The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-12-07

fever" my name isn't Tom Halliday
She's gone and-I'm gone, too
From the Forest City Democrat
The PeriIs of the Day and the Esu.
ties of the Day.
NUMBER III.
The evils to be resisted, if we are right ere
slavery, and the Capitalization OF porer. We
have declared, in considering the manner thew
should be met, what we would not do-let us yen-
ture, in this number, to say what should be DONE
For this end, we will consider
l. The condition of the public mind
Organizations, we know, have fearful power
When in the flush of strength, they direct within
their circle; in comparatively free lands, they are
dominant; in Republic often absolute Long
after they are dead, they influence, nay control
large bodies of men, 1t is no trifiing matter, then,
to combat these organizations no boys play to
gr"pple with them in their decadence. But,
IS we have already said, organization of an old
party is palsed another, demorazed; and the
results of the elections show concusively that the
People have convictions of their own, and mean
to follow them out, with Independent action, and
| resolute will.
Thus we observe, politically, that party allegi,
ance cannot be relied upon in any State of the
North. high officer of the Cabinet ordered
Massachusetts to drill the side of the nationals;
only some five thousand voters obeyed The
Administration command the Democracy of New
York TO unite on one ticket; an hundred thousand
treemen rebelled in mocking defiance! But soci
ally this feeling of freedom is stronger every way
Ga;her together neighbors and listen to their talk;
hear their conversations at public places; invade
the private CIRCLE weigh the chat of the re-side
and in one,and in ALL the same tone ths same spiri.
BILE, indeed, and the question is-not how we diff
Ter, but achereln do we Ggree,-there is n every
State of the North, and in all parts of each State
in it, kindred feelings and kindred convictons as to
these common wrongs-a wish and will to grap-
pie with and to crush them.
Nor is the South SO far astray as we imagine
1t is hard for to understand its real state, and
harder for it still to express its real wish. The
Government OF the Union is on the side of the |
Shareholder, and the Shareholders claim to be the |
South. and allowed that claim. Hence the
North forever suppose all the People of the Slave
States to be for Oppression, as right, and resoly-
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Government and the North be once on the side of
freedom, under the Constitution, and this mistake
would be quickly dispelled. As it is, leap beyond
the Slaveholding class, decided minority, and get
down among the people. hear the beat of their
heart, and the fact will be clear as sun light that
their is no tendency, under current, no sim
gle vital pulse of material moral power which is
for Injustice or for Wrong.
Politically the Slave States are bold. The Ad-
ministration fails to bind them by its servity, or
to lead them by its promises and pei suasions. Il
pleads with Georgia to elect Gov Cobb United States
Senator; the Legislature thereof rudely mocks 1t.
Loftiy the inflated Senator Foote, of Mississippi,
claims to be the savior of slavery the people there
ofspurn him. Indeed nearly every man of note
engaged in the Compromise has fallen even in the
South. Socially, too, the people speak out
They knoao the weakness of the institution of sla
very. They admit that it cannot endure. They
s feel the fact conviction ~ that, whenever
public opinion in the Free States shall be right
and Government shall be true to the Constitution. /
The evil must perish. Are these statements dis
puted Read, on the first point the acknowl- |
sdgement of Percy Walker of Mobile, in his let I
ers to the people of Alabama. {
'Thers is no Disgusting that the institution (sla- {
,ery) is weak, nor will the avowal render our DO /
ton more dangerous. especially if we couple with
evidences of determination add to its siren 9Th
The unequal distribution of slaves, as exhibited in
he census returns-the restessness we manifest t
whenever the institution is assaed-the conduct T
# our public men-the readiness with which they y
lave yielded to freesoil demands in the settlement
# controversies 10 which the rights of the slave
tates were involved-the ardor with which we 8
ontended for the annexntion of Texas, because it
would enlarge the area of slavery-the desire so !,
eneral in the south for the Incorporation into the
Juion of the Island of Cuba, from the belief that it
would strengthen the slave states-the general in-
ignaon. las it were but yesterday.) following the
that England and France were O
repaired to enter into negotiations with Spain, O.
he object of which to provide Cor the uanci- Il
alton of the slaves in Cuba-aI attest its weak IT
ess and our own sense Of it," fl
Ponder on the second, the address of The Cen" !"
al agricultural Society," CALI g another Cow en- "
on to protect and advance Southern interests &c &c
herein they say:
"ln many slareholding communities we see an
egroes who have become free, because, having lii
,oured the essentials of civilization, by ire pa
stbIe law which man cannot, if he would, de- in
at, they are raised from slavery to freedom, with pr