The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-25

advantageous and desirable medium
for Adversisans. BasiBess Men will
Decadenee Of Anti Slavery Foree and Povsr-The
Despondent Feelings Of True Men. .a,
lapse from virtue, integrity and prinei
pie. either on the part of individuals or ofl
communities is always deplorable-aDd many
Of our truest, most faithful men are deploring
and with reason, the wide departure, OF the
part Of the country at large, from former
avowed patriotic and humane principles OIL
action.
As sample of the feeling of dependency
INDUCED by our best men, we give The follow.
ing extract from letter received from one
of the most devoted and intelligent mpn in the
State. who has been struggling and sacrificing
in the cause Of hnman freedom for the last
thirty years Though there are many causes
of discouragement. as our correspondent sug
gests yet the late action. or rather non action
of our Supreme Court was the immediate,
prompting course of the writing of this let
ter.
1t is but natural. under the circumstances
OF the present time. that pious mind should
cease from man. and look up to God-fall
back, trustingly, upon the orderings of Divine
Providence, and. yet. trembling.y. in view of
the alarming and astounding wickedness of
the land, and the consequent fiery indignation
and Judgments of Heaven, which must be i'm
pending over us:
May IL. 1859.
| The fact is, I have no heart to talk or
think about the prominent events of the day.
p have ceased to hope any thing from human
agency. in behalf of the opposed and wronged
OF our land; and generally feel that it is
wiser to calmly await events, and the rulings
OF Gods providence, thau to worry myself
about human rights as have done all my
life. For the fist time in my life, some ten
days since, refused my sympathy to a color
ed man who came along soliciting aid to re-.
deem his family from Slavery. said to him
't-Go back to your native land, and sts I'd
your lot with your race, and help them to
work out their own redemption-there is no
other help for you. could only be persuad
ed. when he promised to go to Canada with
bis redeemed family, and enroll himself with
the Sens Of Freedom there, holding them
selves in readiness to march to the South at
ithe first notice of the outbreak and insurrec.
ttion which is inevitable there. AS God is
fmy witness. friend Hall, 1 believe there is
no redemption for the black man, bat in in
surrection and blood. Who would be free,
themselves most strike the bIow.' True God
can work out their redemption in some way
i we little dream of; but. justice-Hs justice,
will not allow the oppressor to escape in a
less summary way. aa8
Look at it! What have we done, in thirty
Fl years of agitation and remopstrancei Ad.
yanced backward, with tremendous strides,--
But yesterday. as il were, the least We de-
manded, was, that Freedom shocld be the
, rule. and Slavery the exception. Now. Slav.
lery the rule, and Freedom the exception, is
q the rule in every branch Of the tIovsrnmens
r. Legislative, Executive and Judicial And
the most We think of claiming is, that the
) [people may. if they insist, establish Freedom
~ sSPNoiiSone Pa W cfSu, 10 s'ttiio III ns
iserting that ground. Who would have be.
lieved, twenty years ago, that serious or for
midable proposition would be made to repeal
j. the Missouri Compromise? Who would have
believed, ten years ago, that serious attempt
wo,ld be made to re open the Foreign Slave
Trade? We used to demand of our Repre-
:. sentatives, promises to 60 for the suppressiot
d of Slavery in the District of Columbia, -ane
!, of the interS State Slave Trade. Those mat
E ters are given up as heuesies by all parties.
I'll The fact IS, our people-the people of tn,
free States-the people of Ohio-by larg,
7 mejority, are in .fapor Of Slavery No,
! perhaps. in the abstract-but as matter
e stand. That is, they rather the black man ii
,-lthis country should be kept in Slavery, an,
all facilities of emancipation discouraged
: than. that the anticipated consequences o
"a emancipation should be incurred. In plaine
7. words they rather keep three or four million
.Iof men in bondage, than that few black
y ! should exercise The privilege of coniug an
= settling among us.
Il But Why dwell upon the disgusting subject
u Latterly, have INDUCED but little il, reHe,
tion upon it. talked less about it. Positivel
see no encouragement for lahoring for tn
y redemption of the bondmen. or the salva,io
Il Of the country from the just Judgment of o
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