Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-09-04

q of the following article, from Paatnamo's
fwazihe, work that stands high for its
erary ability and national spirit. The
eat writer's Of our country, many Of whom
e statesmen, but too high and noble to
politicians, are taking this matter Of
avery and Freedom under consideration
e article below is from one of these re-
yed statesmen:
The Pro-Slayery Party, sometimes cal
the Southern Party, we are unwilling
speak Of by this name, because we care
ly distinguish between its southern mem
n, who are the propagandists of slavery,
4 those gentlemen Of the south who sim
wish their peculiar domestic system to
let alone; while we do not distinguish
tween them and their northern coadiu-
B,-donghfaces are they hight,-who
e their superseryiceable Instruments
be first distinction we make, because we
low that there are large numbers of in
ligent and conscientious people at the
nth, who do not believe that slavery is a
cd or a fnality; on the contrary, who
d that it Is a burden at best, and sad
ID dreadful Inheritance; who are anxious
manage it wisely, with view to its Ill
nate extinction; and, consequently, wo'd
.sad to see it strengthened or extended,
ding with hope and christian prayer to
4 day when the combined influences of
glem Indu8trialisn, and Democracy, and
histianity, shall have relieved them of
er painful weight Of responsibility. But
e do not make the second distinction, be-
ase the most efficient, and by far the
ot despicable, branch of the Pro-Slavery
arty, is that which, educated at the north,
ller all the genial Inspirations Of free
yndition Of existence, and without the ne
.sity Of an embarrassing involvment, still
luntaIJy casts itself at the feet Of Slave
:, to eat the dirt of its footnarks, and
,k the sores on its limbs. For the first
lass Of shareholders, we cherish not only
profound sympathy, but a genuine admi-
.l0n and esteem; we have friends among
lem whose excellencies of character are
Isncs for meditation and gratitude; and
the propagators Of the system, even, we
|a attribute on entire honesty Of purpose,
|agh mistaken one; but, for its erin
b. and adulatory northern sycophants
have no feeling but one of unlnitieated
|y and contempt. Could they be trans
|Eed, fer time, TO the experience of the
G creatures whose letters they he'll to
|al, the most generous mind could hard
regard the change as less than just
|iAappy retribution.
Tbs Pro-Slavery party, which grew
|nly out Of the old republican or demo
Ftn party, and which has never even ta-
|2a distinct name, has been the success
party Of our history. 1t has achieved
more signal and longer ascendency than
other party, and it has done it, not by
4eaos ability nor o more illustrious vir-
e. but by 1int Of its tact, and compact
dpor8is(ent determination. It's leaders,
brewing at an early day that they should
|y losing gathe, if they attempted to
|md alone, trusting to the ordinary means
Nceess,--to the natural supremacy of
lent, to the growth Of numbers, and to
p rechtudc Of their cause,-hit upon the
y4.able eIpedient of identifying them
Ives with the popular party Of the North,
|4 then, having accomplished that, Of
2daally directing that party to the de-
ne and spread of their peculiar doctrines.
Q' satisfied with the concession, which
cry intelligent and judicious northorner
Is then glad 10 make, that slavery was q
stem exclusively within the control Of the
~,eS it FIST insinuated and then insisted
a, slavery was not to be discussed at all
ue North, because q moral interference
rs quite as lntolerable they said, as a di-
political interference. This pretension,
-yl WAS Just the same as If Russia or
,&ey should insist that the principles Of
%.otsm should not be discussed IN the
,'.d States, because Russia and Turkey
Commercial treaties with the United
@eS, yet found merchants sordid enough
astgate mobs against those who ques-
~lcd il, and politicians wicked enough to
~'eAeh ii behind the laws. Yet the ta-
= OF Sanetity did not stop there, but was
pawn around regions in which all the
-,s were clearly and equally interested,
S1e District of Columbia and the pub
lands, while the Post Office, common
'lI, was forbidden to carry "incendiary
.@ments," as every argument or appeal
alOst the system was called, and peti-
M to Congress referring in the remotest
Inner to it, were treated with eontumely
ID the utmost disdain. 1t was reserved,
.veyer, for an eminent leader Of the
ruth, for Mr.. J. G. Calhoun, while acting
Secretary Of State, to engage in an Off
n defense of it before The tribunal of the
I@d and to disgrace the nation 1--WE dc
= use too strong a term) by representing
], Federal Republic as the apologist and
Gender of the most mean and most often
We species Of despotism.
lbs point once reached, it was easy tc
@e a holder stand, and to clamor with al
y yehemence of partizan heat, for the in
9ductiou of slavery into those new and
gym territories, which Providence had o
saSd On our western borders, as we had
y. ay hoped, for the reception of the out
y, y, Iepuehcans of Europe, and for new
y, ~ grander display of the benefcent inhu
Wy o. repubhcanism. And this impu
w eialm,--a claim which had no validi