Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-09-02
The False Prophets.

The race OF false prophets Is not eXtlhct.
They still flourish Though they have de-
ceived the people time and again. they re-
peat their old story, and affect to believe
that the Slavery question is settled. The
wish is father to the thought. The Sla-
very question is not settled, and cannot be
as long as the Slavery interest and those
who maintain it, are aggressive upon the
rights and interests of Freedom. The up
holders of this interest are continually ma
king new demands npon the country, which
cannot be acceded to without dishonor.-
The new demands of the Slave power may
be found shadowed forth in the following
extracts:
Ofcourse the people of territory, when
they frame their State Constitution, may
adopt or exclude slavery; but aohAe they
are Territory, if they fail to protect pro
perty invested in the person or industrial
capacity of the negro, they grossly violate
equal rights, and therefore are not author
ized to consider themselves Democrats
The whole question is resolved into this
simple right or no right to protection to
slave property IN the Territories; and as
the Charleston News suggests, itmust con-
stitute the issue an lS6O.-N y Day
Book.
1t is not sufficient that the decision of the
Supreme Court prevents Congress and all
its delegates from the prohibition of slavery
in a Territory-there mast be positive leg
islatiye enactments: ciUa and criminal
code for the protection of slave property
in the Territory ought to be prorided-
| Charleston NeDs.
The means by which they hope to ac-
complish this purpose is through the Dem
ocratic Party, which under the regime OF
Pierce, Buchanan, DC, has become but a
huge machine to accomplish the purpose
of the Slavery propagandists. 1t needs no
argument to enforce this. 1t is confessed
by some of the leading Democrats at the
South, though their dough-faced allies at
the North seek to conceal it by the empty
cry of popular sovereignty. Let the DEM
ocrats of the North read the following ex-
tracts. We clip them from report of
recent Democratic meeting at Williamson,
S. G. for the benefit of our Democracy, as
1--WE doubt if their own organs will be So
obliging.
Hon. L. NJ. Keitt said:
GAS for himself, so long as he was IN
the Union, he was for discharging every
obligation that devolved upon the State oi
the citizens of the State. Twelve months
ago he advised adversely; but now he
would say sustain Mr.. Buchanan's admins
tration. He went to Washington at the
beginning of last session resolved to oppose
the Administration but when he got there
he found Mr.. Buchanan upon the plat
form of the South. 1t was then he deter
mined to sustain the President cordially
and ungrudgingly."
The Hon. James L. Orr, Speaker of the
House of Representatives, said:
"With regard to slavery, he thought II
better protected no,O mnder the gouernmen
than At had been for thirty gears. As tt
the future, he was for cooperation Will
the Democratic party. He would go into
Convention, 90 into caucus, seek to have
an influence in it by ruling and controlling
it."
Here is the case stated in a NUTSHELL
The pro-slavery nullitiers have concluded
to remain in the Democratic party, because
they can rule and CONTROL it. The sol'
virtue of the dough faces is that of acqui
8 escence. The Southern masters rule TIN
party, and their Northern allies are willing
to accede to their rule. The Shareholder
are "born to command;" they rule the
slaves on the plantations, why should an,
one dispute their right to rule in the terri
, tories and in the free States?
Under these circumstances, we say tha
the pretence that the slavery question j
settled is a humbug and a sham, and NJ
J faith should be placed in such an assertion
f Each new concession has but paved tn
J, way for new aggression upon the right
Of the free laboring millions Of the country