Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-05-28

wrongs against which our fathers rose,
is more apparent. Read the Declaration
of independence, and there is hardly an
accusation which is there directed again,i
the British Monarch which may not now
be directed with increased force against
the American President. The parallel
has a fearful particularly. Our fathers
had complained that the King had "sent
hither swarms of officers to harrass our
people, and eat out their SUBSTANCE
that che had combined, with others, to
subject US to a jurisdiction foreign to our
Constitution, giving his assent to their acts
of pretended le~gislaiion;" that he had alb
dicted Government here, by declaring
us out of his protection, and aOaging uOaT
against as hat he had excited do.
mestic instruction among US, and en-
deaVored 10 bring on tie inhabitants o.
our frontier the merciIess savqges;;" that
"our repeated petitions have been an
swered only by repeated injury" And
this arraignment was APPLY followed by
the damning words, that ga Prince
whose character is thus marked by
every act which may define a tyrant, is
unfit to be the ruler of a free people,
And surely. a President who has done
all these things, cannot be less unfit than
a Prince. AT every stage, the respon-
sibility is brought directly to him. His
offence has been both of commission and
omission. He has done that which he
ought not to have done, and he has left
undone that which he ought to have
done. By his activity the Prohibition
of Slavery was overturned. By his fail
ure TO act the honest emigrants in Kan
sas have been left a prey to wrong of all
kinds. Nahum fugiHium erita. nisi per
IT,; nuAum fagitium sine H. And now he
stands forth the most conspicuous enemy
of that urh1ppy Territory. As the tyr
amy Of the British King is all renewed
in the President, so on this floor have the
old indignities been renewed, which EN-.
Filtered and fomented the trouble of our
Fathers. The early petition of the
American Congress to Parliament, long
before any suggestion of Independence,
was opposed-like The petition Of Kan
sas-because that body "was. assembled
without any requisition on the part OF the
Supreme Power" Another petition from
New York. presented by Edmund Burke.
was fatty rejected, as claiming rights
derogatory to Parliament. And still IN
other petition from Massachusetts, Bay
was dismissed as vexatious and scan:
dalous," while the patriot and philosopher
who bore it was exposed to peculiar con
tumely. Throughout the debates, our
fathers were made The butt of sorry
jests and supercillious assumptions. And
now these genes. with these precise OBJ
jec'ions, have been renewed in the
American Senate.
Mr.. Sumner then administers to the
the leaders ofthe Slaveocracy a castiga-
ton which they will have cau<e to re-
member. He demonstrates from the ex-
of Kansas as compared with
South Carolina the superiority Of a free
State over a SLAVE State. He denounces
with almost the prophetic fire of an Is
aiah, the curse Of God upon tBose who
have sought to remove the landmarks of
freedom, and closes with a soul string
APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE
from. the tyranny of the Administration
and the Senate.
In this. contest, Kansas bravely stands
STRIPPING leader. wrapped in
panoply of American Institutions
In calmly meeting and adopting a frame
of Government, her people have with in
promptitude performed the duties
of freemen; and when 1 consider the diff
faculties by which she was beset, l find
in her attitude. In offering her
self for admission into the Union as a FREE
she presents a single issue for the
to decide. And since the Slave
now stakes on this i sue all its i'll
gotten supremacy, the People, while
vindicating Kansas, will at the same
time overthrow this Tyranny. Thus
does the contest which she now begins,
not only Liberty for herself, but
for the whole country. God be praised
that she did not bend ignobly beneath
the yokel Far away on the prairies she
is now battling for the Liberty of all,
the President who misrepresents
air. Everywhere, among those who are
not insenslble to Right, the generous
meets a generous response
From innumerable throbbing hearts 90
forth the very words of encouragement
in the sorrowful days of our Faith
ers, were sent by Virginia, speaking by
the pen oil Richard Henry Lee, to Mass
achusetts in the person of her popular
Samuel Adams:
"CHASTILLY, Va, June % IVA.
al hope the good people Of Bostan will
not loose their spirits under their present
heavy oppression, for they will certainly
be supported by the other Colonies: and
The cause for which they suffer is so glo-
and so deeply interesting to the
and future generations, that all
America will owe, in a great measure,
heir political salvation to the present
virtue Of Massachusetts, Bay" Amer
can Archives, 4th Series Vol. /, p. AS.
In all this sympathy there is strength.
But in the cause itself there is angelic
power. Unseen of men, The great spi its
Of History combat by the side of the
Of Kansas. breathing a divine
Above all towers the males.
ic form Of Washington once more, as on
he bloody field, bidding them 10 remem-
Der those rights of Human Nature for
which the War of Independence was
Such a cause thus sustained, is
nvincible. 1t may be crushed to earth
or a day, but it will surely rise to grasp
he victory. The contest which, begin,
ling in Kansas, has reached us, and will
DON be transferred from Congress to a
stage, where every citizen will
'e not only a spectator but an actor; and
o their judgement l confidently appeal.
TO the People, now on the eve of exer.
Using the electoral franchise in choosing
Chief magistrate of the Republic, 1 ap-