Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-07-25
The Great squatter and his Work:

A S40oA ~ 49,
Since the return from Baltimore, the
great merit the Douglas men have claimed
FUr themselves, is that they there and al
Charleston, made a stand against Southern
aggression. This is a distinct admission
that there was a Southern aggression to re.
-sist and we hope the privates IN the great
party of splits, will make a note ont
For the past six years the mad-dog cry Of
''sectionalism" has been the only one which
would rally the Democracy in their oppO.
siticn to US, and We now find the Dougla,
men suddenly converted to the belief that
It is the slaveocracy which is determined
to subject us to a sectional tyranny, and
that the tyrants must be resisted. So far,
so good. The Republican party could not
ask for a more complete justification Of its
course, or a more full recognition of the
necessity of its organization. than is given
in this unwilling testimony from the mouths
of its enemies.
The men who in 1916 were willing to
plunge the country into a war with an in
offensive neighbor, IN order to add new
states to the political power of the slave
mastcrs-Mho in 1850 were willing to give
up Utah and New Mexico to the game
greedy slave POwer-whO in 1854 were
willing to break down the Missouri COM
promise which two generations had united
in declaring as sacred as the Constitution
who in 1856 were willing to use the
troops of the United Statesto dragooninto
subsection the freemen of Kansas, and en-
rdeavOred to complete by fedcrI potter the
'enslavement Of the heroes whose Sharpe's
rifles had repulsed the rufian invaders CON-
ing freh Missouri=Who In 1868 were VII
ling to help their Southern masters force
upon that territory the bogus Lec6mptOn.
Constitution, framed by those NIissourians
N order to make a slaTe state of Kansas
contrary 10 Che will of its .people-who
have three times refused to admit that IN.
FAINT state into the Union, each time say
ing hat if she would come as a slave state
the doors should be wide Open-whO voted
for ifSws which made twice as many inhab-
'itants hecessafy'tO the formation of a free
state as were needed for a slave state
these men have now, in the year of grace
1899, discovered that there as need of
resisting Southern aggression! Thank
God, the world does moEei
That in such depths of servility as the
leaders of the Northern Democracy have
sounded, there could ever arise a thought
of resistance against thcirmasters is a fact
which should keep US from utter despair
of human nature.
The admission is however, just explicit
enough to prove the inconsistency of the
position of such Douglas leaders as Mr..
Tod. They'must either come squarcIy up
on the Republican platform, or go back
Fhe pOintnO-p0iut 'doctsfacs Of their Bal
timore platform will not do to stand by.
If the slave power has proved itself a ty-
Eant and q destroyer of the interests of free
labor. as they admit, they arc bound to
adopt some systematic and thorough mode
IF reform. which shall promise to put the
country under the auspices Of really free
institutions. Instead of this, what have
they done? They haze ~signalizcd their
inconsistency by first splitting their party
on tho plea of the CALLING nature of the
Southern yoke, and have then declared
that they yield themselves, bound land
and foot by the most complete submission
70 the bred Scott decision and to all future
decisions of a Supreme Court which has
4ramplcd upOnthe judgments of a Marshall
and a Stcgy 10 order 10 make slavery q ma
tioDal thing Their platform. then, is
Eaney. pure anI simple, as he French
say; and if it is not acceptable totne ultra
tits emily because-the slave masters
viii not tolerate tie appearance CT the
boast Of opposition to them, even though
accompanied By the most perfect snbnis-
non in fact. ks to their nominations, the
piafal absariity Q taking H. V. johnson, !