Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-09-06

ed that Northern endurance, already taxed
the utmost, would sink under such weight
that the Slave Power would thus dig its ow
e. ave and that wicked institutions must al
ways grow to their full stature,and display a.
their inherent erormity, before men will earn
estly engage in their overthrow. | confess
cannot feel encouraged by this line of argu
ment. 1t has favored our Anti-Slavery dish
es on other occasions, when the Slave Inter
est has trampled down our rights. 1t has n
ust application to the contest between tn
free and the slave States; for, il it be tru
that our acquiescence in one scheme of ns
gressnn omboiuens the South to concoct an
other still more fagrant and alarming, it il
likewise true that il prepares the North t.
submit to it, The enormity of Slavery is los
upon us, when displayed by such process
Not submission t. despotism, but resistance, il
the true method of deliverance from it, W.
need have no fear that the devilish attributes
OF Slavery will not be exhibited, without tiny
guilty help from US. The Nebraska and Kan
sas act Of 1854 is natural fruit of the Com
promise measures of 1850, and is in no res
pect more flagtious in principle. 1t is only
a sprout from Daniel Webster's grave. The
Anti-Slaverv sentiment that submitted to the
CORNER, will acquiesce in the latter. Indeed
the very ground on which this new outrage
has been generally opposed, proves our repug'
nance.to Slavery to be shallow and insincere
The popular argument against it has been sits
breach Of ancient and solemn compact, mad
for the security OF Freedom north Of the par
allel 36 80 Of north latitude" Sir, a thor
oughly baptized Anti-Slavery people would
have lost sight of any bargain with Slavery
is its unhallowed conspiracy to blast an en-
pre by its withcring power. | oppose Sla-
very upon principle. hold it to be wrong,
in principle, fOr one man to be the owner OF
another to deny him fair days wages for a
fair days work, to rob him of the hottest ties
of life and sell him on the auction block as d
chattel, to take from him his Bible and close
against him the avenues of iowledge, to an
initiate the institution of marriage, and
spread RIGHTEOUSNESS and crime over the land.
This regard as unutterably wicked, inde-
pendent ofany compromise, by which Slavery
and Freedom may have assumed to dispose OF
their possessions according to certain geo.
graphical lines. Hence | hate Slavery
wherever can find it. from the North Pole
down to thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes
north latitude; and when | get there | go
right on hating it all around the globe, wher-
everI can trace its slmv footsteps. confess
| have not yet mastered the slippery phloso.
ply by which some men loathe and execrate
it on the north side of a particular line, and
then transfigure it into ali blessedness and
beauty by the magic of mere parallel of la
Litude. This cheap and popular method of
hating Slavery geographically may do for an
Anti N ebraska man, but il will not do for an
man. 1t may accord with the
frgiG temper and technical ethics Of the mere
politician, or the doughlace, but it will not
satisfy the deep, fervent. uncompromising
spirit OF the Aboitionist. Opposition to Sa-
very, as an out rage upon man and a crime
against God, as an evil essentially Internal
in its very nature--ths alone will avail us of
anybona .fde encounter with our southern mas
ters; and this, regret to say, has not been
the controlling elemen, in the late popular
in The Northern States.
TO prove that the Ant-Neb 'aska excite
ment was the product Of political rather than
moral causes, o! transient influences, rather
THAI deeprooted convictions, might refer to
a kindred fact. The stereotyped watchword
of the people was, "the restoration of the
Missouri CompromiE e." 1t Is true, that in
several States the Anti. Slavery demand went
beyond this, but this was the effective rally
ing cry in marshalling the different wings Of
the movement under common banner. 1t
was deceptive, and therefore false. issue.
| certainly do not repine at the victories that
were achieved upon it. ! most cordially
welcome whatever blessings they may bring
in their train. rejoice that the Administ-a-
ton has been rebuked, and rebuked with
emphasis; and that although 10 intelligent
man coulu have believed the restoration OF
the broken compromise practicable thirg,
there was yet manifested an unmistakable
purpose to brand with public reprobation the
perfidy that has destroyed it The maady
of the party in power demanded the physc
thus administered. But the Issue, insist
was unworthy of the crisis 1t was an in,
strument on which very different tunes could
be played. 1t had face looking both NORTH
and South, The policy of restoring thf
Compromise, in one of its aspects, was anti
slavery, since it would prevent the cause
from spreading over soil that was free; bu
in others it was incurably pro-slavery. IL
restore this Compromise would be to pro
pitiate the spirit Of compromise. which ha,
been the great curse of our cause. 1t woulc
be to reaffirm the binding obligation of ,
compact that should never have been made
and from which we should seek the frs
favorable opportunity OF deiverance. |
would be to recognise the Slave Power as Al
equal and honorable contracting party, waiv
ing its violated faith, and thus precluding III
from pleading its perhdy ir discharge of al
comp omses from the beginning. 1t woul'
be to 60 back, by the shortest and cheapes
route, to the compromise measures OF 1850
and the Baltimore platform of 1852, instea
of forward to the platform of the Free De
mocracy. 1t would he to degrade our caus
to the level Of those who stuoiously was
their hands OF all taint oG Abolitionism, an
only wage war against the Administrator
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