Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-02-25

| gar plantation OF the South, her mind
became affected, and her reason de-
throned, she murdered the children of
her own body; and then, laying violent
hands upon herself, she rushed to the
lpresence of her God, and there made
her appeal for vengeance upon those
who sustain thelaws under which she was
subjected to Slavery,
More recently, in Covington, Ken
lucky, a father and mother. with their
three children, shut up in slave dun
geon and doomed to Southern slave
market, where there was no eye to pity
and no arm to save, by mutual agree
ment sent the souls of their children to
Heaven, rather than suffer them to de-
scend to the hell of Slavery, and then
committed suicide, and burst into the
presence of God, and made their appeal
against those who now sustain crimes
which rise TO Heaven, and call for ven
geance uTol our guilty land.
Why, sir, it is scarcely year since
Margaret Garner. upon the sell of Ohio,
bathed her hands in the blood of her
babe, rather ihan permit the slave catch
er to carry it back to life of chains,
and sighs, sud tears. and bitter suffer-
ing. And those miserable wretches,
subjected TO such outrages, the member
from Mississippi would represent as oc-
cupying a position equal with our labor.
ing freemen of the North Again l say,
may God forgive him. 1 pity his iguor-
auce of our labo'ing population.
l return to the message. More than
half of it is occupied in attempting to
cast reproach upon members of Congress
State Legislatures. and the people. for
thinking their own thou ghts and speaking
their own words. This, sir, has been
the theme of tyrants, despots. and oil
garchs, in all ages Of the world. Eigh-
teen hundred years since, it presented
the prineipa ldiffi fi:uliy in establishing
our holy religion. Its founder met the
intolerant rulers of thai day in iangungc
of stern defiance. He pronounced woe
unto scribes, pharisees, AMI hypOcrdes
The same intolerance exhibited in this
message caused the arrest and crucifix-
ion Of the Immaculate Nazarene; and
and since that period, Christianity and
civilation have contended against it,
During the dark ages, intolerance reign
ed throughout the world. Tyrants and
priests dictated to men what they should
believe and what they should speak
The Inquisition, the rack, the torture,
anathemas and malediciions, held the
world in ignorance. until the lamp of
Christianity family flickered in the sock
ct.
When the Reformation broke out,
men began to think AMI speak
! their thoughts intelligence in
creased, Christianity extended, and
civilization beamed upon the earth with
increased splendor; but it has not yet
fully overcome the spirit OF religious and
civil despotism. Here, in our own land,
we have seen tyranny in various forms.
For many years it exhibited itself in this
Hall in the form Of gag-rules; resolu-
lions 10 suppress the freedom Of speech;
resolutions of censure upon members who
spoke and acted contrary TO the dictates
of the Slave Power; by rejecting peti-
tions of the people; by constant threats
10 dissolve the Union; and. recently, by
violence upon distinguished member of
the other branch of Congress. All
through the slave States, it is found in
statutes prohibiting the freedom of speech
ard furnishing those who teach slaves to
read the Scriptures or speak in favor of
human rights. 1t is manifested by acts
of violence toward those who speak in
favor Of Liberty; By driving from those
States men who vote according to the
dictates of their judgments and conscien-
ces, In Kansas, it is manifested by bo-
gus statutes, making it death 10 utter
sentiments of Liberty. 1t is manifest
ed throughout the North by the Demo
cratic press and Democratic speakers,
and by some of our religious organiza-
tions and ministers, who inyeigh against
discussion of those doctrines Of the gos-
pei and Of our fathers. Even our relis-
ion and our literature has been corrupted
by these efforts TO suppress discussion of
the Divine commandment, "THou shalt
lore thy neighbOr as hysey." The DEM
ocraiic party, including many preachers
and church members, have labored, and
still are laboring, to repeal this dictate
Of the Gospel, as well as that which
commands us to edo unto. others as iOe
iOould hare them do unto u.s." Yet the
tide of reform rolls on, in spite of all these
influences. The car of Liberty is in mo.
ton. Those who stand before it, must
hasten out of the way, or be crushed be-
meath its irresistible power.
1t is at such time, and under such
circumstances, that the President reads
his political death-warrent, issued by
the people. Like Belshazzar, he sees the
handwriting upon the wall, but he needs
no Daniel to give the Interpretation there