Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-10-16
BY COY Err &. GOLDSMITH. ]


Hon. DAVID WHMoT is now canvassing
Northern PENNSYLVANIA aud the adjacent
counties Of New York in support Of the
great principle embodied by Jefferson in
1884, Nathan Dane in '87,. and by Mr..
Wilmot himself in the Proyisoi Of. 1847.-
The following letter win serve TO exhibit
the heartiness and prnreserve with which
Mr., W. throws himself into the present
struggle for Free Labor and Free Soil:H
rrs from the Mohtrose Democrat. 4al
Towanda, Pa, Thursday, June 29,*1854.
DEAR SIR: You. favor of the 9th has
just come to hand. Iwould be much graz
titled to be with you on the 5th proximo,
and to raise my feeble voice in an earnest
appeal to your citizens to united action in
defense of our free institutions of Govern
ment. | am under an engagement to adj
dress the citizens of Toga County on the
subject Of the Nebraska outrage on the 4th,
and shall 60 from there to Potter County.
] rejoice that you are to have with you
so able and. jealous champion Of freedom
as Mr.. Greeley. In making the disputes
Of party subordinate to the interests of free
dom and humanity, he has nobly fitted
himself to render the most eminent service
to his country in the crisis The people
must come up to the like high and patriot
ic elevation of purpose, or there is no hope
for our countrys liberties The policy Of
Slavery cannot be mistaken-indeed it is
boldly proclaimed. The recent high-han-
ded outrage is but the precursor Of a Sc
ries of measures designed to give the Slave
oligarchy absolute donination-to crush
out forever the policy and principles of
freedom in this Government, and to estab-
lish on the American continent the most
powerful and mighty Slave empire known
in the history of the world. Submission,
acquiescence in the policy of Slavery, is ia
tai; and he who breaches it breaches trea-
son to liberty. Acquiescence in the legis-
lation Of 1850 elnboldened Slavery to in
wade, in 1854, the guaranteed rights Of
Freedom in Kansas and Nebraska; and
to-day, Slavery looks forward with exult-
ing confidence to the acquisition Of Cuba,
the absorption Of more Mexican States, the
re-establiShment of Slavery in San Domin-
go, the revival of the foreign slave trade,
and to an alliance offensive and defensive
with Brazil for the protection and aggran-
dizement of Slavery, and to enable it to
defy the public opinion and power Of the
world. In proof of all this, [ have but to
point to the proceedings in Congress, and
to the leading public journals Of the South.
In this vast programme Of Slavery, where
do the submissionists Of to-day prepare to
mako stand Ii must be made now.
to-day The free men Of the republic,
thank God, have still left in their hands a
peaceful and constitutional remedy, if they
will use it wisely and frmly--the ballot
box. The power and design of Slavery
must be checked, and the original policy
of the Government on this subject restored.
To this end we must lay aside-postpone
for time-the strifes of party over minor
points Of controyerted policy, and unite in
the great work of preserving our free in
stitutions from impending destruction.
The first blow must be aimed for the o.
verthrow of the present National Admin
istra6on--the mere tool and puppet of the
slave power. Through the corrupting in
fuence of its patronage upon the peoples
representatives., freedom has been betray-
ed. 1t must be overwhelmed at every
point with ignominious defeat. We can
not shorten its constitutional term of Office,
but we must strike down it's allies in eve
~ State, district and county. 1t must
have no props in the States upon which to
lean for the support Of its iniquitous poll
CIV. No man should be elected to respoil-
sible office--Governor, member of Con-
gress, Representative--whose relations Of
friendship and alliance with the National
Administration are open to suspicion. We
must accept of nothing in the candidates
presented for our suf3rages short Of undis-
guised hostility to the ultra Pro-Slayery
power at Washington. Anything short Of
this is folly, idle triAing, shilly-shally non
sense; and designed in the end to lead the
people step by step into acquiescence in
the policy and plans of Slavery. Let no
candidate pretend to condemn the recent
legislation of Congress, and yet hold him.
self in party alliance with the present Ad-
ministration. He cannot be trusted, and
so sure as he IS trusted so sure aotU the
people and their rights again be betrayed
The man who will not face in open and
manly resistance the aggressions Of the
slave power to-day cannot be relied upon
to do so on the occasion of future provo
cation. He is hopelessly rotten---unsound
to the core, and viii sacrifice his country's
highest interest and glory for some paltry
partizan considerations.
Slavery is deaf to the voice Of remon-
STRANGE. In vain we point to the history
Of the country--in vain we invoke the
names of Washington, Jefferson, Madison,
and their compatriots, in defense of the
early and settled maxims of the Govern
ment-in vain we appeal to the eternal
principles of justice and right-all, all are
unheeded, unavailing. In the absorbing
selfshness of great interest, Slavery push
es onward in its barbarous and destructive
policy, subverting every principle that gave
life, yigor and success to our Revolutions
ry struggle, aud defeating all the great
ends for which the Government was estab-
Gshed. 1t has broken down the highest
precedents of constitutional law, in open