The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-08-10
For the NstionsI Era.
PROGRESS OF OUR CAUSE IN OHIO.
Then onward, onward, onward still


9 Then onward, onward, onward still
See how our ranks with freemen AIl."
FRIEND BAILEY: A short time since sent
you 0 letter, reporting the aspects Of our cause
since the passage of the KaDeas and Nebraska
bill, in the Democratic county Of Holmes,
which, to that party in Ohio, has been what
New Hampshire was in the Union Well
what said Of that county appears 10 be
equally the case in other sections of the State.
In our State politics, Ohio may or may not be
thoroughly aDsmocratie.n or anti-Bank, SO. !;
but in q National Democracy rs set forth in
the Prc-Slayery features of Chat bill, great
majority Of the people are Any thing but ortho-
dox, or am greatly mistaken; and have en-
have had an excellent opportunity, so far as /
have been. The combined efforts of all the
political and Theological tools of slave breeders
can no longer suppress thu Indignation of the
people ct the insolent aggressions of the latter,
and the abject seryility of the former to their
interests. Thank Heaven, our Churches are
becoming more aroused than ever on the SUBJ
ject, and, when they do their duty, Slavery will
be o doomed institution, notwithstanding the
modern Priests and Levites," lwho formerly
controlled them almost as much as the Pope
and bishops Of the Roman Catholic Church
have it, in regard to the down-trodden slave,
have faithfully followed the example of their
ilustrious predecessors, in the Gaze of the man
"who fell among thieves"
Never was the progress Of Anti-Slayery SEN
timent so rapid and strong In Ohio as now,
although there is not so much noisy excitement
on the subject; just es streams, when small,
near their sources frequently make more noise
than when they become much deeper, and
wider, end stronger. Fer example, take my
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Congress by the Hon. Edward Wade. Ten
years ago, my township, (which was about
fair sample Of the whole counsy) gave, think,
bat five Anti Slavery votes out of about / 200.
BY degrees We gained, till, ia the county, not
withstandipg repeated assurance, from our
bunker friends that we wer6 throwing our
votes away" we gave our present Representa-
tive 6 handsome majority oyer either of the
other party candidates; and the next time, if he
Is willing to go to Congress, land il he is not it
viii not make any differences for he must CO.,
we Will give him majority over ell other
candidates, should there be any in opposition TO
him. And as great revolution as has been ac-
corplished in Cuyahoga, only after ten years
war, viii be accomplished in many other coun-
ties in far less time, and soon Ohio will be as
thoroughly Anti-Slavery as need be-. Perhaps
nothing short of the villaRous attempt to ex-
tend or permit Slavery in Kansas and Nebras-
ka would have aroused the people of the free
States TO q sense of their duty and, if go for
one, | shall not regret its being made, as it is
perhaps quite as well to meet the issue, that
ia sure 70 come some time, between Freedom
and Slavery, now as ever; and if on account
of the result the South, or some other portions
of it should conclude to leave the Union, the
people of the North will generally adopt the
sentiment Of one Of my neighbors, who told
another, who was talking of going to Illinois
Well, faith, and yen leave mony dry eyes
behind YEP H. Nj. ADDISON
TiUertOn, COshocton CO., Ohio, July 25, 1854