True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1857-05-20
From the Ohio State Journal.
What Does True Patriotism Req quirea

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and discuss any abstraction, Easy as it
might be to lay down a general law to
which every true lover of his country
would not only yield his ready assent, but
by which he would with steady fidelity
square his conduct. lam not thinking
of entering so wi,le and unoccupied a
field just now. My object is less am
bilious, but trust far more practical
one. Ny inquiry is restricted to this;
What, in the present condition Of things,
does true patriotism require at the hands
of every intelligent lover of his country
with regard to the character he should
strive to impress upon the future! The
future is fixed and determined by the re-
solves of the present, promptly formed
and steadily and energelically carried into
action. say the present is fixed and
determined by the past. How stands it!
BY the strength of that talismanic word
Democracy, in close league with slavery,
an apt example of the ancient idea of
chaining living 10 purifying carcass of
a dead man, James Buchanan is President
of the United States, 10 continue such,
life being spared, until the 4th of March,
A, d. 1861. The policy of his admin
istration has been now indicated too un-
mistakably to afford any longer any cloak
for deception 10 cover itself under. All
the assertions and arguments by which
the freemen of the Free States were be-
guiled into his support, are thrown off
with the same exultant joy with which
the cat in the fable shook the meal from
her coat when her artiice had reduced
her too credulous prey within her reach,
His cabinet consists OF four men from the
slave States, representing less than one
third Of the free white population, and
three from the free States; and with an
utter contempt for the opinions of the
people of the free States; the rejection
of man by the people of free State as
unworthy of their confidence and trucu.
lent to the principles of liberty, has fur.
nlshed, in every instance, a sure passport
10 Executive patronage and confidence.
In respect 10 Kansas, all the appoint.
ments show that the deeper stepped il
crime, the greater the merit to be reward
ed, whilst any, the least faItering in per
forming the disgusting tasks assigned any
one, is followed by instant political oslra.
cisnl.
The colorado pretext of appointing
executive officers from the free States is
abandoned, 10 all such the rebuke oi
the pirate is unblushingly addressed:--
"Thou art not for our course
Hast honor, hast remorse;
And he with us the storm who braves
Must heave such cargo to the waves"
Southern men, whose antecedents are
unmistakable, are placed in executive Off
ces. and the Suwarrow of the army is Or
dered to supersede Southern officer too
civilized and humane for the emergency
which ii is hoped to provoke. Such prov
ocaion will be futile. The emergency
will not arise unless in resistance of an at
tempt to drive the inhabitants from their
farms and houses. The people CT the
States are accustomed 10 order, and will
bide their time. Civil war is no part of
their system of action, but in due time
they will assert their rights, and when
they do, tyranny, no matter under what
guise, will again shrink before them.
II will not be the inhabitants of Kan
sas only, but the people of the United
States who will speak, and before their
mandate, border ruffiianism will vanish
as darkness before the rising sun. Whilst
the inhabitants of Kansas, orderly and
peaCeable American citizens, are being
tyranized over by strangers, not only by
the connivance, but with the appreciation
and aid Of the general government, Utah
presents scene before the world at which
civilization and Christianity are alike dis.
graced. The government looks on with
folded hands, because its doctrine ol
squatter sovereignty, enuncialed 10 serve
a special purpose, has SO emasculated il
that 1t dare not assert any authority over
crimes at which pandemonium is exultant
The Judicial branch of the government in
its inferior as well as in lis highest de.
partment, trampIing upon long course
of precedents, as we'll as upon genera
principles recognized for ages and never
before questioned, asserts the universal
rights Of slavery and degrades freedom tc
a local and special exception. Under the
ruling Of Judge Kane and the Supreme
Court, every State in the Union is suhjec
to the presence of practical slavery
throughout its length and breadth, at tht
caprice of any STAKEHOLDER; and Mr.
Toombs, of Georgia, may verify his al
! legged boast that he would call the roll o
, his slaves at the foot of Bunker iii
monument Under the ruling of Judg,
Leavitt, the rights of slavery in a fret
State are paramount to the criminal law!
even of the State, and slave charged
; with murder must nevertheless, be sur
rendered from prison to his master, to b.
removed from the State. Such is thi
condition Of things now. What is tn,
remedy? Not for moment must TIN
idea of resistance by force, or revolution
or secession be entertained or even talke,
Of The Spanish American States cal
furnish no precedents for us 10 follow
unless we desire to reach the same result
; Of confusion, bloodshed and civil war.
{ The intelligence and virtue Of the peo
, pie exerted in strict conformity to our in
stilutions, afford an ample remedy for al
the evils which their negligence or th
deceptive arts Of demagogueism may q
any time inaict upon the country. v
1 The country has never been more cur