Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-10-21
Don't Want 70 be Hold Reapousiblel

Don't Want 70 be Held heaponsloiel
some of our Republican cotemporariea
claim that the leadors of the Republican
party are not responsible for the uafpers
Ferry insurrecdon Giddines Smitl, aud
other head lights Of RepublicanisR are d.
fsotly implicated IN countehanciog, adyis-
ing and contributing means towards the out
break. These gentlemen claim TO pe the
fathers Of he party indeed, they are the
fathers Of Republication. The leaders Of
the party, generally, in Ohio aud elsewhere
are implicated in the affair they were all the
while advised Of the Harpers Ferry demon
strntion. and they must have couniennnced
it, OF they would have exposed il long ago
These men, We say, nre not only republicans
in foil fellowship and communion with the
party, but they are high priests and minis
ter atthe altar The Republican party not
responsible for the acts Of their founders,
leaders end ministersi The man who know
ing all the facts 10 the case, will deny this
has more reckle58 impudence than Peter
who is recorded as denying his Lord and
Master
But VIC are met, by these gentlemen who
arc 90 completely overwhelmed with the ex'
ploded treason At Harpers Ferry, with the
silly protest That Seward, Chase q Co. do
not advise such fanatical conduct as that Of
Brown and bis men that they denounce i
as dangerous and atroeiousi
But these gentlemen agisate the slavery
question they conse its agitation, and they
demand its agitation. They tell the people
this agitation must not cease; that it must
go on until the South is compelled to eman-
cipate it's slaves. They teach that there is
an "irrepressible conflict between free and
Stare" and that it will not cease until all
are free or slavel" What is this hut coun-
selling the "saves' to assert their rights
and obtain freedom q all hazards Seward
Giddings ~ Co., proclaim their doctrine
and they have tens of thousands Of beliey
ers in the States who desire to practically
eniore h ir teachings One Of these ire
suits has just transpired at "Harpers
Ferry
II is vain, a cotemporary has well said, to
say that Chase, Seward h Co diseounten.
Rnce any violence in the execution OF their
'irrepressibe conflict theory; for after in
dootrinating men with it, they will be una
Bile to have them stop at the precise point
where they do, Having set the ball of
conflict rolling between the free and
slave States, and proclaimed that it must go
on until one or the other triumphs, they
cannot complain Of those who would give
the ball an accelerated and rapid impetus.
The leaders Of the Republican party are
responsible those who will continue to aid
them in this mischieyous and dangerous
agitation, after seeing one of its inevitable
results, 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
and the fre-eaters OF the South. This fact
may be learned by any one of even 1.-THE
Of sense, if he will ouly call to mind that
we are attacked alike by both factions, who
are alike dangerous to the peace of the
NouhtlDI huu thC VI tho Nhioi
The Republican party embodies in it all the
abolition element Of the North; more, that
element gives tone to and directs its politics.
Does not every intelligent man knop that
the elections in the north are carried ALONE
upon the negro question: All Republican
leaders claim that 1.-THE elections must he
fought on that issue, as it has the popu-
lar sentiment in the north; "that 1t is the
only vital question before the country
1t belongs to the Democratic party to in
terpose a check to this dangerous spirit rais-
ed by the fanaticism Of northern republican
ism this unfriendly position, which is grow,
ing up under the fostering of Republicanism,
and which will, il not promptly checked, be
evinced in murderous forays near tho bound
aries between free and Slave States and
eventuate in civil war and tho destruction
Of our Union. To aid in so holy purpose,
we appeal to the patriotic throughout Ohio
and the North. Let all honorable men take
stand against an agitation so imminently
dangerous, before it is too late.