Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1860-01-10

1 to escape q renewed bondage. Inducements
! would be held cut TO philanthropic men
| to emancipate their slaves; the northern
slave States, following the lead of the free
States, conld quietly and gradually intro
| duce free labor in the place of slave labor,
| thus adding to their wealth and honor
the great evils to be apprehended from an
| overcro wded slave population would be
avoided; and liberty prevail throughout
a lau d universally prosperous, and under the
sole dominion of the white race. The
| commerce of these colonies, increasing
with their age and civilization, would add
to our accommodating wealth and prosperity,
and the wrongs of ages of oppression be
blotted out from the book of remembrance
forever. To this it must come sooner or
later, and delays only increase the diff
culties surrounding US.
To lead in invoking the attention of
the whole people to this great enterprise,
would well become the vigorous young
States of the Northwestern Territory,
which have grown up under the shade "
of the tree of liberty planted by Virginia.
A memorial to Congress on this subject
is seriously recommended.
Peaceable and legal remedies alone can
relieve US of slavery extension and slavery
agitation.
The provoking riots at Harper's Ferry,
which were dignified into treason against
the Government of the State of Virginia,
were the fit offspring of the forcible at
tempt to plant Slavery in Kansas, and the
legitimate fruits of the repeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise.
However much we may admire brave
men and heroic deeds, we can find in
them no excuse Tor attempts by force to
undo domestic evils, under government
like ours. The theory OF our government
is that it is one OF law and not of force.
There are peaceful and legal remedies by
which wrongs may be redressed. Justice
Tor the sins OF nations, as for the sins of
individuals, though sometimes apparent
ly slow, Is always sure as the execution of
Divine Judgments, While we remain
government of banded states, good faith
requires that no state, and the citizens of
no state, shall interfere with the institu-
tons of any other state. While Wiscon-
sin will suffer no hostile invasion from
any other state. or the citizens thereof, so
it must repress any hostile attempts upon
the institutions of its sister states. The
occasion of the difficulties al Harper's
Ferry was signaliZed by crimes commit
ted both by invaders and invaded. No
matter how philanthropic or humane the
motives of misguided men may have
been, they committed wrongs in the eye
of the law which cannot by good citizens
be pallIated or excused.
The disunion sentiments avowed in
portions of the country, and sometimes
in our Halls of National Legislation, are
unpatrIotic, undignified, disgraceful.-
Every threat of disunion should be held
al g
the Union, and every attempt at disunion
rewarded with halter. The Union of
these states cannot be dissolved. 1t may
be rocked, but cannot be overturned.-
There is no conceivable contingency in
which it can be consented TO. A disrup-
ton, instead of relieving us from present
evils, would involve all sections in far
greater evils. While the North asks
nothing that is wron., it will submit to
no wrong, but viii seek its remedy in
wholesome laws, wisely enacted and
firmly executed If any state forgets its
allegiance, it must be brought back. The
South is entitled to be left unmolested in
her domestic relations and institutions,
and must be content with that; while
both sections of the Union, striving to do
exact Justice 10 each other, may yet be
relieved from all iealousies and heart
burnings, and escape the derision of the
nations of the earth.
Faith without works is dead Labor,
and vigilance, and honesty of purpose, de-
voted to the welfare of the State, and of
the common country, with an earnest de-
sire for the prosperity and happiness of
the whole people, will dispel all the dark
ness that envelopes Us, and restore the
hopes of permanent prosperity. With a
just pride we may then look, in the past,
upon the budding, opening glory of Young
America as she was, and, i'll the present,
upon her rich ripeness az she is.
ALIEN. W. RANDALL.
MADISON, Jan. II, 1860.