Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-08-23

to the men who were once Wings, and
!. who upon all questions of practical inn
portance are Wings still, would have
great force. So thinks the Gliding s
organ, and hence its groans and tears.
Sensible men are beginning to see thro'
. the movements of The leaders of their
partyism in Ohio. Chase, Townsbend,
Miller. Taylor d Co.. aftertheir terrible
patriotic appeal to the dear people, have
sloughed off into pure Locofocoism,
where they belong, and have carried as
many Wings with them as they could
influence. The balance of the party
can see the character of the men they
have been trusting. Some of them have
/ too much sense and perception Of pro-
priety to go with Chase 4 Co., into
full communion with party that advo-
Gated the annexation of Texas; the ex-
tention of slave territory; the Mexican
war for the purpose of getting still more
slave territory; and that declared itself
in favor of the annexation of Cuba,
slavery and all, to the United States.
/ "Itis gratifying to learn that thou
sands are getting their eyes open to the
true tendency of these things, and we
doubt not that the speeches and labors
of Senator Wade will do much in this
behalf" @ ilar
We place confidence in what these
gentlemen have published to the world,
and claim that unless they can show
that they were mistaken, and falsifed
Chase and his brethren, or that he his
altered his principles and designs, that
we shall not be styled deserters for refus-
ing to reward him for baseness, and for
carrying out fully the recommendations
of our friends. Chase has not changed; /;
he was red-mouthed locofoco then,
and he is SO still; he was a multiplying
abolitionist then, and he is SO still; he
was an unprincipled demagogue then,
and he is SO still; and with the light be-
fore me l should despise myselfif Isup-
ported him.
1t is said that times have changed,
and so they have. New issues have
arisen, and under this mighty question
of slavery, the whole country sways like
forest beneath Gods tempest winds.
Rightfully the public mind is excited on
this question. As Henry Clay said, (if
it is not treason to mention his name, it
is ''malum in SEA wrong to the mas
ter and grievous wrong to the slave"
1t eats the substance out of Gods earth,
the spirit out of the poor negroes soul,
and blasts the independence, energy and
usefulness of the white man, and every
loyal citizen of our State will unfinch-t
ingly resist its progress. Do l wonder
that our people are excited and exas-
perated at the Nebraska outrage? Am
l astonished that your anger is aroused
BY the enormities perpetrated in Kan
sas? Do / not see the necessity for the
protection of the voter in the exercise Of
his suffrage from ''border ruffians" and
their bowie knives? Who is vile enough
to Justify the President for pretending
that his hands are tied and his mouth
muzzled so that he can neither speak or
act against the atrocious wrong? With
what alacrity did he order out the Ma
rines, in Boston, in the mere snticipa
ton Of an attempt to rescue poor slave?
That man is unworthy the name, into
whose heart these oft repeated wrongs
do not burn their way, and in thunder
tones demand redress. /
I stand not here as the apologist of
slavery. When God created man, and
gave to him the power of locomotion,
he proclaimed the right TO its exercise;
and nothing but the power of human ty-
ranny can prevent his being free man.
l admit the magnitude of this question,
but there is another of still deeper i'm !
port. Slavery never destroyed State,
but the reckless arts Of demagogues and
the contempt for all principle which they
introduce. have undermined the foun-
dations of virtue and liberty, and pros
trated in sorrow and degradation the
greatest nations of the world. Greece,
at the mere mention of whose name the
scholars breast glows with deeper feel
ing and holier enthusiasm, was the VIC |
tan of the vices of her own public men. !
In vain did Demosthenes harangue the
Athenians-the best citizens were BAN
ished for being called Just, and dema-
gogues had created dissensions among
the people which were only allayed
when the Roman sentinel stood tri- |
umphant in her gateways. In vain did
Cicero thunder his Phillippics against
the invading foe. Cataline and the
conspirators had already accomplished
the work, and their hammered eagle was
torn down by the parricidal hands of her
own followers, and ANONYMOUSLY expir-
ed with the mailed foot of the Macedo-
nian on her breast.
In vain did the French orator cry
aloud. ''Let my name be blighted, let
my country be free" The bloody in
triguers were at work, and "France got
drunk on gore to vomit crime" Revo-
luton followed revolution like the sue
cessive waves of the Ocean. "Corrup-
ton stewed and bubbled," and horror
and he'll reigned triumphant through
her vine clad hills. Every house was
the abode of mourning, and every hu-
name heart the home of wretchedness.
And it was not slavery that wrought
out these fearful desolations; but men
whose God was unreined ambition ~