The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1856-08-05

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. man he met there: "Hah !! Monsieur, vouley
vous give me de plaisir, de Satisfaction, tc
! let me run this poker only one foot into your
bodya "My body" replied the Englishman
: "what DO you meanp "vel den, so far
marking about six inches. "Are you mad n
returned the other 81 tell you if you don't
60 about your business, I'll knock you down" I"
"Vel den," said the Frenchman, softenng
his voice and manner evil you, my good
sir, only be so obliging ms to pay me for de
trouble and expense of heating dis pokerp
The Frenchman we believe didn't get his
pay; bm Slavery has never made a like de.
nand pithom obtaining nl-and we have
thought ourselves well of to pay for the ex-
Pensee OF heating the poker, and escape the
burning. And this we have called compro-
mise! More often Slavery has driven a red
hot poker through us, and we have paid
him for doing it. And sometimes we have
called that compromise
2. The second aggression which I will no.
tlce was the organization of additional Slave
States out of the original thirtecn-as, for
example, Kentucky ont of Virginia in 1902;
Tennessee out of North Carolina in 1895
and Alabama and Mississippi out of Georgia at
a later day. Thus there were added four
Slave States with their eight Senators to as.
sst in controlling the Government oc tho
Union. If it be said that in like manner
Maine was made from Massachusetts, and
Vermont from New York, we reply that
Liberty has right to live and bc strong
Slavery is an interloper without rights. 1t
has no right to be, much less to extend itself.
Some men talk as if the Devil had as good
right to govern this world as the God that
made it; and as If it was serious ground of
complaint that he cannot have at least one
half Of it partitioned off to him; and Sc.
cured by an inviolable treaty. Some of his
friends claim for him full three-fourths. But
such is not our theology. All that Satan
gets Is by usurpation and robbery. Liberty
Is the just inheritance of every man: and
Free Institutions exist by right; dcspotism |
is the subversion of all right, and the worst
form that despotism ever assumed is Ameri. |
can Slavery. Liberty has a right to extend
itself The whole unbounded continent be.
longed to it as birth-right possession and
an eternal heritance. TWAS indigenous to
American soil. Slavery was but poisonous
exotic, exhaling like tho fabled U pas tree.
disease and death. Justice and injustice
have not equal rights to be. Nor have they
equal claim to protection and defence at the
hand of Government. When Tarquin the
Proud was asked what was the best method
Of governing conquered city, he replied
only by beating down with his staff all the
tallest poppes in his garden. And it was an
answer that became the naughty Tyrant.-
But with us the true end and the only end
Of goverpm ent is justice and the protection
ot rights and justice, to use the language
Of Webster, "is the great interest of man
IN earth. 1t is the ligamcnt which holds
civilized beings and civilized nations togeth- {
'r. Wherever her temple stands, and so |;
ong as it is duly honored, there is founda- .
ion for social security, general happiness,
nd the improvement and progress of our
ace. And whoever labors on this edfcc =
Nth usefulness and distinction, whoever t
lears its foundations, strengthens its pillars, t
dorns its entablatures, or contributes TO T.
nise its august dome still higher in the Skies s,
onnects himself in name and fame and d
haracter with that which is and must be rs +
urable as the frame of human society" tc
The securing Of Liberty and of Justice is ii
he rightful end of all legislation. What ii
yer strengthens these is legitimate; what b
yer weakens either is q deadly foe to ma "
on's stability and true prosperity. Every W
low against freedom and right is blow to &C
the very foundations of our civil as
overnment. Free States had right to A
lrticpate in the advantages of our Union. pc
lave States had no such right. Every time of
new one has entered, it has been rs the be
'ening of an artery to draw off the life tn
ood of the Republic tic
8. Besides the admission Of new Slave tia
ates out of tho original domain of the ha
MON, there was in 1903 a most formda-
9 aggression in the purchase of the Louisi- otl
a Territory, and the subsequent admission of
Louisiana in 1912, Missouri in 1920, TIN
d Arkansas in 1886, coming in as Slave M
ates out of the territory thus secured.- Blu
lis was an entire reversal and subversion of ito
lat was understood to be the original poll en-
of prohibiting utterly the expansion of
avery. Not that we object to the pur- an,
ase for Sl5,000,000 of this Territory. 1t at
s most desirable acquisition. But the ant
preparation of it to the polluting tread ter
desolating march of American Despot- it,
!, was such an aggression of the Tyranni- me
system as every freeman must deeply de- it.
,re.
Upon the admission Of Missouri with its Nil
very constitution vigorous and deter pro
ned resistance was made. In 1919 it was OF
ed by decided majority of tho House of Th'
presentatives to admit her only upon bid
condition of her coming with Free ito
institution; but the Senate, which has and
r been the stronghold of Slavery-propa- way
,dism, refused to concur in this action mo
the following year the subject camo up wit
lin. 1t was the same Congress in its Sec eve
session. And after most exciting dis its
sion, BY species of Legislative legcrde- ty
n on the part Of the slave power, Mis- ascc
ri was admitted with slavery, on the sole abo
dition that all Of the territory north of the
degrees should be forever secured to OF
rty. 1t was a southern measure, voted heis
by every southern Senator that was pres Hig
and by nearly every southern Represcn- con
We, and opposed by the Free States on mel
ground that the whole Territory Mis- fed