Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09
ed. very truly, yours,
LEWIS d. CAMPBELL.
MR.. oAMPBELL's REMARKS.

Mr.. CAMPBELL's REMARKS.
This Missouri Compromise thus proposed
by the South, and carried by her united vote,
brought Immediately into the Union another
slave State, in violation of the principles by
which Jefferson and his compeers were actua-
ted when the Constitution was adopted
Subsequently Arkansas was admitted because
it was alleged that the Act of 1920 gave
by implication the right to the people
of the territory south of $50 80 to
adopt slavery. Much as the Free States dis
liked this arrangement, originally, they ac-
quiesced in it for the sake of Union, looking
hopefully to the period when new States
would spring up in Kansas and Nebraska,
from which slavery sOas torsrer ercluded.-
Thirty -four years rolled around, and no sec
ton sought to disturb the repose which that
Act had secured. But now how changed?-
Within single year the South has spit upon
her own plighted faith and trampled IN the
dust the bond of her sacred honor ! Not sat
sfed with the privilege of voting slavery into
Free Territory, she claims the right to fight it
in Slavery has sent upon the unprotected
pioneers of Kansas, mobs from Missouri arm
ed with the weapons of death to fasten upon
them, against the popular will, the institution
which even Henry Clay stigmatized as the
greatest of human enlist" These lawless acts
are endorsed by the Slave States. Some of
them have already declared their purpose to
give aid to the Missourians, and to dissolve the
Union if, when slavery is secured to Kansas,
thus she is not admitted to occupy position
of sovereignty equal to that of every other
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hear the clustering threat from some of the
Slave States that. their purpose is to carry
their point by the bowie knife and revolver.
Already has blood been she'd The tissue
must be met" Shall Freedom be abolished
BY such means and shall we of the North
west who enjoy so fully the rich blessings of
the Jefferson ordnance of 1887, fold our arms
in listless unconcern, when such a struggle is
at hand in regard to the territories which our
posterity will occupy? / cannot depict the
horrors of civil war and disunion-of State
arrayed against State, and brother against
brother, and American soil drenched with
American blood shed By American hands,
Terrible as are these horrors the Slave States
seem disposed to press them upon us if we
refuse to pledge the powers of the Govern
ment to the extension and perpetuation of
that human slavery which our Revolutionary
sires sought to eradicate from the land |
am ready to defend Freedoms cause against
these assaults, let the hazard be what it may
If it has come to this, that the Slave States,
force on US the evil consequences of disunion,
and purpose by the aid of arms to assist sla-
very in running rampant over territory dedi-
Gated forever to Freedom by their own solemn
act Of 1920, for one, l am ready to meet the
black flag when it attempts to cross the Rubi-
con, though in the conflict which must follow
between the opposing elements of Freedom
and Slavery, this fair land be drenched in
blood. | would accord to slavery, in good
faith, all which our common Constitution
gives it; but when our neighbors OF the South
attempt to force it into infant territories through
civil war, l am prepared to subscribe my
share of stock in defence of Freedoms rights,
pay each instalment as it becomes due, and
take my dividends whatever it may be. Nv
ancestors freely shed their blood for the prin-
ciples of Liberty on the battle fields of the
Revolution. have enjoyed the rich legacy
they bequeathed, and am unwilling, coward
like, to transmit to my children the bitter
fruits of any conflict in defence of those prin-
ciples which it is my duty now to meet.