, 1859-10-20
Drcss 4 Trihut1e
WHERE THE RESPONSIBILITY
BELONGS.

I
he responsibility Of the Harper's Ferry affair
pou the Republican party, is resort to The
oeue's trick Of cryiug 'stop ,hict, stop thiel'
Or the purpose Of divcrting Intention from the
ca.ly guilty party. Holding to the doctrines
+ the Revolutionary fathers aud the earlier
tatcsncn Of this country Oh the subject Of |
laycsy-that it is moral, social and political /
ri TINT it's creature Of local law, to be
controlled exclusively by the states IN which
e1's1s' Eng mat It's area ought ought not to
oe e3lehaea, or ls accompanying evils 10
astened upon Our new frontier communities
Tue Republican party deprecates, no less than
those worthless would have done, everything
locking towards violent measures for the en-
(fanchisemeat Of the slarcs Of the South It's
opposition to slavery is based upon moral and
ecouomic considerations, and the only action
it proposes or TINT tit would conntenance, with
respect tn the institution. Is to conhne II to 1ts
present Limits, leaving the problem OF "what
will they do with it, to the solution OF the
people Of the siavehold1ng States.
The Democratic party, however proposes to
increase the chances Tor instruction, blood
shed and aA tic horrors ol ser'he war, by ex'
tending the area Of slavery indefinitely and By
re-openins the African slave trade. It would
have the bloody scenes Of HaFPcr>s Ferry re-
enacted In the new States to be carved out ot
and
crat;ons ret ,,nborn The unsncalab]e dread
,r;s;nr f,on, conzt,,, ernosrro tn ,n;d,;cbt
c,rnaco and 4h, nv, ,rnn,prinr name1css
1,orro,s of ;,s,,r,ection
Is RESPECTS ,1e attempt Of an insane old
man md lie bondrn1 of confederates IN e1c;to
n necro ;nsurrec,;on in yiu;o;a and Narr,and
II * casv to determine where the rcspousibility
rcol,r lelonrs. That act il hut mart of the
,ec;,;mate f;1,;t of the rcnea1 of tho Missour;
con,nrom;se In another nart of t},;s oaper.
in n sketch If tho life Of tic leader Of the at-
temn.c4 ;ns,,rrect;on will In fouud n statement
Of some Of tho wroncs heaned unon old Brown
by the minious Of that power at whose CON.
mana aud for whose benefit tho compromise
was broken doyn-wrpucs which entered lis
soul and nude linn y1,at lie is-a monomaniae
who believes himself to he q God.appointe]
arcnt to set tho cnslayed free. Unon the
heads Of those who repealed that compromise
md who sanctioned The lawIcss violence and
hloodshcd which crew out Of it on the plain,
Of Kansas. rests the blood of those who fell a
u,rno,,e Earrr rh-,,,1 =, t,,.;n If aro,+s +b,
one ;nsenar,h1v conncttcd pith 4ho other th
,ast.named t,aoaar cocs h,cl< u tin first
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;pc,udi,c anono tbc ;ntormc5oto stcns
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THE TIMES is DIsPLEASED.
The opposition Of all Northern Journals i
the interest Of Doug1as-all that do not car
whether Slarery is voted down or up-all tAe
place Freedom and Slavery On IN equality in th
eyes Of the laval that arc Indifferent to III
enactment of congressional Slave Code &
the Tesritorics-all that sec nothing moral
offensive in tho 1eoncp;nc of tho African Sin,
Tradc-all that see no immortality in br;no;n
men, like sheen, to the shambles-a.l that iu
t;fv romeo.wl,inn,nc md t,c s,1c of c;r1s +;
our American seragiios-all that care more #
the interests Of the few shareholders and thei
n,oncrtrr than for +ho we1I.ha;nc IF fl
w,;ts ..ao 81, ,.,,o h,-. -, ,.otasaa,o. 6
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.'s. A"'o. o'e' .7"''. '4"o'' '-~'''' ~ "o4'
"'"l a'e Wiling t''at 11le plasue spo1 ul'on u
na1'onal existence SHOULD commune 70 oeepe
ana spread without an etlozt to cure q aTre
it until the entire body polite is Ga ng7eno'
from it's cfIeCta-the onnositiou Of all sue