Eaton Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1843-1856, 1856-07-17
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
FOR IupGEn P THE SUPREME COUNT,
RUFUS II. RANNEY.
BOARD OF PunLtC WORKS,
WAYNE GRHSWOLD.
COMMISSIONER OF COMMON SCHOOLS,
II, III. BARNEY
CONE OF THE COMMITTEE "

In the last issue OF that degraded and cor
rupt sheet, the Eaton Weakly Register, there
appeared a~.commun %icaiion, over the above
caption, addressed 10 the "Negro Editor Of The
Democrat" which was nothing but a Tissue
of lies and slang, q refined specimen Of oil
that eminates from the addle- pated mercenary
who concocted it, or the tOoI that permitted ii
to have a place in his columns. And what
was the cause of this Slang being addressed TO
the e'Nigger Editor Of the Democrat? Simp
ly because we denounced the base and trea
sonable conduct Of a few iEcendiary dema-
gogues, who, instead Of following the legiti.
mate pursuits Of peaceable and honorable citi-
zens, ore lraversing !he county and e%xtorting
money from the people, to purchase T and
send the very scum and off casts Of society
into Kansas, under a pretencs of a devotion for
its freedom, but for no other reason than TO
keep up the strife and turmoil existing there,
until they can accomplish their Infamous de-
signs. Else, why would such bands Of law
less vagabonds be sent there, as passed thro'
Chicago a fe W weeks ago, %euroute for Kansas,
and OF With we gave an account? If they
had the welfare Of Kansas, and those who
with their families have gone there, 50 near
their ~gizzards, (for they have no hearts, would
they not use some discretion, and procure men
of peaccnble and industrious habits, and who
would prove oil honor TO the State, when it
becomes one ? We think so.
This superanuele ted and imbecile person,
bleats long and doleful ebeut the "wicked
slaveocracy," and their earned invasion OF
the Territory ''usurpation of the ba Hot box"
&c, and with this gar5, attempts 10 screene
from public gaze the reprehenSible conduct Of
the earned Abolition Aid Society RuffilnS,"
thatsweve the first to invade the Territory and
ecoaamit depradations -who dragged Wilker-
son, Doyle and his two sons, and an hundred
others, from The nbraces OF their wives pnd
parents, and murdered them in cold blood, and
for no other reason than because they were Of
Sou thern birth, and refused to place them
selves upon an equality with the negro. You
have no lamentations 10 Offer for these uni for.
tunate men, or their helpless families-they
were murdered in the name OF "freedom," and
are we presume, what you have The %efronte-
. ny 10 term the %"naturol and political rights of
man p
A little farther on this i~mpotept scrub wr;.
Ter asks and answers The following i~nterroga
tory: 'In the name Of common sense, what
edo you, Mr.. Niger EditoT, mean by the
s'counterpart of the question :" "Why you
"mean TO make Kansas, ,oh0t she ought not 10
'sbc, Slt We State" Now, we pronounce lbe
writera liar, a fool and a knave. We have
no desire or ~intereS! whatever, in making Kan
sas or any other free territory a slave State
neither have we ever advocated any such doc
trinc, publicly or privately-nor does the dem
ocralic party. We assert now what we have
always, that we are satisfied 10 let the actual
settlers of the Territory decide this question,
and if a majority Of them say they have no OBJ
i~ections 10 slavery, let Them have il, il is no
matter of concern 10 us'in Ohio-we have no
business TO NEEDLE or attemp: 10 make laws
by which the Kansas settlers shall be ruled,
any more than they would have TO decide what
shall govern us. This we believe 10 he the
true doctrine, and The only manner in which
this ques lion Of slavery can be settled salts
i~actorily 10 the people. And had you, and a
few more pusillanimous, office seeking dema-
gognes like you, who keep applying anew the
torch Of incendiarism, been made long ago to
come under Tie "Border Rulfian" law, or HE
guillotine, this matter would have been set.
tied amicabiy and saliSfaclorly-peace and
quiet would reign throughout the territory
upon those places that are nothing but black.
ened spots of ruin, might now be heard The
busy hum Of the industrious mechanic, and We