Freeman's champion., 1857-06-25

fore us of glory or of shame" The
rights Of q free people we love; the
Union we regard the integrity Of
the government we will maintain.
The devotion of the people of Kan
zas to the Union is eyinced by the
stern reality of their sullerings and
their endurance. In wisdom and de-
votion the people Of Kanzas will
struggle to preserve the Union should
they ever be permitted to enjoy the
bond of Sisterhood. They will do
so by endeavoring to make the Union
worth. preserving, without which it
will Inevitably crumble in pieces.
We may, with sacrilegions hand,
drag from the tomb Of Washington
or Jefferson some perishable relic of
the mortality of those who, while
living, were devoted to Liberty, and
reverenced the claims of God and
Humanity, and, under cover of the
striking symbol, incite the reluc-
tant representatives of the people to
acts dislranchising American citi-
zens, and robbing Republicanism of
all that is good in it; we may shout,
{" the Union the Union !" over acts
of the most reckless despotism, and
hurry our government into oligarchy
and anarchy under this delusion but
the delusion will not save us from the
penalty Of our folly and our crime
Let us then preserve the Union by
maintaining the integrity Of Repub-
licanism.
It's universal maxim, that usurp-
ers never voluntarily relinquish their
power. Under whatever guiSe it may
come, the action Of those who now
pretend to hold Territorial power will
be for the continuation Of that pow
er. For Governor Walker to urge
us into the Aimsy trap into which
they hope to ensnare our people, is
wrong; and to talk to us in that con
nexion of fairness" and "justice," "
is to add insult to the wrong.
While the great principle Tor which
we have to contend is, to maintain
our right to self-government, the
secondary consideration of preserv-
ing Kanzas a free State is not to Le
lost sight Of. 1t is Of Importance
that the principle of freedom should
prevail, not only because the people
have willed it, but because it is good
policy, and above all, because it is
Right. Where would be our pros
perity, if slavery was entailed upon
US? Where would the towns and the
cities, the railroads and the commerce
be-, with such plague-spot on oul
energies 9--The owls would hoot
through the cities now laid out il
Kanzas the railroads be confined tc
the charters of usurped legislation
The industrious settler would shrink
from the contamination Of slave labor
that would degrade his manhood, IN
his honest toll. Nor can we trace
all the reasons by which the uner.
ring finger Of just Providence
guides the policy Of every systematic
wrong to sure decay, and entails
the cause, that there should be nopros
perity in the land that is stained by
the tears, and wat t!rcd by the unpaid
sweat of any portion of the children
Of men.
There is, indeed, an =" isothermaI
line" and q claw Of the thcrmone.
ter" which may make slave labor
comparatively profitable or unpraGta-
BILE; but there is, unhappily, no "
law of the thermometer" to prevent
infatuated slavery propandistS from
attempting to establish tho institu-
ton, where wise policy says it should
never bo. 1t will, therefore, be on i'm
portant duty in us to guard carefully
against all the steps in such an insid-
ious design ; tho more so, that "po-
Icy" and can isothermal law" are
united with the claims Of Republi-
canism and justice,
Under these circumstances we can
contemplate the duties before us, and
with judicious calmness undertake.
them. We struggle for our birth
right, and No must not sell it for q
"mess Of pottago." The eyes Of the
country are upon us, for our cause is
the common cause Of all who love
Republicanism. In our defeat, tho
principle on which The Government
rests will sustain q shock ; in our
victory it will take root AMI be per-
pctuatod. 10 you is confdod no
common share Of tho task ; to you
will be meeted out no common share
Of the glory Of victory or the mis-
fortune Of dolcat Be true, and we
will triumph. Our task is difficult
let us meet its responsibilities in full
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