Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-09-11
MIR. Helniup's Letter.
Hazel Green, Wis, 9th Sept,

Hazel Green, Wis, 9th Sept, '54.
Feilow Citizens in Convention Assembled:
regret that it will be out of my power
to be present at the Mass Convent on which
meets at Lancaster to-day to organic the Re-
publican Party of Grant County.
entertained hope, up to late hour last
evening, to have been able, on that occasion,
to contribute, in person, my aid, feeble though
it be, in establishing, upon an enduring basis
the only political patty whose foundations aer
laid broad and deep in the natural, inalenabe
rights of man, which embrace within legiti-
mate limits, "Equal and exact justice to all men,
not emitting, in some small degree, generous
sympathy Tor the oppressed millions Of Afr-
ca on American soil, who are guilty of skin
not coored like our own.''
Be assured, am with you in spirit and fee
ling, and will heartily and energeticaly assist,
to the full extent of my power, to push on the
principles upon which the Fathers of the Re-
public planted it, and bequeathed it to us.
The time has a arF fggd 81 freedom 10 mani
testify labor together from out the existing po-
lIcal organizations, all the liberty-loving ele-
ments therein, which Lave failed hitherto to
accomplish much from the divided and distrac-
ted condition, and unite and combine them into
one compact, combined party, whose watch
WORD Shall be Liberty, now and forever and
whose political action shall look steadily to-
wards that grand point which has for its OBJ
Ject. the spread Of freedom, and the circum-
scription of Slavery.
repeat, Liberty must be national and
Slavery sectional, as in the early DAYS of the
Republic.
The recent action ofCongress in the passage of
the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, which repealed the
missouri Compromise, and permittedSlavery to
De introduced into those extensive territories
winch had been for more than third OF a CEN
fury, consecrated to freedom; forced through
both houses by the aid of all the Executive
influence at Washington, and without so much
as single petition to recommend or pray for
it, is direct insult to the intelligence of Nor
thern freemen, and well calculated to arouse
the North to the adoption of such measures as
Will put "a final stop 10 the alarming enroach-
ments OF the slave power upon our constitu-
tional rights, and to preserve the constitution
with all Its guarantees intact for future gener-
ations.
In consequence of the serious posture which
the affairs OF the country have assumed by the
arbitrary, revolutionary and unconstitutional
course OF the present Executive head of the 4
government, many men who assisted in placing
him IN that responsible place, among their
number, have deemed it their imperative duty
TO save the country if it did involve the sacri-
hce OF that distinguished functionary, rather
than save him and ruin the country.
III then friend demand, why Brutus rose
against Caesar, this is my answer Not that
II loved Cesar less, but that | loved Rome
more. Had you rather Caesar were living.
land die all slaves than that Caesar were dead
ito live all freemen?'
IN" I'm very head and front of my offending
Hath this extent, ne MORE"
am happy 70 add, in conclusion. that a
vast majority of people in Southern Grant l;la'
deeply sympathize with this movement, and and
" give good account of themselves, du ring
, t11: tall campaign just beginning to open.
"ishing You harmonious sessions
Ireman,
Your obi, syt,
N. H. HEMyTp