The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-08-09

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and unending antagonism between lib
erty and slavery. If they thought diff
ferently, there would be far more peace
and harmony between the sections. It
is their full appreciation of the struggle
for the mastery which arms them for
the conflict, and induces them to wres-
tie for tho victory There is no more
evident fact than this, that the advocates
Of Slavery seek its extensions so os TO
limit the influence of the sentiment Of
freedom. We have tyranny, and would
prevent such a cOnsummation. They
ask that all who toll shall be held as
property-bo regarded, in the chasto
language Of an eloquent Senator, as
"mud sills." We believe that God crea-
ted all men free, and imposed labor upon
them for their advantage. Which hy-
pothesis shall be proven truo2 We will
see hereafterl But, knowing that the
principles of injustice are uniform and
eternal, I presume to believe that those
principles will prevail, and human rights
be maintained. I am not ignorant Of
the fact that those who suppose they
may rightiully make merchandise Of
mothers and their children seem to think
they can shape the designs of Provi-
dence, and re-write the history Of hu-
manity, reversing everything our faith
ers taught, and for the maintenance of
which they periled life and honor. l
must be pardoned for disagreeing with
them, and protesting against such con-
illusions.
The extension Of negro slavery into
the territories of the United States has
become a settled policy of the Democrat.
ic party. This reality cannot be dis
guisod, and ought not to be denied. 1t
is easily accounted for. Unity Of in.
torest and unity of desire will always
produce a perfect concentration Of
strength. The fortunes of the South
have become completely identified with
their peculiar domestic relations BY
their harmony they have been enabled
to govern the Democratic party, and
thus far, to govern the country through
the agency Of that party. The vita
force Of that organization being in tht
South, and slavery propagundism re
!. garded there as necessity, it canno
be considered strange that the influence
of the party should be so directed as t.
fortily doctrines most congcnial to thu
supposed welfare of those who direct it
machinery. To many it has seemed uu
accountable that executive action auC
legislative and judicial proceeding
] should be so shaped, from year to year
as to strengthen the few at the expens,
Of the great mass of our people. Let i
no longer be regarded as a marvel or
mystery; the responsibility Of it rest,
with those Northern men in whom WI
have reposed our confidence and cloth
ed with the garments Of authority
Examine the recorded votes in your ma
tional Congress, and there learn why i
is that Northern capital and labor ar,
constantly borne down by the enormous
weight Of Southern cXactiop. Wher
your reasonable requests are denied,
need not tell you, with earncstness ant
emphasis, it is because eight millions Of
men control eighteen millions through
our representatives elected by a party
pledged to interests adverse to ours
Slavery educates its statesmen in a higl
school, under able professors. 1t teaches
that the Northern men are cOwardly
and that their ambition is linked will
avarice; and, unfortunately for us, it hal
arguments to fortify its faith. In half
century it may not be credited tina
less than a dozen men, trained unde
these circumstances, so alarmed a Penn
sylvania President as to induce him t.
reeast a message, violate the plighteC
faith upon which he was elected, dis
grace his native State, and degrade tht
high Office to which he had then bu
recently been elevated. And yet no.
only this has been done almost withir
our presence, but the representatives of
free constituencies have been induced
to lend their aid to force servile labor
into competition with that of the whit
man, and a Slave State into the sister
hood Of independencies to throw thu
balance Of power against their own peo
pie Some of these are now not onl
respectable members of the Dougla
church, but missionaries among the un
believing and outside barbarians.
have some Of them very distinctly il
my recollection, and it would be quit
rsireshing to hear their remarks in lau
dation Of popular sovereignty, such al
they denied to Kansas, and in denun
citation Of Southern demands, to whiol
they succumbed as reluctantly as
thrice seduced damsel to her lover.
believe it was Mirabeau who said 18th
presents of despotism are always dan
gerous;" he should have included il
his remark, the threat of the tyrant a
we'll as his reward.
The allegation that Southern comb
nations are formed for the purpose OF
counteraoting opposition extremists,
a sheer false pretense, TesOrted to as
blind and a cheat. No fears ever sprun
from such parentage Slavery does no
exist by legal enactment anywhere; it i
tho child Of force; and as the sentimon
Of the world is against it, it cannot liv
without the sustaining hand Of power
Surrounded by an atmosphere Of free
dom, it is necessarily unsafe, aud statu
tory safeguards and deionses becOm
necessary, vassalago and objection uey
er impress themselves, without violence
r upon the natural man, whilst, on th
contrary, the sentiment of freedom mus
r forever disturb the subjects of despOt