Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1855-11-22

Know Nothing 10 DIS enorS 70 hesQ Ooh Den-
ton, and prevent his election to the United
States Senate. broke ground in Missouri in IA
vOr of the resgitaIiOn Of the Slavery question
BY repeating the Missouri compromise, which |
prohibited slavery north Of the line Of IS deg
and 80 minutes north latitude, giving as a rsa-
500 therefor, that without il Kanzas would be a
free State, and Missouri endangered by being
surrounded by Gordon Of free States This
he did in = public speech delivered, il our men,
Ory serves US. At Weston Missouri. Congress
met, and bill. drawn up BY Mr.. Douglass,
was submitted, for ths organisation Of The
Territory. Nothing was said In it about the
repeal Of the Missouri Compromise. IN
written report accompanying the bill, and ar
gument was adducod against its repeal.
During the discussion which the bill produ-
eed, while pending in the Senate, Mr.. Dixon,
Of Kentucky, Whig. submitted a motion 10
repeal the Missouri Compromise, and 1t was de.
nounced by the Washington Union, in unmea'
sured terms. Soon after, Mr., Douglass had
the bill recommitted. and reported back, he had
90 changed its prominent feature as TO reopen
the whole slavery agitation. by providing Tor
the repeal of the Missouri compromise. altho'
the bill, as originally introduced, in its provis.
ions was indentical in popular sovereignty,
with the much lauded laws for the govern
ment of Utah and New Mexico.
As was to have been expected, this change
of programme, by which the Baltimore plat
form was repudaled, Abolitionism was gal
vanized again into life. 1t was needless aud
a wanton violation of pledges solemnly made
and the Democracy are made the sunerers'
and those who did the foul wrong are now be-
spattered with a servile and siekening praise,
by those who look to Washington and TO Of
: flee, instead Of principle and to harness OF
a dealing, while those who remain true to their
4 principles and pledges-who still resist all at
tempts at renewing. in Congress and out OF II
: the agitation of the slavery question, under
b whatever shape or color the attempt may be
' made are branded by these arch agltators as
!. 'AboIitionists,' and as giving aid and comfort
. to party Of which they are now, as ever the
opponents opponents as stern as were the
; Roundbeads of old, who 6lst taught the Cav
, alriers and the world that Rulers could do
wrong. and that they were ameEable to public
Q opinion ~,
Il is idle-nay it is false to say the Missouri
comprom;se was done away with. or superse-
Ided by the compromise measures OF 1850, Tor
in one Of them-the Texas bill, it our memory
3 serves us--i. was expressly recognized,
The repeal of the Missouri Compromise line
lby the Kanzas Nebraska law, at once opened
y up The whole subject Of AbOltionism' 1t has
. its origin in the restless brain OF the Know
0 Nothing Atchison-the Wing Dixon. FIRST gave
il form and substanee-Mr Douglass, in q
J.. most amiable mood, acting the part Of a mid
lwife--apd now the Democracy are asked tt
wet.nurse this spawn Of Know Nothingism and
Q and Of Whiggery, and to adopt it as the le
l. pitimate child of their affections. For our owl
h mart we will have none Of it. II has caused
dsseusiou 10 be sown broadcast Ov ver the laud
u where all before was peace aud good will
L has done what Whiggery, in fair fight, wa
r never able to do: for il has struck down the De
Al mocracy-it has polluted the virgin soil o
;. Kanzas with strife and with blood shed
In Ohio as in most of the free States, the
j. Democratic party is in the vocative-s -struci
= down like the imperial bird Of Jove, when sail
n ling in its pride Of place, it is hawked st ant
!. brought to earth by a mousing. owl. The tol
:, and battle and the victories Of years, have beer
y as naught-the tried and the true men Of th'
! party elected from Office in the counties --th'
q State, in all its Departments, given over to th'
tender mercies Of fusion, for the allied army
of Abolition and Know Nothing, holds absO
: lutte sway in the Executive and Legislative De-
partmenis, and has majority in the Supreme
: Court. These evils we charge. are the result
n Of the renewing, in Congress, and out OF it.
the agitation Of tee Slavery question, 'anG men
, who in times past sneered at the compromise
y measures of l950--ridculed the Nicholson
0 letter Of Gen. Cass, its doctrines and its aulho
!. who pandered 10 AbOlitionism when monel
$ was TO be made by it, now denourco us, ant
% other conductors OF other Democratic papers
because, we choose not to prove Tecreant u
> pledges. and because we lament the evil as W
% lament the consequences, and by pointing ou
At the origin Of the disaster, forearm the Demo
ct cratic party by forewarningi it.
10 We seek no quarrel with the Democrats
: ven though we have cause to doubt there pre-
q fessions. But at the same time we will not sui
nit to have charges hSaped upon US by th
le Dugald Dalgetty's who hang on the outskirts
10 of the Democratic party, and who fight onl
i'd paid, without repelng them, and we warn 10
es twain--the editor who Kissed on and the edlt'
RS that was hissed, that the time has come, ,whe
# such arrogance aud venality will receive
IN. merted rebuke.