Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1858-10-01
CORRESPONDENTS.
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0ORRENPONDEN
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/ Two, years ago contest was wagcd in this,
our country between rREfpoN on one side and
SLAVERY on the other. The Apostles and
| Prophets on each side, predicted and angurcd
the one that freedom was to lie inaugurated
in the person of Fremont to the presidential
chair. rolling lack oppression, Slavery and its
oonco,ntant, to tha!dark miasmatic pool o.
eternal death, into which our fathers intended
it should 60, never to beresurrected again up
on the "laud of the tree and the home of The
braves" on the other hand, SLAVERY and it:
cohorts, swore and threatened, that, II Ere
mont was elected president OF these United
States, they would march with an armed force
from the Plantations of the South, seize upon
the TREASURY of the. country, and drive th'
friends of Liberty from the Capital of the ma
ton. The crisis came, the battle was fought
and by the power of money, corruption and
! ignorance SLAVERY was triuml liant. and LIN
Enry was crushed for the time being, beneath
the iron heel of three hundred and fifty thou
sand SHAREHOLDERS.
To dav the crack of the slave drivers whll
is heard over five times its original area. hav-
ing extended this blighting curse Of human
bondage, from hand full, four hundred thou
sand to forty hundred thousand, within the
last eighty two years; and, now with the
madness of an Infatuated mob, il seeks to
ext, nd Itself over the fair regions of the Valley
of the Mississippi, (once dedicated to freedom
by the Legislature of tie country and thence
over another peicc of Mexico or the whole,
where slavery may ger inmate and bring forth
its curses I pom that already ignorant and OPP
pressed people. Still its cry is for more
Its eyes are upon Cuba, h or rich and fertile
fields with her four hundred and twenty
thousand black slaves. Not satisfied with the
extension of the "sum of all villanies' over
the faircst portions OF our common country,
she is blatant from her presses to her legisla-
tors, to reopea the accnrsed mud die passage OF
African slave trade.
When, we might ask will this Slavery de-
mand stop: in answer, say, NEVER, till the
"mud sills of society in the NORTH are made
slaves like to the blacks in the South, viii Oh
! would embrace seven eights of all the people
in the whole North.
Sh1il this be: 1t is for the free men of the
North to say. VIII you consent to be rul ID
and governed by one ninetieth of the whole
people; until You are made slaves yourselves:
do no, ask you to take my word for it, road
for Yourselves and if you do not find it as
have stated. then call me liar.
The battle still RACES, and will rage so long
as Slavery attempts to run tilt with freedom.
We find ourselves now in the mids, of li-
ennial struggle. which is to wrest the Lcgsla-
turc of the country, from-thc hands OF sla-
very. and place it upon the basis which re-
cognizes the FREEDOM OF ALL PERSONS. The
strife has been waged in Maine for the last
four months. We have passed through it,
and notwithstanding the mighty powers
which liberty has had to encounter in the
shape of money in the hands of enlightened,
but corrupt and powerful men, played under
the garb of freedom with such skillful chang
es upon the ignorant, selfish and unprincipled
minds, yea and upon the young and the
unsofsticated In the great BATTLE for libert V,
vet we have been able to come out of the
/ fight victorious. clcc,ins every member, in oar
dear old Pine tree State, TO the nations congress
j Thre cheers for Maine hut let us not
I lay down arms; our brothers are in the
/ field battling in our sister States for the same
great principles, Liberty for all, Slavery
+ for none" Then grid on anew the armor of
eternal vigilance, sounding hetoesin far and
near until slavery shall cease TO be cared for
by the Legislators OF our country.
G. W NJ