Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1856-10-09
CRROLLTON CARROLL COUNTY ONO THURSDAY OCTOBER 1856

fair and bOuDdless territories, The possession Of
which will give Il the undisputed control Of this
republic. @ .t8 fT ~
These are is outward gains thus far. But
its chief triumphs consist in its having con
quered the most cherished principles Of the "a
ton, especially Of The North, which triumphs
payes the way for universal outward conquest.
The wonderful changes Of sentiment on lhis
subject which have taken place within the few
years Oi our national existence, might well
surprise any student Of history, and alarm the
most Indifferent friend of liberty and good gov
ernment. The time hOnored policy Of our IA.
Tiers is abandoned at the dictalion of tho ex.
lreme south. The immortal principles they
proclaimed are turned into Jest and ridicule.-
The foundation truth Of free and selfgovern-
ment is termed ga selfsyident lie." Liberty,
once deemed more precious than treasure or
life, is widely secuted as the abstraction Of a
fanatical brain, around which hosannahs we're
once sung, but which is now led forth by
great crowd. even Of familiar forms and faces,
to be spit upon, derided and cruciied. Party
affiliations have brought those. who style
themselves the lineal representatives of the de-
mOcracy Of Jefferson whose hand, guided by
the hand of the great Law Giver, traced the
words Of the Declaration Of l776, and Of the
halowed ordinance Of freedom in 1787-t
follow the wild principles Of the South Carroll
ma leader who at FIST even in his own section,
found none to do him reverence: The once
practised distractions Of freedom are now
laughed at and thrown aside; and the once dis
regarded distractions Of slavery, us set forth
by Calhoun, are now put into practice, and
govern the policy Of the nation. and become
the creed OF the Democratic party. Il was
from Oalhou that the South and the Demo-
cratic party Of the North, have learned that
Congress has no constitutional power to pro-
hibii slavery in the territories; that slavery
has an inherent right 10 fasten itself any where
upon the national domain; that it ought 10 be
extended and fostered equally with freedom, in
order 10 preserve that balance of power which
is due to the South; that the Missouri Com
promise was unconstitutional, and was there
fore rightiully repealed; and that Slavery is u
moral good, H'pol.ical blessing. -, .....
Such are the changes that slavery has wrou-
ght. This utter decentralization OF the plinci-
piles OF the North, as well as of the South,
has been brought ab0u! within very
few years past, And where will il end? shall
that power possess all our national territories ?
Shall it annex Cuba and Central America. and
lower California? Shall il revive the slave trade?
Shall it come into the States on that plea Of e.
economy which brought it into the territories ?
Shall it control the national government, and
silence free speech and free discussion; and
bind freedom hand and foot depriving it of all
power, (even where there is any principle
left )to make farther resistance to its aggressive,
aggrandizing. al grasping policy, which viii.
never be abandoned while one spark Of free
dom buns in our hearts? Why not do all
this? II has only to march forward few steps
farther in IFS present course, and all is done.-
1t has only to carry out the principles which
it has written in the democratic creed, ant
practiced upon, thus far, aud the work is ac
comp!ished. And they, who among us once
professed to oppose all these changes, but have
yielded to them: who avowed that they would
not submit to the repeal Of the Missouri Com
promise, but have submitted; who once declar-
ed they would not tolerate the fragrant wrongs
in Kansas, where slavery summoned to its aid
the darkest and bloodiest crimes Of earth, but
have since then, in solemn convention and
otherwise, far more than tolerated them, they
who having thus adopted all the principles and
practices OF the aggressive South, will readily
90 nay, Of necessity must 60, to the full length
Of southern demands. The river has gained
such h cad. and come so near the precipice
that it must go over,
What will save the country from being GOV.
cred, even to its highest mountain peaks o
freedom, with the deluge of these black and
hateful principles which are as destructive tC
the constitution and Union, 10 law, order, and
every blessing Of good government, as they are
to liberty ilself--prinCIples that would take Us
back 10 the dark ages. to the midEightof Egypti
Thanks to good Providence, who has not ut.
terly given up his chosen nation TO the spoilers,
there are at las. bright CLEANS Of encourages
ment breaking through the somhrc clouds, and
shedding :he sunshine of hope on a bleeding
land. 1t is not wholly as che spoilers snticipa-
ted. The indications greet us on every side,
that there is wisdom in the people to discern
the danger; and virtue to oppose and arrest it'
progress, and say with potent voice to the roll
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