Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-02-25

HOLM
we brought to the polls in 1852, and the
means-yes, sir, the means-by which it
was recklessly frittered away before 1856.
Mr.. Chairman, am upon a point l feel
deeply, ard if l shall express myself with
warmth l must be pardoned. As long as
l am capable of approaching truth, | can
never lend myself to the attempt now be-
ing made with high sanctions, to under
mine the foundation upon which the mod
ern territorial legislation rests, and to falsi-
fly pledges upon the faith of which the last
presidential election was accomplished
The vital principal, the soul of the Nebras-
ka-Kausas bill, is to be blasted. The ma
jority are not necessarily to rule. If can
read recent events at all, I learn so much
from them. Let the people understand
this; teach them the whole truth, and
then hear their response. Think you the
mighty millions of the North, the East
and the West will be quiet as children by
baubles? Will they allow legislation tc
be construed one way to-day, and enforced
a different way tomorrow? In short, will
they submit always TO stake game where
they never can win? If they are SO miser
ably made up, so destitute of real manhood
they are truly only fit to be the "white
slaves" of whom we have occasionally heard
and from my soul pity them. The name
of .freemen fits them not but hangs upor
them
-"like giants robe
Upon dwarfish thief"
My course is my own; others are not an.
swerable for it; and l would not impiicate
them in my action if l could. But viii
resist every attempt, no matter from what
quarter it may come, to infict despotisn
upon the people of Kansas, when the Law
guarantees them liberty, or to infringe up
on the promises the Democracy took upon
themselves to make in the last presidential
campaign.
The recommendation in the message
goes out as ga forlorn hope" against what
has heretofore been supposed to be the
strongly intrenched docrine of popular SOW.
ereignty. What will the country do, is
the question. Will it defend this great
principal in the hour of its severe trial? Or
will it allow the right of self-governmen'
to be successfully assaulteds Has it al
ready become an obsolete, worn-out
thing! But two years ago expressed the
opinion that those most prominetly instru-
mental in causing the democratic party to be
pledged to maintain the doctrine ofpopulal
sovereignty, in the organization ofour Ter
ritories, would deeply regret it. l never
doubted that it would operate against the
growth Of the South. Or the 10th o
March, 1856, when insisting upon an in
vestigation into alleged election frauds il
Kansas, I had occasion to use these words
cSir, the supporters of that bill 1.-THE Nebras,
ka Kansas bill have proclaimed to the natior
that the Territories of the United States are tc
constitute "a fair field, and that there is to be :;
free fight there, between the North and thu
South, to decide whether slavery or freedom
shall rule them. If the energy, the enterprise
the active modes of life, the available capital
and the numbers of the North, shall not be abl
to compete successfully with their opposites il
the South, and secure freedom to the Territories
then l will admit that there is vitality and ;
power in slavery which we of the North hav,
never dreamed of. In my opinion, the Repre-
sentatives ofthe South in the Thirty Third Con
gress have sown the fire, and they will gathel
fire into their own garners,'
The prediction is fulfilled; for now, like
Pyrene the Iberian princess, they fly il
fear from their own child; it is serpent
and pursues them. The day ofrepentanc
has come upon them much sooner than
anticipated. Instead of decades, it has r.
quired but brief months to inculcate th'
lesson which never should be forgotten
that weakness cannot long triumph owe
strength, nor minorities, in this free land
trample down majorities. If what w
have esteemed the great truths of repub
lican government are not sheer lie, thel
squatter sovereignty, adequately protected
will give the virgin lands of our Confedera
cy to the free white man, and not the ne
gro slave. Thisis now seen, and sovereign
ty is not to be protected; it is to be crush
ed out; by unwarrantable, illegal interfer
ence ii is to be crushed out; and the hith
erto plant North is expected to acquiesce
If it submits, be it so. l will, never! no
never.
A southern writer in De Bows Week.,
Press exhibits in striking light the i'm
perative necessity resting upon the Soutl
to make Kansas a slave State. 1t is de
clared to be the necessity arising from sell
preservation, and such as originates tn
highest law. l read an extract from tn
article referred to, of the date Of Januar
16, 1858:
"The surrender of Kansas to the operation {
the majority rule, under the cry Unpopular SOY
ereignty In the Territories, without constitu
tional warrant, and her absorption the non-slave
holding power of the country, would make th
evil of the times no longer prospective, but in
slant and imminent. By the fact of this surrer
der, the South would become subordiant, an
the North predominant, in the Union. Nes;
again, in the Union, could the equilibrium {
State sovereign representation between tn
South and the North be either maintained
or restored to the Senate. Never again, in th
Union, could the equality of the South with tt
! North be either maintained in or restored to th
House of Representatives. No further barrie
could be constructed between either the aggres
sve territorial or political rapacity Of the Nortl
and the weakened and diminished South. N
other bulwark could be raised to guard eithc
the moral or social integrity of the South againi
the disrupting and destructive legal and soci'
system OF the N orth. The South, like Hectt
bound to the car of Achilles, would soon !
dragged by the triumphant North around
ruined possession, quickly to be followed by th
erasive plowshare Of the invading conqueror..
"The loss of Kansas to the South would IN
volye the loss of Missouri; and the loss of Mis-
souri, would destroy the moral as well as polit
cal prestige of the South, and invade the intee
rity' of their institutions. The moral prestig
| of lie States like that of individuals once de-