Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-12-08
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public declarations of Gov. Wise. And If,
as be himself declares, be merely intend
ed to free the oppressed, where could be
read more forcible lesson than is furnish
ed by the State Seal of Virginiai Hook
ed at it thoughtfully before / opened your
letter; and though it had ALWAYS appear
ed to me very suggestive, il never seemed
to me so much so as il now did in connec-
tion with Capt. John Brown. A liberty
loving hero stands with his foot upon a
PROSTATE despot; under bis strong arm
manacles and chains lie broken; and the
motto is Sic Semper Tyranuis'-sThus
be it ever done to Tyrants." And this is
the blazon of State whose most profita-
BILE business is the internal slave trade
In whose highways cofles of human chat.
ties, chained and manacled are. frequently
seen. And the seal and the cof1es are,
both looked upon by other chattles, con-
stantly exposed to the same fate. What
if some Vezey, or Nat Turner, should be
growing up among those apparently quiet
spectators! 1t is in no spirit oftaunt or Of
exultatioD, that ask this question. I
never think of it but with anxiety, sadness,
and sympathy. know that slavehold-
ing community necessarily lives in the
midst of gunpowder; and, in this age,
sparks of free thought are flying in every
direction. You cannot quench the fires of
free thought aud human sympathy by any
process of cunning or force; but there is
method by which you can effectualIy wet
the gunpowder. England has already
tried it with safety and success. Would
that you could be persuaded to set aside
the prejudices Of education, and candidly
examine the actual working of that expert
ment. Virginia is so richly endowed by
nature that Free Institutions alone are
wanting to render her the most prosperous
and powerful of the States.
SOWING THE WIND AND REAPISe rHE
wHIRLwrNp.
By fillibustering and fraud, the Slave
States dismembered Mexico, and having
thus obtained tie soil of Texas, they tried
to introduce it as Slave State into the
Union. Failing to effect their purpose by
constitutional means, they accomplished it
by most open and palpable violatian of
the constitution, and by obtaining the
votes of Senators on false pretenses.
Soon afterward, Southern, Slave Ad-
ministralion ceded to the powerful mon
archy Of Great Britain several hundred
thousands of square miles, that must have
been made into Free States, to which that
Same Administration Lad declared that the
United States had ''an unquestionable
right" and then they turned upon the
weak republic of Mexico, and, in order to
make more Slave States, wrested from her
twice as many hundred thousand of square
miles, to which we had not shadow of
right.
Notwithstanding all these extra efforts,
they saw symptoms that the political power
so long held with firm grasp was in dan
ger OF slipping from their hands, by reason
of the extension of Abolition sentiments
and the greater prosperity of Free States.
by continual success in aggrss-
sion, they made use of the pretense of
"Squatter Sovereignty" to break the league
into which they had formerly cajoled the
servile representatives of our blinded peo-
pie, by which all the territory of the United
States south of go :sOr was granted to
Slavery, and all north OF II to Freedom
Thus Kansas became the battle ground of
.he antagonstic elements 10 our Govern
nent. Rnfians hired by the Slave Power
we're sent thither temporarily, to do the
iotipo and drive from the polls the legal
Toters, who were often murdered in the
process. Names copied from the directo-
les of cities in other States were returned
~ thousands as legal voters in Kansas, in
,rder to establish a Constitution abhorred
" her people.