The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1852-09-22

dread of the SHAREHOLDERS and The doughr
face. Notwithstanding the pretended sinai
ity of their compromises. They lack
faith in their own devices. The spirit Of
freedom .scrnshed 10 earth By external
forces, s.will rise again, and iE more eff
fectuai ways make itself understood.
Even now, in this dark and despondent
hour of anti-slavery progress, doubt nos
it is silently darling fis hight into the minds
Of the multitude, softening the ifhumaniiy
of their hearts, quickening their insensibil-
ity into resolves. and thus preparing ME
ground for rich harvest for freedom in
future years.
Lastly, the voice Of the civilized world
is against slavery. Public opinion, accof-
'diEg to Mr.. Webster, Is the stronges, pow
er on earth. "We think, says he, '.that
nothing is powerful enough to stand be-
fore autocra,ic, monarchial or des?otic
power. There is something strong enough
quite strong enough and il properly egess
ed, viii prove itself SO, and that isihe pow
er Of Intelligent public opinion in all the
nations OF the earth. There is not mon
arch on earth whose throne is not liable 10
be shaken to its foundation, by the pre-
gress Of opinion, and the sentiment of the
just and intelligent part Of the conmuni-
iy." This terrible power is arraysd be-
fore the shareholders, and we need not
wonder at their alarm. 1t should not sur
prise US that they labor SO unremitiingly
TO guard against domestic foes, when the
moral power Of the world is threateninglo
shake their .'despolic power" TO its '.foun-
dations." A hostile influence is waited
to our shores upon every gale from abroad.
And The great fountain and source Of opin-
ion, the literature Of the world. is against
them. The poets, orators. philosophers,
historians and moralists Of every civilized
country, unite in one loud chorus against
the enslayement of their race. And who
can measure The power of the worlds lit
era,ure, now so wonderfully multiplying
itself in the minds Of the million, by meth
ods unknown to the pasta Who can cai-
tcu!ale the influence of "Uncle Toms
Cabin" as a missionary of anii-slayery
reform, going forth ..inio all the world,
as harbinger of deliverance 10 the Afri-
can race? s.The pen'' says DR.. Chan
nlng. ''is mightier lhanthe sword" and
.lhe press is the mightiest engine ever set
in motion by man." All the great moral
forces by which Providence governs the
world, are in league with the free power
of the country, and their warfare against
the ..Lords Of the LUSH" can only end
with the last yestige Of slavery in the Uni
ted States.
| But let US turn now 10 the other side Of
the picture, and contemplate the strength
of the slave power. judged by what we.
know of its actual achievements. The
Shareholders as We have seen, in numbers
only, one twenty-fifth of their white breth-
rem of the South, only one-fortieth of the
entire population of the south, and one
hundredth part of that of the Union, are
YET the only real severeigns Of this Repub-
lie. The powers of the government are
in their keeping, and they determine all
things according TO the counsels of their
own will. They say to the politician of
the North, $50, and he goeih;" TO the
Northern priest, "Do this, and he doeth il. !"
They lay their mesmeTic hands upon the
moral pulse of the nation, and it ceases TO
beat. Nothing that is earthly can stand
before the dread authority Of these men.
They are the reigning lords and masters Of
the people, white and blac6. Look at the
fac,a. They hold in the most CALLING bon
dnge more than three millions of their fel-
low creatures, being over twelve times their
own number. They keep in subsection
and Comparative slavery, six millions of
their own race in the south, who dare no,
even murmur at their lot. They lord il
over fourteen millions Of people in the
FREQ states, subsidizing their leaders in
church and state 20 their purpose, debauch-
ing the public sentiment of the couniry.and
ragmatically announcing. and then e,.for-
c,ng the conditions upon which the Union
shall be preserved. They determine who
shallbe our Presidents and Vice Presidents;
who shall be the speakers Of the House Of
Representatives, and the presiding officers
of the Senate; who shall stand at the head
.ofthe important commilteesof both Houses.
and how those committees shall be consiis
tuled. all with special reference TO the slave
interest. They secure to themselves or Ia
their Northern slaves the monopoly of all
The important offices of the government
oil the Judiciary, the Army, the Navy. and
our Foreign Diplomacy ,hoisting their black
flag in distant nations Of the earth. They
rifle the mails of the United States Of theis
contents, and decide what shall and whal
shall not be conveyed by them, under the
impudent surveillance which they thus ses
up with impunity. They imprison hum
+ Greds Of our colored freemen from the
North, and sell them into perpetual slave
ry, by law lo,oer than the constitution;
for the crime of being found in southern