The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1855-08-07
People of America, will over permit separs-
tion of this glorious Union of FREQ and inde-
pendent States.

tion of this glorious Union of FREQ and inde-
pendent States.
i Correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette.
LIBERTY, OR DKsPoTIsM.
July 10, 1855.
EDS zErTE:---To-morrow go 10 the field
of contest to determino whether the liberty of
speech and religious freedom is longer possi-
Bile in a slave State! In this unequal struggle
as the result cannot be forcseen, ] ceem it
due my own character and tho great issues
pending, to say parting word through press
where suppression 10 impossible. Bora and
bred in slavo State, ovory hour of my OK
perience compels mo 10 avow that tho world
has not yet began to conceive tho consistent
Jesuitism and unfathomable atrocity Of the
slave propaganda They who stand at the
] cradle, ignoring tho holy sentiment which
consecrate the pledges of devoted and mutual
love, 10 catechise Gods noblest work, and to
4 stifle the immortal aspirations Of human soul
arc not toe mon to show magnanimity, or in
dulgo in the wesknoss of Justice, mercy and
truth -.---- s------.
! 1t is their vocation to dominate ovor the
human mind and to subject brute power to
| the superior force of intellect. Gentlo, polish
cd and winning; stern. bullying, and remor-
selessly cruol-- appealing at ono time to the
sentments. now to tho passions and then to
the fears of men-they must be- cunning in
fence" indeed, who can stand up under such
odds. No wonder then that they have taken
possession of the press. the pulpit, and Govern
ment: and that tho boasted liberties Of the
American people lie crushed and bleeding un.
der their iron heel! But dcspotism is under
whatever name, everywhere the same? and its
chief and last resort is force. To that has the
| slava Its threafap
10 drive out the new Congress with arms--re.
! newed yioianee swells on westward, and cannon
and the rifle, and the bowie-knife, overt hrow
tho civil power; and despotism rules supreme
| in places of vauntcd popular sovereignty, y in
the great prairies so often solemnly pledged to
| liberty, to Civilization and Christianity.
When Governor Reedssfs Is threatened with
a halter, and assaulted with intent to kill, tho
representation of tho American sovereignty
and Franklin Pierce, who was very manly in
| summoning the nations power to the recap.
ture of poor trembling fugitive from slavery,
repudiatcs his own government and plunges the
sword of justice into the heart of his own stand
ard bearor, it cannot be expected that should
advance unopposed the vanguard OF the "Re-
publican" army in the midst of its enemies.--
| soc now-I have long seen tho meshes gath
| oring around nae. Lot not man, therefore too
udTsnly EcpTOVo mo III Lne tnstlnCts VI i7pT6-
| servation have caused me to cry out too wildly
| for the composed ears of a aselfdeluding nation
against the ever onward march of Despotism
When Douglas & Co., repealed the Missouri
Compromise, how could refrain from de
nonnc ng them as lcordy Of death? Not frsm
| me-not from me comes tho imprecation. /
| and mine will bo forgotten in the greater issues
of this crime, and my voice will be silenced
amid the tears-tho blood-the woe which
follow in its wake, and the lamentations of the
widows and the orphans, which it will have
made! No, to all America tho time has come
| -Liborty or Despotism!
The Courier Of Louisville found us quietly
at our work-it called upon It's myrmidons to
initiate the deeds Of Atchson, Douglass and
StringfeIlow: ready with pistol and bowie
knife, they silonce John G. Fee. tho fearless,
martyr spirit Of our party, in Religion. Ifa
execution, this had not been the land Of Slave
Iry! He is falsely accused OF distributing
tracts to Slaves, and exciting insurrecton!-
Mr.. Fee sends his denial 10 tho Courier with
the programme of his action. laid down in the
annual report Of the American Missionary So
ciety. Did ho retract his calumny? did he
publish its refutation? No that would not
have been like the mcrcenary tool of despotism
Unheard he is condemned and silenced!
] come TO The rescue of my friend, the de-
fender of my cause, now once moro against
me, also, unheard, he publishes libellous let
ter, and Jcsuitically inv, kcs bloodshcad! The
| resolutions passed at the Jassamine meeting,
| and published in the Cincinnati Gazette, were
| read at the assemblies at Brushcroek and Scaff
old Cave, that there might be no question a.
bout the motives and actions. | know too
well the scoundrelism of that party to trus,
~ fo thair pi,nis \ lott
that my namo is placed beyond the sphere of
caumny, and all my past history gives assur-
ancethat my friends may have cause to morrl
my fate, but nevor my principles.
l call your attention once moro to my letter
to the Now York Tribune, after tho Nebraska
crime | ask Of you the favor of its e.publi-
cation. | am chcered that find myself ir
sympathy with the great minds and heroic
hearts of the Nation. Thank God fer this
foretaste of "the good time coming All hail
Ohio!--all hail, tho "North!"-all hail, tho
REPUBLICAN PARTY!
Go on, then. with tho sentiments OF
the 18th of July inscribed on your bsnficrs-
July the 4th, and July the 18Th; may thoy
both be eras to be ever remembered among
men!-When the aspirations of the great
began in '76 shall commence being completed
in 20!
But we shall not have peaceful triumph.
Deity vindicates and expiates tho violation of
His eternal laws. Blood consccrates ever the
remorse of great wrong. Standing here un
der the acknowledged responsibilities of homo
and countr, which no man can at willy put on.
or put of, calmly look destiny, whatever it
be, in the face, but living or dying, my aspira
ton shall be iuiniertal-may our couniry get
be free. Yoor obedient servant,
C. M. CLAY.
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