The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1856-10-24
THR TRUE ISSUE.


THE TRUE ISSUE.
E. d. MANsrisLb Esq, author Of " The
Principles of American Education " etc.
in letter to the Cincinnati Gazette, thus
eloquently presents the true issue Of this
campagn-Freedom Us Slavery We
would that every lreamen in the north
west, could read il and properly reflect
Upon It's fairy unyarnshed truths
Z" Placed in peace aud freedom. the
North West has exhibited development
Of social and physical prosperity never
before equalled on earth. The society
and institutions which arose NAV be char
acieriEed by two Words FREEDoM and
pRorEcrioN- freedom from every species
OF ser,itude, aud protection against every
wrong, IL was simply opening to the
ciuzens all Of freedom, personal, social
and industrial, consistent with peace and
good or5er. With this and a good soil
aud mild climate, the great North West
| is what II Is. Behold it and compare il
with anything the ear has produced
under any system Of government society.
Compare IL with Europe. Compare il
with the South Compare Il even with
New England. Ask yourselves whe'her
the system which produced hese results
is one which should give place to any
system Of bondage, whether personal,
social or moral
The poll icai contest now in progress
involves just one question, and only one,
whether the territories of the United
States, or any p rt UC them, shall have
the social aud political system Of the
North West? or whether they shall have
that Of the South West? Whether they
shall grow under the genial light and
warmth Of freedom, or be dwindled by
human seryiiude ? Ii it were question
whether louisiana and Arkansas should
change their Institutions, should reply,
il was no, my business. But it is my
business, and yours, and the business OF
all the people, to determine whether any
more Of this continent shall bc mildewed
aud blackened by the blight Of slavery.
We Shall make il our business whether
Kansas and Nebraska, aud New Mexico
AMI Utah, shall be dtagooued into slavery?
Wre,her they Shall be watered by tears
caused to fow by a most inhuman op.
preston. Did you, or anybody ever
read among the dark tragedies Of human
lie, anything more tragical than those
scenes enacting in Kansas ? And what
do we see o our government ? Arc they
svmpamzmg with the unhappy victims
Of murder andRpine Behold The Pres
hilent gone 10 WarreIton Springs Hear
the answer to petition for redress. 1t
all happened because the people meddled
with what did not concern them In
future history, the conduct Of the Presi.
I dent aud his Cabinet will read very like
that OF Nero at Rome.
| said he question was, whether those
new States and Territories should be as
the North west, or tine South west 2
What the difference is, l need not say
Statistics will tell you what it is in popu-
laton, in wealth and development, but no
Stuistics will tell the difference in morals
ami mind. The seryitude Of the slave is
lar less than that Of his master. Tho me-
oessilies Of slavery demand that the
tongue shall DO tied the writing blotted;
the press stopped the very throbbings
/. Of tie hest Shall be hushed into silence,
lest human mature should, in some un-
guarded moment, ery out wrong Have
you boubt Look at the exilsd books
sellers of Mobile at Underwood, OF Nir-
: einia AZ school teachers drives out AZ
papers destroyed, and at threats uponall
freedom Of opinion, in State and Church.
This servitude Of mind, and the depraya'
ton of morals, which necessarily follows
it. is e great feature of Slavery. The
, condition OF the slave is one part but
even less part than the servitude Of mind
-the Incidence and the moral baFbarism'
which is its inevitable attendant. Our
! political dicussions have not, and cannot
presentlhe system in its. Just character ;
but they do present what is, perhaps, as
efficient as human feelngs-the outward
Z wrongs to which il gives rise. II has
. happened, fortunately, that accidental Cir
/ cumstances have led TO popular review
ofthis subject. The battle Of liberty will
70 on. II is not United by time or
g Space, or country and viii survive the
: fear OF the timid, and will end only with
complete restoration Of Human Rights
The political victory Of Maine is only
couli0uauce Of that begun IN Iowa. and
exhibits ia another quar1er Of the country
: anotherSign Of the same general revolp'
. ton. I cannot imagine how il can Dc
a otherwise. Coald anS man with common
feelings aid the oppression Of Kansas p
!. Can any man who lives IN these free
Estates consent 70 aid in the extension o
q slaveay, merely because he belongs ts
2 this. or that patty ? or because he wal
Z afraid Of this. or that threat 7 The aeei
i dents ofthe day may be possibly agai9s,
! Us but the heart Of the people 's Will
" u.s.,
!. RsE The exaIta.ion oftalent, as q :
o called, above virtue aud religion, is III
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