The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-03-14
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:, SJ'ma 70 cohlhg 10 an eGn-a fear o
|, the more endurab'e because continually
graVaTed oy new chimeras to which the Or
,eaoing event lent an air of probability; 81
y an these constituted snm Of public mis-
wnicn ought to have satisfied the most NOR
appeute for social horrors. But, as in
gunpower plot, and the Salem witchcraft =
Ine New ork colonial negro plot, so now i
original actors we're swiftly followed bV ano
er and kindred class, who souobt to nroIo
and widen the public distress bV attemptny q
dlrect the indignation which it had cxcit
against parties guiltless eq lally of comnlci
and OF sympathy with the offenders, -
Posterity will decIe in all the recent cas-
where political responsibility for public ii5a
ters must fail and DO steritv will give lit,
heed to our interested instructions. 1t "
not until the gloomy regiu OF. Do nitian hi
ended, and liberty an virtne had found assu
ed refuge under the sway OF that mildsr Ne
va that the historian arose whose narrative
that period of tyanny and terror has been a
ceptel by mankinl -
Toe Republican plrtv being thus vindcat
ed against the charge of hostility to the Soutl
Which has beeI ofF.red in excuse for the mar
ices OF unconstitutional resistance in the even
Vt its success. feel we'll assured that it wi
sustain me in meeting them in the spirit of tn
deIender OF the English Common wealth.
Surely they that shall boast as we do +,
De free ition, all having the power, shaI
not also have the courage, to remove. consti
'tutionally,every Governor whether he be the
supreme or subordinate. m ~ please thar fan
cy with ridiculols a1d linted freedom, &
10 coz3n babies, but are, indeed under tyranny
ana serVltude; as wanting chat power, which
Is the root and source of all liberty to dis
pose OF and econo Mise in the land which G od
nath given them, as members of family in
tneir own ho nA aud free inheritance. With
out which natura! and essential power of a free
nation, though bearing high their heads.
they can, in due esteem. be thought no bet
Ter than slaves aud vassals born in the tenure
and occupation of another inherising lord.
whose government, tho Ugh not illegal or in
toleraole, hangs OIL them as Iordly sccurge,
not al free government
Ihe Republican party knows, as the whole
country will ultimately coma to understand,
Ghat the noblest object of national life must
perish If that life itself sh IL be lost, and there
Iore 1t will accept the issue rendered. 1t will
Jake up the word Union. which Others are so
wiling to renounce, and combining it with
tnat other glorious thought. Liberty, which has
oeen its Inspiration so long it will move firmly
onward with the m tito Inscribed on its ban
ler' Y MON and LIB 1RTY, come what may, in |
victory as in defeat. in power as out of power,
low and forever
tue R'plolican party maintain the Un-
on, who and what party is to ass all it2 Only |
ne Ds nocratic party. for there is no other
" " ILL the Democratic party take up the ASSAULT
fae menaces OF disunion ara made, though
lot in its name yet in its behalf It must
WOW or disaVow them. Its silence, thus far.
poreentous, b1t is not alarming. Tae effect
I the intimidation, if successful, would be to
oatlnue the rale of the Democratic party,
heugh a minority, BY terror. It certainly
ught to need no more than this to secure. the
lccess of the Republican party. If, indeed
ne time has oue when the Democratic party
l1st rule by terror, instea of ruling through /.
oncedei public confidence, then it is qaite
5rtaln that it cannot be dismissed from bow I
too soon. ling on that odious principle.
could no. long save either the Constitution
public liberty. Bat shall not believe the
emocratic party will consent to stand in this
osltion, though it does, through the action of
representatives. seam to cover and sustain
lose Wao threaten disuuion. know the De 6
ocracy OF the North. know them now in 3
alr waning strength. do nor Suow a po+I
ole dIsunionist amoag them al. believe n
ey Will be az faithful to the Union now as
ey were ln the bygoue days when their ranks
sre taii, aud their challenge to the com BAT g
- always to the waF-cr7 of victory Bit, ifI ="
shall prove otherwise, then the world will all y
9 sooner knoy that every party in this coun. <
m1st stand on Ulion gcound; that the 9!
'nerica1 people will sustain no party that is q
u capable OF making a sacrifice of its ambi ia
"a on the altar of the country; that,although 81
party may never have SO much of prestige, L. L.
= nsVef sucn traditional merit, yet if it be W y,
KING 10 ths one virtue of loyalty to the Un. 90
l. all Its advantages will be uaavailing; and i,
,n' obnoxious as. through ng-cherished pv
obstinate prejudices, the Republican par VI
Is IN the capital States, yet even there it Eez
Il az Vaace like an army with banners, win siC
g the tavur of the whole people, and it will vi
armed with ths national confidence an sup ca
r. Wnsn 1t shall be found the only party that trt
end' aud maintains the integrity of the di
Those who sesk to awaken the terro-s of gr
union seem to ms too hastily considered the its
editions under winch they are to make their an
ampt. Who believes that Republican is
mlnlstration and Congress could practice na
anny un1er G Constitution which interDose, de
many checks as ours1 Yet that TYRANNY CO..
sc not only be practiced, but must be iutoI. po
Ole, and there mist be no remaining hone jec
constitutional relief before forcible resist do
2 can hni ground to stand on anywhere. be
he people of the United States, acting in the
forlnlty with the Constitution, are the su- bli
me tribunal to try and determine all polit. of
issues of to-day as they have been here tsea
IRE to decide the issues of other days. They the
reconsider hereafter and reverse. IL need the
tne Judgment they shall pronounce to day, dis
hey nave more than once reconsidered and Th
'rsed their Judgments in former times. It VOL
Is no revolution to correct any error, or feal
rent any danger, under any circumstances. tina
or Is any new or special cause for revo- imI
,n likely to occur under a Republican Ad.
lstratlon, We are engaged iu no new ,
sacaon, not even in new dispute. Our
ers undertook great work for them er
ss, for u.s. and for our successors-to erect iste
'e and Federal empire, whose arches shall Rr;
the North American continent, aud re- -
the rays OF the sun throughout his whole "'s
age from the one to the other of the great tral
ms. They erected thirteen of its columns Hf
once. These are standing now, the ad- plis
ton of mankind. Their successors added IN
ty morei even we who are here have shan
nd elevated three of that twenty. and all tue
are as firm and steadfast as the first thir seve
and more will yet be necessary when we ANTE
na.o Iesseu rom our laoors. Some dert
ng us prefer for these columns a composite 81.
'rlai; Others, the pure white marble. Our
'rs and our predecessors differed in the
way, and on the same point. What ex that
y ,ons snouid we not all unite IN pronoanc- Cap
disappointment and disgust at being Eau -
uled in his choice of material for any new of Il
mn then to be quarried, should have lsid In m
ut hands on the imperfect structure, and rents
,ht it down to the earth, there to remain ~ /,
'ck, instead of citadel of worlds best N'e !"