Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-03-10
Yours, Respectfully,
The Whirlwind Harvest, from the Sow.
ing Of the Wind.

CNo AN~StSSiAA
The Whirlwind Harvest, from the Sow
ing Of the Wind.
We make the following extracts from
an article under the above title, in the
New York Independent.
At length the Died Scott decision is
producing its perfect fuits. and is pro
mulgated by the President of the United
States as supreme law, under cover of
which he will force a Slave constitution
on a free people. 1t is a prepared, ar
ranged, and perfectly symmetrical plot
and progress.
According to this Interpretation CT a
Constitution designed for liberty and
Justice, slavery. which is admitted by all
the iurists in the world. as well as deter
mined by the Word of God, to be the
highest violation both Of freedom and Of
natural rigat, as we'll as of the Christian
law of love, becomes the first, most uni
v~ersal, and most positively established
operation and result of the Constitution.
needing no local provision or law TO ad-
NIT it, nor any consent or permission Of
the people; while freedom, which is the
fist and highest law and result of justice
and of natural right, and is moreover
declared to be the object OF the Consii-
tuition, cannot be admitted, or establish.
ed, oil secured, without a local constitu
tional provision! On this theory, the
Constitution of the United States is mans
natural enemy, and is the very first
thing to be guarded against, and the
people are first of all to be secured from
its deadly operations. before any of the
great ends of civil Society can be attend
ed to, or attained, or put out OF hazard.
Such a Constitution ought to be execrat-
ed and out-lawed by the whole human
race. Such a Constitution is forbidden
of God, and the nation accepting and
o5eying it are on the way TO perdi-
ton.
But the President proceeds TO argue
for the enforcement of a Slave Conslitu-
ton upon Kansas, as the easiest means;
and indeed the only lawful and safe
means, of getting rid of slavery, intro
duced and established as lie says it in
evitably is, By the operation and sover-
eign authority of the United States Con-
stitution. Slavery, he says, a be re-
moved only by a constitutional provision
agains; it; therefore let Inc people quietly
submit TO the emf rcement of a Cons,itu-
ton with a provision establishing slavery.
IS the immediate and readiest sep 10 a
provision afterwards against il. Let the
family receive the yellow fever, as the
best and only scientific preparation for
prophylactic or precautionary measures!
Let the household admit the genuine
constitutional smallpox, as the only
ground on which vaccination against it
can come in as Legitimate!
We believe it is the first time the doc.
trine has been publicly taught, that the
practice of vice was the quickest way to
virtue, or that the legalizl tion ofiniquity
was the surest and speediest way OF ex-
GLIDING crime, annihilating immorality.
On this principle the Maine Law prohibi-
~lionists should first of all have passed a
statute making the use OF intoxicating
drinks obligatory on every Individual
On the same principle, the most direct
and certain course for the suppression of
Sabbath breaking would be first 10 pub
lish a Book of sports, and make the pre-
fanaiion of The Lords Day a universal
statute. On the same principle. the way
to abolish consumption, s~crofula, or 81.
Anthuny's fire from the system, would
be first TO inoculate the constitution with
it by a special virus. Ii you have been
poisoned with arsenic by the edict Of a
corporation of quacks, the legitimate pre-
paratIOn for excluding it from your veins
is by first filling the stomach with it I'M
der prescription of q regula' physi,
clan.
This doctrine and declaration that the
freest Constitution upon earth carries
slavery wherever it goes. by its own
essence; an extreme 10 which the most
despotic and iniquitous constitution ever
enacted, never IN; are a singularly dar-
inc advance and consolidation of oppres-
sion, nnriyaled indeed, in the world. Is
it possible that President Buchanan
really imagines that falsehoods can be
accepted for truth, by mere fierce Of be-
ing enshrined in a Presidential Message,
or that sophisiry SO barefaced, in support
of principles so iniquitous. can impose
upon any sane mind? Can n mar of
ability. age, experience, and characte.
undertake thus to play the harlequin,
the very prince Of mountebaBks in NOR
ais and politics, on so elevated a stage,
aud expect 10 produce belief in his tricks,
or yeueration for his adroituess? Can
he dream that an intelligent community,
Tor The sake of worshiping the slave
power, will be SO cajoled and persuaded,
by paJpable and wicked imposture. con-
trary to their own knowledge Of the facts.
and sense of justice?
When an example Of deliberate mis-
representation and suppression of truth
is set by the Chief Magistrate of a great
nation. when che travaileth with iniqui-
ty, and hath conceived mischief. and
brought forth falsehood," and the
church and the ministry remain silent as
to the wIckedness of such outrage, and
the conscience of the people is quiet and
10 what a condition have we
coue! If the foundations be destroyed, ,
what can the righteous do? The plain ,
est, well known facts of recent history
and falsiied: facts so well known,
and so monslrous, that they have con- t
the country with their report; the {
accusation of rebellion publicly made S
,ra;,at , Lajr ,f Gro,noo g. ~rI.e,. .