Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-04-24
e. the Grant county Herald.
Noarasna and slavery.

Far The Grant County Herald.
Nebraska and slavery.
/ Mr.. Et;foy: There appears to be IN
common excitement at fhe presen' 'iMs
4IIenthe subject of the Nebraska lnlqul,ys
am . - there ought to be excite
flmdt. Iwrite ncx condemn it, on the
!, eostrary, / would if rsss.sld Increase ii
tenfold. Many Of the peopfe are just
) beginning to understand there is isSch a
thing asa siaue power and they fear thst
lit is aBoat to take from them all their
.free Territory, and that hereafter their
,children viii have TO work beside, and
lin co,nnetifion with the degraded slave;
land thew know that in such a situation
l,bev coi,ld rise but a little above the
,Eslsye No wonder then that there is ex-
element and God grant that it may be
turned to good account. have thought
the nreseIt favorable time to examine
this Slave power and show II possible
Ibow Il is that three hundred thousand
'lslave holders manage to rule nation OF
twenty millions. II.
There were at the last census, Gin
round numbers three millions of slaves,
land three hundred thousand slave hold
Iers, making an average Of ten slaves y
one master. One slave holder with ten
slaves, has then exactly as much power
over the general government as seven
northern freemen, and seven men IRON
1.-THE free States may all vote for the same
man for President and their votes VII
all be neutralized by the vote of one
slave holder: and the same rule holds
true in tie election of Congressmen.-
Here then is the rod Of the slave pow
err its branches extend in every direc-
ton; it makes Presidents or sends them
into retirement at will. It makes # a
penal offence to obey Gods laws which
requires us to entertain strangers, and
do as we would be done by s; it holds
that every northern man is bound at the
cali of slave holder to pursue the slave
and return him to his master. 1t says
to Tract and Sabbath School societies,
publish nothing against Slavery; and
precisely nothing is published. Our
forefathers who framed the Constitution
were no doubt wise and virtuous men,
yet they made one great mistake when
they battered away part Of their polit-
ical power for mess of potage which
they never received. There are two
great interests in this country, opposed
ore to the other, these are Freedom and
.Nayery. Any course of legislation
which favors one Of these is against the
other. Cortez conquered Mexico by
setting one tribe against another and the
slave power is conquering this country
by arraying freedom against freedom and
| that upon its own soil: this they have
been enabled to do by keeping the north
divided into two nearly equal parties,
Icontending against each other, when
their interests We're the same; and SO
long as they can manage to keep up this
division, SO long will they rule the Ma
ton ; and when the north shall give up
their old party names and attend to the
interests of freedom, then will freedom
be triumphant. / thought to have ex-
lamined this subject further, but have
lust read the last Herald, and have con-
iciaded that it would not look well fer
one living under the government of Wis
consin at the present time, to say much
against slavery, for it appears that We
have something much like it here. True
we are permitted to choose our own
masters provided we choose them from
the persons we are told to!
A historian describing certain coun-
TRY in Europe, says, "the people retain
the liberty Of saying age to the PROPOSE
tons of the Prince" so we have the
privilege of saying aye to the PROPOSE
ton Of King caucus, and experience
proves that the rascally old king is not
whit better than was Nebuchadnazzar
When our State Treasury was robbed
under pretence of trying Hubbell and its
contents thrown so plentifully among a
parcel of hungry petifoggers that some
gathered So 900. | supposed that the
first business of the next Legislature
would be to bring the rascals to Justice,
and make them disgorge their i'll gotten
gains. Judge of my surprise then when
learned that they had not even a.temp-
ted to make them disgorge, but actually
threw out to them as much more! Oh,
the height and the depth, the length and
the breadth of the sin and corruption
now af1oat in Wisconsin. As the pu-
trid carcase draws the carrion birds from
all directions, SO does thy putrid poliii-
cal carcase attract the political gambler
and swindler from all parts of the coun-
try. Oh Wisconsin ! Wisconsin! when
wilt thou arise and shake thyself from
these political vermin which are now
sucking thy blood. LUTHER BRowN.
Patch Grove, April Is.
CuRIous CALcuLATlos.-Aw writer If
the Boston Journal makes the following
curious calculation
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