The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1852-10-04


And now, behold the savilians, Cass, Buchanan,
Marcy, and the rest, who stood sponsors to god
fathers for the bloody deed. Defeated in 1S4S by
the very man whom the war they supported and
raised Gen. Taylor discounted only one Santa
Anna IN Mexico, but half dozen at home. Look.
too, at Mr.. Webster, whose giant blows, had they
been struck at the fitting time, might have broken
the helmet and pierced the mailed armor OF tna'
Mars; yet see him thrust aside in 1S4S to make
room for one hero born of that war; and IN 1907
hardly allowed to enter his name a competitor
against auother. In 1859, also, see Gen. Pierce
who had about as much to do with the Mexican
victories, little Inus had to do with the Trojan
war, yet plucking the nomination from Cass Bu-
chanon, Marcy, Douglas, and all the rest Ihe
camp triumphs Cabinet and Senate. Ihe
cedDnt arma togue is read backwards How many
ofthese warriors will remain in 1856 and in 1850 to
shoulder aside the civilians for the third and fourth
time becaus they false to their duty in waglng
or tocrating that war remains CO be But what
righteous retrbution for those civilians who at first
might have stayed that effusion of human blood!
As specimen of poetic justice, romance, or drama,
has nothing finer.
THE PARTIES.
have, SIR but one more topic to present, before
l shall have sufficiently disobeyed and defed the
Baltimore resolutions, for this time, and shall be
ready to sit down.
Let see, in The first place, why it is that the
North, with almost two-thirds OF the population
| and of the votes of the whole Union, is controlled
on all questions pertaining to slavery by the other
third belonging to the South The answer is at
hand. We at the north are divided into two par
ties, Wings and Democrats, who balance, and, in
all political contests neutralze each other. Noml
nally, the South is divided into the parties,
but, in whatever regards slavery, it is undivided
and unit-indissoluble the Siamese twins, for
where you find Chang you sure to find Eng
On tariffs, river and harbor improvements, and so
forth, they carry feeble and somnuent warfare
among themselves; but whenever the tocsin of
slavery is sounded, they awaken to seize their arms,
and form in solid column for quick-step march
to the point in contest. Hence, by obtaining the
| feeblest support from the North-generay speak
ing by stealing marches upon US, while we
engrossed by our accustomed vocations-an easy
| triumph is The nominal division of parties,
therefore. is very far from being the true one
The country is, and for long time has been for
all purposes aside from the spoils of Office divided
into three parties of very nearly equal numbers
the Wings and Democrats of the North, and the
pro-slavery party of the South-the latter, with
the ST. ghtest aid, or even with the acquiescence
from either of the others, being able to prevail.
And this will continue to be the case until prac-
tical antisavery party is formed at the North, to
balance this pro-slavery party of the South and
todo battle for liberty they do for slavery Such
a party, in sufficient numbers to contend success
fully with its antagonists, may not be Immediately
formed, and therefore | see before us a period of
struggle and trial But the Spirit of God is on our
side in this work. The laws of the moral universe,
|
power, are allies, and there: ore must pre-
vail.
THE NORTH AND SOUTH.
Look at the amazing fact that the Southern
States, with more than double the of the
Northern after experiment of more than sixty
years of free government, have about half of the
free population of the latter say the area of the
formeris is more than double the of the latter;
but this is by the element of their natural
superiority. Their milder climate, their more fer
| tile and easily cultivated so and its happy adap-
tation for producing the great staples of commerce
which the whole civilized world will have and are
ready to pay for gives to the South at least two
/ fold advantage the North, acre for acre, or
State for State. Width their supereminent and
easlo understood advantages, the Southern section
of this Union might posses, and but for slavery,
would ta-day possess three-fold the population of
the Northern section-all free all blessed with
more abounding comforts and competence and
with all the means of establishment, education,
and universal culture. As compared with the
North in all that gives individual independence or
social strength, instead of being one to two,
| they scould be as three to one Ohio and Kentucky,
separated only by ribbons width of water, illus
trates this problem, even to school boys. 1t is
slavery, and slavery alone that has struck them
down from their lofty pre-eminence that has
dwarfed their gigantic capacities, end driven them
| to maintain an ascendency-ultimately worthless
and worse than worthless,-by suborning North
politicians, instead of exulting in the legitimate
superiority of home-born and undecaying vigor.
And this is the only fulflment of an eternal law
which always has been, and always will be
piied in the history of mankind-the law that all
error is weakness; that all wickedness is dementia.
By law fixed as gravitation, error tends to ruin
| and moral wrong to imbecility. Let any individual
act upon false theory, and, in that, his hopes will
| be disappointed and his fortunes MANNED. Let
communities legal1ze false principles, adopt evil
institutions into its organic law-which is ats
sorium-its strength becomes faintness, and its
IL, l~Ia. HI
ance about the laws of health, bring disease upon
an individual, or epidemic upon country. False
conclusions in political economy bankrupt city,
or the treasury OF nation. False metaphysical
theological dogmas cramp the faculties, vitiate the
knowledge, and repress the aspirations of their pos
SCISSORS, and the schools sects that adopt them
dwindle into weakness, become contemplate and
perish God kills out error by the meanness of the
results. Neither caste, primogeniture, nor hier-
archy can it. The false notions of Aristotle,
about the perfectness of the circle of motion, and
the law of equilibrium of fluids, with other absurd
tiles, kept the phosophie and inventive genius of
the world in irons for two thousand years. but then
they passed into everlasting contempt, False
maxlms III government, and false practices in poit-
ica economy, have worked out the terrible problem
of 1reland's ruin, sending almost two millions of
her people through disease and starvation into the
grave or into exile, within the last ten years, and
completing by processes which make obstruction
sicken," the dreadful demonstration of crime
which was begun six centuries ago, fand has now
passed into the Gehenna of external execration
wherever history shall be read
SLAVERY w1CKEDNEss COMBINED.
Now, slavery and wckedness combined it
incur the penalties ordained by Coo against both. As
rups domestic virtue, conravenes the natural laws of
ons prosperity and growth excludes and drives those
who instinct with the love of freedom, settling
within its borders, makes general education impossible and
evisceraes from the Gospel of Jesus Christ the highest and
OF its principles and precePts follows by law of
adamanne necessity that the body pohtc which suffers it,
is Vulnerable in every part and that physical and moral
death beseges every of its citadel Slavery
the laws of God broadside and must therefore,
f his rerbutOns broaiside.
These but specimens of the weakness which always
wrong They specimens of those "Higher Laws" of
God which fulfil their destiny, whether them
defy They the restraint while resisting and silence
the basphemer in mid voley
the Northern this Union, therefore will cherish
liberty while the Southern foster slavery predomnance
of the former political power well all things
desirable, will be overwhelming Foreign annexatons
by the latter redress the balance They paiae
the symptoms of adistemper which is crganc-as
y erected wing of laZar house. for time dlues
on which sends back aggravae the general
uence. Iappeal the friends Of liberty ten
be found stand fast in their integrity
the sentiment of Mr. Jefferson in such
attribute of the Almighty but part
Sir have endeavored to speak upon the real and
true state of the Unon Ihaye desired
what point of the moral this vehicle which
we call Government, freighted it is with much of hu
man welfare and with the ondes hopes of the oppressed
now moving Ihave sought determine that direction