Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1855-08-02

was uemendous-eVen The folly, absurdity and
ehidishness oflhe entire occasion. These were
more tremendous than all else.
Think OfiI nOW-lhe stupidity that sets up
great SIX feet inch fellOW--POmPOus with a
self-assumed or bar-IOOm. baptsed title Of Cen
Feral-ferOe with great ~hiskers, and a careful.
" cultivated martial seoWl-and actually fires
out Of him in bOmbsbell style, and offered Res
oluIion TO exclude by taxation The products
Of Massachusetts from The State Of Missouri,
for that Massachusetts will not catch Kentucky
Iniggers Not to talk of the unconstitutional
ily OF such pro Slavery revenue arrangement,
consider its folly, ItprOpOses 10 stOp the sup
plies Of the necessities OF life of this very
creature, and Of his brothers and sisters, and
friends and neighbors. Missouri does not
manufacture. She has TO buy, or 60 naked
and WFetched. But all the manufacturing
States regard nggercatehing with equal re-
pugnance. General PhOOle, Of Missouri,
therefore is obliged TO exclude all American
manufactures from his State. There are Brit
ish fabrics. To be sure. Bat England not
only refuses to catch Slaves, but emancipates
ali she has power over. So with the French.
But France and England are out Of the Union,
aud not bound by the compromises Of the Con
sitution. Then comes a difficulty not sulic-
ipaled by the Generals and Majors of the South
West The manufacturing States Of this u
MON are the importing States. If Missouri
wants Manchester or Birmingham, Lyons or
Paris fabrics, she has got to buy them in Phil
adelpLia, New York or Boston. She has not
the choice af going to New Orleans for them,
nor to Savannah, nor to Charleston. They
have lots of slaves there, and carefully cher
ished slavery-but no ships, no European trade,
and no present visible means of establishing
direct European trade. Does not General
Phooe see that his resolution besides being
self-injurious, is impossible Of execution? Mis-
souri, would become as ragged as Lazarus, and
more impoverished than Job, il she undertook
to accomplish the policy recommended to her
by the epauletted fools recently: in convention
at Lexington?
There would have been no harmony in this
affair. If some COLONEL. after a hurricane of
Missouri eloquence, had not passed through the
convention a resolution to suppress Free Soil
opinions and publications in the Central Slave
states. Ny percussion. cap friend, you might
as we'll bag the winds that sweep your States
Prairies-as we'll chain and hopple the laws
of gravitation as the great law of the freedom
of thought, and in Republic the consequent
freedom of expressed opinion. Know too, mil.
itary Sir, (lucas non lucenda that that reso-
luton sows civil war in the South. You are
not all of you fools, nor all welded by actual
or imaginary interests TO the system of Slav-
ery.There are Colonas and Generals who viii
think and speak their conviction that unpaid
negro labor is the bane of the prosperity Of the
South, and who will avow their unwillingness
to transmit il as the basis of a social economy
to their children and their chilGren's children
You COlonels and Generals will come by the
ears. You had better be careful how you pass
such resolutions. They are wholly useless,
utterly impracticable-b they are dangerous
too. They lay the foundations Of an Inquisi-
toral Violence in your own society, which will
go far towards a bloody issue Of this Slavery
question.
The folly of these epauletts is harmonious
one. 1t runs through their IDEAS of trade,
commerce, society, politics, finance and law
Slavery is blessing, not curse. Yet it is
curse toto be ameliorated by expansion. A
natural settlement ofa Territory, is by allow
ing the citizens Of neighbOring State. to legis-
late for it. A refusal to allow state officers
and State property 10 be used by the United
States Government in its new business Of negro
catching, is declaration of hostility against
the CONSTITUTION. How magnifcently
Gen. Phoole of Missouri must have piled up
the vocal on that word, when speaking to the
resolution And then that threadbare threat
of dissolution Of the Dnion-the Gro wning
lie and impudent cap-sheaf of all slave driving
convocations. We wish from the bottom of
our hearts that Disunion could be slapped to
these people for just two years Oh how
they would sicken of it, With the first week
Of It's operation, from every slave State would
be seen men hurrying North with portable
property. An unceasing tide of emigration
would set in OF all people who could clear out
with what they had in hand, or could soon re-
duce to possession. The apprehension of future
trouble with the Slaves, would spread such a
sense of insecurity as to depopulate the South
of her white mechanics, her lenders of money,
her merchants, teachers, small farmers, and
all indeed who had not taste for sleeping
in the midst of armed patrols, and with pistols
under their pillows, and who were not tied
down by the ownership Of slaves and of agri-
cultural land. Credit would unwillingly and
timidly be given to the South, at the North, it