The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-10-09
POLITICAL.


In the great struggle begun long ago
between freedom and slavery, for the pos
session of the north west, freedoms bes,
and stoutest champions were Southern
men. The ordinance which consecrated
TO freedom all the territory north west of
the Ohio, was supported aud passed by
the labors aud vigilance of illustriouS
Southern statesmen. And when The sous
Of the South who are to day laboring to
undo the work Of their t refathers, aud
blaeken, as short sighted and unpatriotic,
the just fame which they have achieved
in building up the impossible barrier Of
that CREST ordinance against the inroad.
Of slavery shall be utterly forgotten, then
the innumersble blessings which shall
tiow down to the latest occupants of these
free lands from their neble work will len
= new and undying Iustre to the names
Of Jefferson and his great compeers
How wide the difference between
statesmen and demagoyues. What great
gulf is forever fixed between such men
as Douglas aud Jefferson. How impos.
sible for Jefferson ever to cross from the
solid ground on which he stood, rs a de-
fender aud promoter of freedom and free
institutions, over to the burning mari on
which Douglas marshals his forces in de-
fence Of slavery! No less impossible for
DougMs to leave the lake ON which he il
tossed by the waves Of his burning am.
bition, and array himself on the side and
in the ranks of those who do battle for
freedom. He cannot 90 TO them; neither
can they pass to him. Between them is
great gulf fixed-wide as the distance
Of freedom from slavery; patriotism from
selfish ambition; deep as the in,messura-
bic depth between the aspiration, charac-
ter aud labors of the immortal Fathers
of the republic, and the desperate p,liti-
cal tricksters of the hour; wide and deep
as the gulf which separates \ Douglas
from Jefferson.
In the fact that Jefferson approved
and voted for the ordinance of 1877, we
have almost the highest human autho. ty
in favor Of excluding slavery from the
territories. And shall that opinion be
reviewed and revised2 l, is 70 the
ANotAh~Vcct W aus"CJ htc We CoiNIHCf u
that the ptlicy of Jefferson and the Fa-
theirs was wrong Would these ert at
Northwest States be more rich or power
ful if they we're slave States? No an
in his senses can say they would; and
yet this is the very question which the
the people of Illinois are to decide next
November. If Douglas is re elected,
Illinois gives her voice for making slave
States out of free territory she repudi-
ates the poll " Of Jefferson she pro-
claims to the world her opinion that
slavery is better for common v salth than
freedom she does all she can to undo
the work of the Fathe s; she declar 8
Douglas greater than Jefferson, and
slavery better than freedom.
Can Illinois, who owes all her mi-acu-
lous growth and greatness to the Ordi-
nance of Freedom, repudiate and con-
dcmn that great work. Gao she, the child
Of free institutions, raise her hand against
the father who begat her and strike down
the mother who bore herr win she re-
ject the wise couusels, the immortal
teachings Of Jefferson, and follow the
false and dangerous lead of Douglas? We
do not deem it possible that this noble
State will prove herself 50 recreaut to
her own honor, so degraded and sunken
-fress an1 7yib.