Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1850-07-25

And even now, while my own hear
g is perfectly calm, / doubt not hui
that the hearts of thousands of my
friends at the other end of the wire
= are auttering with anxiety for my
e fate.
When the injured Menelaus chal-
: : lenged Paris, to single combat, and
his gallant brother shamed him into
4 an acceptance of the challenge: when
4 this volupfuous young spark was
e sinking beneath the indignant sword
of his adversary, the goddess of Love
: descended in a cloud and covering
him with her mantle carried him
from the field and laid him softly in
the arms Of the beautiful Helen
And doubt not now, that al this
moment, as ! stand before you, hun
dreds OF weak hearted friends are
praying that the goddess of "NOiSe
and Confusion" who whilome held
her reign'in this enchanted city, and
once snatched favorite herD from
danger, might now descend upon me
land shelter me from the peril of this
hour.
But this may not be. | am not a
worshipper at her shrine. She is not
the patroness Of my fortunes. am
bound TO speak out. II l cannot af-
ford to be honest, | cannot afford TO
be Governor. There is a spot of
earth, amidst the rude wild hills of
Yellow Greek, whittier my heart
turns when groundless fears beset me.
There are the scenes and the friends
of my childhood and youth. There
are the streams where | bathed, the
woods where | hunted, the brooks
where | fshed, the fields where |
toiled, the shades where | reposed,
the springs where drank, the rocks
where climbed. There the song of
the bird and the gush of the fountain
first inspired my soul with poetry,
and the loftiness of the hills first
filled my soul with ambition. There
rustic beauty first taught my heart
to love, and rustic honesty first i
taught nv heart TO confde. There i
are the honest rustics in whom
then confded and still confide.- !
Thither | look for courage, knowing I
that from the mouth of old Yellow I
creek, where Dunmore's bloody war
began, to her highest source, where c
the chalybeate fountains gush from 5
the barren hills. every man, and eve- t
ry woman who was acquainted with p
me in youth, would hang down their
heads in confusion, if they were told 4
that | feared to speak the truth as it a
is in me-here or elsewhere-North
Or South.
Let US, then, approach fearlessly p
but candidly this vexed question of p
slave territory and free territory, Y
BY the ordinance of I7S7, for the b
government of the North Western o
Territory, it is declared that--"There s.
shall be neither slavery nor involun- S
tary servitudei in said territory, other a
wise than in the punishment of crimes tC
the party shall have been fr
July convicted" a,
This GodIike sentiment was first e,
revealed to Thomas Jefferson. Then oI
10 Nathan Dane, who perfected and d,
Incorporated it in the ordinance of II
81. Then it was incorporated by cI
he fathers of these western repub- q
les in the constitutions OF all the five c;
States carved out of the North Wes- VI
ern Territory.
This is what in the nomenclature o
# modern times is called the "Wil- ia
not Proviso." With what Justice B
his wreath Of unlading glory is re
tripped from the brows of the illus gi
rious dead and placed on the head fr
{ Mr.. WilmotI do not care at this M
ime TO inquire. | will not quarrel tr
With a good thing because it is falsely 10
scribed to the wrong man. And as &c
cannot ascribe it TO Wilmot, and te
ou will not ascribe it to any body er
lse, let US agree to call it by way of wi
THE PRovIso.
OF this proviso, or rather the beni- ha
cent end sought TO be accomplished pt
y it. wish TO speak. W
There is class Of people profess ph
ing friendship for the African race E,
nth whom | desire to have no con- ca
roversy; and to whom do not now an
ddress myself. People soured by gu
appointment, or bitten by the MAD
og of notoriety, or both. People de
Yho care not whether they acquire ST
ood or i'll fame, so they can get the M
lorld to talk about them. People tel
i whose estimation the Wing party otI
corrupt, and the Democratic party By
corrupt. The federal government inl
corrupt, and the State govern
tents are corrupt. The judges Of ha
ne court are corrupt, and the minis SUI
ers of the gospel are corrupt. The q !
tate is corrupt, and the Church is St,
OrruDt The uiSdoro Of earth ;S