Western Reserve chronicle and weekly transcript of the times. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1854-1855, 1855-02-07

spake from Faneuil Hall, and echoed
from Bunker Hill /; or hat policy which
landed slaves on the Chesapeake-that
has changed Old Virginia from q land
of heroes into q breeding-ground of
slaTes-thst has broken down bounda-
rieS, and carried war'oVer our lines, not
for liberty, but for more territory for
slaves to work, the owners might multi
ply, and the eristocracy of America
stand on the shores of two oceans, an IN
broken bound all between?
If a National American party is ever
formed, by leaving ont the whole ques-
ton of Human Right. it will be what q
man would be-hiS soul left out
An America National p~arty-liber-
ty left out!
b An American party-Human Rights
left out
Gentlemen, such a party will stink with
dissolution before you can get it finished.
No Masonry can make it solid-no art
can secure it, No Anchor that was ever
forged in internal stythy can go deep
enough into political mud to hold it
If you rear up an empty name /; if you
take that revered name American, all
the world ever radient and revered . as
the symbol of human rights and human
happiness-if you sequester and stuff
that name with the effete doctrines of des-
potism, do you believe you can suppl
cate from any gods the boom Of immor-
tally for such an unbaptized monster &?
No. 1t may live to ravage our heritage
for a few days, but there is a spirit of
liberty that lives among US, and that
shall live. And aroused by that spirit,
there shall spring up the yet unroused
hosts of man hat have bowed the knee
to Baal-and we will war it to the knife,
and knife to the hilt.
For 1T SHALL be, America shall be free.
We will take that for our life's enter
prise. Dying we will leave it a legacy
to our children, and they shall will it to
theirs, until the work is done, our fathers
prayers are answered, and this whole
land stands clothed and in its right mind
a symbol of what the earthly fruits of
the Gospel are!
If a National party is now to be form
ed, what shall it be, and what shall its
Office be?
1t shall be a peacemaker say sly pol
ticians. Yes, peace by war. But an
American party, seeking peace with i'm
perious Aristocracy by yielding every
thing down to the root-one would think
no party need be formed to do that. Ju-
das did as much without company, Ar
mold did that without companions.
An American National party must
either be a piebald and patched-up par
ty, carrying in IFS e~ntrails the mortal
poison of TWO beligerent schemes, former
Legendary disputes, and agitation, and
furious conflict; or, to be a real national
party, it must first be a northern party and
became national. We must again walk
owe the course of history. Here in the
North Liberty began. Its roots are with
us yet. All its associations and all its
potent institutions are with us. Having
once given forth this spirit of liberty, now
fading out Of our Southern States, the
North should again come forth and re-
fill the poisoned veins that have been
drinking the hemlock of Despotism with
the new blood of Liberty ! Let US give
sap to the tree of Liberty, hat it may
not wither and die !
When Hercules was born, but vet a
child, the jealous Juno sent two serpents
to his cradle to destroy him. Hercules
or the serpents must die. Both could
not lie in The same bed. He seized them
and suffocated them by his grip. While
his poor brother, lphiclus, filed the
house with his shrieks. An internal Ju-
no, envious of the destined greatness of
this country. hath sent this serpent upon
it! What shall we do? Shall we imi-
tate Hercules or IPhicIus? Shall we
choke it or shall we form a timid Ma
tional party, and shrek?
Gentlemen, you will never have rest
from this subject until there is a victory
of principles. Northern ideas must be-
come American, or Southern ideas must
become American. before there will be
peace. If the North gives 10 the Nation
her radical principles of human rights
and democratic Governments, there will
be the peace of an Unreasonable pros
perity. If the South shall give to the
country & policy derived from her heath
en- notions of men, there will be such a
peace a men have overdrugged with
opium, that deep letbagy inst before the
mortal commissions n death |! All at
tempts at evasion, at sdjourning, at con-
cealing and compromising are in vain
The reason of u long agitation is, not
that restless Abolitionists are abroad, that
ministers will NEEDLE with improper
themes, that parties are disregardful of
the country's interest. These are symp-
toms only, not the disease ; the effects,
not the causes.
Two great powers that will not live to-
gether are in our midst, and Juggling at
each others threats. They will search
each other out, though you separate them
a hundred times. And if by an insane
blindness you shall contrive to put off
the issue, and send this unsettled dispute
down to your children, it will 60 down,
gathering volume and strength at every
step, to waste and desolate their heritage.
Let it be settled now. Clear the place.
Bring in the champions. Let them put
their lsnces in rest for the charge
Sound the trumpet, and God ave the
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