The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-11-30
The Pcrfls of the day, and the Du.
ties of the day.


cussing. To prevent any mistake, however, on
the part of friend or foe. let ua, though We repeat
start with the enquiry -
l. What are the evils TO be met!
These are plain They stand right before us,
night is not more palpabe. They Slavery. |
and the Capitalization of Power. The one clutch |
at free soil, and all the Government has Of it
the other would establish the hasest serTility to
Party, and its despetie DEGREES. The Que de-
mands the exclusive ruie of sectionaism, and the
yielding of'the Constitution to it; the other orders
the crushing out of free opinion, and the sacrifice
of the right of private judgement. Gloss over
these evils az we may. bisz upon them holy pre-
texts, or hcIieri names, clad them with the
gorgeous robes of false democracy spurious
nationality still. they frghtfu in mien, and.
when barred, black with venaIiy and despotism.
2. Having thus stated, distinctly. what these
are, let US ask hoD they to be met!
Thsisthe aiquestion and orobvous reasons
the hardest 10 answer satisfactorily. The enthu-
siast is clear. The earnest are able to solve the
difficulty, aud ready for action. God bless these
cassesi But we feel we know, as we believe,
that other virtues needed for this end; the vir
",
q our conviction is that we must ilarmoDize and
blend them all together, to command success, and
win thereafter glorious, yet stable progress
| We want no sacrifice of principle by any man, or
class of men. We desire our friends TO stand up
for Right 10 Congress, the Legislature, and every
where else, actirei y,-with pil which earth
rot stir. But misgled in with this activity and
this 6rmness aud guiding b,th there should be
t. at sleepIess watchfu!ness, that practical sagacity
which would seize insinctively every fit opportu-
nifty to advance the cause. and rvet every influ
ence anxious ready to sustain it, We cannot
otherwise grapple the evils we have specified, nor
defeat them. No matter how earnest or enthusi
asc or honest, we may be-, if balk here, if
having the power, we lack in these qualities, and
fail 10 put ourselves IA position achere ue might
perform our duty toith e8tci, we shall blast that
cause as much as if we had purPosely betrayed 1t.
lst We begin, then. by Stating, that we would
make mere partisan increment.
We have cant TO ntter to encourage about
party. 1t is The first outgfowth of Freedom 1t
will exist in our Republic, or wherever liberty ex
sts higher state of society is to be, and will
be-thnt of indviduasm; but it will not come, we
fear, in enr day, aud, therefore, must do the
best we can for Riett, through The ordinary and
common modes Of action. fla false democracy
1 rises up. must put it down by true democra-
/ ey; whatever is counterfeit must lie supplanted by
what is genuine"' Still the abuse of party has
been such and Is such, In our country Through the
Caucus and Convention as to create the very evils
which threaten the well being IF the Repubic-to
give them, certainly, compass and strength
Hence the people distrust or hate that abuse, and
are resolved to seek and to have remedy for it.
Why the very light vote at the late elections?-
What mean the divisions in the old parties, the
combinations, ''the bo!ts' which have disturbed
every State. and almost every section of each
State? These acts are the peoples protests a.
gainst the abuse of party. They are, not revolts
hut revolutions in the cid organizations. 1t will
do for then, in the face of this abuse of par
ty, and of the will of the people thus defanty ex-
pressed, to START or to countenaIce any movement
wha,ever of q partzan character unless we mean
TO court and to ensure defeat.
Cd. We would call no county Conven' ions, mol
have any local action, on purely political basis be.
fore summer.
We cannot mistake the signs all round US. We
know certainly the condition of the old parties
One of them is palsied and the other demoralized
Yet there are, among the People who have com
posed them, two well defined, distinct wings the
one, as we term it, "Hunker' the other Progress
I sive." OF these wings the "Silver Grays," OF
, the Wing side. and the "Pro-slavery men, OF
the called Democratic side, are essentially o
one faith. There is. and there can be, in the ma
| nj dnft ha
/ tween the Progressives and the Hunkers of eithe
of the old parties: there is, anc there must be,
natural link, an assured and healthfuI connect
ion between the Liberals or Independents of both
The causes producing dasintegration, on the on,
hand. and re. formation, on the other, are ope
q rating slowly it may be, but surely. They ar,
seemingly retarded, possibly checked, thongh no
= tbwared-for that they. cannot be-by the prid,
and prejudice engendered 10 old conflicts, and stiff
n tened and strengthened by ties made tough an,
strong 10 old associations. But fact is certain
These causes mus. be left TO ,oork out their result
naturally 10 be efficient. If seek to develop
q them prematurely, or to controlthe by any arti
: : hcih or hot-bed means, we shall weaken the prin
l. ciples we long to establish, by repeing thousand
. who are enger to uphold them, and chilling host
a WHO might De eager to nsnt oy our slde Ou
course. then as it seems to is to labor and It
: wait; to do both in the largest spirit of mani,
taith-in spirit, indeed, that would cast out tha
pride which sets Itself up for principle that pref
udice which usurps the place of Judgement, au,
that egoiism which assumes to be the very person
# ifcation of purify. sa,
s Sd. We would, therefore, ,culi no State Conven
! E,..
d independent Of those already assigned. -s'-
o Congress will meet ia few days; the Legisa
!, ture in January. What the comproms Democra
p cy wish and mem to do. we know. But it wi
: require months to deveope their plans, rathe
Q to make their motives, aud the springs of thei
g conduct palpape. The people are not apt in exam
a ming or discovering causes of action; they trus
y satisfied OF the correctness of the general prinen