Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-09-25
! Warning to the Doubtful Progress Of Revo
luton.


We some times hear an anxious demo-
crat say that the slavery question is settled
the war over, eace declared and hence
forth the track will be clear for democracy.
With such consoling language we have
been familiar for twenty years, yet In all
that time the war broke out as soon rs en-
ded, and peace failed to stay negotiated
however solemDly made. Tempest after
tempest has succe ed d every sla-
very fnality; Wings and Democrats, act
ing conformity in 1850 failed to settle it;
then abolitionists and fire eaters tried and
failed, and lately for two or three years
the conservatives-those who pretend
70 fear rupture of the union, have tried
Ito keep the Niger down; but up hobs a
living woolly head from that dead corpse
resurrection from the dead in newness OF
life and having more power to resist peace
FfuI de attn than before! So will it ever be
till liberty triumphs. AS reforms never 60
back, SO does liberty move forward.
When men of human reason possess a
settled conviction that an event will &C.
eur, they sink back in repose; for decree,
as if from Jehovah, always begets in US a
willing mind for rest. With a firm faith
that God rules events, SO as to bring about
the very triumph of liberty we have in
view, we feel very easy concerning the bat
tie. Believing that God permitted men
to elevate Buchanan to power, even as
Pharaoh was elevated by perm issive de-
cree, and knowing that the same God lives,
moves and now acts with similar designs
against the modern Pharoah and slave
holders, we laugh aud fatten at all these
proclamations ofpeace and clear track
for democracy. We may even say more:
the public convictions among reasoning
men is becoming as Interchangeable as the
public prejudice against kings and emper-
ors, that slavery and democracy are mere
matters of little more time-mere mo-
ments; also, that the public mind is pro-
crossing towards liberty according to
motion as perfect as that Of the solar sys-
TEN.
We imagine a Democrat has just asked
US this great question: do YOU believe
the masses of people are progressing in an
Il Slavery, or are they at a stanl! y His
question coming from the heart we hon
essly answer: The people are not just now
growing more Slavery, yet they are
not at a stand they are acquiring a fund
of knowledge upoh the inject which will
.oon lead them into another combustion
against slavery, for public opinion goes by
periodical jumps or spasEls and not by
gradual movement. These spasmolic Ats
commenced 10 1914, or earlier; ever since
then, the attacks upoa the public mind
have been more frequent and powerful
the intervals lessening, the attacks increas-
ng in power; in 1850 it was moderate on
ly; in "a it was fierce; in '56 1t was al
most malignant; in IS, following pFesi-
Dental heat and preceding the final
struggle it is smothered down by sopo iifcs,
but in 1860 we predict the death inality
of those who make slavery the chief end
Of Democracy and Democracy the sum of
all vilainies. That is another spasm, will
give the Republican party velocity to
overcome all obstacles and isms. Liberty
is cause that never goes backwards when
it gets in motion-unless driven by arms;
$50 do revolutions--so do reforms, and so
do all the auxilisries Of reforms, revolu-
tions and even she sciences. The history
of all these is on our side, so is reason and
so is every sign ofthe times.