Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21

age Of the Fugitive Slave Law, to accept
it, with alfits enofmities and Infamous pro-
visions, as fnahty-as such it was pro-
claimed as such its passage was secured.
Butlat the demand of this same interest,
an administration pledged against slavery
agitation. pledged to regard the ,Compro-
mise of 1850 as a fnality TO the agitation
in Congress or out ofit-re-opened the agi-
tation-disregarded one of the most sol
emn and important compromises ever made
violated the plighted faith of the nation
-ruthlessly robbed freedom of the consid-
Grafton secured by her contract; after Sla-
very had received, and still enjoys, retains,
and is forever secured IN the possession of
the equivalent agreed to be given. A large
territory forever conseerated to freedom, has
been opened up to the curse of human
bondage. Already the chains of the bond
men are clanking uponthe prairies of Kan
sas, and Free Speech and Freedom of the
Press, the constitutional guarantees of ev-
ery American citizen, are denied to free
white men upon the territory of our COM
mon country. The adminitration has al
lied itself to a sectional party-to the
Slave Power-to crush out Liberty, and
sanction by the military force of the ma
ton, foreign invasion and usurpation.
Men whose only crime was love of liberty,
have been murdered, others have been i'm
prisoned, and others forced to flee with
their families from their homes on Ameri-
can soil and within the jurisdiction of the
United States, for daring to believe and as
sert that slavery was sectional and freedom
National.
Thus has this arrogant, usurping, ag-
gressive power trampling upon Compro-
misses, violating plighted faith, having
been fostered, protected, extended and sus-
tanned by concession after concession, un-
wisely and unfortunately made for the sake
of peace-by fraud and intimidation re-
moved the barrier, and are now seeking by
fraud and violence, hostile invasion and
bloodshed, to force Slavery into Kansas.
Shall they succeed9 Shall Slavery be
extended, is the great and paramount isstte
in the present campaign! This is its
great struggle for power-for comeplete
supremacy. The day of Compromises
has gone by--their faith has been broken
1t never can be relied on-that conf
dence without which Compromises are val
ueless, has been lost and cannot be regain
ed. We believe that the extention of Sla-
very may be prohibited and the Union
maintained-that return to the policy of
the Fathers of the Republic is the only
way in which the aggressions Of slavery
are to be constitutionally restrained and the
peace and harmony of our country, and
the perpetuity of our free institutions Sc
cured.
And thus blieving, we win labor with
whatever influence we may possess, for the
election of john c. FREMONT and the success
of the Republican party, as the only means
now left to bring back the Government to
the principles of Washington and Jeffer-
son-to restrain the extension of human
slavery-to put an end to civil war, and
secure every man in the Constitutional
rights of freedom of thought and speech,
wherever he may stand upon the soil of
our common country.