The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-10-04
The Case Strongly Put.

advocate OF the fusion ofall parties in New
York opposed to the extension Of Slavery
and the repeal of the Missouri comprom.
Use. In a late number we find the follow.
ing in relation to affairs in Kansas. which
we think presents the affair in a clear
light. and is worthy the consideration of
every freeman of the free Slate>i
Imagine for moment the present
slate of affuirs to be reversed.
The same act of 1920, which declared
Kansas free forever permitted Missouri
10 become Slave State. The one and
the other were parts of the same bargain
Just suppose now, that the rights of Mis-.
souri, instead OF those Of Kansas, had
been violated,
Suppose that Senator Douglass had
brought in his bill last year, TO repeal
SO much Of the Missouri Compromise as
permitted slavery in Missouri. That
Congress, influenced partly by desire
TO Please the aboliIonists, and partly by
bribes in the shape Of office, DC, from
the administration, had accedcd to the
proposii ion and had repealed it. That in
accordance with the popular sovereignty
doctrine they had also agreed to let the
MisSourians vote whether they would
take fresh start and have slavery again,
or would Try to do without it.
Suppose that when the promised ell c.
ton day came, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, at
the head of a gang Of ruffians and 'Aboli.
tionstS,' had poured in from the adjoin
ing State of illinois, bent upon illegal in.
terrier nee, and armed with bowie knives
and revolvcrs, they had taken forcible
possession Of the polls, and prevented
any but abollionists from voting. That
they had deposed the Judges who resisted
them. That they had avowed to lynch,
hang, drown, tar and fcath r. every
man who ventured to say word in be-
half of Slavery. That in pursuance OF
the threat. they had beaten one slavehod.
er, rode another on a rail, driven a third
from the Territory, and shot down the
fourth like dog.
Suppose that an assemblage Of these
Illinois Abolitionists, pretending 10 have
been chosen by such appliances, had as
suned to be the elected Legislature oI
the State Of Missouri, That they had mel
at Jefferson City. and passed Laws, pun,
ishing by five years Imprisonment, any
man who should undertake to print,
write or speak anything in favor of Slave
ry. That they had divided up all the
Offices in the State among their abolition
ist friends for eight years, and had heIpeC
themselves literally out Of the State
Treasury.
Suppose that the wronged inhabitants
of Missouri had sent a humble petition tC
Washington for redress. And suppose
that the President, by way of reply, hac
picked out Frederick Douglass, and sen
him there with instructions to aid anC
abet every outrage committed by the II
linois vagabonds-p present and tc
come, and that he iorgetfut alike of hi.
past charater and the duties of a man anc
christian, had actually arrived at st
Loui and had announced 10 publ,
speech that he was going to do it.
Would not storm Of Indignation, alike
at the North and the South, have follow
ed such proceedings? Would not the
Mntionol v;ginn knyu knop ,,rru.Il lo,,, 4,
clear on the subject of their justice or in
iusticei Would it not have been though
u suitable matter tor consideration at t
State election? Would not the Soft Con
yention and the Know Nothing Conven,
ton, and all the other Conventions have
come boldly up to the scratch, and de-
clared that not only the Missouri Com
promise ought not to have been repealed
but that 1T OUGHT TIE BE REsToREDi
Above all, would not the pun shmant o
those outrages have been held to be al
eminently National, patriotic and Union
saving business? Would it not have
been platform that Northern aud South
ern men could both agree to stand upon?
Would not the star'spang'ed banner, and
the American Eagle, and tho ship Of
State, and all that sort of thing, have
come appropriately and frequently inc
play? Would not Gov, Hunt have
thought it good time to fuse? Would
not, in short, men of all parties have
agreed that it was not in the least section
al or dangerous, but highlyconseryatvt
and safe to dcnouncc and put down the
rascally abolitionists that had done the
mischief? Yes, every soul of them!
Such difference does it make in this en-.
lightened land, ehoSe Bull it is that CORES
Tho other mans Ovp'