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

on the Lakes or on The Gulf il il DO in
the same empire, acting in good faith for
the same democratic ends.
But in the growth of power has been
accompanied by a marked revolution in
political faith, until now the theory OF
Mr.. Calhoun, once secuted is becoming
the popular belief. And that theory
differs in nothing from outright European
Aristocracy, save in The forms and in
struments by which il works.
The struggle, then, between the North
and the South is not one of sections,
and of parties, but OF PRINCIPLES of
principles lying at the foundations OF
goVernmeHts-of principles that cannot
coGlesce, nor compromise ; that must
hate each other, and contend, until the
one shall drive out The other.
OH how little do men dream OF the
things that are t%ranspiring about them
In Lulher's DAYS, how little they knew
the magnitude of the results pending that
controversyo of fractions monk and naughty
PopeI How little did the frivolous cour-
tier know the vastness of that struggle in
which Hampden, Milton and Cromwell
acted! W. are in just such another era.
Dates will begin from the period in which
we live!
Do not think that all the danger lies
in that bolted cloud which flashes in the
Southern horizon. There is decay, and
change here in the North. Old New
England hat sucked American liberty,
is now sucking wolves TO devour it.
What shall We think when a President
of old Dartmouth College goes over 10
Slavery and publishes TO the world his
religious conviction of the rightfulness
of it, as q part of COPS disciplinary gov
eminent ofthe world-wholcsome 10 man,
as a punishment Of sins which he never
committed, and to liquidate the long ar
rearages of Hams everlasting debt and
avowing that, under favorable circum-
stances, he would buy and own slaves /!
A Southern volcano in New Hampshire,
pouring forth the lava of despotism in
that incorrupt and noble old fortress Of
liberty What a College 10 educate our
future Legislators.
What are we to think, when old Mass
acbusetts, the mother of the Revolution,
every league of whose soil swells with
the tomb of some heroic patriot, shall
make pilgrimages through the South, and
after surveying the lot of slaves under
a system that turns them out of man
hood, pronounces them chattels, denies
them marriage, makes their education a
penal and p%enitentiary %offense, makes no
provision for their religious culture leay-
ing it to the stealth of good men, or the
interest of those who regard religion as
= currycomb, useful in making sleek and
nimble beasts-a system which strikes
through the Fundamental instincts of hu-
mainly, and wounds nature in the core Of
the human heart, by taking from parents
all right III their children, and leaving
the family, like a bale of goods to be I'M
packed and parceled out and sold in
pieces, and without any other protection
than the general good nature of easy citi-
zens; what shall be thought of the con-
dition OF the public mind in Boston, when
one of her most revered, and personally,
deservedly beloved pastors, has come up
so profoundly ignorant of what we thought
every child knew, that he comes home
from his pilgrimage, 10 teach old New
England to check her ~TePugnance TO
Slavery, to dry up her tears of sym
pathy, and 10 take comfort in the assur-
snce that Slavery on the whole, is as
good o. better for three millions Of Ia
boring men as liberty. He has instituted
a formal comparison between the state
of society and the condition of a laboring
population in a slave system and those
in a free State, and left the impression
on every page that Liberty works no bet
ter results than servitude, and that it has
mischiefs and Inconvenience which Slay-
cry altogether avoids.
Read that book in Faneuil Hall, and a
thousand aroused and indignant ghosts
would. come focking there, as if they
heard the old r~olI-csll of Bunker Hill
Yea, read those doctrines on Bunker Hill
and would it flame or quake? No.
1t would stand in silent majesty pointing
its granite finger up to heaven and to
GoD-an everlasting witness against all
Slavery, and all its abettors or defenders !
At this moment, the former parties
that have stood in c%ounterpoise have fallen
to pieces. And we are on the eve, and
in the very act of reconstructing our par
ties. One movement there is that calls
itself American. Oh, that it were or
would be! Never was an opening 50
suspicious for q true American party
that, embracing the PRINCIPLES of Amer
lean institutions, should enter our Tem-
pie of Liberty and drive out thence not
merely the interloPing Gentiles, but The
money-changers, and those, also, who
sell oxen, and cattle and slaves therein.
1t is not the question whether q North
en party should be a party of philan-
or of propagandism, or of aboli-
ton. 1t is simply a question whether,
for fear of these things. they will ignore
and rub out of their creed every princi-
pie of human rights
I am not afraid of foreigners among
Us. Nevertheless, our politicians have
SO abused US through them. that I am
glad that . movement is on foot to regs-
ate the conduct of newcomers among
Ii, and oblige them to pass through q
probation before they become cit
In 20 far a. / understand the
practical measures proposed and set
'orth in the Message of the Governor of
Massachusetts, 1 approve them.
But 1 ask you, fellow citizens, vheth-
,r the simple accident of birth is a basis
broad enough for a permanent National
Is it a principle, even? 1t is a
mere fact.
Ought we not to look little at what q
nan is, after he is born, as well as at the
,lace where? Especially, when we re-
member that Arnold was born in Con-
lecticut and La Fsyette in France.
If then, party is American, ought it
to be because it represents those
principles which are fundamental 10
American Institutions and to American
principles which stand in con-
rast with FuroDean Institutions and mol