The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-11-10

old subscriptions. We also want about
fifty cords of wood, on the same condi-
tons. ai
Southern Arguments and Democratic
Sympathies.
Ey A Pro Slavery mob at Newport,
Kentucky, in revenge for the big Vir-
ginia scare" attacked and destroyed the
Office of an anti -slavery paper, published
by WIN. s. BAILEY, at that place, and
ordered the editor to leave town. Mr..
BAILEY is a poor man, his paper being
the means of support for himself, wife,
and four daughters, all of whom were
engaged upon it. The wife and daugh-
tiers begged that the materials might be
left unmolested, but the mob paid no
heed to them. Mr.. BAILEY offered to
publish any article that might be sent
to him in reply to his own, but this did
not satisfy the good democrats of that
vicinity. They had a more effectual way
of answering ant~i-slavery arguments
a method adopted previously in the case
Of CAssIUs M. CLAY, and divers others
in different parts Of the country. Phys
ical force they conceive to be more effec-
tual than mental in all such cases, and
they used it in this, wantonly destroying
the means Of livelihood of a whole fami-
". There are many anti slavery resi-
dents, however, in Kenton, Campbell, and
adjoining counties, and they will proba-
bly, resist to the uttermost this attempt to
muzzle them and the result will even
tually be, as it always has been in such
cases of violence, that the cause attacked
will thrive by the persecution.
What a commentary upon our boosted
freedom of thought and of speech does
this and other recent cases Of mob vio-
lence at the South present. A merchant,
respected as "A man, is driven from his
home, from his business, because, among
his stock, an anti slavery book is found.
A female invalid, seeking, in a change Of
climate, some amelioralion from the pain
and distress Of disease, because of a let
ter to a friend, accidentally published. is
forced to leave her bed and the city, un-
der threats of personal violence. A Vir-
ginia gentleman, of talents, wealth, and
worth, is driven from his home and from
the State, because he acted as a delegate
to a Republican convention. A Metho-
dist bishop, and other ministers of the
Methodist church, have been driven from
the State of Texas, upon the bare suspi-
cion of entertaining anti slavery senti-
ments. And yet We talk Of u freedom
Of our boosted liberty OF the press, Of
thought, and Of speech! And we know
men who will, on a Fourth Of July, in
msgniloquent terms, laud II country,
our Institutions, our government, our
people, because of these rights And
we know men in this very village who
have cursed because an orator could not
forget, aud did not fail to speak of, the
falsi;y Of such claims--because he could
not overlook, and did not fail to ~denounce,
a system which found it necessary to
cramp the thought, bride the tongue,
and curlail the constitutional rights, OF
those affected by ia system that en-
slaves the white as well as The black.
And this is the system which Senator
DOUGLAS declares he cares nothing wheth-
err ii be voted up or voted down-the
system which he and the democratic par
~ Of The country have been engaged in
p~ropagating. and are nov willing shall be
indefinitely extended. Mr.. DOUGLAS and
his political friends, are excessively anX-
;ous That their Southern brethren should
have all their special priyileges-every-
thing that they choose to term their con-
stitulional rights-sccured 10 them. even
at the expense Of making every man at
the North a slave-catcher. But we new
err hear these gentlemen condemning the
gross abuses of the constitutional rights
Of citizens. committed by their Southern
friends. They have no word Of condem
nation for such attacks upon the %consti-
t%ulional rights Of anti.slayery men as
those we have noticed. Ii the citizens
of Boston deny that there is any %oonsti-
t%u;ional obligation upon them TO return