratic policy,) inflicted upon the country, that we should, on account of their acquisition, iiang the Map of the Union in black, and form a Northern party to war upon the South? Down again, the hybrid Republican, (hybrid, because national in sympathies, and a traitorous Abolitionist for tlie sake of office)— down again He lies upon the ground, and says it is not that, but the uojnst Mexican war, he is opposed to. Well, will he give back the territory ac- quired by that war, to ^Mexico, with all its free soil and its golden State, Caltfornia? 12 aim the glad tidings of Democratic uniDh, to all the world. tri- Crawling up towards the wall, the hybrid Wednesday of October next, be able to pro Republican, by this time, pretends that that ' '' '■•-■■'■ -'• ^^ ^•- is not exactly what he means. What he means to hold the Democracy and the South responsible for, is, "Kansas — bleeding Kaa- sas," AND WHAT ABOUT KANSAS ? Congress gave to the people of Kansas a free and untramelled right to form their own domestic institutions, and to pass any laws that would be constitutional in a State. Thereupon the abolitionists, with Sumner and Chase, and Mrs. Stowe as their gene- rals (commanding from afar), rallied their forces and insultingly challenged the whole South to meet them in Kansas, and there fight out on that ungcnial soil the battle of slavery. Natural enough, the people of Missouri did not want the whole under- ground railroad company for their neigh- bors, so the most excitable of them called for help from the South, to drive the aboli- tionists back. In this absurd fight between the extremes of the North and the South, upon a soil where, in the natural course of things, slavery cannot and will not exist, both parties have trampled upon law and order, but what right have the abolitionists to complain against the South, for getting some broken heads and bloody noses, in a fight of their own seeking ? The only trouble among the party of the Black Republic on the Kansas qiiestion just nuw, is simply this : that after all their outlay of Sharpe's rifles, bad blood and golden treasure, Kansas will be free and their Othello's occupation will be gone ! What a fall will there lie then, my countrymen, among the abolitionists, whose bloody treason has not triumphed over us ; and what an escape for our Great Repub- lic, from the alarm and dreaded calamities of a sectional and frati'acidal war I The more intelligent of our opponents, when at last th^y see we have driven them to the wall, yield every thing; they even go for squatter sovereignty, "to the fullest ex- tent," including the election of (Governor. The last and only objection they have to us, is, that we dont't go far enough, ^\''e^, well, all we have to say to them, and all other citizens of Minnesota, is, if you agree with the L>eniocratic policy — give, like consistent and honorable men, yoiu' influence and your votes in support of the l^emocratic ticket — that we may, on the morning of the second Afl<leikfla t" tlie Syeecli of D. A. RiiOLit- SOII. Extracts FROM the Farewell Address of George Washington, the Father of THE Repcblic. The unity of government, which consti- tutes you one people, is also now dear to you. It is justly so ; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence — the sup- port of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, ol that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quar- ters, much pains will be taken, many artifi- ces employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth ; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, — it is of infinite moment that you should prop- erly estimate the immense value of } our na- tional union to your collective and individ- ual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your po- litical safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; dis- countenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can, in any event, be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alien- ate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts. * * * * ^i'he North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds, in the pro- ductions of the latter, great additional re- sources of maritime and commercial enter- prise, and precious materials of manufactu- ring industry. The South, iu the same in- tercourse, benefitting by the agency of the North, sees its agriculture grow, and its coir niprce expand. Turning partly into its own channels the seamen ol the North, it finds its particular navigation invigorated ; and while it contributes, in different ways, to nourish and increase the general mass of the national navigation, it looks forward to 13 the protection of a maritime strength to which itself is unequally adapted. ******** These considerations speak a persuasive lauguage to every reflecting and virtuous mind, and exhibit the continuance of the Union as a primary object of patriotic de- sire. With such powerful and obvious motives to Union, aSfecting all parts cf our country, while experience shall not have demonstra- ted its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who, in any quarter, 7nay endeavor to weaken its bands. In contemplating the causes which may disturb your Union, it occurs, as a matter of serious concern, that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing par- ties by geographical discriminations— North- ern and Southern — Atlantic and Western : whence designing men may endeavor to ex- cite a belief that there is a real diSerence jo local interests and views. One of the expe- dients of party to acquire influence loithin particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings which spring from these misrepresentations : they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal af- fection. I add the following in corroboration of my remarks to prove that the old abolition par- ty was the progenitor of the modern Repub- lican party, and that the two are, in fact, only sections of the same party of geograph- ical agitators, who are working in concert against the union, the good name and pros- perity of the Republic, under the pretence c^ "opposition to slavery extension .■" — The Anti-slavery Society, which com- menced its agitations in 1833, in its then adopted platform, declared in article 2d of its constitution : "While it [the Society] admits that each State in which slavery exists, has by the constitution of the United States the exclu- sive right to legislate in regard to its aboli- tion in said State, it shall aim to convince all our fellow citizens by arguments addressed to their understandings and consciences that slaveholdiug is a heinous crime in the sight of God, and that the duty, safety and best interests of all concerned, require its imme- diate abandonment without expatriation.— The society will endeavor in a constitutional way to influence Congress" &c — At that time the anti-slavery society, which is the vanguard of the Republican pa»ty of this day, had not progressed to the position of a disunion party. Their weapon then was only "moral suasion." — Since then, however, they have made prodi- gious advances in a bad direction, in which process they have thrown out into the poli- tical field their Black Republican wing, to perform the work of a guerilla force in cut- ting off the stragglers of the Democratic and old whig parties. This Anti-slavery Society, the parent stock of the modern Republicans, now openly ad- vocate the dissolution of the Union ! In the published proceedings (by the So- ciety) of their annual meeting at Boston, in May 18.53, the President, Wm. Lloyd Garrison made a "great" speech, from which we extract the toUowino; : "On many points, slowly but surely, we have arrived at great unanimity of sentiment. We are general y agreed in the opinion, the Wliig party of the country is foully pro-slavery, and therefore ought to be abandoned. We are equal- ly convinced, thiit the Democratic party is ut- terly subservient to the Slave Power, and thor- oughly polluted, from which it is the the duty of every pure minded man and every true Dem- Oi^rat to withdraw. We also atilrm that a Church, claiming to be the Church of Christ, and yet having no bowels of mercy for the op- pressed, nay, receiving slaveholders and slave- breeders to its communion table, is a Church with which no Christian abolitionist ought to be connected ; and that, it there be one thus associated with it, he is bound, by his fide ity to God and the slave, to withdraw' from it, and register his testimony against it as an auti- Christian body. We come now to the question of wi hdrawal from the go^e^ament, m consequence of the pro-slavery compromises of the Constitution. On this point, wiiile the members of the Amer- ican Anti-Slavery Society are now generally agreed, [that is to dissolve the Union.] the pro- fessed friends of the slave, acting in other re- lations, are very much divided. They advo- cate various and discordant notions about the Constitution. What if we differ ad infanitum as to the ap- plication of the principle by which we profes3 to be governed? ' 14 Garrison then excuses himself for con- leading Republican member of Congress sistency's sake, on account of '= criticisms " from Ohio; and in the late Republican Con- on the Republican leaders, who do BOt yet vention of that State, the great gnn of his go quite as far as he, in advocating the im mediate dissolution of the Union and the iL- stitution of a Black Republic of the North ; but he approves in the same remarks the party, in a late letter to the Abolitionist, Elihu Burritt, says : '• We have ourselves paid money to redeera soutliern slaves until we have become disgust- ed with the practice, and prefer that our future nrflindnvv in other respects of his Repub- donations shall be made in powder and ball, ortiioaoxj m omer rt^bp^^ib ui uis i ^^^ ^_ ^ delivered to the slaves, to be used as lican allies, as follows : they may deem proper." '•But the inquiry is frequently made, "Why Mrs. Stowe made a trip to Great Britain i^ritiri'p and arraisrn such men as Charles Sum- , ^i i /• ^i i i. i-» -j i- i ner, Hw-ace Mannt and John P. Hale?' Let several months before the kst Presidential them go, forsooth, because they make good campaign, as the strong minded representa- f^^^IL^^'l^a^^^^-^X tiveof\he Abolitionists and Republicans, resist the usurpations of the Slave Power! Why to raise money for the election of Fremont, sir, do we not gratefully acknowledge all that , . , , •;, flpnominated "the more they do for the slave, and give them lull credit T^vliica Slie mere cienommaxea lae moie for it? The anti-slavery speeches of Mann, of comprehensive Anti- Slavery movement;" the ^^i£^\^SS^^'^^^^^ g--t work, as she explains it, of the Union —(loud applause) ; and 1 think I have not been dissolvers and negro stealers, being to create 'Sll^^^'S^^^^^^^'^tY:^ ''Ihefeding- "necessary" to produce the one,! must be beside myself, if I can quarrel "po/i^ica/," that is the Republican " with them for being faithful to our cause. ' , „ ■ move- ment. The anti-slavery Society has published a ^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^j^^ ^,.^.^^^ ^^^, Abolition series of tracts, which are purchased and ^^.^^^^ .^ Edinburgh. In her remarks at circulated by abolition Republicans when- ^^^.^ ..gatherings" which were reported ever they may be useful to their cause.— ^j^j^ ^.^^^^ approbation by two Edinburgh Several of these tracts advocate the dissolu- papers, she thanked her British friends for tion of the Union, 6ecaM.se the Constitution their '• donations," "aid," and '-testimony," +T, „•„+«, «^ r>f ciovo <5tatPQ in behalf of negro-stealing and "fAe/zJorccom- rpfoo'iiizes the existei ce or slave oiaies. — , „ -r. i i- , * a tt„ reou^uj/.cs luc c.vioi,<.i.vv- prehmsive Republican '-movements." Her expose of the Black Republic is to the point. I vouch for the correctness of the sub- joined extracts from her remarks, which I as a I quote the following from Tract No. specimen of Abolition treason : '•The Constitution requires of the general gov- ernment the protection of slavery in such of ^S^S^uK/abohtlJT'teS^l'iie^'p^h^t: cut'fi^m the Edinburgh papers of October citizen has no course left to Wm but either to last : aid in upholding the system, or renounce his allegiance to the government. His only choice is between slaveholding and revolution." "Our first great work is to cut this (Jordian knot,— the Union— and set free the northern conscience from the restraints of the constitu- tional oath. Till this is done, ail other ellbrts From Uie Scouish I'ress. "She [Mrs. Stow] met her anti-slavery friends in social gatherings, and cheered them by her intelligence and hopes respecting the state of matters in America. Among others, she met the members of the Ladies' Emancipation Com- mittee, and encouraged them to luirsue their __^ _ uiic, ail uiiici vLiviKn miuee, anu eucoui.igeu luciu lu imiouv luv-u will prove of little avail. There is no hope for present course, for every honest etlbrt is of the the slave, nor for the country, but in revolu- utmost value to the cause. She gave an inter- lion." esting sketch of the dlHereiit parties in the AArT.vr>ip. I p. IT! T tps the Treat le^'al star United States, and explained the relative im- We>dell Fhii.mps, tne ^reai le ai star ^^^.^^^^^ ^^^^^^_ Stimpatbiizm^ «'.//. thepolit- Of Abolitionism, says, in his '' hevino of ical moxcments now lakirigplace,\she dwelt strong- c ..'. l\:n„--' li, on n-hat site conKidcrcdtlie duty of supporting Spoonei s LssaiJ . ^^^ anli-slaver,/ Prcsidentkd candidate, from ■ No matter what the Constitution IS, wlieth- . •. . - ■ ..- ^^ ^i.- or good or bad, it is -.he duty of every honest man to join in the war-cry of the Aiiiencan Anti-Slavery Society, ' Ao Union wttli slave- hoiderf' " The "//on." Joshua R. Giddinos tnc ufiti-oitti ri y * , cwii*i . ....... ^. --T V- - -- whose election siie hopes for great results to the cause of the slave, not only in regard to the ad- mission of Kansas, as an expression of public opinion, but also bccau-e the President has the appointment of persons to all the State offices, a id to have all these hlled with auli-slaveiy 15 men would be of essential service. She, more- over, pointed ontthe important mission pursued by those Abolitionists of the American Anti- Slavery Society, who, outside of politics, are upholding uncompromisingly the anti- slavery standard, and by their earnest agitation in the van of public sentiment create the feeling which is the necessary foundation of all anti- slavery movements — wh'ither political or bene- volent. She expressed her gratitude to those who helped the cause in this country by dona- tions for the help of the fugitives from slavery, as well as for the elevati n of the colored race, and by other similar tokens of sympathy, not forgetting those who gave their aid and testi- mony in support of the more comprehensive anti-slavery operations. * * * * * * * * Mrs. Stow said, also : "Almost always in politics there occur com- promises — little leanings towards expediency ; but this band of disinteres'ed men [the Garrison Abolitionists] bear aloft an uncompromising standard, which they will not lower, but to which they seek to draw up the popular senti- ment. Their earnest agitaUon is of great value to th4 cause [of the Republican party] and those who coniribute to their aid through the Boston Bazaar, miy feel satisfied that its pro- ceeds are faithfully and judiciously expended." We might go on quoting proofs ad infini- tum to show the traitorous character of all the wings of the abolition army, including the Eepublicans. At this moment, the Republican orators, for the sake of votes, may conceal or deny a part of their treason to the Union. I have just taken casually, from a bundle of Daily Minnc-sotians, the number of that journal, of the 25th of June last, from which I cut the subjoined article, copied into that paper from the Albany Journal, the Central Re- publican organ of the State of New York. It shows the avowed identity in point of fact, of the Garrison and Ramsey abolition- ists. The Albany Journal is Seward's organ ; the Minnesoiian, ex-Gov. Ramsey's : False Hopes.— The enemies of the Republi- can party are just now regarding themselves with the idea that if Kansas becomes a free State the basis of the party is gone. Mistaken souls ! The contest between liberty and des- potism is everlasting. We have now had only one phase of it. For twenty, perhaps fifty years to come, the agitation of the slavery question as it relates to this country is to go on increasing in a ratio, compared with which that of the last ten years is snail paced. We not un- frequently hear some well preserved old fogy bewailiijg ttie violence of the present contro- versy, when if he had but half an eye, he might forsee that what is coming will make the pres- ent agitation seem but the murmuring of the impending storm. Despotism cannot remain in repose. It is forever encroaching upon free- dom. The history of the Old World proves this no less than that of our own country. In Amer- ica the progress of tyranny is marked by such steps as the stealing of Texas, the Fugitive Slave Bill, the Nebraska Swindle, and the Ured- Scott Decision. What will be the next outrage it is unnecessary to predict. It is enough that we know that it will exceed all previous ones- K any Republican imagines that he has only en. listed for a brief campaign he will soon be un- deceived. Just as certainly, if our opponents suppose that they can raise any new issue-~auy '-tin pan clatter," as the Evening Post terms it- will they be disappointed. The battle must go on. The greenhorn in Broadway, New York, who stands waiting for the crowd to pass by before he crosses the street, is not more simple than those politicians who intend to mount their particu- lar hobby anew as the slavery agitation sub- sides. Instead of the excitement being ended or about to subside, it has but just begun. The Charleston Mercury, more sagacious than its Northern allies, snuf.s the breeze, when it says that the opinions held by Garrison and Gerrit Smith, ten or fifteen years ago would now be considered conservative and Hunkerish. — Al- bany Journal. In concluding this addenda, the attention of every voter is called to the following ex- tracts, which exhibit the effect almost inva- riably ]5roduced upon the educated minds of England, and of Europe generally, by the revolutionary movements of the abolitionists and Republicans of this country. Extract from the Westminster Review of July last — article on American Union: "The one thing we are sure of is. that the old Constitution, laden with new corruptions, can- not serve and sustain the Republic. We believe that if a radical reconstitution is not immedi- ately agreed upon, there must be a dissolution cf the Union. — the slave States being subject to the curse of a military despotism, and the perils of a servile war. It hardly appears that there can be a question about this ; but o'' the issue we cannot venture to vaticinate. Our trust is, that the Abolationists will not abate a jot of that strong will which renders them the real antagonists of the South ; that they will press on the more strenuously as the critical moment discloses itself." From the Lon«To& Press, of Nov. 1, 18.06. /y '^^ ' " A dissolution »f the Amer-i^an Union would seem to be thiS-only possibly l^jmination of the struggle upon the slave T}'uest|ftn." * * *• -• * lifc • * •'From two Arfterjcasfeujtppe w'Uhave noth- ing to fear." ■ hJi .♦ D. A. R. i-\. 54 IT '._ V..^-' .i^WA^ %,^^ ;^fe\ %/ ;-^^^-' WERT BOOKBINDINC CranKille, Pa March *pril 198?