Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-27
THE NEBRASKA BILL.

Use Pta5form.-When Bishop Cfannief
was brought to the stake to suffer under
religious persecution, for recanting his
former fecantations, he increasingly ex-
claimed, "this unworthy right hand"
while plunging that hand, as of pure
choice, into the deyouring flames. His
greatest agony appeared to be, that ever
he had renowned his first fai,h,-that
ever he had renowned those cardi-
nal doctrines, religious and mental free
dom and the right of man to Judge for
himself, instead of allowing the priest to
think fct him.
Now we free Americans always pro-
fessed 10 think for ourselves, but in the
act of 1850, the fugitive niger act, we
forgot ourselves, turned in and went it,
thereby recanting our first faith, and
thereby placing ourselves in the position
Of poor Grammar. If we are not eyre
giously mistaken, we, all of us north will
be ready to come to the stake presently,
bitterly lamenting that ever we recanted
the faith of our fathers, and thrust into
the fire that unworthy member that be-
trayed our weakness when a pretended
dissolution storm seemed TO be gathering
round. Under the guidance of our De-
mocratic and Wing leaders, all of us
went the Compromise OF 1850, because
they told us it was good old Democratic
and Wing doctrine. They also told us
that Henry Clay and General Jackson
originated and sustained the Missouri
Compromise, and we held that too IS a
cardinal part Of our Wing and Democrat
ie faith!
Now We are toFasit is perfectly Democratic
10 turn about and janip Jim Crotc upon this cd
Compromise platform. Even the Wings that
are as stubborn TO lead by the nose as swine,
some of them uiheel ABOUT too. Among those
who went it blind for the Compromise of 1850,
we acknowledge with shame, ourseif among
that number; and like Paul, we felt like per-
scouting all the gentle world that refused TO
dance on our glorious Fillmore, Clay, Webster
& Co. Wing platform, Fugitive Save Law and
all. Yes, we defended the resolutions Of the
Democratic State Convention of 1919, Fsoppo-
sing the extension Of Slavery into territory now
Tree" and ''o0posing the admission of any new
fpfa h. T.:z
OF which create or sustain Slavery" In voice
and thought we condemned Hon. BEN. c.
EAsTMAN's letter to his friends during his first
canvass for Congress, in which he professediy
opposed the admission of Slavery into new
Territories and States. Yes, even to our re-
greet, we even condemned the vote of Hon. o.
Cole, our member in Congress in 1850, when
he voted against the Compromise of that year.
Now we have recanted Our first recantation
and are prepar:d to stand by our old faith a.
gain, in spite Of the fires of political dcnuncia-
tion,-in spite of all the South Caroiinas and
Dauglasses and Mggers between hell and Tex
as. We don't intend that ever another plat
form or compromise for or against Slavery
shall receive our support. We now go for the
Democratic Convention resolutions Of l849, a.
gainst Slavery and compromises; the views
set forth by BEN. C. EASTMAN in his said let
ter against Slavery extension, and in favor of
repeating the Fugitive Niger Law, and also,
In favor of the course of o. CorE in Congress.
when ne voted "no" on the final passage Of the
Compromise resolutions in 1850. So we have
repented of all our opposition to the Proviso.
or non-extension Of Slavery measures, and
start anew where we starte at first.
We are tirel of negro Legislation. The PEG.
pc OF the north are sick of it. T hey demand
that white men and Indians receive some at
tention in Congress as well as Mggsrs. Doug
ias' Nebraska Bill will pass, We heve no doubt
OF 1t, and the whole north from Maine to Min.
nesota will be aholitonized tier eby! Yes,
ado iiuonged by act of Congress. That will
ne law that no power can change or dis-e-
gard, save the power of Him who sits on the
legislative throne above; we mean the power
OF God, and we don't believe He will veto any
bill to make abol,tonsts, like the one Doug
las wants passed.
when the north gets well aboiitionized,
winch the passage of Douglas Bill must effect.
then Slavery is doomed child; it will croau
and die in spasms in the lap Of its nurse, and
be buried in he'll with Dives, where every
species of human tyranny and bondage ought
TO make their beds. We are not of that tenn
permanent to forebode what the future is to
BRING forth by any morbid signs of a moon
stricken brain; but, are not all the children |
and animals of the Ark in, and the wherewith.
al to feed them, and are not the dark clouds |
gathering round? In that great day of Gods |
Judgment and wrath, the human body is to be
changed into spiritual body, as in the twink
ling of an eye. So DO we think of Slavery.
Dark clouos like huge negro mountains are
seen JUS above the horizon; sulphury volumes
of tangled smoke sail swiftly above, and the
beasts run howhng from the wilderness, that
angelic host has not yet arrived to proc aim
liberty TO the captive, but when the signs are
alup, the end cannot be far away.
Such state of things we have always op-
posed, and might yet oppose, but there is no
use in kicking any longer against the DEGREES
of God, man and Devil combined We sur.
render, as the econ told Crockett, and start
down of the Compromise platform. If others
have mind to hold on I'LL Il breaks down.
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