Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-10-16
The Voice of Ohio.


Most nobly have the people Of the great State
of Ohio, the first born of the ordinance of 1881,
rebuked the bogus Democracy which now bases
its only hope of success in future political con-
tests upon its devotion to the Slave power. In
vain the orators in the pay Of Franklin Pierce,
attempted to hide the issue before the people, and
to delude them into the support of the Demo-
cratic ticket on the ground that no national issues
were involved in the results Of theState election.
In vain did the Gardner faction of that State, un
der the championship of Allen Trimble, attempt
to raise new issues and new discussions among
the friends of Republican Liberty. The people
have heard them, and rejected them all-because
they knew that Salmon P. Chase was the mighti-
est opponent of their sham Democracy in the
Buckeye State, and because they could in such
way give the strongest manifestation of their re-
gard for his valiant efforts in the Senate of the
United States against the anti Republican doc
trnes of squatter sovereignty and slavery extern
sion.
The people of Ohio have spoken their minds at
the polls in terms not to be mistaken; and the
friends of Freedom may well FAKE courage at the
result. Ohio speaks tosshe Administration the
empbatae-wo rd-FORBEAR! She writes the
sieas meme tekel Upharisa, upon the walls of the
White House, and the Belshazzars of the Slave
power must see their doom. The Freedom OF
Kanzas is no longer doubtful issue The East
will answer unto the West, and the shouts of vic
tory will go up in one unbroken chorus in 1856
from
The shores Of the bay where the Mayhower lay"
to the far West
oWhere rolls the Oregon,
And hears no sound the music of its own dashng
The repeal of the Missouri Compromise has
abrogated all Compromises with the Slave power
The South, with their own hands, have broken
down the partition wall which was raised by the
fathers of the republic against the inundations Of
the black sea of slavery. They have removed the
ancient landmarks of Freedom, and they cannet
reasonably complain, if the North meets them
hand to hand, foot to foot and not only drives
them across the border, but demands, in the cant
phrase of the Democracy, "seemItytoF thejt turS
as well as indemnity for the past"
Ohio has spoken Her mighty voice has sound
ed the clarion notes of Liberty triumphant =
and from that hour slave property is no longer
safe in Kanzas Stringfelow and Atchi'on may
make their appeals through the press or from the
stump, for the slave drivers to come IN and ENJOY
the land, and to bring their human ohatels with
them, but they will be slow to heed the call, for
the voice Of Ohio, uttered last week, will be more
terrible in their cars than was the voice of God
sounding in the ears Of the palicide-Wherei IS thy
brother? They know that the day of reckoning
is soon to dawu--that the last hour Of Northern
forbearance has passed away, and that the tide Of
reaction has begun to set in, that will sweep them
over the border like autumn leaves before the
equinoxial storm.
And the friends of Freedom in Kanzas and IN
all the other Territories Of the country who only
preserve the rights guaranteed to them by the
Constitution with rifles and reyolvers, they, too
hear the voice of Ohio, like one crying in the will
dernes,, prepare ye the way for the progress OF
free Institutions They recognize in that uni
versal shout of triumph from the Buckeye State
that the day of their tribuaton is over, and that
they aud their children and their chidren's chill
dren, may inherit the land to the latest genera
ton, uncontaminated by the brutal lusts of the
Southern oligarchy, uncursed by the blood, and
stripes, and tears Of the slave
Inc voice OF OulO!. WHAT puNei ~ nus "
nerve the hearts of freemen. The people through
out the country know that it has but one mean
ing, that it speaks one purpose, that it afrms one
conviction" No more slavery and no more slave
States" Down with slavery in the Territories
and onward with the cause OF Freedom And
shall not Massachusetts respond to the voice of
ohiof Shall her people hesitate whom they will
serve, whether the demoniac fend of slavery,
with his hands dripping gore and his lips breath
ing curses upon mankind, or the benignant god
dess IF Freedom, bearing in her hands the fruits
of honorable and well requited toll, and on her
lips the Inscriptions of peace and good will We
know that Massachusetts will SO respond. That
gshe who led the column in the old Revolution,
and bore the brunt Of that battle longs to place
herself in the van Of this fight; and that the
sons of the men who left their plows in the fur
row and their oxen in the yoke, when they heard
the news of the battle Of Lexington, will on the
sixth Of November, il need be, leave their har-
vests in the field and their cattle INTENDED, in
order to enroll their names, among the cohorts
of Freedom, who will stand shoulder to shoulder
by the side Of their brethren from Ohio, TO roll
back the tide Of slavery aggression which threat
ems the destruction Of every blessing that was
purchased by the blood Of their fathers.