Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-05-08
Ar SaWarl's Snnach.

very in Kansas, or vou viii do ii at the cost
nf the sacriiice of ali the existing liberties OF
the American people. EgeT if slavery were,
what it is not. boon 70 the people OF Kan
sss. they would reject. it if enforced upon
their acceptance bv Federal guns. The at
tempt is in conflict with all the tendencies
of the age. African slavery has for the last
iity wears been giving way, as well ia th's
country as in the Islands ana on the main
land throughout this hemisphere. The po-
litical power ami prestige Of 5lavery in the
United STATE, is passing awV. The Slave
States practically governed the Uhon d.
rec,y, by the agency OF Northern hands,
temporarily enlisted in this support. s.
IN Ich, owing to the de1linA OF their power. |
they have already conceded to the Free |
State. The nest sts?, if they persist IN
Their prescn. course, wiIl be the resumption
and exercise By the Free State of the con-
troll of the Government without such ce5-
sons as they have hitherto made to obtain
it. Throughout period of nearly twenty
years the defenders of Slavery screened NJ
from discussion in the national councils
Now they practically confess to the neces-
sity for dcieuling it here. by initiating dis
Gus ion themselves. They have at cnce
iii ogn away their Inlst successful wcapoh,
compromised and worn out that one which
was next in effectiveness, threats oi seces-
sion from the Ua.on. K is under suca I'M
pr5pitipus circumstances iha; they begin
the new experiment OF ex' ending slavery in
to free territories by force, the armed power
OF the Federal Government. You Will need
many votes from free States in the House OF
Representatives. and even some vo es from
those States in this House, TO send an army
with a retinuc Of slaves in is train to Kan
.as. Have you counted up h!votes IN the
two Houses! Have Won calcua ed how long
those who sh ali cast such votes viii retain
their places in tie National Leg sla.ure!
| Bu, | will grant. for the sake of argument
that with FEDERAL batt4liou you can carry
slavery into Kansas, and maintain 1t there
! Are vuu quite confident that this RePuDii-
can Government can then be upheld and
preserved! You will then yourselves have
introduced the Trojan horse. No Republic
can Government ever endured with stand
ing armies maintained in its bosom to en-
force submiss on to its laws. a people who
have once learned to relinqui=h their rights
under compuisi II, will not be long IN Tor
getting that they ever mad any. In extend
ing slavery into Kansas, there ore, by arms,
Won will subrcrt the liberties Of the people.
Senators OF the Free States! | appeal to
YOU. Believe We the prophets! know you
do. You know you do. You know, then,
that slavery neither EorlS mines AMI quar-
rirs, nor founds cities, nor builds ships. nor
evieS armies. nor mans navies. why, then,
will you INSIST on closing up this new Ter
ritory of Kansas against all enriching
stream5 Of immigration, while you pour into
it the turbid and poi<olous waters of AfrI-
can slas cry! Which one ofyou all, whether
of Connections, ,or of Pennsy lrana.or oi llii-
NOS, or of Michigan, would consent thus to
cxtinguish the chief light OF civil zltion
within the State in which your own for
tunes are cast. and in which your own pos
tcr.ty are to live! Why will you pursue q
policy 50 uukind. so ungenerouS, AMI 50 un
Just, towards the helpless defence ess, sirug
Cling Territory 0! Kansas inhabited as it Ii
by Your own brethren, depending on you ioF
protection and safety! Will slavery in Kan
sas add to The wealth OF power Of your VI
States or 10 the wealth, power or glory o
:, the republic! You know it Will diminish al
of these. Yoa profess desire to end thi
national debate about slavery. which ha;
!, become for YOU ntolerable. l. i; Lot tlm'
! to relinquish that hapel You have exhaust
ed the virtue cor that purpose, that reside
in compacts and platflrns, in the suppression
OF the sight of petition and in arbitrary par
=, liamentary laws, aul in abnegation o! Fed
eral authority over slavery within the Ma
tional Territories. viii you even then en'
the debate by binding Kansas with chains
fnr the SAFETY Of slavery in Missouri! Ever
: then YOU must rive over Utah to slavery, t
make it secure and permanent in hansas
:, and you must give over Washington an
- Oregon to both polygamy and slavery, so a
to guaranty equally the one and the other G
r. those peculiar domestic institutions Utah
and you must 90 on; sacrificing on tn
shrine of peacc territory, until the prevailin
nationality Of freedom and Of virtue shall b
lost, and the vicious anomalies which vo
= have hitherto vanly hoped Almighty Wis
" dom would remove from among yon withou
y1TTr own concurrence. shall Le tho
> trolling elements in the Republic. He VIII
found river in his path. aud set down Il
- wait for the food to pass away, was ne
- more unwisc than he r'ho expects the agita
" ton of slavery to cease while the love c
freedom animates the bosoms of mankind
q The solemniiy of the occ ision draws Owe
VI our heads that cloud of disunion which a
wavs arises whenever the subject of SLAYER
20 is aaitaied. Still the debate g cs on, nor
,p ardentlv, earnestly and an grlly than ever b'
At fore. 1t cmpoys now not merely logic, re
o. proach. menace, retort and defiance, but g
NJ bres, rifles and cannon. D. you look throug
this incipient war unite to the end, and sc
there peace, quiet and harmony Oh the sui
Re iect of slavery! If so, pray eniighien III
no and show me how long The way is that lea'
lie to that repose.
y The Free Safes are loyal, and they wi
-, ALWAYS remain go Their foothold on tn
- Continent is firm and sure. Their alb III
o. TO maintain themselves, unaided under it
,a present Constitution, is established. III
l., Slave States, also, have been loyal hithert'
a and hope and trust they may ever RENAL
ofi so. But if disunion could ever come,
wonld come in the form OF a secession OF III
n SlavchoIding States: and it would com
H. then. whe3 the Slavehoding power, whlc
IS is already firmly established on the Gulf {
:, Mexico. and extends n thousand miles nortl
o. ward along b,ih banks OF the Mississippi
>, should nave fixed its graphing irons upo
40 the fountains of the Missouri and the slope
:, Of the Rocky Mountains. Then that powt
h., would be intolerably supreme in this RePu!
- lie. or it would strike for independence, {
~ for exclusive dominion. Then the Ere
States and Slave States o. The Atlantic, 4
= vided and warrng with each o:her, woul
10 disgust the Free States OF the Pacific, an
orI they would have abundant cause for viii