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

And vet when the trial hour of the Baltimore
Convention came what did he gain by 1t all! "A
single Southern STATED Not one. A single dei1I nu
gate from Southern Statel Not one VII, ., If
the efforts that official power ana .ne itb ali
cities and amazing industry cond 1idAe, rH;I Hi
that subs ription nominations. ana I fee9 NJ
'ha' suns y C+Io Garden committees, and w all
.t 81 State street and subsidized presses, and
fr,udnIent hopes of tariff and oonthern traoe couia
-. M Webster could rally bnt an average OF
trventv-uine votes in a convention of almost three
hnndTed MEMBERS and never, on any balloting, ac-
cording to the political thermometer which meas
ured his popularity, did he rise above thirty-two
degrees-the point of eternal congelation No
Southern State gave him vote! No Southern del
egate was sent there to give him votei Fifty
three opportunities occurred, extending from day
to day, and, according to account published in
the Boston Courier, from a professed eyewitness
of the scene, the Northern friends of Mr.. Web
ster besought their Southern brethren with pray
and entreaties, sad and fearful enough to have
melted flint to have melted platinum, to have melt
ed anything but the infusibe heart of slavery, and
yet they were memorable. Nay, according to the
published statement of his friend DIR. Bell, deleI
gate from the Fourth Congressional district o
Massachusetts,, after the ffty-second ballot, and
when it became certain that Gen. Scott would be
nominated the next time, these Southern gentle
men were earnestly appealed to, as matter OF
courtesy and to place candidate, MI Webster]
right [wrongJ on the page of history, to unite IN
the final vote on Mr.. Webster, which would have
left him with one hundred and twenty or thir-
ty votes'-they refused to give him even that emp
ty compliment.
So certain has been the fate of Mr.. Webster, for
the last eighteen months that and all those with
whom l am politically associated, have foreseen it
and predicted it with much confidence
tronomer foretels eclipse Let us trust that the
fate of such victims viii not be lost for the future
upon Northern men.
FINALITY.
Sir, out of this fugitive slave law has arisen an
il-sounding, half barbarous word to express the
wholly barbarous idea that the law is never to be
repealed or modified. 1t is the word s'Finaty. !.
This word has already got into somewhat common
in regard to its objects. 1t is destined to get
into universal use in regard to its authors think
Gen. Cass and Mr.. Buchanan, MIR. Fillmore and
Mr.. Webster, with many others, have by this time
an interior and realizing sense of what the word
ssfnality'' means. Though too late for them te
profit by it, hope it viii be blessed to the use o.
others.
| DANGER THE UNION.
And what palliation, what pretext, what subter
| fuge even, had these men for such betrayal of hu
man rights Nothing, literally nothing, but thai
fraudulent idea of changer to the Union;" that cry
| of sswolf,' which the south always raises wher
she has an object to accomplish; and which she
| will always continue to raise, on pretences more
and shadowy and evanescent, the more we
| have the folly to heed it The same threat is now
at this instant of time, made, if the North does
| give them their choice in the two candidates fo
the Presidency
| Among redundant proofs, demonstrating that tht
Union has been in no peril, nor shadow of peril
there are two that have never been answered, ant
| never can be answered Notwithstanding all tha
was done in this House, and more especially in the
Senate, and by all the pro-slavery presses and pro
slavery champions, North and South, during thu
wear 1850, to create panic in behalf of the Union
they were never able to affect the price of United
States stocks, neither in this country nor in Eu
rope, so that the difference could be discovered
with microscope. Now, of all men living, stock
holders and annuitants are the most sensitive
Universally they atimid If there be
cloud in the heavens, or ripple on the surface
| they fear wreck and shout the alarm. But timit
as they constitutionally are, not politicians no.
panic makers could discompose their serenity by
! all the insane cries about the crumbling OF the
| Union to pieces and there not member o
! the Castle Garden committees who would have
taken cent less, or would not have given every
cent much for United States securities on thu
day when they sent forth their fraudulent receives
! as before after.
On this point | will cite an authority whose
| soundness on the question in issue believe in
and certainly my opponents will not dispute
ssWe have preserved and fostered credit till al
have become interested in its further continuarct
and preservation. 1t has run deep and wide into
our whole system of social life Every feel.
the vibration when blow is struck upon it. ant
this is the why nobody has escaped the in
fuence of the Secretary's recent measure. While
credit is delicate, sensitive, easily wounded, anc
easily alarmed, it is also infinitely ramifed
diversified, extending everywhere and touching
| everything. ~ -a =
And yet the very men who, in their capacity O
politicians shrieked 'sdanger the Union,'' in thei
other capacity of stockholders and merchant.
never varied their asking their giving prices one
jot or title. They cried ''earthquake,'' when no
rumble could be heard, nor jar felt; and ther
tried to make us believe that a tornado up
roofing forests, when nobody could see leaf on ;
tree moving. No the cry of danger of the UnioI
was raised to divert the attention from their as
saults upon the Constitution. 1t was the latter
and not the former that was in danger.
Another reason, and it is standing and a con
tinuous one why there was no danger to the Union
| consists in the fact that the South according t,
their own estimate, under bonds of s 500, 900
| 900 to keep the public peace Let them break VI
this Union, and their property in slaves, whicl
they now value at this enormous sum, will not, a
| the end of quarter of century, be worth man,
groats. Does anybody imagine that this Uniol
can be dissolved without civil commotion, withou
revolution by arms 7 Sir, this is subject incon
ceivably painful but it is possibility spoken OF
and sported with by others with such levity, tha
am constrained to invest it with some of its an
propriate solemnities Does any one believe ther
can be two border nations, one founded on tn
principle of freedom, and the other the basis @
slavery, having continuous frontier of three thou
sand miles, and daily traversing the same waters
with immunity from war! And in such wars, VIII
will be the eager allies of the Northl Sir there ar
ten thousand fugitive slaves in Canada to-day
capable of bearing arms, and their number is in
creasing faster than ever. They practcing tn
use of firearms, and the menage of the horse TIL
story of their oppression is rccounted every day,
every hamlet and at every fire-side. The mother
nurse their children with milk and with vengeanc
together The knowledge of North Star is pene
tratng further and further into the Southern inte
rior and arousing hearts to the effort of sell
emancipation. A dissolution of the Union repeal
the accursed act of 1850. The free soil of Canad
and the British Provinces-the only free soil ther
now is the northeastern part of this continent
is brought down to Mason and Dixon's line. w
have in the Northern States population of tw
hundred thousand of African descent. In case {
war between the two sections, thousands of thi
coored race will fly to the land of bondage as swi
as they ever flew from it. They will GO to max
desolation ofthe realm that once made desolatio
of fthem and all they held dear. Under their aveng
ing cry, insurgents will rise up like exhalatio
over all the South. There are no motives NOR
terrible than those which urge bondman to hi
revenge. Perpetual proximity between master an
slave, furnishes perpetual opportunity for retribu
ton, Every house is an arsenal of weapons; ever
tool on the plantation instrument of death. Fir