Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-06-26
For the Grant County Herald.
Mr.. Editor. And the Nebraska Bill

For the Grant County Herald.
Mr.. Editor: And the Nebraska Bill
did pass The pledged faith of our faith
ers, consecrated and time-honored, has
, been tarnished, violated and crushed b,
THE foul heels Of unprincipled aspirants te
f office. The news shook the last linger-
ling relic of confiding reliance upon po-
litical purity from our very being. Who,
uninitiated in the deep and utter aban-
don of hell's darkest trickery could bring
his mind for moment to anticipate such
: Ia result 1t is not the voice Of the Ma
ton. 1t is the bantling of an infamous
party conspiracy, traitorously conceived
with all the appliances of corruption ac-
, couched, and if ever Graded, it will be
by enchanting the father of all sin, for
a season to pervert the minds and cor
rupt the hearts of the people.
Who will pretend that this act is an
, embodyment of popular sentiment P
Who will presume that the mass of minds
in this great Nation, can be recreant to
the plighted faith of their ancestry p
This Is not question of pro-slavery or
!, anti-slavery alone. Notwithstanding il
!, thrusts that question home to every cit
izen of the Union, it is in addition to
that question of GOOD FAITH OR BAD
FAITH-a question involving not only
rights stin jure," but all the elements of
social confidence and respect. The
slave interests have realized their part
Iof the negotiation. The consideration to
them, in the Compromise, was pay down
I'VE took ours upon time--but previ-
Gus to the lapse of time, they bolt the
contract and claim share Of their own
concessions, made to us by the contract.
Such are the facts historically, and there
is plainness in them to honest minds,
which gives back ground to the pic
ture,-a "sober second thought" that
must thunder forth rebuke. Nor will
this rebuke be sectional. Thomas II.
h Benton's single vote represents more of
the honest-hearted South than do the 81
who endorsed the "liHLe giants" hopes.
If Southern honor has not become most
wofull debased Of late, the North will
not want sympathy in her indignation.
, Independent of some horse-stealing
counterfeiting, fillibustering black-leg
cut threats, in Arkansas and Texas, and
call along shore," the South have high
. regard for stipulated faith, and will re-
pudiate the foul massacre which has cast
, la blight upon their honor. From our
familiarity with Southern feeling, we
cannot believe that this gigantic fraud
i upon American legislation is an index of
the public mind, even at the South, but
that its plotters will be hurled from con-
G fdence and place, with the condemna-
: tions Of an incensed constituency. We
are aware that the characters above ex-
cepted, are neither few nor void of in
tluence, ana from the CLEANS of light we
5 can gather from our diplomacy at the
| Court of Spain, it may be by getting us
into the excitement of war upon the
Black Warrior account, and working us
up to that sentiment of sham patriotism,
sour Country rigM r wrong," that
Pierce, Douglas, and the aforesaid, cal
culate upon the national mind becoming
$50 intoxicated with gloriflcation, as TO
yield, unwilingly to the memories OF
the past,-that they can "come it, a ia
7eras over the supple North but it was
the last ounce that broke the donkey
back wasn't it? One thing is certain,
no efforts of desperation will be left un-
tried either to sustain their victory, or
cover their retreat. Should a majority
of the South, in direlection to all sense
of honor, approve of this measure, we
shall be greatly disappointed, but in nc
wise discouraged. We have the mate
rial aid in the free States. Our south
ern fellow citizens may prove treacher-
Gus to us, upon matter of imaginary
gain to them, but we cannot longer re-
main treacherous to ourselves. No, old
party bonds and party names are being
sundered and obliterated, as the astoun-
ding news reaches the quiet homesteads
of northern electors. They at first look
incredulous, but are treasured Of its
truth. They feel that it is grievous g
E be betrayed by their own, that they have
, been wronged and insuhed ,-wronged
by the invasion of rights most sacred tc
freedom, and insulted for delaying their
redress. They feel that longer endu-
rance makes them parties in the iniqui-
ty-that they have yielded everything
), for harmony, more than was right to
yield, more than was manly to yield
that they have retarded from belligerant
attitudes and bullying threats equally
insulting to justice and to manhood, un-
It'll retreat is no longer practicable, until
!. their backs are against the wall, and in
the majesty of their power they feel com
PEELED to stand forth erect, and in solid
columns, to meet the onset. They ,ciA
do 1t. By all their hopes in the future.
By all the endearnseats of the past, they
will do it. With the deep sense of JUS
Itice disregarded and generosity abused,
now pervading the northern mind, on
this subject, political demagogues may fl
nancier, and DULLES Cor little giants p
NAV rant and swear, and the whole
South may work its fillibuster rage into
a tornado of "Arkansas tooth picks =
but the free States are bound to make
one unbroken move, in the chastisemen'
of individual sovereignty.
Yours, \.
! Aspenwafd, June I'd.