The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1855-07-17

were rocked in the same cradle, and nursod
upon tho same lap; though even then exhibi-
ting towards each other such marks Of il-tem-
per, as made wise men shake their hoads and
prophecy that things would grow worse and
not bettcr; however, by most these were Deem
ed pardonable instances Of childish passion
which discretion would improve upon, and So
with the hope that time would work refor-
? nation in their childish manners, they were
overlooked. few years had passed, and still
they engaged in the same boyish sports; and
their sharpening quafrels were kept in a meas
ure family secret, and by many doomed moth
ing strange; and tho hopo was still INDUCED
that ripper years and maturer judgment would
correct the wayward impulses and cool the
heated passions of fiery youth. But they
have come to years; and every such fond hope
has been doomed TO disappointment. The hot
words of youth have only waxed hotter with
age: their. animosities have grown with their
growth and strengthened with their strength.
Every conquest that Slavery has made, land
they have been many,) have only stirred up a
hellish ambition for other and wider conquests.
/ One usurpation has followed another; and an
other has followed that. And all that slavery
has gained, liberty has lost. They have no
common interests. The only interest of slave
ry is to crush tho life out of liberty; tho
only interest OF liberty is to crush tho life out
mixture Of strength and weakness; but with
such a mixture, there may be measure of
peace. In the contact Of hostile elements it is
forbidden that thero should be. 1t is in vain
| for us to extenuate the matter. It Is in vain
TO cry peace when there is no peace. The
war is being waged, and we are in tho
midst of it. 1t were wiser TO inquire what
shall be the issue Of the contest, and how IA
vorable issue may be secured, than to deny
that there is such contest, vigorously and
unrelentngly prosecuted.
Tho strife has hitherto been most euc-
cessful one on the part of slavery. The gain
of Louisiana Arkansas. Missouri. Florida, and
Texas; also of New Mexico and Utah; Kansas
and Nebraska hitherto: (and forever unless
some counterac,ing legislation be had;) the
| increase Of slaves from three hundred thou
sand TO nearly four millions, the control Of the
Federal Government during the entire peri
cd Of our national exstence-lll these things
might seem to forbid tho hope of its ultimate
discontinue and overthrow; but
"Tho miserable have no other medicine
But only hope"
And we do still hope. and expect, and believe,
that liberty shall triumph and not slavery:
that the conquest will end by the utter exter-
mination of the enemy; for IL it ends at all, it
can never end shor; of that. The grounds of
oar hope are these.
We believe in the innate power of truth and
right, and that however long and violent the
contest may be, it shall end in their favor. God
has clothed the truth with his own omnipo-
,cncc. Right and justice are armed with con-
quering power. There is good time COM
ing when liberty and right shal' triumph. and
siHvery snall ule.
This is faith and hope restinr upon their
own evidence. And though you may tell me
| in, nrIs nf he IT, ,oI, Il. ss h. q.
tho dream of waking man, yet would not
surrender that for any Jess good than the re-
ality itself. Butwe have other evidence. Tho
signs of the times are many and promising.
The Issue in this contest is beginning to be
understood. That issue is seen to bo--LIBER-
TY or SLAVERY. The question is no longer
how much of slavery we can have, and yet lib
erty prevail; nor how much of liberty we can
have, and yet slavery prevail. 1t is-whether
liberty or slavery shall bear unlimited rule
Such are the insolent demands which slavery
makes, and which it's own corrupt nature leads
it to make that it is no longer question what
shall be its boundary line; but whether it
shall drag its Shiny carcass over everything
that is beautiful and fair in all our glorious
| heritage. Its demands are couched in fair
words, and made with pleasant but delusive
speech: il asks only that il should have an
equal chance with liberty. But who does not
know that the admission of slavery at all. is
the utter exclusion of freemen from every foot
of the public domain. It's accnrsed touch
withers ard blghs, and scathcs both man and
beast, and the very earth itself: that the ground
even is cursed because of it. The serpent
| proposes in deceitful terms to share the prey
with the bird of Paradise, but IL knows that upon
the first touch Of its fangs, IL so infuses its sub
tie poison through the whole. that to cat
morsel is death. No: it is in vain to talk lon
ger about any division of territory: il shall all
be slavery's, or it shall all be liberty's: on
tho one banner is written "Slavery Exter-
sion"-on the other "Savery determination"
And there never will be peace upon a permanent
basis until this issue is met and settled: and
it never will be settled, till il is settled in
favor of liberty. We were told but Ave years
ago, that this agitation was ollaycd and the
controversy settled. Settled! Nothing is ev-
or settled, till it is settled right Under the
government of q just God, nothing Is stable
but justice and truth. Settled IL will not
stay settled except upon an equitable basis
Beneath any other foundation will be heard a
rumbing, and YOU will feel the trembling. un-
til tho earth opens to swallow up the founda-
tion with all that stands upon il. You may
| roll into the mouth of the open volcano, boil
ing. and hoaving, ane smoking, huge rock
that shall smother for q oment tho Inward
fires: but il will be for a moment only. The
deep internal agitation shall go on, until tho
burning, belching mountain shall with one
mighty throe disgorge the rock,--and vomit
out its fiery waves; rolling far and wide deep,
broad tide of melted fire. Settled Under
meath the foundations that are not of justice.
and right. and truth, there arc earthquakes nd
volcanic fires that will shake them to their Meth
ermost stone. Settled SO Slavery told US.
But who wos the first to disturb tho settle
ment? Slavery propagandists themselves. 1t
was but temporary settlement until slavery
could gain strength to demand moro.
| We are told of q man who had for a long
time a standing feud with neghbor of his
who was deacon. The strife had been bitter
and violent. At length the man upon bed
of sickness, which no was admonished would
in all probability prove fatal, sen, for his
neighbor and proposed an interview and set
Element. The interview was hsd the matter
10 question reviewed, mutual explanations and
concessions were mado, and the two men pro-
nounced themselves satisfied. Tho deacon
was about to retire. when his neighbor Of tho