Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1859-11-10

thus intruded himself. and he always
observed that the party were unusu-
ally attentive in their efforts. and
showed most amiable disposition.
AS citizen of the United States he
was Just as much at home here as he
was on Turtle Creek, in Warren Co..
Ohio, where he had resided for the
past sixty years. 1t has been unfor-
tunately true that men had begun to
talk of citizens of the North. of the
South, and of the East, and Of the
West. as if in the political geography
of this republic there could be any
North. any South, East. or West
He did not yet understand this ques-
ton of the wrongs of the North and
the wrongs of the South. If he did he
should begin at home. and should
speak of pecadillos of the North. Ito
use as mild a name as possible. and
of the almost unforgivable sins OF the
South-committed. however. all the
time through the joint agency of a
united South, and a fragramentary
portion of the North. He ought to say
that he had some right to discuss this
question, for he had been discussing it
by night and by day, every day for the
last two months-in fact, he had
heard and dreamed of nothing else
Indeed, it did seem to him at last that
the chief end of man was to discuss the
difference between white man and a
niger.
Just now, class of men-the Dem
ocratic party-who had always been
characterized by such tender conscien-
ces, delicate sensibilities, and great re-
gard for the happiness of mankind
were mourning that an Instruction
had been attempted by II men. all of
whom, if they were in the County of
Warren, in the State Of Ohio. and on
Turtle Creek, he could convict them
every one of insanity, and send them
to the Lunatic Asylum at Columbus.
Yet these IL white men and ) negroes
had thrown two powerful States of
this Republic into state of consterna-
ton, which could not have been greater
had the 40 900 men of the armies OF
Italy landed at Norfolk.
And now they were attempting to
make ont poor Brown the scape-goat
of the Republican party of the North;
and they tried to make it ont that
some man of that party had made a
declaration that had so seized upon the
imagination of Old Brown that he
could not shake it off-that there was
an ''irrepressible conflict" between
white and negro labor. That man
never woud have been known in the
public records in this country. had it
not been that few men in Washing
ton, in 1854, repealed the Missouri
Compromise Law, which produced
civil war. He did not know how it
would fare with us to have sons dy-
ing, with clanking chains about their
limbs, or to have our daughters be-
come maniacs because of suffering, but
these things had produced insan-
ity in old Brown. This was one of the
fruits of Populor Sovereignty. Kan
sas-the boy Kansas-was left to do
as it pleased; to take its own way
Hence is was not put to school, and
being without the pale of parental con-
troll, he cut up capers. For amuse-
ment he took to cutting threats, and
for three years the military power of
these United States either would not
or could not suppress the instruction
in that Territory. Utah too, was in
stanced by the speaker as an instance
of the beauties of Popular Sovereignty.
He reviewed the doctrine of Douglas.
Going back to the formation of the
Constitution, no such idea was either
expressed or implied, and until 1884,
successive Congresses had acted upon
the idea Of the power of the Federal
i Government to control the Territories.
1t was reserved for a little gentleman
A. or 81 feet high to find out. eighty
years afterward, what the trainers of
the Constitution meant.
They should be grateful to Divine
Providence. Yet there was something
melancholy in the thought that thirty
millions of human beings should be
subjected to such empiricism in poll
ties. But Popular Sovereignty gave
birth to Old Brown; and though he
did not see it, yet had his attempt
succeeded in arming the slaves, it
would have been followed by the butch
cry of the whites for time, but final
" when reaction came by the exter-
mination of the blacks. But old
Brown and his fellows will die from
the gallows, glorying in their martyr
dom. 1t would be so with the men
who believed in Popular Sovereignty
they would die clinging to their
faith. Mr.. Corwin then called the at
tention of the meeting to the impor-
lance of the issues now pending. and
the necessity that existed for earnest
work in behalf of the principle. They
had heard the voices of Pennsylvania.
Ohio, Illinois. Iowa, Wisconsin, and
Minresota. Would it not be burn
ing shame for the State of New York
not to join in the chorus and halle
lujah.
All Things to all Men.
Modern Democracy is an extremely
uncertain and changeablc commodity.