Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-09-25
1olitital Matter.
An-EditOr,s RecOrd..What the
Editor of the Plain Dealer
Thought i'm 1915,

The subjoined extracts are from an edi.
torial article which appeared in the Cleve
land Plain Dealer of November 23d, 1S4S
The article itself, Of which these are but
''bricks from the building" was one of the
most elaborate, careful, and serious that ev-
er appeared in the columns of that paper
expressing, so far as one might Judge, the
sincere opinions of the editor, if he ever
uttered anything in sincerity.
The Presidential election had then lust
closed in the triumphant success of Gen.
Taylor. Throughout that campaign the
Plain Dealer had been the foremost ad-
vocate of Gen. Cass in this part of Ohio !;
had been as INSCRIPTIONS, or nearly so, as
it is now; had been as ready to put for
ward or to suppress; to affirm or deny; to
praise a parttyF friend friend in superlatives, Or
stigmatize an opponent with opprobious
terms, as any other newspaper.
But the election was over, and the edi-
tor, released from the obligation to do
whatever the party emergency required,
breathed freer. No post office or public
printing fitted before his vision; and he
could afford, therefore, for once in his life,
to indulge in rare luxury of free and truth
full utterance. His readers, it is true were
astonished at finding that their oracle was
after all an abolitionist in disguise, and an
ultra one at that; stalking the Union itself
upon his fixed ultimatum of 'sno ertention
Of slavery one inch beyond its present lin
its." Most clearly did he see the design of
the South at that time, and none so bold
as he to expose, or so resolute to resist
them. He talked of the Union being rent
asunder, with as much nonchalance as he
would have felt in chronicling the mishap
of morning in the street, under the head
of "Locol Items"
Some of us, who had long seen the
need of watching and resisting the
encroachments of the slave power, were
rather startled at the bold rhapsodies of
the Plain Dealer against slavery. We
had not been accustomed to treat the I'm
ion with so much flippant levity; nor to
state, even in our own mind, the contin-
gencies in which it ought to be dissolved.
No such scruples troubled the outspoken
editer of the Plain Dealer. He was de-
termined to call a spade, a spade, let what
would come of it. His bitterness towards
the South was as unmitigated as Garison's.
He was almost ready to pronounce the
Constitution "a covenant with death and a
league with hell"
But to the extracts-the entire articlei is
too long for our limits.
l. THE editor having had star and
feathers" intimoted to him by some persons
Driti'tg from Georgia, acares wrathy, and
appeals to the people of the NORTH:
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Nov %, 1s4s.
"There you have il, Democrats of the
North!- You who work for your living,
and who favor free soil, free speech and free
labor as essential safeguards oyour rights.
You who refuse to surrender that vast new
territory to the selfish nabobs of the South,
where they can plant slavery to the destruc-
ton of your own white labor; presume not
TO show yourselves in the Democratic State
ofGeorgia, lest like our humble self, you too,
are helped to coat of tar and feathers.
If you people of the North suppose that
slavery is not going to curse every land
purchased by the money, or conquered by
the arms of the republic, you reckon aoith-
out your host This is the language
of The South, without distinction of party.
What say you, free laborers of the North
Are you in our present and future acqui-
sitions of territory, going to let the nabobs
of the South monopolize the soil with their
large plantations, and compel you not only
to compete with their wealth, but degrade
yourselves to the level of their sluves, by
with slave labor? AS men YOU
are already excluded from the Southern
States. You cannot labor there and main
tain your dignity as men. Labor is dis
graceful there, and the Southen aristocracy
are determined to make it so everywhere. |
Give them the power and they will do it.
Tive them more territory devoted to sla-
very, and they will do it. Acknowledge
that under the constitution and laws of ma
lions, they have a right to take their pro-
perty (slaves) into free territory. and thew
will soon have New Mexico and California
cut up into slave States, and we, the free
States Of the North, will be mere amen
dages to an aristocratic slave government.
Ii. He charges the defeat Of Cass upon
. prayer sghich he made a0hile minister
he threatens d;sunion-caHs
he patriotic institution damnable, and
curses all compromises:
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer Of sane date.
1T was no doubt the prayer of Gen. Cass
written while minister to France, and long
before he was talked of for the Presidency,