The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-05-11

Hark! heroes of the North-freemen who
yield not to the insidious diplomacy nor law
less usurpation and contumacious domination
Of the slave power. call on you who are
nEN-who fearlessly svow the cause of free
dom, and advocate individual sovereignty as
the God given right Of every manhood. 1
speak to men who are brave enough to feel
that they are men. and claim every spirit ma
ture as an equal--and Universal Humanity as
brotherhood.
Ny voice is not for the dough face who can
be duped to gulph . dog hook, and dragged
INCREASINGLY and supinely wherever the nod
Of despots may dictate. but for those who can
and will think and reason. The times imper-
atively demand the noblest valor from the
friends Of freedom The present is crisis
in the heavenward march of truth from the
squad an groveling forms of degradation,
in which . lost and degenerate world has long
been wel,ering in the spirit -stihing Cimerian
gloom of ignorance-the uncreated prolific
dame of the countless brood of evils The
gladsome geamings of the Frightening Auro-
"a Of civil and religious liberty. kindled by the
pilgrim fathers, aad famed by their soul ear
nest, united efforts, in humility and love. in
voking the aid and guardianship of heaven. is
now faintly beginning to illuminate the East
ern horizon Of the most benighted and down
trodden nations of earth and to arouse them
from their lethean torpor to burst their bonds
and rush forth to meet the Sun of Righteous
ness on the upland lawn of superior Truth
and Wisdom. and expanded fruition in the glo-
rious future-"the good time coming"
The billowy waves of agitation and eontro-
versy and the changing tide of revolution have
ever been heaving and lashing along the mo-
md lin f,l,a So
ed upon the canvas of history, but slowly vet
surely bearing the world onward, step after
step in heaven ascending progression Agi-
tation. SO indispensably necessary to the puri-
hcation of the physical atmosphere and to
physical improvement, has and IS and ,ciIl be
the motive power of every reformation-and
thanks 10 the Divine Dispenser of things. that
agitation still exists. and viii so long as error
does.
In the history Of our country, slavery has
been the putr'd sore and pestiterous cancer,
forever corroding and fomenting fevers in the
grand body polite But when, in the snnals
OF our government. has the agitation been SO
nigh and SO general as since the infamous pas
sage of the perfdious Nebraska bill? and
where Is the territory which has elected so
much discussion and controversy concerning
It's settlement and formation into State? The
truth Is. the soil never has been open to emf
grafton within the confines of the United
States which has awakened the universal spirit
OF adventure. and adventure into the esllan,
paths OF pioneer life. as we'll As anxietv and
expectation respecting its future constitution
IS an individual state in the conf.dera,ad Re-
public. This is natural and riyh,-I.m ,l.d
thatisis SO. 'Tis the God sent beacon Of hone
to the vassal here. and long suffering hum.n;.
y. earth over. say the present is = crisis
IN the progress of freedom. For have been
staunchly confirmed in the opinion ever since
the passage of this notorious bill. that on tn,
plans of Kansas the mighty battle between
Freedom and Slavery must and would b,
fought. which would give to one or the othe
TIE balance of power. Kansas is the fatee
osstle ground of freedom. and the fatal day i
np'dly approaching which is surely as infni,.
IN importance and incslculable in its results
ana ioreboding as much TO the destiny of Re
publican Institutions as any that has dawued
upon the golden pilsred fabric of equal rights
90 which is based the man -ameliora,ing su
p~ssructare OF The glorious Federal Union.
ihe Queen of the earth, the child of the
es the asylum for the oppressed of al
aanons." impAling the Land Of the free and
,ae nome of the brave" thus far in the nine
@enth century Then arouse. noble soul.
VINO aFs for the unmolested exercise and en-.