The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-03-14
RAVENNA AOHIo:---WEDNEsDAY. MARcH a 1eeo

Ind BOOKS designed to advocate emancination
al al Dat surely you can hardly expect the Fede
all government or the political parties of the n
p tlon to maintain censorship of the press
g OF debate. The theory of our system is. IN
uc error OF opinion may in oil cases safely be t,
ae Grated where reason is left free to combat
a VIII it be claimed that more of moderate
d and tenderness in debate are exhibited :
). your side of the great argument than on o,
re oWnf We all learned our polemics, as well
10 our principles from common master. VI
are sure that We do not, on our side, excee
ID MS lessons and example. Thomas Jeffsrso
y addressed DR.. Price, an Englishman, concerr
ing MS treatIse on emancipation in Americ.
e, in this fashion:
is South ward of the Chesapeake, your bool
VIII tad brit few readers concurring with i
u IN sentlmeat on the subj act of slavery From
rue mo 'th to the heal of the Chesapeake, the
e nulk OF the :ople will approve it in theory
t and it will fini a respectable minority read,
to adopt it in practice; minority which, fo,
weight and worth of character, prep ,nderates
against the greater number who have not the
courage TO divest their families of property
winch, no vever, keeps their consciences un-
Iq'liet. North ward of the Chesapeake, YOU
may md here and there a robber or m1rder
er; bu' in no great number. u
Ih's (VIrginia) is the next State to which va
ma tarn lr eyes for the interesting specta-
Gle OF Justice in conflict with avarice and on
pre- ssio1-a conflict VIII ire the sacred sds ia
gaming daily new recruits fro the inflrx into
ON ;e OF young men, grown and growing M.
b not, then, disc )ura ge1 What
Won have written will do great deal of good.
aud could you still trouble yo Irself about our
welfare, no man is mora able to help the la
boring side
Yon sea, sir that whether we 90 for or
against slavery anywhere, we mist f,lIew
So ithern guides You may change yolr NJ
lots with the winds or the currents b II ge.
whose nativity, reckonel under the N ,rth
star, has rem Tered US som ,what suoerstitiou5.
mast be excused for constancy ia following the
guidance of tho's who frarnsd the national
ship and gave Us the chart for its noble vo
age. &.
A nrofo1ni respect and frien lily regard for
the Vice President Of the United States has
ladnced me to weigh carefully the testimony
he has given on the subject Of the hostility
against the 8 ,uth imputed to the Republican
party.as derived from the relations of the ran.
resentatives of the lower Southern States.
most re'olute ani ernest spirit of resistance
70 the Republican party; that he perceive,
sensible loss of that spirit OF brotherhood and
that feeling of loyalty, together with that love
tor common country, which are at last the
'nrest cement of the Union; so that in the
PRESENT unhappy condition of affairs he is al.
most tempted to exclaim. that we are dissolv.
ag week by week, and m ,nth by month; that
he threads are gradually fretting than selves
t5an1e"; an 1 stan GER might sup lo,e that
he Executive of the United States was the
resident of two hostile r spublics. It isuot
or m to raise doubt upo1 th9 correctness
Vt this dark picture, so far az the South,rn
'foups upon the canvass are concerned, bat
matt be INDUCED in the opinion TINT can
ro 10 lnee as acc Irately coBcerning the North
ro o. Rspublicin m representatives. here a. au7
le. know their public hunt, an / their
-ivate ways We are not hostile RsD1blic. /
r representatives of one. We confer to yath
r but only as the organs of every party do,
nd 'st do, in political system which OBJ
g - Us to act 80 neEims' al partisan,, while it
% ure3 ~ always to be- patriots aud states
lsn Diff ;rencas of opinion, even on the sub
'cs OF slavery. With US are political, not social
psrsoaat dIfareacss. There is not on3 dis, |
1lonIst or di4loyalist am )ng US ALL We ara
tog ether unconscious of any process of dis
,latioa gong on among Us or arouni u.s.
. nava never beea m )ra patie 1T, and never
7ed ths representatives, of othsr sections
ore, than now We bear the sam, tsstimo
for the people around US here who, though
the very cantre, where the bolt of disunion
lst fall ur5t, I'd be m)st fearful in it's effects
Elm never less disturbed th 10 nov. Wsbear
3 slm. testimony for all the districts and
ates We represent. The. people of the North
q not enc nies, but friends AMI brethren of
Sou hfaithfui and true asin the DAYS when
oath has dealt his arrows pro Misc louslv
q )ng them on common battle-felds of free I,
m. ..
We will MT suffer oarselvs here to dwell
any evidences of a different temper in the
uth;bns we shall be content with expressing
belief that hostility that is not designeily
oVoked, ,and that cannot provoke retaliation. l.
40 anon ily that m l5t be traced to casual
'ltensnts, which cannot psrpstulte aena-
A canvass for Presidential election in
ns respects more impoetant perhaps, than
since 1900, has recently begua. The
,uss of Representatives was to be organiz-
by majority, while no party couli cast
re than plurality of votes, The gloom
the late tragedy in Virginia rested on the
pltol fro the day when Congress assam
d" Wniie the two great political parties q
re peacefully, lawfully, and constitutionally, l.,
'agh zaaousty, conducting the great nation. Il.
ssue between free labor and capital labor
the Territories to its proper solution, thro'
trials OF the ballot. operating directly or II
lrectly on the various departments of the
Vernmsnt, aud baud of exceptional man.
tie nptuoas eq Tally of that great question :
OF the parties to the controversy and i'm. :.
lent OF the constitutional system which con. !,
. the citizens of every State to political n:
on by suffrage in orgaaizsd parties within e
1t own borders. inspired by an enth lsiasm I,ne
uliar to themselves, and exasperated by or
'Vance5 and wrongs that soma of them had
cred ny inroads of armed propagandists u
slavery 10 Kansas, unlawful as their own M
.llatlon was, attempted to subvert slavery RI
lrglnia bY conspiracy, ambush. invasion, al
force. The method we have adopted of ,e
ealing to reason and judgment of the peo-
to be pronounced by sufftage, is the only sp
by which free Government can be main iHe
ed anywhere, and the only one as vet de- na
d which is in harmony with the spirit of nc
christian religion. While generous and all
'ltaole natures will probably concede tha mi
o brown and his associates acted on earn. tw
though fatally erroneous convictions. vet ed
'ood cltizsns will nevertheless agree, that tbe
attempt to execute an Unlawful purpose tee
Irgluia by Invasion, involving seryie war. sh,
an act of sedition and treason, and Grim. am
IN Just the extent that it affected the pub ma
eace and was destructive of human han fat
IS and human life. It is painful reaec- sar
that. after SO long an experience of the ecr
'hcent working of our system as we have inc
yed, we have had these new Illustrations me
ansas and Virginia of the existence among ove
a class of men so misguided and so des col
te as to seek to enforce their peculiar VIC
,iples by the sword drawing after it a need bro
he further illustration BY their punishment a v
at great moral krnth = - -I:-II n u