Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-10-07
REPUBLICANS OF OHIO, ORGANIZE
FOR VICTORY.

This day two weeks the great ques-
ton whether Ohio, the first born of the
Ordinance of Freedom, is to stand true
to the renown of her youth and man.
hood, or falter therefrom, and become a
mere appendage to the South, and an
instrument to Cypress mankind, and
curse with negro slavery. the Free Ter.
ritories of the Union.
No brighter and no more noble testi-
mony can any State or people give to
the value of rational liberty, and of the
excellence of free white labor than this,
our State of Ohio. In sixty years free
white labor has reclaimed her soil from
the savage and the wilderness, and
caused it to become the abode of three
millions of intelligent Freemen.
Our vallies and hillsides TEEN with all
the elements of refined and Christian
civilization. Our State is crossed from
lake to river with canals and railroads,
and intersecling at every point, and lat
eral branches, turnpikes and roads
through which like the life blood in our
veins, flow the life blood of the trade and
commerce of mighty people.
Virginia and Kentucky were States in
the Union when we were not even recog-
nized as Territory, and yet, because of
the health-giving and vitalizing ef-
fects of Freedom and Free Labor. Ohio
has overtopped them both in the race of
civilization and progress. Upon the soil
of Ohio this day there live more free
white men than in both of those States
combined, while in the number of
churches, school houses, marts of trade,
manufactures, and true republican con-
tentment, we have outstripped them.
even as a railroad car outstrips the Con-
estoga wagon.
And why and how have we done this?
Simply by the excellence of free white
labor. Here every man is free. there
every other man is q slave. Here the
men who till our. soil own themselves
and the land on which they toll, there
the men who till the soil and labor in
the workshop are the property of others.
They are bought and sold like brutes.
They have, therefore, no ambition to la
Dor, for whatever they earn goes into
the pockets of the men who own them.
The slave power is essentially an Ar
istocracy. They look upon men who
till the earth or labor in the workshop
as an interior whatever their col
or may be. Labor and Slavery are al
ways linked together in their minds; and
The white man who does the work Of ga
nigger" they would no more associate
with, invite to their private board. or
permit their daughters TO MARI :, than
hough he were a slave. This is the
civilization of the Slave States, in con-
radistinction to the civilization of the
Free States.
The slave power, by its wealth,
community ofinterests, and overbearing,
mperious dictation, have for a number
# years ruled and controlled the politics
# this country. Not satisfied with what
hey have, they ask for mere Slave Ter
itory. They are continually encroach-
ng upon the rights of the Free States,
nd like sturdy beggar become more j
xacting in their demands. Their corn
eld has no outside row. Yield to them
that they demand to-day, and they
NIL come back tomorrow with new |
emand. They have already subdued |
he South and crushed out Of it freedom '