The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1853-01-11
AMERICAN wHIG REVIEW.

The December number of this sterling po-
! ltical periodical opens with very fine portrait
of DANIEL WEBSTER, followed by Nsomewhat
lengthy but highly interesting sketch Of the
man, who still lives The Foreign Policy OF
the Incoming Administration is the title oi
an exceedingly well written and well-temper-
ed article upon the present and prospective
position of parties, which ought to be read by
every man in in the Union--certainly by every
one who imagines the Whg party dead and
buried. 'Morhonism in Illinois is faithful
narration of tHc most interesting events con-
nected with tke rise progress conduct and cx-
tinction of the Nauvoo Saints The art and
mystery of Blowing your own Trumpet is a
eapital hit for the times, which we have mark
cd for copy. fragments from an Unpubli h.
ed Magazine-good light reading From a
Letter to Friend in the Country we have on
| ly room for the following extracts:
| And now, Sir, come to the most difficult Of
| all present political questions; and yet, may
say tho most easy to be answered. It's difficult
ty lies in the fogs by which it is surrounded,
and in the prejudice which have been formed
relative to it in recent times. Regarding its
own merits only, it is easy and simple. 'What
shall VIC do with our Freesoilers? Your ques-
ton, sir, has been asked by many an anxious,
honest man of us, since the second of Novem-
Der, what shall we do with our Freesoiers;' 2
And the inquiry most righteously des erves an
answer.
Now, sir, submit that this term 'Freesoiler'
has been vory sadly perverted. A Freesoiler
is man who desires that the extension of the
United States shall be accomplished by the
Introduction of free territory. Tho great Wbig
party of 1914 was one vast Freesoil party,
headed by q Frecsoiler whose memory is re-
garded with reverefice such as can be paid
TO no memory not truly National, and possess
ed OF warm adherents throughout the length
and breadth of the slaveholding States. But
the great Freesoil Whig party Of 1914 was
very different from the so.called Freesoil par
~ who have just voted for Halo and Julian -
This party is made up Of two different sets Of
men, one portion Wings who have unlearned
the moderation of'44, but are in much better
state ofmind to be taught il again than they
were two months ago. the other portion abo-
litiolists of the school of Garrison and Pills
bury. The latter portion have covered the
entire party with tho odinm of their own furi-
Gus and domoralizing doctrines. aud haxe bro't
the term FREQ Soil into dsrepute which does
not fairly belong to it. Free institutions arc
the geniusrof our government, and our bright
est future is read in the acquisition of FREQ ter
ritory. Desiring SUCH acquisitions, you and |,
sir, are Freesoilers, aid we arc such in COM
mon with all those men who voted for Clay in
1874. 1t may not snit us to adopt the name,
for it means too little. and it has been blown
upon by Giddings and Garrison and their fol-
lowers; but Frcesoilism must necessarily bo
feature of our creed, as it always has been.
Once more, as in 1874, Time and Destiny
press the issue upon us. Shall we open fresh
field for the furious inroads of Southern De-
mocracy Shall we conquer and then admit
n new foreign and slave State, TO awaken old
agitation in Congress, and in every village Of
tho country and to strengthen the colonial Lo-
cofocoism of South Carolina? A great body at
the North, and body at the South. hardly less
larger, when considered relatively 10 the pop
ulation of the Southern States, consider acqui-
sitons made in this way most inoxpedient and
undesirable; and they regard them as inexpe-
dient aud undesirable, not from any fear of
foreign powers; not from any dread of the dis
solution of our confedoracy,a a calamity some.
times augnred from the extension of our terri
tory not f-om any timid or narrow policy, but
because fthe moral and political sins which
spring from and accompany all such measures
of aggression and conquest The genius Of
the American Republic does not naturally lead
its citizens to such violence. It is bastard
growth, noxious weed upon our rich SOIL and
we should not fear to cut il down because
there are many who wish il to live. Let us
not drain our treasury. ond sacrifice our young
men TO conquer territory which is not yet
ready to become peaceably our own, and
which is no more desired by the conservative
slave owners and planters of the South than
by the peoplb ofthe North. II wo judge the
Southern people rightly. they are not represen-
ted by the furious oigarchists Of South Caroli-
ma. Filibusterism has no attractions for them.
They are not all anxious for the growth of sla-
very. They wish slavery to be letalone in the
States where il exists: and the new party now
rising up have no intention OF opposing this
rotional and just desire, They wish the North
TO respect their rights; and wnen time shall
have maturcd the remedy for the admitted
evil that exists among them, they will be the
first to applyit.
Nothing will be more easy for MS. sir, than TO
return to the position where we stood in 1910
and "A. We have passed through stormy and
exciting times since then, but, IL mistake not,
we are ready to meet oncc moro, and TO stand
together in defence Of those righteous and
plain measures about which there can be no
dispute, and out of which can grow no dissen- J