Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-11-17
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fminds Of the pspls wa the.r 6ypocrtcai
cry of spopuiar sovereignty. have com,
menced 6faying about "RePubiicanism ana
lnsurrectson,s and In Keeping VIA ,taeif
former unscrnpulously' have cpaFged see
late piece OF folly Transacted at naIpers
Ferry 70 1ePu1iieaI mhuehceI.ha' u aas
the fesu< "
mt ane TO nske a Suggestion OF Two fh
regard to il,s matter. iale lnsufs
rect,on ga ne result OF slavery aglta'ion'
ask, IN canaof, ON WHOM snould Tue
blame Tan: VINO started ms ag,la.,on
Wno-'aking sdsantsgu % .uo usasn :,
sucn men as Gay an1 "eoS.fl, WING nag
spent their oays ~ eaoi.s 70 la.si 'n.s as-
nauon-ano Naen oc.n poi'cai Paf'ies
nag resolved tna1 : lul,ae' asl.aton q
Tue oa,esy qses'ion ousussv wno
then sioiateo a sacred conPac ana opened
anew tn,s agita.on: vas = 5ewafd OF
Dousias. was u Tue nePuo'icans or
the democracy! Did me ooatn vioiate
ner ompact anu give just cause iof aqua
son, or did sne STAND up, as sue ousnt 70
have lone, ana indignantly rejeet the PRIDE
when a Nor,nern agi1a'or neld out 70 ner'
as 2 bid tor the f~residency Let history
answer, ana : tne evils on agitatlon De
attributed otnei, aulno,s-Ine designers
and executors OF TNebraska swindie-
and they may md 1t true, that often
things sweet 10 taste, prove IN digestion
soul.
But there IS phase OF this question,
which every one VIII DO well to consider.
line false cry OF tne Statesman q Co., has
been made to divert attention from the
true point OF danger. The fact has been
revealed thai q score o. men: I'm ccnse-
quence OF .he nature OF an IN
stltution existing In the South) can send a
thrill of terror throughout the whole ofthe
Southern States. The quake of the earth
could not cause greater CONSERVATION in
Qoito-and a war with France and Eng
land combined, would not have presented
half the. tcrrors that this Instruction has ?
And this is not the first instance of the
kind. There was the Southampton insur-
r~ection, which so frightened Virginia, that
a strong effort was made to adopt a plan
of emancipation to get rid of the glaring
evil. During the debate on this question,
in the Virginia legislature, able and elo-
auent speeches were made, portraying the
dangers resulting from slavery, which all
would do we'll to read. General James
Mcdowell, of Rockbridce, in this debate
said: as9as ,sosi ?
eaaaWas it the fear of Nat. Turner and his
deluded, drunken. handful of men, which
produced, or could produce such effects I
Was it this tina. induced distant counties,
where tie very name of Southampton was
strange, to arm and equip for a struggle I
No sir, it was the Suspicion eternaHy at.
tdchsd to'the slave himself-the suspicion
that a Nat. Turner might be in every fam
lily. That the same bloody decd could be
acted over at any time and in any place
that the materials were spread through
the land, and ARRAYS ready for a like occa-
sion.n
Now | would ask, can any one, viewing
the question in the light Mcdowell did,
doubt the wisdom of prohibiting the .ex-
tension of slayery-and its dangersa Ii
Is evident that therein hes the warfare and
safety Of our country. And, in the Ian
guage of Jefferson, "if on the contrary II
slavery is LEFT TO FORCE ITSELF On, hui
man nature must shudder at the prospect
held up.ri lied S sg ssh ID
To adopt the words of the Rithmo4d
Enquirer, 'if slavery be not q legitimate,
moral, and erpedient institution, we cannot
without reproof of conscience and the
blush Of shame, seek to extend it," Is il
erpedient to extend an institution that is
made up of materials salways ready for an
explosiong" Does the Northern man, who
seeks home in our Territories, wish to
take his family into . community where
such dangers would threaten them? Can
the South ask him to? Our preference is
always for freedom and safety. Let us
strive, then, to curb this evil, which carries
with it such dangers. Let us suppose
both the scattering abroad Of these "ire
brands" and the bringing Of more fuel
from Africa to add new strength TO the
flame which threatens us with a c~ontiagra.
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