Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-09-08
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estsd he whole people to its will. This
Slavs-powsf Is not going % stop 10 us ag-
g,ess;ous until it has obtained the FREEDOM
nance in The country.
In 1852 1 said and most of the people
of the country seemed to think, that the
Slhye-power would be content by what
were known rs the Compromise measures.
Was it contenti That was proclaimed as
a final settlement of the Slavery question.
Was it finali You know that hardly was
Mr.. Pierce iusugurated, hardly had that
Door man repeated the cry Of finality in
his inaugural address before he was told by
the Slave holders, "We meant that it was
final for The non-slare holders, not for MS.
We meant that they should stop resisting,
not that we should stop aggressing. You
don't understand this subject, Mr.. Pierce"
"Why,n said be, @whst do you want?-
.We want the Missouri prohibition repeal
eds The poor man did not like it. 1
know be did not like it. for was at WASH
ington at the time and had an opportunity
to know it, but he was obliged 10 submit.
He submitted, and this Missouri prohibi-
ton was repealed, and then we were told
that there was final settlement. NO."
the Slave-power told him, mo, you have
not got final settlement yet. Want Kan
sas; we don't care about the repeal of the
Missouri prohibition unless we get some
fruit from it; Mr.. Pierce, you have to ap-
point officials to secure it for u.s." He did
it; be did his best. The people resisted,
the people struggled. You know the Whole
history; / need not recite it. Finally, the
people of Kansas have so far conquered
that as yet Slavery does not exist in the
Territory, except under the Dred Scott de-
cision, when they found that this power of
Presidential patronage and the repeal of
the Missouri prohibition was not to serve
their purpose, what did they want then :
They wanted constitutional sanction for
Slavery everywhere. This came from the
Dred Scott decision.
THE SLAVE TRADE REVIVED.
Now, you have got certainly sufficient.
You have got the Dred Scott decision, by
which Slavery is sanctioned in the Terri
ries; you have the Government so organ
lied as to enforce these DEGREES. Then,
surely You are satisfied now. "Oh no.
what is the use of having slavery establish
ed in all the Territories, unless we have
negroes to put there" So Mr.. Stevens
said the other day in Georgia. Said he /:
II don't see that we have gained much,
unless we have negroes to put in the Ter
ritories. II you want" said be, "to put
slaves in the Territories, you must have
negroes to put there" So they have re-
vived the slave trade already. The Gov
ernment made some poor, puny and inef-
fectuan attempts to repulse it BY judicial
proceeding at Charleston. What was the
RESULT The slave holders in the jury-box
said: ave don't recognize any law or con-
stitution which condemns the slavery
which exists among US, and if you con-
demned the traffic in slaves in Africa, you
equally condemn that traffic at home."-
That is true. You cannot get away from
that. Everybody has to admit that, and
90 these South Carolina men said, ave are
not going to condemn it at home, and
therefore not abroad, and therefore we shall
acquit these men, and acquit them they
did.
Only last week read in the newspapers
what you have seen, the account of the
landing of six hundred negroes from a
slave ship in Florida, and the Marshal
says be would have prevented it if be could,
but he had no means furnished him. Why
had be nota Mr.. Buchanan finds it dan
gerous to arouse this interest which is in
favor of the slave trade, lest he finds it hard
to secure nomination al Charleston.
The slaye-trade is revived, and now the
only question is, whether the laws which
prohibit shall be repealed or not.
know my Democratic friends say that
they are not going to consent to its repeal.
So they said of the Missouri Compromise.
So they said of the Fugitive Slave Law.
So they have said of every event in this
long train of submission, which has been
consistency fulfilling its course. They have
always said they would not consent, and
yet they always consent. What ground
have you, my democratic brother, that they
will not consent? What ground have you
to say that the same course pursued here
tofore will not be pursued again? If you
will admit Slavery into the Territories,
why not into the States! If you admit
the carrying of slaves into the Territory,
why not from Africa? If you consent to
the Dred Scott decision which establishes
Slavery every, are you prepared to resist
the arguments which will be addressed to
you in favor of the slave-trade? 1t is i'm
possible. There is no ground of reason
or conscience upon which those who con-
sent to the aggressions already made should
not consent to these further aggressions.
Then as have said already, that will
not be all but they will claim that slaves
once introduced into the country may be
sent into the free States; and you have, if
not the African slave-trade, at least the
American slaye-trade revived in all the
States.
EXPERIENCE.
Some people will say that this is all i'm
agination, but, my fellow citizens, have
seen the workings and progress of this par
ty for the last fifteen or twenty years. l
have observed them all the while, and /
have, from time to time, lifted up my voice
in warning Of the aggressions sought to be