Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-12-07
New COMPROMISES.


revolutionary speeches and political dem
onstrations, and just as the reaction in the
public mind is about to set in, new COM
promises will be proposed.
They will ask US to protect slaveholding
in the territories, permit shareholders to
sojourn in the free states with their slaves
as long as they please, catch their runaway
negroes for them, aud abolish all state laws
against kidnapping If we do all this, I'M
der the name of compromise, the chivalry
will not leave the Union. That is the
next entertainment to which we shall be
invited.
Northern doughfaces already begin to
prepare the public mind for the programme
by ringing the changes upon the wrongs
which have been inflicted upon the dear
South, and by pointing to the conse-
quences which we have brought upon our
selves in the shape of commercial panic,
because We are not willing to let the south
do as they please, in the disposal of the
power of the general government.
While they ask these things of us and
insist upon the equality of the States"
they make no proposition to protect the
citizens of the northern States, In the
South. While they demand immunity,
and free ingress and egress for their
,Slaves among US, American citizens are for
hidden to travel in the South, if they arc
suspected of differing from them in opin-
ion.
With the experience of the last few
years, we think Northern freemen are in
no temper to treat With the South upon
the basis Of compromise We have put
forth no sentiment in relation to Slavery
in our Republican platform which can be
compromised without yielding vital prin-
ciple. When we conceded the right of
each State to regulate its own domestic
institutions, in its own way, without inter-
ference from other states, we went as far
as we can 90. We cannot be made to say
that the natural condition Of each terrific
~ is that of Slavery-we never will pro-
tect Slavery by the powers of the general
covernment-aud we never can be com
PEELED to say or to believe that slavery is
right anywhere.
This latter point is what most gals the
slavehoder-to be told that the institution
upon which be bases his politics and relig-
ion. is a moral ,0r0ng, leading to barbarism,
in every community which supports it, is
the point which produces the extreme SEN
sitive of the Stakeholder. No compromise
can ever wipe out this truth. 1t is immu-
able and eternal, and the South MAY make
up its mind to submit to this verdict from
civilized man in all countries They have
no right to complain of US because it is 30
it is the will OF the Maker of all things,
and cannot be altered, though every white
man in America should resolve that it is
not so.-Jdnesriiie Gazette
Proposition TO PUT Down EXCITEMENT.
We find the following in the Washington
correspondence of the New York Times of
Wednesday:
- 1t is also said that on Tuesday and
Wednesday of next week, an influential
member of the Republican party will offer
resolutions in Congress, declaring the rights
of the several States in terms which must
be satisfactory to every UnionJoving man
in the South, with the emphatic declara-
ton that this Bill of the rights of the Re
publican party is willing to embody in the
Constitution Should this be done, all ex-
citement, it is believed, will subside in As
hours. and that reason viii resume her
SWAY, to the ehagrin and modification of
those who have labored SO long and so ear
nestly to break up the Confederacy.'
-Plymoth Mass, Nov. i. Mr.. Freeman
Manter of this place was accidentally shot
while on deer hunt. The wagon on which
he was riding struck stone, causing his
gun to explode. The charge of buckshot
passed through his thigh. segering the main
artery, and causing his death in short
time.
The house of Aaron II. Simmons, in
Fall River, was struck by lightning on the
9th inst, and reduced to complete wreck.
The electric fluid run all over the house
demolishing everything in its way, and
leaving the building shattered ruin For
tunatly 10 one was killed, although there
we're several persons in the house.