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

of the so called Free States, Who duiifuily
proceed toiecture the people on the bless
ings of The Compromise measures, the ne
cessiiy of regarding Them as .s6nality, y
the sublime beauties OF slave catching, the
philanthropy of xPatriaiing the black race.
and the divine agency Of the American
Colonization Society in carrying forward
the blessed work-to all which doctrines
the people seem 10 lend willing and o
reverent ear. especially in the hopeful
Stale from which hail.
Would that could draw an adequate
picture of The slave power, and show you
how it subordinaies every other power in
The nation TO its lawiess rule. !. Pervades
and governs every interest. In the IAN
gnage of JoHN QuINcv ADAMS, the '.ProP-
aga,ion, preservation, and perpetuation OF
slavery, is lheyital and animaling spirit
of The National Government" We can
not escape its presence without forsaking
the country. ave inhale il nj every
brealh." We inbibe ii al every pore -
We s.l:ve and move and have our being"
in the midst Of this frightful and moral pes
thence, which is lowering like q dark
cloud over the land, and menacing The
very life Of the Republic.
And now, does any one ask, how we
shall successfully wuge war against tins
monster powera answer, that Ameri-
can politics, and American religion, are
the bulwarks which support it. and that
we mus, attack them. live do this wisely
and perseyeriDgly, we shall succeed. We
need no new weapons, but only q faithful
use Of those we already possess, in more
direct assaults upon these strong holds Of
The enemy. And first allow me TO refer
10 the political organization ofthe country.
There was once time when The Wing
and Democratic parties we're arraysd
against each other upon certain tolerably
well fined political issues. Thot lime is
past. These issues are obsolete, or have
lost their former Significance. Who now
thinks ii worth willie 10 talk about Bank
Of the United States? Why, a Wing who
would publicly advocate. or Democrat
who would oppose such an institution.
would run no small hazard Of being sci
down as crazy by all parties. No party
is clamoring for it. nor against it. 1t has
passed away. and with il one of The ortho.
dox standards by which we used TO define
a Wing or Democrat. And is moi the
same perfectly iruo of the old question OF
Land Distribution? It has been thrust
aside by the force OF circumstances which
no party could control, whilst the benef-
cient doctrine OF Land Reform is luoming
up in the not distant fnture, as the day star
of hope TO millions who have not known
the Joys Of home. Wings and Democrats
are favoring this doctrine. and Wings and
Democrats are against ii; but the already
manifested will OF the people has dec!eed
its triumph. Here then is another ear
mark gone by WHICH Whiggery and De-
mocracy were once identified. And Can
any man define the difference between
these parties al this time on the question OF
river and harbor Improvements! Both ad-
NIT The power Of Congress TO appropriate
money for those improvements, and no
body Of any por,y denies that this power.
like every other, may pc abn ed TIE
real question is one of erpeditncy. andu
on this the widest differences of opinion
abound among The members Of the same
party. The old Internal improvement
quarrel has therefore been totally supefse.
ded and Wings and Democrats. SO far as
that is concerned. should shake hands and
forget thai they have eve: been at war
Lastly, ask if the Tariff question, in the
form in which it originally divided the
people, IS not as irrevocably obsolete rs
that of Bauk? Nobody imagnes thai
this government will return TO ihe old lash
ioned high tariff policy of 1928 or le42
The spirit of the age. the policy of the
leading nations Of The earth, and the en-
phatic voice of the American people are
agains, it. The Wings themselves, well
knowing this, do not ask il. President
Fillmore, in his frs, annual message, says,
ga high tariff can never be permanent
Ii will cause dissatisfaction ard will be
changed. 1t excludes competition and
thereby invites the investment Of capital in
manufactures to such excess, that when
changed it brings distress, bankruptcy, and
ruin upon all who have been misled by It's
faithless protection" And Mr.. Clay him
self, in the last Congress. publicly avowed
that he desired no change in the '.essen,lal
provisions" of the tariff Of 1916. The
question, Irepeat, has been disposed of.
and is no longer in the bill Of our polilica
fare.
respectfully ask then if these parties
have not outlised the qlestions which call
ed Them into being and organized their
forces under their early champions2 Every
rejecting man must admit il. They are
the surviving effects of causes now no
longer operative, and have therefore. no