The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1855-07-17

gavo him Utah and New Mexico, ell Of Texas
and @1O,O00000 in money, and that foulest Of
all blots on the statute-book OF civilized ma
ton, the Fugitive Slave Bill; and forthwith he
was well again. And the settlement went for
nothing. Slavery ignores any settlement that
does not settle everything In It's favor.
We have come to understand that no COM
promise can be made on this question; and
this is one of the most hopeful and promising
signs OF the times. 1t Is war to the hilt, with
out any truce Whenever we have relied upon
any treaty with slavery, our reliance has pro-
vcd vain one. Compromises are at end. It
we're worse than iDfatuation to made another.
The most sacred and time -honored obligation
into which slavery has ever entered, have been
utterly despised as soon as tho time came that
anything was to bo gained by refusing to dis.
charge them. Slavery begins by usurpa,ion.
and lives by usurpation. 1t knows no law but
tyrany. 1t asks every thing to-day, and the
rest tomorrow. All that slavery has over
gained. has only encouraged it to mako moro
exorbitant demands. It never saith, It is
enough; but like the horse-leach 1t hath two
daughters-Avarice and Ambiton-that cry,
give, give 1t asked for Louisiana, and we gave
Il; fer Missouri, and (Hsaven forgive us the
wrong) we gave 1t; for Arkansas, and We gave
il; for Florida, and We gave II; for Texas. and
at the cost Of shameful war, and at the sacri-
fec of our highest national honor, We gave
that too. And then it asked for Utah anu
New Mexico and 5lG,000.000 in money, and
lao (tho shades Of Justinian and Blackstone
pardon tho libel) for catching It's dooing vic
tins, and wo gave the whole, still consollng
ourselves that Kansas and Nebraska were
saved TO us by q sacred contract that
could not be broken. Vain oousolstion!--
The monster glutted itself upon the rich
vands we had go lavishly bestowed. aud
scarcely had it swallowed these dehcous NOR
sells, when II cast its lecherous eyes upon tho
virgin territories, which istil remained unsul-
lied. and determined to ravsh them, and with
tho aid of Judas and an Arnold, the foul decd
is done.
The slave ocracy had for a consideration
bound themselves by a most solemn covenant
never to intrude upon this domain. That (.
consideration had been paid, and peacefully
enjoyed for thirty years. And yet the first op-
portunty that offered the contract was do
spsed and annuled. You may stipuate with
the thief that comes to plunder your goods, or
the robber that meets you with arms on tho
highway; and the stpulations may be sacred
ly kept. But tho statesman who shall hereaf-
ter enter into stipulatons with Slavery will
deserve provision for life in the lunatic asy-
lum. His madness 10 ipcurable. Slavery
never kept its faith. and never will; and tho
brazen- -facedness with which it has made Its
demands has only beon equaled by the obse-
quious compliance with which they have been
granted. l have heard of no very gallant
youth who accosted young lady Of rather bold
manners with this somewhat uncourtly speech
--"Miss. there is brass enough in your face to
make a kettle Of" "Yes." was her tart reply.
wand thore 10 sap enough In your head to fil
it," The South are most assuredly brazen-fa-
ced enough to ask for any thing. Whether
the north are sap-headed enough to correspond,
remains to be seen. Hitherto we have subms-
sively yielded every demand. But all compro
misses and compaets, and covenants with slavery
are at an end. This is the good that has como
out oftho repeal of the only valuable part of
the Missouri Compromise. That Compromise
was never fit to be made. The prico that was
paid for mere promise was too much to have
beon paid even for its fufllment. The whole
territory. Missouri included, should have been
claimed for freedom. Had the friends of lib
erty then made an vnyielding stand, that no
moro slave States should be admitted to tho
Union, the victory would have been achieved.
Kansas snd Nebraska would not now be ia
danger of being overrun by horde OF bandit.
And Missouri herself would have come into tho
confederacy as q free State She had then
but few thousand slaves--now they are num-
bered by the hundred thousand. But the con-
tract was made. Liberty was sold for price;
and now that price has been stolen. Slavery
had its portion; and now il asks for the
rest and takes that.
The right of Slavery is but robbers right.
The highwaynan meets the honest traveller
and demands his money; and the ,im!d man
not caring to have an encounter gives him half
on solemn pcdge, that he shall not be dis
turbed in the peaceful enjoyment of the rest;
but the robbor soon succeeds in securing an
accompce, and then he returns to demand
the other half and proceeds TO enforce it. If
he had received at tho first fiat refusal, ac-
companied if need be, by the snlutation of a
little snltpetro and cold lead. he would have
been cured or his insolenoe. and justice would
have been done.
We oil see now that peremptory refusal
from the first to yield single acre to slavery,
would have been far tho wisest aud safest poll
cy And the fact that this is now understood.
is one Of the brighte signs of promise for tho
future. Slavery has had all that 10 ioiI erer
ret; and liberty instead Of standing on the do.
fensive, is henceforward to be aggressive.
Kansas and Nebraska are to be restored.
Utah and New Mexico are to be given up.
The District of Columbia Is to be frcod from
the bighting curse and shameful stigma OF
slavery: the execrable and odious bill of abon-
nations known as The Fugitive Slave Law, is
10 be wiped out from the statuts-book; every
foot of United States Territory is to be secured
forever 40 anst tho inroads of slavery. The
Northern States are to infliet upon any and
all persons who assist 10 returning man to
bondage the seversst penalties Of the law; no
stakeholder is to BIO sent abroad to represent
in the Courts Of Europe the American Hepub-
lie; and no man whose hands are stained with
blood. and whose character is blackensd by
the guilt Of oppression. is to have seat up.
on tho Bench az Judge in any ofthe Federal
Courts. or to be appointed to any Office Of
honor or profit in the National Government
We fight TO coEouER-not 10 COMPROMISE.
Slavery 10 to be out'swed; it is an outlaw, and
is to he treated as such; there is to bo no truce
in this war Slavery is an unmitigated nui-
sance 10 be abated by law. 1t is iniquity 10
be punished by tho judges. It is perpetual
warfare upon tho rights of man ond the peace
of the country. Ills the blackest stair upon
our National escutoheon; Kissing and by
word throughout tho civilized world; stumb-
ling and rock OF offence TO tho lIberty-lcving
in every land. American Slavery In the fsce
aud eyes of the declaration Of oor national
ndependsnce--is to day the Internal magic