Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-08-13


Nothing, they repeat, in universal rep
sentative sanction of crime which would
have been a scratch, but for their sane
ton, which makes the word Union a sat
Ire, and virtually says to half the men in
this land, There is no point of honor
between US. The lowest white South
erner must be forewarned and chal-
lenged, or the assailant loses cast for
ever But you, Northerners, shall be
beaten as we beat dogs; we do not
forewan our dogs when we beat them"
Living in the midst of slavery, have
ever felt that it was dishonest and wrong
that the Northern men should not know
how we are trained to despise Yankees
as worse than anything else; how it is
nearly proverb that there is no gentle
man North of Masons and Dixon's line.
Gutta percha is very honest at any rate,
and places the matter frankly before the
freemen of this country. 1t is well if
even the devil, becomes honest, real
devils, and conceals nothing in their
hearts.
No, 1 make no appeal to slavery TO
bling us peace; it would be hypocrite
to do so, and hypocracy is worse than
war but on you. freemen and friends
of Humanity, 1 call TO lend all your ef-
forts for peace to stand and shed your
blood, if need be. for peace.
True, not the most infinitely small
atom of principle must be conceded for
peace. Better this country should sink
beneath an ocean of blood, than one of
the rights of Humanity be surrendered,
than the supreme law Of justice 10 all
men fall. But for these strive 10 eight
through all the forms of peace" know
ing that the success of your canse de-
pends On stan Hing on your ground even
to death, not on your overcoming the
man who opposed it. He is nothing and
can do nothing against your cause if it
is right.
1t would be a sad, deplorable victory
of slavery over Liberty--worse than any
ii ever got-if the barbarous code of du-
telling should be consented TO as the true
one to settle the disputes of sections or
men. The boar selects tushes, the bee
sting.
''It's proper power to hurt,
Each creature feels,
Bulls use their horns, and
Asses lift their heels
Slavery takes naturally to bludgeons
or pistols. Freedom should as naturally
take to reason, truth of thought, speech
and act, and that courage, not animal,
which can bravely stand for God and
Right, and be shot down, if that is the
thing to be done.
But must we not resist an assault ? it
is inquired. 1t is never right delibe-
rately to prepare for if, and if resistance
should be the best thing, when the mo-
ment comes instruction and strength will
flow from God and nature then your
resistance will be as healthy as the in
evitable lightning. Leave it to nature :;
she is the best teacher, and no absolute
rule can be made. Tooth is necessary,
but take care it does not become fang.
One is animal, the other human. So
are war and a proper resistance very
one animal, the other hu-
man.
As soon as war in Kansas becomes in
evitable, as it will be when it is decided
that the present policy towards tie ter
rilory is to be continued, We should all
earnestly turn our attention to disunion.
The blood which has stained the free
soil of Kansas, and stained the floor of
the Senate from her ablest advocate, is
the vicarious ransom of the North for
her past sins of servility and compromise
that blood has blo:ted out all tradi-
.ionary bonds and amenities between
slavery and freedom. The friends of
liberty now stand tree-free to be guided
BY their own law; boun.l by no compact
but their compact with God under no
covenant with any save their wronged
and suffering brethren. Now for once.
'reedom steps forth untrammeled by any
'ose-water talk of sectional courtesies,
acred compacts, and the like she has
DOM now for a free use of all her
hength; we fear not the encounter with
lavery. ,
We only need now that this new
trength of freedom should be rightly
irected to save us from a civil war
We can see that the strength is coming.
lough as yet it but "sees men as trees;"
re see it in the house half finished which
lay now be pointed out in the North,
le workmen sent away that more money l
lay go to Lawrence in the fact that {
-
nose who give most for this end. give |
lost in the North, are those who never {
oted for Republican in their lives ; in {
Ie fact that the States are fast forming c
/ line of opposition to every claim Of q
Iavery which is not found surrendered !
n the very face of the Constitution
his is right. Let them know that 5
rough the branches should be pruned, I
ne tap-root of Border Ruffianism lies