Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1859-04-28


GOl they were sincerel Would to
Heaven this beast of prey would take
the carcass Of the slain into It's lair,
IL might gnaw the flesh and craunch
the bones without molestation from
mel But instead of that. it asks me
10 hold its victim while 1t sucks the
blood. But this, God helping me, /
never will do. Take your pound of
flesh. If it is so nominated in the bond.
but do not ask for the blood as well.
Read over the whole message, and
you will find its entire texture TO lie
Slavery. Every topic is discussed
with reference to its bearings on the
subject of Slavery. And yet the DEM
ocrats, with an impudencc that chal
lenges our admiration for it's sub!imi
ty, turn to us, and say, "Do not agitate
this subject" Do not keep up this
sectional strife 10 agitate. to legis-
late, to make treaties, to annex terri
tory. to purchase empires. for Slavery,
is all right, but to do any thing against
Slavery is wrong and sectional.
And here is another phase of this
fanatical spirit, which has taken up
its dwelling place in the Democrat ic
party. 1t identifies Slavery with the
nation, and especially with the South.
Now, | am reckoned as ultra and
extreme as most on this subject, and
yet. no one has ever heard me say any
thing against the South. 1t is only
against Slavery that / have spoken.
and | propose to assail that only in
those modes justified by the CoHstitu-
tion; yet i am sectional, and Republi-
cans are sectional. When they only
seek to prevent the extension of sys-
tenn which is under the ban of the
civilized world, they are charged with
being sectional. In Illinois, we have
supped full of this horror. And what
is the proof? o. we have no dele
gates from slave States to attend our
National Nominating Conventions.
Why have we none? Mark; because il
delegates attend these Conventions
they are mobbed and driven into exile
What If we, in the free States, should
say to the Democrats. eff you attend
the Charleston Convention, we will
hang you." and thus keep shem all at
home, and then ieproach them with
being a sectional party, because only
the slave States were represented!
"Well, you have no votes in the slave
States; your principles do not circulate
with us at all; you dare not even pro-
claim your doctrines among us And
why do not our principles circulate in
the slave States? They used, fol
they are the principles of Washington
and Franklin, and other founders oi
the Republic. The reason why oul
principles do not circulate in the slave
States is. that this despotism has. like
another Napoleon. crushed out the
freedom of speech and of the press
Allow us free access to the minds ot
the mons Shareholders of the South, and
in one year we would have more Re
publican votes in proportion, in the
slave States, than there are Democrat
ic votes in the free States. "I0ul
principles do not circulate down here, ;
boasts the Slavery propagandist.-
Sacred history tells us of certain
rich man who died, and who was very
unfortunate in the selection of futur,
home; but. though an impossible gul
spread itself between him and better
world, it seems he could converse Will
those more happily situated. Suppo
sing, now, this man should lift up hi
voice, and send il booming across tn,
chasm that yawns between heaven anC
hell, and say. "IIo, Abraham, Isaac
Gabriel, and you celestials gen
orally. you are a sectional party NJ
there; your principles do not circulat
down here" And why does no
Heavens truth circulate down there
Because the inmates are so wicke'
that they will not tolerate the presenc
of any angel preacher. This maj
must have been a good, sound, ma
tional Democrat. And so, | suppose
was that illustrious parsonage whom
Milton has described as bridging tn
! chasm that spread between earth an,
, the place of his exile, and who claime
the right of carrying the local institu
tions of his realm into Paradise.
And this reminds me TO say tina
the Democratic party. led on by thi
! insane fanaticism, which holds SLAYER
to be morally right, under the guild
, ance Of political harlequin and tricl,
stcr, has proclaimed the constitutions
right of Slavery to so into the Terri
tories without let or hindrance.-
Plighted national faith is broken an
} dishonored! Principles once declare
; sacred by this very leader, and said t
/ be canonized in the hearts of III
American people, are ruthlessly an
, recklessly trampled under foot. w
, had an angel of Liberty stationed 9
the portals of our Territories. Fc
/ thirty years, this sentinel had ker
watch and ward. and guarded thi
, magnificent domain as the heritage {
, Freedom. and. with the flaming swor
! Of the ordinance of the patriots of ii
oldcn time. kept out Slavery from tn
r Eden. Who chased away this ange
and broke down the walls that inclose
: that empire. consecrated TO the sor
S and daughters of Freedom as dwell
( ing place and home, as long as ii
: sun and moon should endure? WI
: did this ruthless, reckless, damnab
n work? The Democratic party, und
h the leadership of the individual ha'
!, indicated. Under what plea w,
/, Slavery thus allowed to enter in al
c ravage the heritage of Freedom? c