The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1859-04-26
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Anu YET TUG DetuOcruls, Win AL itbpu
dence that challenges our admiration To-
its sublimity, turn to US, and say, "Dc
not agitate this subject" Do not keep NJ
this sectional strife To agitatc, to legis
late, to make treaties, to annex territory
to purchase empires, for Slavery, is al
right, but to DO anything against SLAYER,
is wrong aud sectional.
And here is another phase Of this fana
tical spirit, which has taken up its dwelling
place in the Democratic party. 1t identi
fies Slavery with the nation, and especially
with the South.
Now, l am reckoned as ultra and ex
treme as most on this subject, and yet
no one has ever heard me say anything a
gainst the South. 1t is only against Slave
ry that l have spoken, and propose to as
sail that only in those modes justified by
the Constitution; yet am sectional, and
Republicans are sectional. When they
only seek to prevent the extension of y
system which is under the ban of the civil.
lied world, they are charged with being
sectional. In Illinois, we have supped
full of this horror. And what is the proof
o, we have no delegates from slave States
to attend our National Nominating Con
yentions. Why have we none: Mark
because if delegates attend these Conven-
tions they are mobbed and driven into ex-
lie. What if we, in the free States, sho'd
say to the Democrats, "lf you attend tho
Charleston Convention, We will hang you,
and thus keep them all at home, and then
reproach them with being sectional par
ty, because only tho slave States were re-
presented! "Well, you have no votes IL
the slave States; your principles do not
circulate with us at all; you dare not even
proclaim your doctrines among us. And
why do not our principles circulate in the
slave States? They used TO, for they are
the principles of Washington, and Frank
lin, and other founders of the Republic
The reason why our principles do not cir
culate in the slave States is, that this des.
poti,m has, like another Napoleon, crushed
out the freedom Of speech aud Of the press.
Allow us free access to the minds Of the
non-slavehoders of the South, and in one
year we would have more Republican votes
in proportion, in the slave States, than
there are Democratic votes in the free
States. "Your principles do not circulate
down here" boasts tn" Slavery propagalaa-
ist, Sacred history tells US Of certain
rich man who died, and who was very un-
fortunate in the selection of a future home /;
but, though an impossible gulf spread it
self between him and better world, it
seems he could converse with those moro
happily situated. Supposing, now, this
man should lift up his voice, and send il
booming across the chasm that yawns be-
tween heaven and he'll, ana say, ITO,
Abraham, Isaac, Gabriel, and you coles.
tials generally, you are sectional party
up there; your principles do not circulate
down here" And why does not Heavens
truth circulate down there1 Because the
inmates are Sc wicked that they will nc!
tolerate the presence OF any angel preach
er. This man must have boon good,
sound, national Democrat. And so, sup
pose, was that illustrious parsonage whom
Milton has described as bridging the chasm
that spread between earth and tho place of
his exile, and who claimed tho right of
carrying the local institutions of his real in
to Paradise.
And this reminds me to say that the
Democratic party, led on by this insane
fanaticism, which holds Slavery to be NOR
ally right, under the guidance Of poiti-
cal harlequin and trickster, has proclaimed
tho constitutional right of Slavery TO 60
into the Territories without let or hin.
drance. Plghted national faith is broken
and dishonored! Principles once declared
sacred by this very leader, and said to be
canonized in the hearts of the American
people, are ruthlessly and recklessly tram
pied under foot. We had an angel of Lbi-
erty stationed at the port; Is of our Terri
tories. For thirty years, this sentinel had
kept watch and ward, and guarded that
magnificent domain as the heritage of
Freedom, and, with the flaming sword Of
the ordinance of the patriots of the olden
time, kept out Slavery from Eden. Who
chased away this angel, and broke down
the walls that enclosed that empire, conse-
Grated to the sons and daughters of Free
dom as dwelling place and home, as
long as the sum aud moon shovid endure 2
Who did this ruthless, reckless, damnable
work. The Democratic party, under the
Leadership Of the individual l have ndica-
ted. Under what plea was Slavery thus
allowed to enter in and favage the heritage
of Freedom? On the same ground that
the madman opens the pest house to let
leprosy, plague, and cholera, rush forth,
as did the winds from the fabulous cave, to
walk at midnight and waste at noon day.
A man with contagious disease must not
stay in his own house, nor be confined in
the hospital, but must be allowed to roam
abroad, to spread disease and death bis fell
low meni What is this, but the veriest
madness that ever raved in Bedlam!
know it is said that there are two wings to
the Democratic party. lam aware Of that,
aud know, also, that both wings belong
TO tho same vulture, and, although one
has been slightly out of joint, it has now
got back TO its place. and both will flap in
unison, TO bear the carrion bird back to
gorge and fatten on the carcass where it has
gorged and fattened so long.
But the strangest and most impious
phase of this fanaticism is, that it claims
the sanction Of the Bible for American
Slavery. have neither time nor disposi-
t;on 10 antay in n nbilolooicsI aroument on