Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1856-08-21

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continued, we should all earnestly tt m our at
tenIiOn 10 disunion. The blood which ha
stained the free soil Of Kansas, and stained Ii,
floor Of the Senate from her ablesi advocate, i
the vicariOuS ransom Of the North for her pas
sins Of serVility and compromise. That blood
basblOtted out traditiOnary bonds and smeBitei
between slavery and freedom. The friends o.
liberty now stand tree--free 10 be guided BY
their own Law; bound by no compact with any
save their wrOnged and suffering brothers. -
Now for once freedom steps forth unlrameled
BY any rOse-wster talk Of sectional courtesies,
sacred compscts, and the like; she has rOou.
now for free use Of all her Strength; we fear
otthe encounter with slavery.
We only need now that this new strength Of
Freedom should be rightly directed to save ne
from civil war. We can see that the strength
is coming though as yet it but "sees men as
trees;" we see it in the houses half 6nished
which may now be pointed out in the North,
the workmen sent away, that more money NAV
90 to Lawrence in the fact that those who give
most for this end, give most in the North, are
those who never voted for Republican ia
their lives; in the fact that the States are fast
forming in line in opposition to every claim Of
Slavery which is not found surrendered on the
very face Of the Constitution, This is right
Let them know that though the branches should
be Pruned the sap root of Border Rufianism
lies deep 10 the human subsoil OF Washington.
Let them send men here, mot inverted brate an.
'mals! who will bend from the honest truth to
dodge blow: bu: "men. high minded men,
who know their rights and knowing dare main
tain"
Brothers, this Union freighted with so many
hopes and joys, is worth another effort to save
it. In this awful crisis it is the sum Of the Law
and the Prophets, of the old and new Testa.
ments. the sum and substance of them all, that
every man should enter With all the force that
is ia him into this work. Voting rise1 to the
sOlemnity and dignity Of prayer. Rear your
iefences, 0 frsemen! let Mount Washington
and Quincy Granite, and Plymouth Rock be
brought here in humsn shape. to speak the
word Of death to that demon which having en-
slaved three and half millions of negroes
would now conquer thirty millions Of men with
Saxon hIood in their veins
And let il be once for all seen AMI rscogui-
zed BY you who love freedom. that the cause
you have adopted is the most sacred Of all eau
ses. 1t is the Christianity of fto-day. RemeU-
Der tha! the system which you have been Adiu-
red by all the Ties, fraterniIies, memor es, cour-
teses which ever did or did not exist to lOler-
ate and submit to, is one whose roots are in the
lowest basement of mans nature; whose trunk
has been ignorance and degradation to white
aud black, causing the statistics of Virginia
% show sixty thousand white adults to-day who
,annot read or write whose blossoms have
been slave auctions, slave burnings, Nebraska
bills, Missouri Rufianism, Congressional Ruff
fanism, fugitive slave hunts. These are its
what the fruit shall be God alone
knows! 1t is this system which you men OF the
Free States have continually invited to triumph
and riot, and thought that it would treat you
more tenderIy than it did negro mothers aud
heir babes. Then the power whereby you
are at present an almost subjugated people is
your own folly, ......... .......
."Dear foxes" you have said with feeling,
I'VE wish our geese to wander in your rich
hickets, that they may grow fat. Do not. We
,ray you, annoy them. We send them out
With entire confidence that you viii not modest
,ut will even protect them," 'Let them come"
'ay the foxes, "they shall be welcome TO our
rich thickets," Then going careIessly on a
week after, you find every brsmble covered
with white feathers. and slowly to your anna.
zed perceptions dawus the truth that, since the
foundations Of the earth were laid, the eternal
laws Of the universe, ethletical and physical,
have arranged that foxes shall slay and eat
geese. Slavery is no abstraction ) it is great
black fact, to tell the fearful tendencies Of
which no tongue has yet been formed from the
dust. You can expect Othing oft, and re-
it is not the foxes who are blamewor.
thy, but those who committed their geese to
heir tender mercies. .....
And let one other thing be remembered'--it
Is sad thing to say,-nO6Ody can be trusted
On this subject If it we're only man that
God made, he might be voted for in the faith
that he would do right. But for every man
in this country slavery has brlbe at every
pore, and lash over all who do not obey its
behests. Itisevsu in our church and whipped
tba. thin. skinned convention of time-ssrVers al
Chicago into servility, dragging Unitarianism
baptized in freedom into their maudlin fears,
7 taol tbo nyesence of its great internal mower