The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-12-22
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For the News.
The "Irrepressible Conflict" be-
tween Good and Evil--High Au-
thority for Agitation"
When the irrepressible conflict began,
whether or not in the garden Of Eden,
when our mother Eve
'l--IIcr rash hand in evil hour,
Forth reaching TO the fruit she piuckcl, she atc,
Earth felt tho wound and nature from her scat,
Signing through all her works. gave signs Of we,
That al URs l0st--'
Certain it is, that from that time to
this, there has been an unrepressed
conflict, between light and darkness, be-
tween truth and error, between fraud
and uprightness, between freedom and
oppression These characteristics Of
"irrepressible conflict" date much fur
ther back than the era of Seward and
Greeley, to whom the "wiling tools"
of slavery propagandism attribute the
teaching of doctrines of an "irrepres-
sible conflict" on the subject of chattel
slavery, which led to the attempted
execution of deep.laid, fendish plot, "
to incite the negroes to instruction,
"murder and rapine"-on the part of
John Brown. They who believe that
there is a natural and necessary antago-
nism between free labor and slave
labor, between the principles o' f-ee-
dom and the principles of slavery,
SHOULD be held responsible in great
degree for the Harper's Ferry TRACED"
they have given laid and comfort --
they sympathize with Old Brown, and
"their tratorous hearts lament that his
hellish schemes were foiled of con-
summation" Such is the language in
which Democratic editors speak Of a
large majority of the people Of the
State of Ohio. Brown was the victim
of "crack- Drained Abolitionists he was
the instrument "to carry out the con-
coctions of their wicked brains" he re-
coived the first idea from and was aided
and encouraged by "the irrepressible
conflict men, who were too cowardly
to attempt to carry out their murdcrous
ideas themselves
Such are the terms in which Demo
cratic editors speak of those who oppose
the buying and selling of men, women
and children, who in their "fanatical
rawlings" maintain the injustice and
moral wrong of human slavery.
We say that the irrepressible conflict
began when Eve eat the forbidden fruit,
and Cain, disregarding the "higher
law" slew his brother Abel The law,
as Numbered from Sinai, first denounc-
ed the judgments Of God against slave
ry. Amongst the commandments de-
livored to Moses is the following
Exodus, 21st chapter, 10th verse;
"And he that stealeth a man and selleth
him, or II he be found in his hand he
shall surely be put to death. " Moses,
in the eyes of Democratic editors, was,
as indicated by "his fanatical rawlings
nothing but a "cracb Drained AboH-
ZIONIST" All along through the Old Tes-
lament we have denuuciations Of the
oppression of man by his fellows-the
ownership and absolute property Of man
in man,-converting him into a thing
or chattel, is no where recognized and
the final triumph Of truth and right,
eOusness characterized as period "when
every yoke shall be broken and the op-
pressed 60 free, when "the men of the
earth shall no more oppress " Moses
then, and the authors Of the Bible, who
spoke as they were moved by the Divine
Spirit, began the "irrepressible con.
fict. Christ and his Apostles in the
fulnoss Of time took up the cause of
the oppressed by the preaching Of The
! Gospel of "peaco on earth and g0oo
tCiN to men" How was this peace on
earth to be brought about? Was it no.
| by the preaching Of the truth? What die
the Prince Of Peace himself say2-
Think not that 1 am come to senC
peace on earth;--I came not to sonC
peace on earth, but a sword, and
mans foes shall be Of his own house
hold. "
The Savior Of mankind knew tina
the preaching Of the Gospel would ex
cite hatred and enmity, and would b.
the occasion Of strife and bloodshed
but is the truth to be blamed fo
these secondary consequence Shall tn
peacoable precepts Of the Gospel, as con
tanned in the Sermon on tho Mount no
be taught?-shall the golden rule whiol
teaches that whatsoever ye would tha
men should do to you, do you even 81
to them, be oxpunged, lost its agitatioi
should disturb the calm Of hoary proju
dice, or mar the repose Of wickednes
entronohed in high places?