The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-12-07

Interested men and women, who based their
movements shpon purely moral and religious
grounds but their expostulations we're met
with storm of rage. with tar and feathers,
brickbats, demolished houses, and other ap-
plications of Lynch Law. When the dust Of
the conflict began 10 subside a little, their
mum Der were found to be greatly increased by
the efforts made TO exterminate them. They
had become an Influence 10 the State too i'm
portant to be over enked by shrewd calculat
ors. Political economists began to look at
the subject from al,wer point of view. They
used their abilities to demonstrate that Slavery
was q wasteful system, and that the Free States
were taxed, to an enormous extent, to sustain
an institution which, at heart, twothirds of
them abherred. The forty millions, or more
of dollars, expended in hunting Fugitive Slaves
in Florida, under the name of the Seminole
War, we're adduced as one item in proof to
which many were added p, At last politicians
were compelled to take some action on the
subject. 1t soon became known to all the
people that the Slave States had always man
aged to hold in their hands the political power
of the Onion, andsthat while they constituted
only onethird ofthe white population of these
States, they held more than two thirds of all
the lucrative and once honorable Offices an
indignity to which none butt subjugated
people had ever before submitted. The knowl-
edge also became generally diffused. that while
the Southern States .oUned their Democracy
at home. and voted for them, they also syste
matically bribed the nominally Democratic
party at the North, with the Offices adroiily
kept at their disposal. s'1-
Through these, and other instrumentalities,
the sentiments Of the original Garisonian Alb
olilionists became very widely extended, in
forms more or less diluted. But by far the
most efficient co e.laborers we have had have
been the Slave States themselves. By deny
Ei1g sus ethe sacred Right sof Petition, they
reused the;fres spirit of the North. as it never
could have been reused by the loud trumpet
: OF Garrison, or the sodl@animating bngle OF
Phillips They bought ,our great slave, Dan
iel. and. according to their established usage.
paid him no wages for bis labor. BY his CO
operation. they forced the Fugitive Slave Law
upon US. in violation to all our humane in.
stincts and all our principles of Justice And
what did they procure for the Abolitionists
by that despotic process sz7aps7 'or
"A deeper and wider detestation of Slavery
throughout the Free States, and the publica
tion of Uncle Toms Cabin, an eloquent out
burst of moral indignation, whose echoes wax
ened the world to look upon their shame T
I By fiilibustering and fraud. they dismem
bered Mexico, and having thus obtained the
soil of Texas, they tried to introduce it as q
Slave State into the Union. Failing to effect
their purpose by constitutional means, they
accomplished it by most open and palpable
violation of the Consultation and by obtain
tiug the votes of Senators on false preteases
Soon afterward, a Southern. Slave Admin
istration ceded to the powerful monarchy ol
Great Britain several hundred thousands, ol
square miles, that must have been made Free
States, to which that same Administration had
i declared that the. United States had, ian un
questionable right )" and then they turned up
on the weak republic Of Mexico, and, in or
der TO make more Slave States, wrested from
her twice as many hundred thousand ds ofsquare
miles, to which we had not shadow of right
Notwithstanding all these extra efforts, they
saw symptoms that he political power SO long
held with firm grasp was in danger of slip
/ ping from their hands, by reason of the exten
sion Of Abolition sentiments and the greater
i prosperity Of Free States. Enboldened by
continual success in aggression. they made use
lof the pretehse of "SquaCter Sovereignty tc
break the league into which they had formerly
cajoled the servile representatives of our blind
led pe6ple, oby which all the territory of the
4 United States South of "36 deg. 80 min. ."lwai
i guaranteed to Slavery, and all North of it tc
Freedom. Thus Kansas became the battle
Il ground of the antagonistic elements in oul
4 iGovernment Ruffians hired by thes Slave
: Power were sent thither temporarily, to dc
} the voting and drive from the polls the lego
voters, who were often murdered in the pro
tcess Names copied from the directories o.
cities in other States we're returned BY thou
! sands as legal voters in Kansas, in order tc
! establish a Constitution abhorred BY her .peo
1 pie. This was their exenplifcation of Squat
ter Sovereignty. A Massachusetts Senator
distinguished for candor, courtesy and stain
less integrity. was half murdered by slave
! holders, merely for having the marliness to
state these facts tothe assembled Congress o
; the nation. Peaceful emigrants from the
\ North, who went to Kansas for no other pur
Epose than to tillthe SOIL erect mills aud estab
lish manufactures, schools, and churches, were
robbed outraged, and murdered. For many
months war more ferocious than the warfare
of wild Indians was carried on against a peo.
pie almost unresisting. because they relied up
on the Central Government for aid. And all
this while, the power of the United States.
welded by the Slave Oligarchy was on the
side of the aggressors. They literally tied the
stones and let loose the mad dogs. This was
4 the state of things when the hero of Ossowat
omie and his brave sons went to the rescue
It was be who 6rst turned the tide Of border.
Rufian triumph, By showing them that blows
were to be taken as well as given. ,,,, 's y
/ You may'bslieye it or not, Coy, WISE but