Western Reserve chronicle and weekly transcript of the times. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1854-1855, 1855-01-10
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Elder Balm in Reply to Rev. Ira Norris
Last.

greeting:- j am pleased 10 see your wi
lingness to examine great and leadin
questions Of present importance hav
read your letter in the Democrat, and sha
now proceed to give my views of you
statements, your professions, and you
premises.
Your statements:
Isl. Glider Balm endorses the secre
political order of Know Nothings." H
does not. He knows as little of their Sc
crets as of your logic.
I'd. Congress has attempted TO legis
late on slavery in that Territory" |
forbade its being legislated into all terri
tory north of 81 deg. 80 min. as agreed
March 3, 1890.
Sd. " In the late act this whole matte
was submitted to the people," The peo'
pie have said at the ballo,-box that Con.
gress should have kept its taih. Again,
could Congress give what it never had
could the people of The territory receive
what they always had 2-what they never
gave up? AS You claim, all you say
about power-the transfer of power &c.
is a mere ruse, as you will see soon.
All that Shareholders and their servitors
wish, is to get Congress drunk with the
love of empire and a longing after the
virgin soil of freedom, so as TO induce it
to take away the protective walls of Lib
erty, that Slavery may rush there with
the speed of an avalanche. You claim a
difference between power and its abuses!
Why not claim that two and two are
four2 You ask. " Is a change of power
from Congress TO the people. hostile TO
morality and religion" | answer that
would depend on what you mean by
po~er-by change, and by people. You
use the terms so vaguely that it is difficult
to tell in what sense you employ them in
any given application. A general an
swer may be given Whatever pour or
rights belong TO Congress it should use to
secure the blessings of liberty TO the peo-
pie of this nation, according to republican
principles and what power or rights be-
long TO the people of this nation they
should use in the preservation of Life,
Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, as
Jefferson the Democrat taught. You claim
the ''late bill" does not belong TO the
of salvationi say ii does belong
to the theory of domnationl Moral action
may be good or bad, and when a Rev.
denies this, it is past comprehen-
and is not a sure sign that an addi-
ton al Office increases clearness of thought
though it may be called progress. deny
that the " late act" belonged even to the
province of governn ent, for it is a breach Of
national faith, and of good order. Its re-
.igious features and IFS moral character
are as base and faithless as the spirit
hich conceived it. There is a very
-~emarkGble passage in your letter near
is close, as follows -" Some of them
Shareholders voted for the bill (rhe
Nebraska notwithstanding the darger TO
be system (of slavery ty Withdrawing
ederal protection % Do you mean this
IS candid reasoning? Do you in the
ace of the American people, who wit j
lessed the greatest struggle ever known
n the political arena, say that the South s
Ter part fought for weeks TO remove a c
ine-the object of which YVES to keep l
from going north of SO deg. 20 !
min. believing that IFS removal would en-
anger the system of slavery, whilst /
North on her part with the same be- y
fought with equal obstinacy 10 hin
er its REMOVAL J! By what process of il
easoning you arrive at such conclusions p
cannot divine, perhaps others can, per- "
APPS you can! What a picture you "
What a phenomenon you pre- ii
mt What a pkantasmil The South Il
With a few noble e~xceptions) during .,
nights leaving no stone unturn- d.
!, pleading, praying, e~rpostuldting with tn
e freemen of the Norh-representing re
e SHAREHOLDERS as "stinted," "discommo- az
d" by the want o "room ;" kept by ga tn
linese wall" where land is dear-with br
Iarge numbers of slaves"-wishing to tn
eak up and go to " better land" (see tn
ldger's speech, )and yet, passing strange re
the while endange ring their system of be
very! o We Southern yiseacres! The do
nth appealing to Southern honor, look yo
up all old documents to prove a SOL faI
n compact, proving by the record of re-
uthern votes on the "MiSsouri Compro- ar
Sc" that the South urged that measure lie
NHC ANOih4 IL hiS tAiiC mat luc OOulD VIC
and occupied the land agreed ma
on as an equivalent urging also that Be-
ID precedent, good faith, national Broth He
loOd, justice and future peace demanded WI
t the covenant be kept sacred ; and me
er all this on the part of the Represent
yes and Senators of the Jreemen of the
nth, and whilst the aOhoIe people were
ying them to hold fast to their integrity,
Congress meantime, not to re-
We the line of sc deg. 80 min, whilst =
N after the foul deed was done, the
pile have spoken land men in high
ces will hear the sound of their voice
all this opposition on the
of freemen, yet the removal of the ION
: %endangers the system of slaveryli pie
e South cannot see it, the North cannot bee
n uet yo, doTf T. sci