Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-10-02
Voters of Holmes County.

Voters of Holmes County.
The great question to be decided by the vo-
tiers in this Congressional District, Is not whe-
tber they prefer WILLIAM r. SAPr to JOSEPH
B,nss but it is whether this District will be used
by Slavery in Congress to riret fetters on
Free People-shall he used TO enforce wrong
and injustice upon man. The great element of
this contest is the situation of things in KANSAS
For the last two years there has been scheme
to carry slavery into Kansas against the will of
her people. Ii is anew phase of slavery agita-
fion. This has been made with the completely
of the North, and is now sustained by the So
called Democratic party of the North. These
facts have never been successfully contrcverted.
This scheme of the south has given rise TO out
RACES which are a disgrace to civilization and
TO the age in which we live 1t is an error to
take up an isolated outrage and examine it.
The whole, with all the circumstances, should
be examined. The facts Ct the violation of the
ballot box, the enactment of bcgrs laws, The ap-
pointmcnt TO every territorial office, so Ear as
they could. from the South, the murders, the
pillage and the ouirages are all but parts of one
vast scheme. This scheme is now nearly con-
summated, Two more elccticns carried as the
last two have been, and Slave Constitution
Will be forced upon Kansas. Between the two
ConstitutioHs-the Slave and the Free-there
will be ccntest in Congress. 1t will be for
f1<r <,f
will send i:,aR TO Congress who will vote for a
Free-State Constitution or the Slave-State Con-
stitution. Beyond that, it is true, lies the qucs-
tion OF Slavery extension. If any man SUP
poses that this question is to result only TO Kan
sas, he has no conception of the issue. Only one
half OF our territory is populated. From Kan
sas to the Pacific is unsettled fell half cont-
ncnt-ayast empire, the institutions of which
arc to be fixed in this contest. If YOU cannot
save Kansas to Freedom with majority of Free
intervening, will any man pretend it is possi
Die to save the second or third? And slavery
having now 25O,O00 square miles more than you
possess, will add from fen to twelve mammoth
demonstration, that you cannot save second |
unless yote can save the first State? This Access
sion of Slave, States will make twenty more
Southern senators, with a proporfionate repre-
sentation in the House. with a majority of the |
Electoral College, and power will exist to make |
war on Mexico to secure more slave territory,
and the North will be but a small SPOT of our |
country. The manner in which Kansas will
have been acquired by slavery, if it is TO be ac
quired, will indicate how the power will be used
there against free institutions. WILLIAM r.
SApr stands pledged never to vote to extend the
principle of slave representation over another
inch of territory. JOSEPH Burns by subscribing
TO the principles laid down in the Cincinnati
platform, says to the South, "taxe your slaves
10 the Territories if you want them there, l am
opposed 10 the interference on the part of the
North with your peculiar institutions This
is Democracy now. and l am Democrat" So
are SHANNON, ATcHIsoN, and STRNGFFLLow.
Another result that will follow will be the
of the slave trade-which has
been darling idea of southern men for years.
Then will follow the realization of the doctrine
asserted, of the right Of STAKEHOLDER to go where
be pleases with his property, to remain as long
Is he plcases. All these considerations enter
nto this contest. The Northern States are con-
inually pouring West a stream of free emigra-
ion. In the west the emigrant is enabled to
eeure himself home where he can lay the
dofic ff
md of civilization and intelligence for our COM
mon country. But once desecrate Kansas and
he other territories with Slavery, and at once
you cut off all inducement for men to emgrate
thither, and the result is that Free Labor re-
mains here to come into constant competition,
so that the prices of labor diminish and the
masses of the people are impoverished and de-
graded ast they are in Europe. Ireland has Of
cred an example to this. China affords anoth-
II instance, and to-day her population is sold
laves. Gov. johnson of Georgia, in speech
made in Philadelphia, admits our premises in
his respect, and this being admitted, there is
,ut one conclusion. If it is question of capi-
al and labor, as Gov. Johnson says question
uetuei iHc oOutI wv ii ldUoI VI
t, it will soon be question whether the whole
Union shall own or hire their labor. This Ter
itory the north must have for IFS surplus popula-
ion. But do the South want it for that pur-
bose? Whoever heard of negro-owning State
laving surplus population? The idea is ab-
urd. What they desire it for is TO increase
lave representation in Congress that they may
'e enabled to dictate the policy of Government
nd obtain supreme control.