M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-11-03

principles enunciated in the Declaration OF
Independence. They have asserted that the
"slave power" was encroaching upon the
rights of free white men-that the slaves
were held in bondage only by the whips Of
the Lagrees-that slavery was sin again 81
God and crime against man. In short,
7 had they been preparing the pub lie mind for
a bloody and exterminating war against the
Southern States, the mode of arousing the
; people to the proper pitch of madness, could
not have been more effective. Notwith-
standing they have preached such doctrines
despite the fact that they have denounced
the Fugitive-slave Law-passed laws TO null
lily it in Ohio and the New England States
AMI openly resisted its execution-the Re-
publicunS in this part Of the country prete nd
10 claim that their party does not propose to
interfere with slavery where it exists. They
assume that the only object which the Re-
publican party has in view is to prevent the
extension Of slavery into new territories -
Was impudence ever more bare-faced!
But. who were old Browns sympathizers
and friends The Cleveland National Dem
oCrat says
"This man Brown-better known as Os-
sawatomie Brown-was in this city last
spring. the pet of portion of the Republ-
can leaders. He ectured here, and in his
lecture and in conversation Dragged Of his
exploits in numbering Pro-sIavery men, and
stealing negroes, horses, &C.. from Missouri.
He was then en- route from Missouri to Kan.
sas, the scenes of his violent and miscreant
life, with band Of fugitive negroes that he
had passed into Canada; aud the horses.
which he boosted he had stole n, he offered
for sale in our streets. Lecturing in differ
ent parts Of Ohio, particularly in the Re-
serve counties, he was the petted ef the Re-
publicGL leaders OF the Giddings stamp who
furnished him money to carry on his opera
tons. 1t was here that he concocted his
last great scheme of villainy to drench Ma.
ryland and Virginia in the blood Of the
whites, and to excite among the enslaved
population the worst feelings of their ma
ture, and to incite them to apply the torch
to the dwellings aud the knife to he lhrOats
Of their m asters."
And who are Browns sympathizers noiU ?
TIL same men and the same political parti-
zunS. The New York Tribune, a Republi-
can paper conducted by Horace Greeley.
says:
1--WE uiH not By one rtproachful trord
disturb the blOOdy ShrOuds wherein John
BrOUn and his compdtriOtS are sleepiag.-
Let their epitaphS remain lnWrtittE until
the not distant day lphGn no slare shall clank
his chains in The Shad,s Of MOntice.lo, or by
the graUeS Of Mount Kcruon."
Such is the atrocious language Of the N.
Y. Tribune in its doublc-leaded editorial COM
ments upon the insurrection at Harper's Fer
ry, involving the crimes of murder, robbery
aud treason The Tribune evidently SYM
Pathizes deeply with John Brown and his
compatiots,' and looks forward to the "not
distant day" when they shall be hailed as
martyrs
Great God The not distant day" when
murder, robbery and treason shall be ap-
plauded, and those who suffer the penalty of
such awful crimes be regarded as "pstrots
and martyrs" We make the following ex-
tract from the Cincinnati Commercial
"The Virginlans will p-oba bly, hang old
Brown. They had better not. THE blood
of the martyrs is the seed of the church,"
The Commercial is 4 Republican paper.
1t says don't hang Brown-"the blood of the
martyrs is the seed Of the church !" What
is meant by this 4! Evidently, that "Brown
and his compatriots,' if hung, will be mar
tyrs The reward to old Brown, for his
treason and his bloody work al Harper's Fer.
ry,-for his robbery ofColonel Washington,
a descendant ofthe Father Of his Country
Is to have his name enrolled as the MARTYR
Ed BRowN% SAINT BRowN AND HIS DscI-
pLEs!"
Mr.. Geo. w Curtis, who was a promi-
nent Republican stump orator in The Fre-
mont campaign, in an address at Brooklyn,
N. Y, on Tuesday ast--since the Harper's
Ferry difficulty--assere that
1.-THE whole country is now divided be.
tween Pro slavery men and Abolitionists;-I
the Republicans being only another i1ing of
the Anti SLAVERY army, AMI differing from
The .Ibolitionists not IN principle. but only in
method-not as to the removal of slavery, but |
only as to the manner of doing It. He did
not regard it a, merely Territorial party,
and acknowledged the tendency Of such con-
fict as iras pending on this subject 10 dipi-
sion of the Union; but did not see ho,c this
could alter The duty Of any conScientiousnan
in regard to IT,
We ask the patriotic reader to 90 over
that again; and we call upon the young men
Of the country TO weigh it in their minds
1t pregnant with meaning and suggestive
Of future calamity to the Union, that should
make them consider well with what party
they will hereafter act. !