Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-06-20
Missouri Replying to virginia.

is the Richmond, (Va.) Eranoiaer, thor
n ough-going Democratic sheet, in the cours
e Of a long article discussing the SLAYER
G question, uses ths following remarkabl
n language:
For ourselves we rejoice to believe tina
African slavery is as permanently an
limmovably fixed and fastened to our sol
y as are the bedded ores of the Alleghanies
eI 1t is slavery that has impressed stabllit
E upon our institutions and held Virginia t
conservative principles in the midst of rad
: icalism around her. 1t is slavery that ha
made her people quiet contented and hap
: Ipy; while the Northern States are rantins
& and raving with fanaticism Of all sorts ant
J descriptions. True, it imposes upon on
E people country mode Of life, and there
fore prepe ITS those combinations Of efori
and energy which are so essential 10 tn
/ physical and material prosperity Of (
i State. Therefore it is that Virginia is no
! chequered over with railroads and canals
therefore it is that she has no magnificent
monuments of art, no costly columns anc
cathedrals, no pillars and porches Of Pariar
marble, no spires that pierce the heavens
Tor steeples that emulate the stars There
j fore, in wo. d, it is that she does not e9,Y-
bit that material and external prosperity
and enterprise which can only result from
combination of the industrial rccources
and energies of people.
/ Poor, old, decrepid Virginia! Mother
of early statesmen-mother OF Presidents
with fertile soil, temperate climate
navigable river-splendid harbors-everv-
thing in nature to make her the greatest
and most prosperous State Of the whole
Union; vet falling steadily downward in
the scale of States, till within another de-
cade, Wisconsin, the youngest Of all, will
exceed her in free white population /! And
yet her press and her statesmen Of this day
continue to hug to their bosom the poison
serpent which is drawing her life-blood a
way.
10 the article in the Examiner, the St.
Louis Democrat, which is fighting in Mis-
souri, the fight for free white labor and for
emancipation from slavery, replies as fol-
i lows:
Slavery prevents the ''building Of rail
roads and canals" the advance IN 'the
mappi6cient monuments Of art" the cree
] ton Of ''pilar and portico OF parlan marble
j instead Of he deserted howell, but never
theless every other institution and interest
to the State, is standing abroad and its
improvement at home, the wealth, the
welfare, the civilization Of It's own people
are to be ruthlessly sacrificed in order that
slavery may be extended and perpetuated.
/ And all this is seriously put forth III the
nineteenth century,in the American re-
public, and the columns of a Journal that
j claims to be a democratic organ!
j Bankruptcy claps its hands at such phi
losophy. Treason gladdens such phlioso
i. ply. He'll yawns at such philosophy
i The white working men of this land--the
bone and sinew of the country who have
/ built up the liberties of this mighty natiol
ia peace, and defended them valiantly II
war are now told that their labor mus
not come in and seek employment If 1t Is
| to displace or supercede the labor OF the
slave! Sons of the men Of Bunker Hill
of Yorktown; Of New Orleans,of the blood
stained fields of Mexico, are pushed aside
J and told to make room for the slave
:. Was such, efrontery eyer before paarlleled
any wherea The men of the plow, the
, loom, the anvil, manufacturers and me
] Ichanics, the sinewy sons of toll IN every
! walk Of life, are coolly informed that sla
very may prevent all advancement 10
: them, may exclude their enterprises ant
: crush out their factories, founderles ant
forges, but still slavery must be perpetua
' ted and extended at all hazards. VIVA
5 will be the response of The white men 0
t alissouri-what will the artizans, the mer
chants, the capita lists Of St. Louis the
free working men upon our rivers and on
HIGHWAYS, in the fields or in The mines
n say to such "philosophyaa We leav
t them each to make his own answer to tn
;, published creed of the nulitiers, as Sc
n forth in the Richmond Examiner.
! gwThe Minnesota Republican says =
: Every year men come here from tn
: South, bring their slave as body servants
IL our hotels and take them away again
The bred Scott decision will embodeI
them to do more. And already we hav
! positive information from creditabl
= source that a soatherner IS holding stau
IN .Stilleoater, and declares that a'ader til
n bred Scott decision, he defes the a'sthor'
I ties to interferel He intends to remai
e III the Territory, and thus to render slave
!, holding one of our permanent institutions
: Bulls VS.. HORSES. Elliotts History Q
n New England, says that horses were once
scarce in New England
: 1T was>a country for cattle rather tina
7 horses. and it seems to have been a NO
!. uncommon thing to ride on bulls. Whe
y John Alden went to Cape God, to MARI
Priscilla Mullins, he covered his bull wit
broadcloth, and rode on his back; whe
he returned he placed his wife there, an
! led the bull home by the ring in his nos
= Ii is told that Alden at first went to a:
y ~ ban1 IF Priscilla for his friend Mill