Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-12-21
The Present Contest.

The Present Contest. -
Posterity viii contemplate the acts of the
Free ION Party with no less surprise than rela-
hng to the acts Of the Slave party, Not that
these two all leafen widely differing classes
are equally guilty-the farthest possible from
it. But if we are greatly surprised on one
hand, at the extreme brutality, barbarity and
want Of principle of the class which rules the
South and causes reign Of terror kindred
TO the outrages and horrors ofth French Rev
olutlon, We cannot forbear great surprise and
wonder also at the remarkable and. we think
/ culpable attempts to treat such set CT men to
any serious attempt at Compromise. If the
/ South is exceedingly mad against Freedom
then are Northrons, who attempt to compromise
! with unprincipled insanity, at fault relating to
/ the Union. Nonsensical yaporngs upon the
value Of any Union to be based upon a sacrifice
of principle or of Liberty. are proof of either in
sanity or mental imbecility. There are many
| things more valuable than the Union ever was,
+ or is likely to be: The Love of Freedom and
hatred of oppression and wrong, upon which
| the Patriots Heroes and Sagcs Of the Reyolu-
ton based the Union, were of far more value
than the Union itself, and the Spirit of Liberty
in the legitimate Sons of the Revolution is
million times more valuable to America and the
human race, than any Union which can subsist
by compromises with unprincipled and barba-
rous Southern Shareholders ..
| Every demand the South makes everything
Shareholders are struggling for ; and we may
as well add, everything which any who are in
favor of compromise would yield to the South,
is the very Essence Of the Spirit ofLiberty, dis
titled and crushed out from the bodies and
souls Of human beings whom the South is now
striving to prey upon, in rage to extend its curse
Of curses! On one hand, the Slave Spirit-the
most dia bolical thing the sun ever shown upon
bristling with arrogance and rage, demands of
Freedom portion of the sum of truth of princi-
pie, and of human rights, fought for and won by
the Republican party in the late presidential con-
test, and if refused threatens terrible things,
not less than the dismemberment of this glori-
Gus Confederacy, the Free Basis of which it OBJ
yiously does not like, and which it would not
have endured even so long, had not its over
bearing and perYersions ofthe Constitution and
institutions of the country, against Northern
Doughfaceism, which still whines for slavehold-
ers, secured for it the lions share Of spois of
Office, with now and then a slice of humanity to
tempora1 lily appease its appetite for blood Is
there single patriot who will submit TO such
demand Is it.not altogether too serious a mat
ter to take parcel CT God-given human rights
and of divinely endowed humanity, and coolly
hand them over to the demand of that bloody
Moloch which feasts and fattens on human vic
Tins and whose tender mercies are cruelty ~
If any man feels like compromising with South
! ern Shareholders we sincerely hope that be-
! fore uttering word, or putting forth one act
I in favor of such measure, he will III the soli-
tude of his closet, simply and seriously ask him
self the very pertinent question How he would
like, for himself and those whom he ardertly
loves, to be handed over to become slaves? If
he would not relish and choose it for himself
it is unnecessary to add, that the Golden Rule.
the highest law in the Universe, commands him
not to impose it upon others. We're Compromi-
sers to make the case their own, as all are
commanded to do, and obey this rule, it is not
probable that there would be many of their
class who would think the arguments in favour
of submission very weighty. A Union with
even wicked men for good purpose, bywhich
we compromise no principle. aid in no wrong,
and violate no convictions of Conscience, may
be formed and continued without guilt, and pos
sibly to advantage. But Conscience is never
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ked down, burned out and totally irradicated.
as is always done, as indispensably preliminary
to concession or support to the most heinous of
sins, human Slavery.
When the population of the country was less
than that Of one State at the present time; at
the close of an exhausting war when all the
people alike admitted that slavery was a great
wrong and believed that it must soon fade
away and disappear forever under our benign
institutions, our forefathers acted conscientious
ly in tolerating it. The wisest thing we can do.
at least for the present, is to strictly observe the
Constitution that was then formed amending
it howeVer,a as soon possible, in favor Of Free
dom, in at least two particulars viz: abolishing
representation based upon slaves, and affirming
that the Federal Government shall never inter
fere to aid the slave States in supp-essing SER
vile instructions, or have any thing to do with
slaves in any contingency whatever To go far
ther in concessions to slavery than our forefath-
ers allowed the Constitution to go, considering
the great difference in the circumstances then
and at the present time, would show such an
all heaven wide DETECTION from the virtue they
possessed such an alarming insensibility to
the cardinal doctrine af human equality; and
such monstrous uafaithfulness to the great trust
beuueathed to u.s. as would make angels weep
and hope relating to any favorable result of Re-
publican institutions to expire. Woe-woe to
the man who takes human fights and casts
them into the bottomlcss pit of slavery. Better
that he had a milestone about his neck and
were cast into the sea-
Snobbishness Rebuked
A Long Branch correspondent of the
Trenton Gazette, gives an account of re-
buke that was administered to party of