The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-10-28
Ihc IoffersoQiaQ geMccfai
JULIUS O. CONVERSE, Editor,
CHlRDOy, OHIO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2S, 1855
A Warning Lesson to the Friends OF
Slavery.

] NioNOA
! A doplora0lo affair was tho insurrccton
at uarpcr's Fcrry--dcporabic ON account
of its crminality and the GlOodshod 1t oc' .
casioucd, and more dcplurablc still when wo
consider tho wrongs and outrages which .
| may be- said to have produced it. 1t teaches
Il lesson to the friends Of Slavery, which /
/ they would bo uu"iso to disregard. The
conduct Of Capt. Brown aud his contod' !
crates though highly culpabe, was no
worse than the long soTies OF crimes in
! Kansas, which wero instgatcd and cnconr.
/ aged by Shareholders aud their allies
| Thore is this difference between tho course
Of Capt Brown, und that of tho Hilians
who murdered his sons and destroyed his
property in Kansas: they sought, by fire
and sword, to lorc9 tho curso of Slavery
upon an unwilling people, aud he, in his
desperation, hoped by tho Same means to
ivoo tho victims Of oppression. dark
} pago of our history will record the crimes OF
tho Slave PUScr which drove John Brown
, TO madness and let nono denounce him us
Il traitor, who approve of those crimes
1t would have required very lit!lc foro.
sight to predict tho inevitable termination
OF tho wild project of Capt. Brown. But
the fact that few infatuated mon should
throw all tho inhabitants of tho country
round about, into indcscrbabIo terror and
alarm, BY such an enterprise, shows the
sense of insecurity which prevails wherever
Slavery is tolerated. 1t is natural result
} Of that system, m,-cxlsting, as it does, i'll viola
ton of all night, and by force alone,
those who reap its benefits (f such they may
be calIcd,) should be- in constant fear that
some snddon outbreak may occur, to unbind
4 tho chains Of the victims of their wrong
p Would tins DO 80, il Slavery wcro, as i,s ad-
vocates claim, tho natural and normal con
dition Of tho luborlng mar, and the only
truo and permanent basls of society: Does
any one imagine that such demonstration
us that at llarpers Ferry. would havo pro.
duced as widespread CONSERVATION, had
it occurred in Springfield, Mass, whero there
, 10 United States Armory, or anywhere else
n the Free States: ltwould doubtless have
o no one would have approhondod general
o uprising of tho froe laboring men of the
o North, Or feared that tho insurrcction would
not be speedily Quellcd. DO we need I
y better proof of the superiority of our fro'
~ society to that which toleratos Slavery
rhe New York Evening Post, in an articl,
h upon this subject, forcibIy remarks:
% But wha: condition of society is tina
III in which one halt of the population con
u staul!y meuaces the other half with civi
C. war and murder-in which the leading
y classes go to steep every night. carclessl
y it may be, over the crate: Of II Volcano
st and in which The dangers do not lessen
p rs in other societies, with time, but grow
with It's growth until an explosion be
rs comes rs inevitable as the eruptions o
~ Etua or Vesuvus What condition O
~ society, to be extended over the vrgir
"a territories of the West, the seat OF ou
~ future empire, and for which politicians
shonld clamOr and scar their cohsciences
VI and 1cspcradoes should fight
re How insane the policy which would re
" cruit aud extend This form OF social exis
De tence, even while it is becoming unman
r. ageable as it is Open IhG gales to tn
re Slave Trade, cry tho Southerners, VIII
'u are as greal fanatics rs Bro Hn tap tn
u copious resources OF Africa; let new mil
'u lions OF blacks be added to The cnormou
CT number that now cultivate our fields; le
. the alarming disproporlion between then
- and the whites be increased; it is besse
ls, institution, and we cannot have too mnc
NJ Of it But while they speak the tocsi
H. sounds, the blacks are in arms, the
49, houses are in flames. their wives an
o. children driven into exile or killed, an
nc II furious scrvie war stretches its horro
'' over years. That is The blessed lnstil,
o' lion you ask us 10 foster, and spread an
All worship, and for the sake Of which yC
even spout your impotent threats again
'au the grand eoIdce OF the Union !"
Though VIC abhor Slavery in all its form
wo should doplore II scrVilo insurrection as
dire calamity, whatever tho result might b
-, But, if tho truth must be told, should SUI
Who u calamity over occur, tho blame would
m chiefly duo to those who sustain tho instit
lHd ton of Slavery, and seek to spread and pc
@ oy petuate it. WhIo tho OWL exists amol
cid rs, it is tho height of folly to Attompt
ven disguise its nature, or conceal tho dang
'ou with which it monaces tho country. 1t
40. constantly growing worse and worse, and,
ool tho timo approaches when it must bocon
Mr.. too intolorablo longer to be borne, slay
'er, holders and their allies should beware he
'o' they oppose tho peaceful endoavcrs OF an
in slave ry men to resist its progress and ci
| }. cumscribo its power II they choose to +
W. gard tho agitation produced by thoir fal
.h. n.s and aggressive policy, solely as tho work
rha laraticai Aboitionists who are seeking, wit
nth out reason, to destroy the Government al
an delugo the country in blood, they may
Gu convinced of their orror,by bitter experonC
,L u" when too late to avert its consequences.
nm. Their only safety lies in the restrictive pc
icy of tho friends OF Freedom.
,"1 ,"S The bloody scenes enacted in Kansas a
ton at Harper's Ferry. wo fear will prove but t
His faint prelude of others yot TO be enacted,
llth M iiInelv vato ha nnt nnnn Tim wild nj