Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1856-12-11

they ven Know TO be revolutionary one
They are perfectly aware that the ehangs Ia
the relative condition Of the black and white
race in the slsvshOlding states. which they
Would promote, is beyond their lawful sushOr-
ity' that to them il is foreign subject: that Il
cannot bs effected BY any peaceful inslrumsn-
taliy Of theirs; that for them, and the states Of
which they are cidEsss. the only path 70 in
accomplishment Is through burning cities and
ravaged fields, and slaughtered populations,
and all there IS most terrible in foreign, eompli.
Gated with civil and servile war; and that the
hT's step in the attempt is the fOrcible disruption
Of country embracing 10 it, broad bosom .
degree Of liberty, snd an xm0WHo fusaasiaual
and public prosperity, TO which there is no par
sllsl 10 history, and substituting in its place
hostile governments. driven at once and lacy.
tablJ into mutual devastation and fraliieidal
carnage, Transforming tie now peaceful aud
felicitous brotherhood into vast permanent
camp Of armed men like the rivaled nonmcbies
Of Europe and Asia. Well knowing that such.
aud such only, are the means and the cOnss.
quences Oftheir plans and purposes, they en-.
deaVOr to prepare the people Of the Uritsd
States for civil war BY doing everything in their
power to deprive the Constitution and The laws
Of moral authority, and to undermine The fab.
ric Of the Union by appeals to passion and Sec
tiOual prejudice, BY matchmaking the people
with reciprocal haired; and BY educating them
to stand face to face as eusmes, rather than
shoulder to shoulder as friends.
1t is By the agency Of such unwarsuIsbls
Interference, foreign and domestic, that the
minds Of many, otherwise good citizens, have
been SO inAamsd iato the passionate condsmna-
ton Of the domestic institutions Of the southern
States, as at length to pass insensibly to almost
equally passionate hostility towards their fsl
-ertizens Of those States. snd thus finally to
fall into temporary fellowship with tbs avowsd
and active enemies OF the Constitution. Ar
dshlly attached to liberty in the abstract, they
do not stop to consider practically how the OBJ
scts they would attain can be accomplished,
nor to reflect that, even il the evil were as
great as they deem it, they have no remedy to
apply, and that it can be only aggregated by
Lhsr violence and unconstitutional action. A
question, which Is one Of the most difficult Of
all the problems Of social institutions, political
economy and sts.esmausbip. they treat with
intsmpsrauce Of thought and Ian.
yuage. Extremes beget extremes. Violent
attack from the North finds its inevitable con.
sequence in the growth Of 3 spirit Of angry de-
lefancs at the South. Thus in the progrsSm
If events We had reached that consumstion,
which the voice Of the people has now so point
IDLY rsbuked, Of the attempt Of portion Of the
States, by e sectional organization aud move.
nent, TO usurp the control Of the government Of
he United s: Ates.
confdenly believe that the great body Of
those, who. inconsiderately took this fatal step,
are sincerely attached to the Constitution and
the Union, They would, upon deIiberstion,
shrink with unaffected horror from any con-
seious act Of disunion or civil war But they
have entered into path, which leads nowhere.
unless it be to civil war and disunion, and
which has no other possible oatlst. They have
thus far 10 that direction ia conse-
luence OF the successive stages Of their pro-
ress having consisted Of a series Of secondary
ssues, each Of which prOfsssed to be confined
within constitutional and peaceful limits, but
which attempted indirectly what few men we're
wiling to do directly, that is, TO act aggress-
yely against the constitutional rights Of nearly
,ne-half of The thirty-ose States.
In the long series Of acts Of indirect sggres-
ion, the first was the strenuous agitation, BY
.itizens Of the northern States. in Congress and
rat Of il, Of the Question ofnegro emancipation
IN the southerH States.
The second step 10 this path Of evil consisted
,f acts Of the people ofthe northern States aud
n several instances of their governments, aim
ID TO facilitate the escape of peTsous held to
,sryice in the southern States, and to pre- vent
heir extrsdition when reclaimed according to
aw. and in virtue of the express provisions of
he Constitution. To promote their objsc', leg
slaiivs enactments and other mesns were =
iopted 10 take away or defeat rights, which
he Constitution selemBly guaranteed. In or
jer 10 pullfy the theu existing act Of Congress
concerning the exlrsditiOh of fugtives from
,eryice, laws we're enacted in many States, for
bidding their officers, under the severeSI ptn-
lilies, to participate in the execution Of any act
II Congress whatever, 10 this way that sys-
EN- of harmonious cooperation between the au-
Of the United Statea and Of the several
States, for the nain,ainsnce Of their common
Institutions. which existed 10 the early years OF
The Republic. was destroyed; conflicts Of iuTis-s
dctiOn came to be frequent ; and Congress
found itself compelled for the support OF the
and the INDIGESTION Of its power, to