The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-02-09

forbearance and patience Of those who
abhOr it. The aggressious of the Slave
Power upon Northern rights have a
tendency TO provoke a retaliation upon
slavery. In fact, the moving cause Of
this miserable outbreak may bo dis
tinotly traced to the attempts TO oz-
tend slavery which have for years agitutod
the country. The invasion of Texas,
Cuba and Nicaragua by armed hordes
from the slave States, for the purpose
Of acquiring new slave territory, furn-
ished the hint and excuse for the fli-
clustering of Brown at Iarpor's Ferry
The Repeal of the Missouri Compro-
mise, and the armed invasion Of Kan
sas by Missouri Shareholders with the
avowed purpose of introducing slavery
by force Of arms into a free territory,
was dangerous experiment upon
Northern forbcorance. The Fugitive
Slave Law, wherever it's cruel and un-
constitutional provisions have been en-
forced has awakened indignation and
pity. The Drcd Scott decision, by vir-
tually outlawing the free people of coll
or, and declaring that they have ono
rights which the white man is bound to
respect, has converted half a million
Of men into deadly enemies of q gov
ernmcnt which demands allegiance
while it denies protection. The time is
near at hand, VIC feel safe in predicting,
when the intelligent STAKEHOLDER will re-
gard the Fugitive Slave Law, the bred
Scott decision, and the Repeal Of the
Missouri Compromise, as measures sui
oidal TO their prOfessed object; and
falling back upon the doctrine of the
Fathers of the Republic, will repudiate
the new maxims and measures Of his
party leaders
The slave States, under the most IA
vOrable circumstances, cannot look for
the quiet and security Of free and we'll
ordered Commonwealths. The Eternal
Laws cannot be violated with safety
A working population, driven by brute
force to unpaid toll, must be necessari-
ly unstable, unreliable, and dangerous.
But they have it in their power to Sc
cure an immunity from outward inter-
ference. To do this, they must aban-
don all attempts to extend slavery
They must not repeat the atroCity Of
seeking, as in Kansas, to force with bay
onet and bowie knife the detestable
wrong upon a free community. They
must put check upon their flibusters.
They must cease to encourage pirates
to open anew the slave trade. They
must respect the laws and institutions
Of the States, if they would have their
own respected. They must not threat
en- disunion and civil war if they can
not place their iavorite partisans in
office. They must beware how, in re-
claiming their fugitivcs, they trample
on the rights and liberties Of the free
States. They must not outrage the NOR
al sensibiities Of the world by cruel
ties which the sun of the nineteenth
century cannot look upon-the hunting
81 of men and women with dogs and guns
the deliberate roasting to death Of
criminals over a slow frel In a word,
if they would be left unmolested in the
enjoyment or endurance Of their pecu-
liar institution, they must learn to keep
it entirely to themselves. Christianity
aud civilization have placed it in a mora
, quarantine from which it can only stray
at its peril. X X 4