The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-10-14

The Free Democrat has some good su =
gestions in an article under this caption.
While we think that the fact that Mr..
Cross is intimately associated with and
the representative of the political faction
which, by its robbery of the public funds,
peculation and wanton attempts to des-
troy the purity of the ballot-box, has dis
graced the State and oppressed its people
should not be lost sight OF, we most cor
daily endorse the following article in
question:
We have higher charge to bring a
gainst Mr.. Cross, than that he is the
Barstow Candidate charge which
makes all that the Anti-Barstow Demo
say of of him insignificant. 1t is this:
He is the Democratic candidate, and sup
ports the principles of the national DEM
ocratic party. And if anything can be
charged against him more politic.-y dia-
bolical than this, we should like to Lave
it named. To charge as a browning sin
that he is a Barstow candidate. after
admitting that Ire is the candidate Of the
pro S5avery Democracy, IS Ike trying to
induce jury TO convict q man found gull
ty of murder and highway robbery, by
alleging that he had committed petit lar
ceny. The greatest sins of Barstowism
arc as wool compared with the crimes
against humanity, good government, the
constitution and laws, of which slavery is
the root and source, and these crimes the
national Democracy of Wisconsin as well
as of South Corolina, uphold and defend.
They strike at the very foundation of con-
stitutional liberty, and must be suppressed
or they will overthrow our federal gov
eminent, and lead to the establishment
of despotism. The Democratic party up
holds the Fugitive Slave Act, which all
thorizes human kidnapping, and strikes
down, at blow, those bulwarks of liber-
ty, the writ of ho5eas corpus and the
right of trial by jury. The Democratic
party upholds the doctrine that slavery is
national, and freedom sectional and that
slavery goes wherever the constitution
goes, into all our Territories, and cannot
be prohibited until the people form
State constitution, thus putting freedom
under the ban of national censorship and
raising slavery to the post of sovereignty
and making Il supreme in all our Terrific
ries, and in supreme in all our Territories
and in all our Territories and in all places
under exclusive federal jurisdiction. Our
presses and our orators may ring the chan
ccs on Barstow till ''thc crack of doom"
and not one voter in twenty will harness
| his horse and drive three miles through
the rain, to vote down Barstow and vote
Anti Barstow in his place. But show
them the real issue-that liberty is in dam
ger, that it is not merely and mainly a
dollar and cent question, but that it is for
the liberties of themselves and their pos
terity that they are called on to strike an
effective blow, and all the manhood in
their souls viii be reused to action, and
they will 90 through fire and water if
need be, to give their vote for wife and
children, for home and country, for God
and liberty.
We have repeatedly adverted to this
subject and warned the Republican press
of the danger of forgetting the higher and
nobler issues of this contest in a person
al and local wrangle over men, and mea,-
ures oftemporary and subordinate impor-
lance. 1t is the aim Of tho proslavery
party to incite such controversy in the
election in the Northern States, to divert
attention from their own infamous and
inhuman principles as q national party.
| The Republicans should bear in mind
then that the defeat of Cross will be not
merely a Reputation of Barstowism, de-
falcation, and corruption in office, but an
announcement of the inflexible hostility
of the people Of free Wisconsin to man
hunting and kidnapping on their own soil,
to the revolutionary decision of Chici
Justice fancy. and to every measure or do
vice, either Of corrupt Judges venal Pres
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