The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-10-20

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f.epuoiic Gown 20 the tlIS NueH nj :
Douglas thought it necessary to invent q
great principle of his own. Every school
bow knows it: and even Mr.. Douglas,
who is not very tinlid in denying settled
facts, viii hardly deny this.
vii call -vour attention to the proea-
BE consequences OF this pelicy,which
am advocating. 1t has often been assert
FL that many of the Southern States
would have abolished Slavery long ago,
iftflev had not been annoyed BY the intru-
-siye efforts of northern anti-slayery men;
and that in ease of an anti-slavery victory
in a national campaign, the slave-holdlng
States would dissolve the Union at once !;
aud, sir, let me say, BY tho way. that do
not deem it out OF place here TO speak of
the emergency of a national campaign
for, in my opinion, we are fighting the
battle of the Union on the soil OF Illinois,
and victory here in 1858 means half a
victory in the federal campaign OF. 1860.
Well, what truth is there in those argu-
lnehts and threats was speaking Of
Turn over the pages of our history down
to urdays, and YOU will find, that as long
as the anti-sIavery movement in the North
was weak, distrusted irresolute. struggling
as long as northern mobs put down the
champions Of human freedom-as long
as. the North was more clamorous against
abolitionism than the South herself, the
STAKEHOLDER was more overbearln0, and
the institution seemed to be more rooted
in the South than ever. But now lock
TT the events of our days; behold the anti
slavery movement gaining strength
spreading, becoming powerful. forming
in solid columns Of defence and attack,
and then with drums beating and ban
.ners proudly flung 10 tie bre re, rushing
TO general assault OH the very cits,tiiei
Of the slave aristocracy-the Federal
Government. What are the effects now?
Turn your faces SO Ithward, see and listen
In the very heart of the slave states the
voice of freedom begins to be heard =
South Carolina trelnbles at the detection
of Abolitionists among the professors of
her colleges The warm soil of North
Carolina bears crops of fiery anti slavery
books See daring leaders putting them
selves at the head of the nonsIayeholding
whites, and bidding defiance to the oil
garehy! See free-labor colony driving
Its wedge into the very heart of the Old
Dominion!
In spite of the election frauds and bal
lot-box stuff g, all the bells of st. Louis
are pealing the tocsin Of emancipation.
and before long the whole State Of Mis-
souri, will respond with a triumphant echo
/ tell YOU the hero'c youths in the fiery
furnace of slavery aro chanting the praise
of freedom with fearless voices, for they
have heard the wings ofthe angel Of lib
-erty rlstling in the thunderlcloud of the
northern horizon.
See here, the first earnest and power
full display of anti-slayery sentiments in
the North; and there right consequent
upon it, the first bold effort of the anti
slavery clements in the SOUTH Is this
merely accidental? No! The enamel
patton movement in Missouri, and the
free labor colony in Virginia, are the first
born children of the Fremont campaign
Courage and energy here viii inspire
them with to.dness and seaergy there
Had the North acted manfully. thirty
years ago, Missouri Kentucky, Virginia,
Delaware, and Maryland would perhaps
be. free States now. And now let us hear
no more of the fanatics of the North dis
turbing the poor Shareholders in their
meek philanthropic intentions. IL =
A--Such, sir, have been some Of the eff
fecta of q great anti-slavery campaign in
which we have been unsuccessful. Such
have been the effects Of a glorious defeat,
which was merely demonstration of
strength. Now ask the ruost sober
minded man among you, what would be
the effects ola great anti-slayery gictory<
VIII undertake to answer Give us a
few years more offirml cheerful and sue
cessful cooperation among the anti-sla-
very clements of the North, and q few
years more of strong encouragement, and
morafsupport among the anti-slavery Ell
ements of the South, and then victory
IN FEDERAL campaign, aud who of the
slaveholding aristocracy will dare to raise
his hand against the result? / tell you
then, the South Will have to fight the
South, before any of the States can seri-
ously think of secession.
Dissolution of the Union. Bah! Oul
Northern babies have been frightened to
bed often enough by this silly bugbear.
] have often wondered how a Northern
man could repeat that stale threat with
out feeling the blush of shame mounting
To his cheeks, unless he felt his swaddlino
clothes Tutoring about his limbs. Is it
so difficult to understand the bellicose
humor of the South When n coward
falls in with q greater coward than he, OF
even with q man that is dead, he Is very
apt to assume the attitudes of hero
The history Of the world shows few exam
pies of more outspoken bravery than Sir
John Falstaff'S when he found Percy Hot
spur dead as mouse on field of battle.
But let Percy move one of his toes, and
YOU Will see Sir. John nimby take to his
legs. As long as the North was as tame
as chicken, the South was as oyerbear-
ing as bulldog, But things have chan
ged since. The North begins to under
stand the policy: 81 us pacem para BEL
Inn, in good Anglo Saxon, 10 impudent
fellows "show your teeth, and you will
sc theresult,'
The history fthe last four years, and
especially that of the Kansas struggle has
shown the mighty Generals and Colon
es of the South two great things; first
that the North can, and will unite on the
question OF slavery, and that some of the
Slave States are BECOMING, unraIohla