The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1850-04-06

dom oi tho intention at least But # 1t was de.
signed that one instrument should inco-e the spir.
1t Of two theories Of government So totally adj.
verse, 1t was the most extraordinary blindness
tho most anomalous folly which honest men were
ever smltten with. We should as soon look for
hli agreement by which Christ and Bclii shOuld.
jointly undertake to govern tI. world, Wa, it
thought possible TO serve both Liberty and Slave.
ry--God and Malnmonf Could the same mouth
breathe justice and nu.ticgf Could a Cun,titu-
tiou having any definite nature, have two hearts.
one beating lor liberty, with yitalizcl blood -
Could It organize courts empowered to establish
justice and systematic pIos-ion9-courss. Wih
one hand to lift up the wronsed by speedy re
dress md to beat down the wronged with the
other by triple blows We believe that the
compromises Of the Constitution looked to tie de.
structon Of Slavery and not to it, Establishment
The event justified the judgment Although
incidental causes conspired to give slavery anew
growth, while our country was swelling and com
ing into manhood, yet it soon became apparent
that both systems could not long cocxi,t
There are good and easy souls. not pcrturbed
by over deep meditation, who think that men
make up all this national uproor They are
gulltless Of suppo-ng that our institutions are he
agtatofs that our civil policy /. the fanatic whose
ilrebrands intlamc the Union. This movement Of
the spirit Of the age has made the men. not the
men 1t. We are its children. While tie North
and the South lnveigL against each other, and fl.
naiics are loud mouthed against fanatics, calmer
and deeper men see that 10th North and South
are drifting, and fighting the drift. in q cllrrant
whose secret springs lie deeper than mems wolf
ton, whose force God both ordained and will
augment, until old things are passed away, and lie
Whose ryht it is .hall reign Why then should
FEG fTg a. la T.,
issue, which sprit shall animate our Constitution.
The spir; Of Bondage and the spirit Of Liberty,
when both are living spirits cannot dwell to.cth-
cr Nose, rod must swallow he cuchan'cr., or
the mogicians rod must swallow the prophet -
The South have found out that slavery cannot live
and stand still Liberty grows the fastest has
the Jest roots cats out IT,. other and if ,lav ~
i stationary il will be speedily Overrun and smo-
thered by the rampant vine of freedom ltmust
thrust out It's roots It must borrow yiEor from
fresh soil. Southern men are perfectly consistent
IN rejecting compronisc which only confirms old
rights, but positively grants no extension.
The South now demands room and right for
extension. She asks the North TO be partner
For every Free State she demands one State for
Slavery One dark orb must be swung into its or
bit to groan and travail in pain for every new
orb Of liberty over which the morning stars shall
sing for JOY.
Ga that question We hold there can he TO Com.
promise. The Constitution has come to a period
Of final Construction. Every years delay viii az
grayate the difficulties; IN earlier day hai been
better than this but this is better than any future
day. It Is time for good men and true to grid up
Their loins and stand forth for God and for Human
lty No Compromises can help rs which dodge
the question; certainly mono which settle it for
slavery We are told that the question i, momcn.
tous and beset with the most serious difficulties
Neither in the affairs Of individuals nor of nations
Is there any difficulty when men are willing TO do
right. 1t iswhen Right lie spun to SO fine thread
that It floats like gUS7amer, changing to every
breath that We lose sight Of it or find it entang
led in our hand-. There never was a palmer ques
tlon for the North 1t is her duty openly, firmly
and forever to refuse to Slavery another inch of
territory, and 10 SsS 10 It that Il 7,e,er acts Il Gv
trdlm 1t her duty TO refuse her hand or coun.
tenancc 10 slavery where it now exists. It is her
duty TO declare that she will under no consilera.
tons he party 10 any further inhumarity and
injustice The path will be pain an straight
The path Of Daty, though a steep one, and often
tollsonic, isalways straight and plain Those are
the lubyrnthne roads which, winding through
sloughs and tnicket, or mbosled and dark, secl;
to find way around the rocks and steers. and
come to the gate If Success, without climbin, the
ILL Of Difficulty,