The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-11-02
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NOt ResronsibIsl
Almost al our Repub Rcsn contemporaries
deny that the leaders Of their party are re-
sponsible for the Hsrper's Ferry insurrec-
ton. AS the facts toms to light, they show
that this statensnt is founded on partisan
charity, and that Giddings, Seward and other
lights OF the Republican party are directly
implicated in eountenancing, sdVising and
contributing means towards the outbreak
These gentlemen claim 10 be the fathers oI
the party /; indeed, they are the fathers oi
Republcsnism. The leaders Of the party,
generally, in Ohio, and elsewhere, ore i'm.
plicsted in the affair they were advised oi
the HOrper's Ferry demonstration, and they
must have counlensnced il, or they would
have exposed it long ago. These men are
not only Republicans in full Fellowship with
the party. but they are high priests and min.
listers at its altar. at.
We are told that Seward, Chase and 9th.
ers, do not sdyise such fanatical conduct as
that of Brown and his men-thst they de.
nounce it as dangerous and aHocious But
these gentlemen countenance the slavery
agitation; [; they counsel its agitation, and
they demand its agitation. They tell the
people that this agitation must not cense-
that it must continue until the South is com.
PEELED to emancipate its slaves. They teach
that there is an "irrepressible conflict be-
tween slave and Free" and that it will not
cease until all are free or slave. What is
this but counseling the slaves to assert their
rights and obtain freedom at all hszards =
Seward, GiddiDgs & Co., proclaim their doc.
,rine, and they have tens of thousands Of be.
levers in the North who desire TO practically
enforce their teachings. One of these sire.
suits" has just transpired at Harper's Ferry!
II is in vain, n contemporary has we'll said,
TO say that Chase, Seward e. Co. discounte-
nance eny violence in the execution Of their
''irrepressibe conflict" theory; for after in-
doctrinating men with it, they will be unable
TO hare them stop at the precise point where
they do. Having set the ball of "coDfict"
rolling between the free and slave States,
and proclaimed that it must 60 on until one
or the other triumphs, they cannot complain
of those who would give the ball an accee.
rated and rapid impetus.
The leaders of the Republican party are
responsible; those who will continue to aid
them 10 this mischievous and dangerous ag.
tstiou, after seeing one of it's inevitable re.
suits, will be held, by the whole civilized
world, alike responsible. The Democratic
party occupies the only national and safe
ground between the fanatics Of the North
end the fire. eaters Of the South. This fact
may be learned by any one of even tithe
of sense, It he will only call to mind that
we are attacked ulike by both factions, who
are equally dangerous to the peace of the
county, and the prosperity Of the Union
The Republican party embodies in it all the
abolition elements of the North yea that
element gives tone 10 and directs its politics!
Does not every intelligent man hnow that
the elections in the North ere carried ALONE
upon the negro question All Republican
leaders claim that "the elections must be
fought on that issue, as it has the popular
sentiment in the North" "that it is the only
vital question before the country !"
II belongs to the Democratic party to in.
terpose check to this dangerous spirit rails.
ed by the fonbticism OF northern republican
ism; this unfriendly position, which is grow
ing up under the fostering care of Republi
canism, and which will, if not promptly
checked, be evinced 10 murderous foroys
near the boundaries between free and slave
States, and eventuate in civil war and the
destruction of our Union. To aid in so holy
purpose, We appeal TO the patriotic through
out Ohio and the North. Let all honorable
men take stand against an agitation SO i'm
minentIy dangerous, before it is t 90 late.