The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-10-04
THE ELECTION IN oHIo-A LAST APPEAL

Next Tuesday the People of Ohio will say,
whether the Pierce Administration is worthy OF
support or not-whether it has done right or
not, in repeating the Missouri Compromise. in
laying open all Federal territory to Slavery,
in subjugating Kansas to Missouri slavehold-
ers, in endorsing spurious Legislature in the
Territory, elected by Missourians, in appointing
as its Governor. Wilson Shannon, a man who
supported the Kansas Nebraska bill, and now
pledges himself to enforce the brutal acts of a
sham Legislature, which in itself is wholesale
violation of the very principle of that bill.
They will say, whether S. p. CHASE who has
served them faithfully for six years in the Sen
ate of the United States, and is firm sup
porter Of the Ordinance of 1887, the foundation
of their State, and the source of their unexam-
pied progress, or Mr.. PUGn, who repudiates
that Ordinance, and is o disciple Of John c.
Calhoun, the great Apostle of Slavery, is the
true representative of their sentiments. They
will say, whether Ohio is to be dragged at the
car of Slavery Propagandism in 1856, or is to
take its stand in the front rank of those States
that will cast their votes for Liberty and
Union-for the Anti-Slavery policy of that glo-
rious Ordinance, of which she is the frst-born.
This is the issue-there is no other. Mere
State issues shrivel into insignifcance. All the
State elections this fall are but the prelimina
ries to the National election of 1856. The
Administration Party, should it succeed, no
matter by what accident or combination, would
claim the result as an endorsement Of its Pro-
Slavery policy-as an evidence of popular re-
action in favor of the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise. Our brethren in Kansas, now
struggling for the right of selfgovernment,
would feel the blow, and the Propagandists,
who have trampled upon them, would shout for
JOY.
AS to the Know Nothing issue, that is su-
perseded. If any paper has a right to be
heard by the opponents of the Know Nothings,
it is the Era. None labored so necessarily to
defeat them. None indicated more boldly
the rights of men, without distinction of race
or religion. None denounced more uncompro.
misingly all sectarian prescription. None suf-
fered so much in that warfare. But the organ
ization is broken up. So far as its peculiar OBJ
Slavery members of the Order are disenthralled,
ignore the issue it sought to make, and are
now arrayed in the Republican party, which is
more hostile to the spirit of caste and proscrp-
ton, than the Party which upholds a system of
slave labor, at war with the rights of foreign
ers and Of laboring men everywhere. Know
Nothingism, then, is not an issue, but Slavery
Propagandism is. Chase and Medill are both
opposed to the creed and policy of Know Moth
lngism, but Chase represents the Ordinance of
1857, Medill, the Kansas Nebraska Act Chase
represents the policy of Slavery Prohibition in
Federal Territory, Medill, the policy of Sla-
very federation in Federal Territory; Chase
represents the policy that has given to Free.
dom and Free Labor the great States of Ohio.
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Wiscon.
SIN, and the vast Territories of Minnesota, Ore
gon, and Washington, the favorite ASYLUM of
foreign immigrants seeking liberty and a live
hhood in the New World; Medi represents
the policy which has swindled Freedom out of
Kansas, provoked civil strife, and is seeking
10 curse all our Territory with system o,
Slave Labor, which the foreign and native
pioneer, who seeks an honest livelihood. shun,
as a pestilence.
People Of Ohio, whom will You choose
Next tuesday, your answer must be given
Vote, every man of you. Let no friend o
Freedom relax effort through an overweenin.
self-conhdence. Let every man do his duty
rs If his single vote were to decide the day
and the result cannot be doubtful.