Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-11-04
WARsEN, oHlo, Oct. %, 1850.

WAnREN, OH,o, Oct. 20, 1850.
received yours Of the 22d ins:. to-day
requesting me to be with you at Ravehna,
or send up some speakers. on the day you
meet to consider the Odious Fugitive Bill.
Il would please me much, could possibly
te there; am fearful that it will be diff
eult for me to get any Of our speakers to
at,end-we are all busy, just winding up
our court. The Court will continue to-
morrow and next day, SO that it will be
hardly possible to get any Of our lawyers
10 60. | am sorry, for | would like TO see
you have all the iorce you desire, in order
10 give the Law such a setting out Us It
deserves. hope. however, that you will
find many who can become eloquent on
such an occasion. Those who have any
sense Of right and any manhood left, can.
not fail to be loose tongued on such sub-
jsct. They ought to be pregnant with
''thoughts that breathe and words that
burn" Let their mouths open and my
word for il, they will find no difficulty in
expressing their feelings. / see by the
papers occasionally, that some editors al.
tect astonishment that the question has not.
been settled so as to stop agitation. They
amagined that agitation would cease
Why. good God, they we're fouls TO suppose
that agitation would cease, even without
the passage Of such devlish enactmen.-
Agitation BEGAN without it-began before
any Of these wicked efforts were made to
extend slayery-and would not cease until
freedom shall be ''proclaimed throughout
oil the land. unto all the inhabitants there
OFF, Much more wickedly foolish are they
10 suppose that such villainous Law
.wsuld quiet the agitation. If;hey wish to
stop our mouths BY laws Of that character,
they must go little further, and that il.
pass Law to hang all the anti-slavery
men Of every degree, SO that there will be
no anti slavery men TO talk and agiiate.--7 -
They seemed to have gone partially On
that principle. They did not attempt 10
pacify US by conciliaiing our feelings
they sought to ierriify US, and treat US, az
they have treated the slaves, whose in
treatment We complain Of. They have
passed The Rubicon. They must bite the
dust, or we must-we will not be made
slaves ourselves, or tyrants TO Lord it over
others. If the laws Of nature, the laws of
human progress. the sym?athies OF man,
kind. the light Of civilization and the mo-
Tality of the age, war against slavery so
hat Il cannot sustain itself without our aid,
il must go down, and we canno; be made
subsersient to such complex iniquity and
villainy. Ii the salfishness and inhumani-
~ and piratical feelings of the Shareholders
are such. that they will persist ia maintaining
their villainy al oil hazards, and in outfag.
ing the rights Of man generally, then civil
war must come. Either they must yield,
or We must, or war must come-we can
not and will not yield our humanity Tbey
must give up their ,nhunsanity or suffer the
inevitable consequences. have made up
my mind that we cannot avoid civil war.
We have got to submit to war. or slavery
snd tyranny for ourselves, and etsrnal dis.
gfncsto cur Republic. Harmony there
cannot be between liberty and slavery, side
BY side-one must yield. or the other must,
or else there must be clashing. Talk
about peace-there cannot be peace, when
We ourselves are slaves. The idea is alb.
surd. Those internal scoundrels Of editors
and dougfaces, who put on the false pre-.
ssnos that they expected agitation would
stop. on The passage Of such Bills, ough.
70 be treated Is felons and seamps BY every
TREND Of man. would as soon associate