The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1859-11-15
NO. 6S2.
Who Encourages Iusurrccttc n.sts.

"Cuses, like chickens come homo to
roost," and lies return to plague their in
ventoro. The Slave holders and the Dem.
ocratlc Party are proving the tritc truths
by their experience
Ever since the Republican party began,
they have deliberately and persistently
miarepresentrd its character All IFS plat
forms aud declarations, and the life long
action Of iis members, show that it con.
templates only legal, peaceful and con sti.
tutional mcasurcs--neither interfering
with Slavery in the States nor countenanc
ing mob violence anywhere. Yet its Dem
ocratc opponents havo portinaciously in.
sisted that it was an Abolition Partv seek.
king 70 liberatc the slaves by fire and
sword; have trumpeted this lie through
newspaper, shouted it in their public meet.
iuga, inserted il in their resolutions, reiter.
ated it in thoir conversation. at homo and
abroad, in their streets, at the table, end
BY the firesidc, until ignorant uneducatei
negro slayo' at the South, llqving it dinncd
1a'ly into their ears, by their masters.
hQvo como to believe it. Stakeholder,
themselves created tho insurrec,ion of 1s.
81, by their lying stories about Frem ont,
which encouraged their Slaves to expect
and prepare for the coming of liberatorh.-
The Shareholders themselves are continu.
ally putting tho idea of instruction no
the heads Of their chattes by those absurd
fictious, Which the latter accept as true. If
they will thus sow the wind, who can be
surprised that they reap every year or two
the whirlwind? If the'c is now as they
assert, any wide spread conspiracy among
the Slaves, Shareholders themselves are its
creators and f6menters. They madly and
blindly en- langer tho SAFETY Of their own
homes by their pres's.eut political false
hoods
Nor is it the blacks alone whom tho
Democratic Party encouraged to deeds O.
violence. Within the past few years, it
has lent its sanction to llwlcss enterprises
of every sort, Border Invasions, Fibuster
Expeditions, Lynch Law to suppress discus
sion. brutality ard blood she'd among Con.
crcs.mcn, violence at Elections, &c, thus
mjni7ierin@ to tho vilcst passions, encour-
aging contempt for law and resort TO the
hludgeon. the pistol and the bowie knife.
Here is the mailman Brown, and his crazy
cr'w, cndangerng the lives and property Of
innocent paop'c by tho insane outbreak
But who male Brown q mad,nan by mur-
dnrinr his son? Who taught tho crazy
crew to band together with arms in their
hands, rs the mos, et''c'yo wav to accom-.
plish political prrpososY The Border Ruff
fans Of Kansas and the Democratic Adj
mini,tra,ion a. Washington!
Tho classic fable relates that he who
went ont ard sowcd Dragons teeth, sud
denly found himself surrounded bv boiY
Of armed men. Buchanan and Pierce had
be sovinr dragons tooth for seven years.
Their encouragement Of lawlcss and sio.
lencn Is hrrviug ono locality after another
INTO scenes Or aUhUhy fyi r-h;oh tho only
slrr, speedy and permanent euro il tho
rcaceful transfer, at The next election, Of
the reinq Of the Government, from tho i'm.
beetle hands that hold them, into the
grasp Of men who never deal in violence
themselves nor will permit it to bo ut.
tempted by othe.e.